Summer around here is for planning High Holidays. There are logistics to figure out, honors and roles to fill, sermons to write, and prayers to coordinate with our alumnus cantor, Aaron Mendelsohn ’95 ...

Jewish pluralism is always on my mind. At large universities, Hillel may have the capacity for three or more prayer minyans that represent different denominations and allow students to immerse ...

The Crest Room in McCullough is our on-campus location and serves as a place for spiritual observances, meetings for our various student religious organizations, and more casual community-building ...

Middlebury College, Department of Theatre, half-time, one-year renewable faculty position: Assistant Professor of Theatre in Playwriting. Required qualifications: MFA or PhD in Playwriting. Preferred ...

What are we putting down this year? We didn’t know quite what to expect this year. Last year we were surprised when 70 new students, some Jewish and some not, all curious about Shabbat and hungry for ...

As many of you know, this Jewish year of 5782 is a shmita, or sabbatical year, in the Jewish calendar. The Torah declares that every seventh year shall be a year of rest for the land, of reset for the ...

It is good to be back in Vermont. Although I have felt longing for the stone alleys and stairs of Jerusalem, and for the melodies of Shabbat floating out of small synagogues every few blocks, I have ...

A variety of places can be found around campus for meditation and prayer.

The Scott Center is located at 46 South Street. It’s easy to get here—check out our handy walking map from the Student Center. The Crest Room in the McCullough Student Center is a spacious and quiet ...

At the midpoint of its multiyear conflict transformation collaborative initiative, Middlebury is looking back and looking forward to the next phase of the effort. Funded by a $25 million grant, the ...

Although we call this newsletter Hillel Hayom, this title does not really do justice to the news we share, which is about many aspects of Jewish life on campus, including, but going beyond, the ...

No Other Land, 2024. Written, directed, produced and edited by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor. For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of ...