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Dvar Torah from Rabbi Menachem Schrader, founding director of JLIC. The last verse in Naso, quite out of the blue, describes how Moses would communicate with God from within the Holy Sanctuary. Moses would approach the Sanctuary with the intention of sp[eaking with God. He would then hear God's voice speaking from between the cherubs. At that point Moses would begin his conversation...

Exciting New JLICampus Enrichment Fellowship! The JLICampus Enrichment Fellowship seeks thoughtful, intelligent, dynamic, entrepreneurial, motivated, and passionate young men and women who are seeking to be the future leaders of Jewish communal life. A select number of promising men and women, who are currently pursuing advanced degrees (semicha, education, advanced Talmud or Bible studies), will be invited to participate in an exciting new fellowship...

Dvar Torah from Rabbi Menachem Schrader, founding director of JLIC. It is commonly assumed in Midrash that the ritual impurity of Tsora'at is a punishment for the sin of "lashon hara", speaking evil of other people that is either untrue, or even if true, unnecessary. The word Metsora, the person stricken with Tsoraat, ia seen as a contraction of the two words"motsi ra", or one who lets out (of his mouth) evil. Read more...

JLIC presents a LEARN-A-THON An inter-campus opportunity to learn Torah and support JLIC while you're at it! Sponsored learning runs from March 29 through April 4. Winners will be chosen in two categories: MOST HOURS LEARNED and MOST MONEY RAISED**. Winners will be able to choose from three prize options: $500 gift certificate to Artscroll, Ipod Touch (32 GB), or a Nintendo Wii console. TOP CAMPUS PRIZE for campuses with the greatest participation in the learn-a-thon indicated by most combined hours learned. For the top campus in each division, JLIC will contribute $500 towards any event of your choice. To participate in the Learn-a-Thon, you must be registered and logged in as a JLIC member. You can register here. Talk to your JLIC educators for details.

No one likes to be reminded of a painful memory. The Holocaust is one of the most painful, recent memories in our collective Jewish remembrance, and the swastika symbol serves as an easy representation for those trying to remind us of the anguish. Click here for the rest of the article, click here.

When competing with college exams, a multitude of classes and papers, and extracurricular activities including sports and internships, campus organizations need something pretty special to lure college students to a campus program. The Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC) of the Orthodox Union had just that when it sponsored a six-part "Health and Halacha (Jewish law)" series at Rutgers University Hillel that drew over 100 students to its various classes and lectures. <a href="http://www.dev.oujlic.org/index.php/blog_entry/rutgers_jlic_holds_health_jewish_law_series/" title="Read the rest of this entry ">Read the rest of this entry

The video from JLIC's conference for Principals and College Advisors is now available! The following is advice from an extremely knowledgeable source to parents of yeshiva high school seniors who are planning to attend secular colleges and universities rather than continuing their education at Jewish institutions such as Yeshiva University or Touro College: The students will be going from the "bubble" of kindergarten through twelfth grade to the different atmosphere of the secular campus. In this ambiance, the advice continues, "parents have no guarantee their children will remain observant." For a description of the conference and complete video recording, <a href="http://www.dev.oujlic.org/index.php/blog_entry/jlic_conference_video1/" title="click here">click here.