On Wednesday, January 27, the Guelph Jewish Student Organization and Israeli Affairs Committee held a lunch-time celebration of Tu B’Shevat. Students had the opportunity to learn about Tu B’Shevat and the work of the JNF in Israel, as well as participate in the Tu B’Shevat tradition of eating traditional Israeli fruits. Falafel was sold to [...]
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Carleton students showed their solidarity with the Haitian by joining forces to raise funds to help with the relief efforts. Hillel partnered with a number of other Carleton student organizations. Hillel Ottawa raised over $800 for humanitarian aid for Haiti.
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On January 21st Hillel @ York hosted a screening of the film, “Shield of Solomon,” which traces the journey of four Sudanese refugees and was followed with a Q & A with the director of the film, Igal Hecht. Over twelve different student campus organizations came together to learn about Sudanese refugees finding a home and solace [...]
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Vancouver Hillel hosted Regina Waldman, head of Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa. Gina screened the moving film The Forgotten Refugees, about the 900,000 Jews from the Middle East and North Africa who have been made refugees in the past six decades. The film provides an outline for one of the least [...]
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Noam Bedein, the director of the Sderot Media Centre, spoke on all three Vancouver Hillel campuses, building understanding of the real challenges facing Israelis living on the frontline of terrorism. Bedein is a young Israeli activist, photojournalist and leader whose message is simply that Israel faces mounting threats not only from Iran’s nuclear preparations, but [...]
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Israel Day is a unique opportunity each year for Israel On Campus to utilize the main atrium at the University Community Centre to high lite the best that Israel has to offer. This year’s theme was ” The Israeli Shuk”. The entire room was transformed into a large Israeli marketplace, selling and displaying everything from [...]
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Concordia Hillel was awarded the “Best clubs fair participation award” by the Concordia Student Union. The award was granted to Hillel for it’s “tireless effort, commitment and contribution to student life”
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