We sent 500 students to a Climate Change rally in New York this past year, with a special Shabbaton focused on the issue before the march.
And our award winning Ask Big Questions program is helping entire campus communities, not just Jewish students, grapple with difficult questions and listen to each other’s answers so that we can learn to live together in understanding and respect.
At Hillel, our goal is to help develop the next generation of active, engaged Jews; the future leaders of our community. You are part of that. Help us show the older generations that the future of the Jewish community is in strong, capable hands.
The famous musical rabbi, Shlomo Carlebach, pointed out that most of the things Jews ask God for in our daily prayers can be fulfilled individually. For example, when we ask God for good health, we can be granted good health while others are still sick. When we ask God for material success, we can be successful while others are still poor. There is only one thing we ask for in our prayers that can only be fulfilled if it is simultaneously fulfilled for everyone, and that is peace. Sim Shalom. There is no peace unless there is peace for all. We’re all trying to be God’s partners in the quest for peace. But none of us is God. Let’s all approach this quest with the passion for doing what we think is right but the humility to know that, whether we are right or not is ultimately in the hands of a force larger than ourselves.
Thank you.