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Brandeis JLIC sponsored a Senior-Alumni Shabbaton the weekend of March 28-29, 2008. The Shabbaton, which was a central part of the Brandeis JLIC's Senior Seminar series, brought six recent Orthodox alumni back to campus as a resource for this year's huge observant senior class as they move on to the next chapter of their lives, whether graduate or professional school or work...

Brandeis JLIC sponsored a Senior-Alumni Shabbaton the weekend of March 28-29, 2008. The Shabbaton, which was a central part of the Brandeis JLIC's Senior Seminar series, brought six recent Orthodox alumni back to campus as a resource for this year's huge observant senior class as they move on to the next chapter of their lives, whether graduate or professional school or work...

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.... What better way to spend winter break?!? This past December a delegation of students from UCLA participated in the first JLIC Alternative Winter Break Trip through Hillel International. These students spent one week in Kilm, Mississippi helping the community rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...

JELO, Jewish Enrichment Learning Opportunity, is a weekly learning program at New York University started this year through a partial grant from JLIC. At least sixty NYU students show up every Tuesday evening to learn Torah, have a fabulous (free!) dinner, and socialize with friends...

Last Shabbat, I had the privilege of sharing the holiday with very good friends in the comfort of their home. With the financial support of friends and friends collective (I believe Hillel had something to do with it), we shared kosher food, stories and sang until the wee hours of the night. With at least […]

R Elli Fischer, 12/25/06 I thought that questions raised in this comment warrant a separate post. It�s part of an ongoing discussion on LookJED about �spiritually conducive� environments on college campuses. I wrote about it here as well. I wanted to address specifically the issue of kids either a) abandoning observance or b) diminishing observance on campus. I believe several points are in order when approaching the issue: Firstly, from my experience, very few students gradually abandon observance. If they abandon it, they abandon it almost immediately upon arrival on campus. It�s very difficult to speak of these students as �losing frumkeit�. Generally, they were not frum � neither in theory nor in practice � before arriving on campus. The difference is that they no longer need to adhere to communal norms or worry about embarrassing parents. They will often continue to play the part of �nice frum boy/girl� when they go home.