“Chicken Soup for the Elderly Soul”
By Becca Meiner ‘17
“Chicken Soup for the Elderly Soul” is a new community service program at Rutgers Hillel that started this semester (Spring 2014), and I have been so proud to participate in and even help lead this program. Rutgers students make the chicken soup on Thursday nights to be delivered to hospice patients Friday afternoon in time for Shabbat. The program came about through the incredible efforts of the Martin and Edith Stein Hospice program at the Oscar and Ella Wilf Campus for Senior Living in collaboration with our OU-JLIC program here at Rutgers Hillel. OU-JLIC was instrumental in making the connection to bring them to our campus and create this program. Read the complete article here