National Blog

Simchat Torah is traditionally a moment in the community calendar when we honor members of the outgoing class for what they have contributed in their time until now at NYU. This wasn’t possible in the normal way this year as much of our student body is scattered across the country. And so instead we asked […]

Sukkot on campus this year will look a bit different than in previous ones. OU-JLIC at Brandeis gave their students an opportunity to express themselves in this hard and stressful time in a fun and creative way! Rabbi Arye and Avi Greenberg, OU-JLIC Directors at Brandeis invited their students to come to their backyard in […]

Yom Kippur in the IDC parking lot was incredible. A shocking TWO HUNDRED students and lone soldiers came out for Kol Nidrei. We quickly ran out of chairs and machzorim, but the atmosphere was strong and positive, and everyone was happy to be there. To end off Yom Kippur, we were joined by an additional hundred […]

Annette, L.A, and Aaron, NJ, started dating during their freshman/senior years (respectively) at Cornell University. After Aaron graduated and moved to Pittsburgh to pursue a PhD at Carnegie Mellon, they continued dating long distance. Annette and Aaron were planning to have their wedding at a large hall in NJ this summer, but had to cancel […]

Congratulations to Rabbi Joe Wolfson and Corinne Shmuel (OU-JLIC at NYU) on being named to the New York Jewish Week’s 2020 36 Under 36, for their COVID-19 efforts. Rabbi Joe and Corinne have always been bastions of chessed for the NY community and have really upped their game during this crises, and the recognition is […]

“I look at responding to these calls as no less of a way of saving a life than when I am a first responder on an emergency medical call.” Gidon Kadry, a member of the OU-JLIC Mizrachi Bar-Ilan/Givat Shmuel community, spearheads the Givat Shmuel division of a national humanitarian aid project for United Hatzalah in […]