From Israel to Brooklyn: Tisha B’Av With JLIC
On Tisha B’av JLIC at Brooklyn College and JLIC of Greater Toronto joined together for a very meaningful night. After Eicha students heard from JLIC at The University of Wisconsin’s Rabbi Shlomo Geller, Rabbi Geller was recently released from reserve duty with the IDF and spoke about his experience fighting in Gaza as a sharp […]
JLIC Ontario and Guelph’s Niagara Falls Shabbaton
Over 35 students joined the Greenbergs (JLIC-Ontario) and the Levitts (JLIC Guelph) for a remarkable Shabbaton in Niagara Falls Ontario. Shiuim were given by the scholar in residence Rabbi Gemara (that is his real name) in addition to Drashot, speeches and discussion groups that were led by Rabbi Aaron Greenberg and Rabbi Daniel Levitt. On […]
Brooklyn College: Building Community… Literally
This past winter break, Shira Boshnack, the JLIC rebbetzin at Brooklyn College, was privileged to lead a group of Brooklyn college students to New Orleans...
Chanukkah Shiur
JLIC Rabbi Aaron Greenberg's Chanukkah Shiur! Find it under York's Shiurim. Chanukkah Sameach!
Rachel on the Way
Shani Taragin at University of Toronto brought to you by Rabbi Aaron and Miriam Greenberg, JLIC couple at York/U of T
Parshat Toldot: Did the Avot keep the Torah?
Listen to this shiur and many others by JLIC's Rabbi Aaron Greenberg of York and U of T through JLIC Torah via York University.
JLIC in The Canadian Jewish News
Orthodox students have support on campus, panel says
By SHERI SHEFA, Staff Reporter
Thursday, 10 December 2009
TORONTO — Jewish student group leaders, rabbis and Orthodox Jewish students held a panel discussion last week to let concerned community members know that there are many opportunities available for Orthodox Jewish students on secular campuses.
Toronto’s JLIC director Rabbi Aaron Greenberg, left, and Hillel of Greater Toronto executive director Zac Kaye were two of six panelists talking last week about Orthodox Jewish students attending secular universities. [Sheri Shefa photo]
The Orthodox Union’s Heshe and Harriet Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC), a North American program that helps Orthodox students balance their Jewish upbringing with living in a secular world, in conjunction with Hillel of Greater Toronto, invited parents and university-bound students to Bnei Akiva’s Yeshivat Or Chaim for a lecture titled “Observant Jewish Life on the Secular College Campus.”