April 26, 2024
Around the country, college students have been arrested for protesting Israel’s war with Hamas, setting up encampments in the middle of campus, and harassing media for covering it. While things […]
April 15, 2024
Lily Smith says that when she was a kid, she was asked what she wanted to do when she grew up. Her response: famous; she just wasn’t sure how. Maybe, […]
March 15, 2024
As a response to the antisemitism and fear that many in the Jewish community are facing, Sha’arim + Gateways is offering a program to help people feel a little safer. […]
December 1, 2023
Rom El-Hai has traveled the world going to trance music festivals, but he was going to pass on going to the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel, which started at […]
November 29, 2023
If you go camping in the Southern California desert, outdoorsy experts will tell you to bring heavy blankets and check your shoes for scorpions. But while you’re preparing for tent […]
October 27, 2023
Sophie Stillman wasn’t supposed to be on a kibbutz near the Gaza border on Saturday, Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked. Normally, Stillman, a former Lone Soldier in the Israel Defence […]
August 9, 2023
Since the Hillel movement began 100 years ago, and more so, since Minnesota founded our Hillel in 1940, investing in vibrant and engaged Jewish communities and the development of college […]
July 24, 2023
Crystal native Zach Schnitzer has been acting in plays for many years but when the start of the coronavirus pandemic hampered the start of his freshman year at Chicago’s DePaul […]
May 1, 2023
TEL AVIV – Sophie Stillman was in Jerusalem in February of 2016, not far from where Hadar Cohen, a teenage Israeli border police officer, was killed in a terrorist attack. […]
April 7, 2023
Minnesota Hillel, an organization focused on fostering Jewish identity among college students at the University of Minnesota, will host their annual Maroon & Gold Shabbat on April 21 at the […]