As mentioned in Chai Life:

• Two Duke Athletes to participate in the 18th Maccabiah Games

• Meet the 2009-2010 Jewish First Year Advisory Mentor (JFAM) Leaders

• Freshman student’s first Passover away from home

• Delta Gamma’s Seder at the Freeman center for Jewish Life

 

Jewish Life at Duke In the News

Be sure to visit regularly to read about Jewish Life at Duke and Jewish students in the news.

 2009 Annual Israeli Consulate student conference to be held at the Freeman Center

Jewish Life at Duke is pleased to be in partnership with The Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast to host the 2009 annual consulate annual student conference. Please click here to read the press release. 

 Duke students celebrate religious holidays throughout September

Please read the article on how Duke students celebrate religious holidays, which includes a quote from our Hillel student president, Scott Gorlick. 

Mazel Tov Class of 2009!

We enjoyed celebrating this milestone in your life at the Jewish Baccalaureate hosted by the Rubenstein-Silvers Hillel! Check out the photos from this event here!  Click here to read Judith Ruderman's speech.

Freeman Center and the Smart Home soon to being receiving produce from local community garden.

Read about Scott Steinberg’s T’09 involvement in community building through the Duke Community Garden Initiative here.  

Oshri Hakak forms Duke Apiary Club

Oshri Hakak T'09 forms the Duke Apiary Club to gain bee-keeping experience before traveling to Sierra Leone to help farmers. Get the buzz here. 

Duke Friends of Israel receive AIPAC Activist of the Year Honor!

The Duke Friends of Israel’s Political Action Committee (DIPAC) recently received Activist of the Year honors at the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. Please click here to read the press release.  

Rachel Nussbaum T’98 is included in Newsweek’s Hottest Rabbis List!

Find out more here! 

Duke Professor Irene Silverblatt speaks about the poems of her cousin Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, who died in the Holocaust

View the new online video interview with Duke professor Irene Silverblatt. Irene helped translate into English the poems of her cousin Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, who died during the Holocaust. Click on this link to hear her talk about her experience in a short video online and check out the article on the Duke Website. 

Stephanie Butnick T'09 Visits the Freeman Center for Shabbat

Read Stephanie's column in the Chronicle to find out about her experience.

Duke Responds to Misrepresentations of the Israel Study Abroad Program

Click here to read the full letter from Larry Moneta, Vice President for Student Affairs, and Michael Schoenfeld, Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations.

Independent Filmmaker Maital Guttman T'05 Discovered Her Passion at Duke

Read about her experience on JVibe.

Rabbi Michael Goldman participates in Jewish Mission Trip to Cuba

Listen to the radio show about it here!