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Matt Vogel
Dec 7, 2024, 5:22 PM
Bias to Box Graters: Jewish Life Then & Now at UVM
You should have seen it; the pure joy emanating from students' faces as they accepted a glittery blue bag filled with potatoes, an onion, a couple eggs, oil, stickers, swag and yes...a box grater. It was a look I haven't...
Matt Vogel
Nov 18, 2024, 11:40 PM
Cheshvan and the Marathon of a Semester
There’s something peacefully unique about Cheshvan at UVM Hillel. No major holidays. No rush to prepare challah bake marathons or big community dinners. Just a quiet month tucked into the calendar between Tishrei’s high holidays and the lights of...
Eric M. Leiderman
Dec 8, 2023, 12:13 AM
Illuminating Resilience in the Festival of Lights
Dear My Beloved Jewish Community, As we stand within hours of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, and the radiant glow of the Hanukkiah (the trademark nine-branched candelabrum of Hanukkah), I find myself compelled to address you with a plea...
Matt Vogel
Apr 11, 2023, 4:05 PM
After the OCR investigation of antisemitism, what’s next for Jewish life at UVM?
I want to share a story of one microcosm of one Hillel director's experience on Passover this year, and what it can mean for thousands of Jewish students in a time of rising antisemitism. A few days after the announcement...
Deborah Katchko-Gray
Aug 11, 2022, 8:42 PM
Preparing for the High Holydays – a cantorial view
From my very first High Holyday services in l976 at Boston University at the age of 19, I knew preparing for the music and spiritual experience was like the “Jewish Olympics”. It is a delicate balancing act of good...
Shlomo Ezagui
Jun 1, 2022, 12:30 AM
King David and the Angel of Death
On the major biblical holiday of Shavuot, we commemorate the communication of the Ten Commandments and the Torah some 3,334 years ago. Another lesser-known fact is that King David was born and passed away 70 years later, on the first...
David Kalb
Nov 24, 2021, 8:45 PM
Not Quite, Thanksgivukkah, But Close!
Eight years ago, on Thursday, November 28, 2013, there was a lot of discussion about the intersection of Thanksgiving and Hanukah because the two holidays coincided. A new word was even created, Thanksgivukkah. The next Thanksgivukkah is not until...
Leonard Grunstein
Jan 27, 2021, 11:57 PM
Tu B’Shevat-A Quintessential Celebration of Faith
My first introduction to the Jewish Holiday of Tu B’Shevat was in Yeshiva Elementary School. In the middle of class, we were treated to what the teacher referred to as Bokser (Yiddish for carob or Charuv in Hebrew). It was...
Ian Katsnelson
Dec 27, 2020, 9:19 AM
A Retrospective Look of this Past Hanukkah
Hanukkah, Hanukah, Chanukah. No matter the spelling, this joyous festival of lights has been celebrated by the Jewish people for thousands of years; all with the same meaningful story in its backdrop. We light candles, with one added to...
Danielle Hodes
Oct 7, 2020, 2:40 AM
Seeking Spirituality in Lockdown
It is no secret that the high holidays, usually a time of travel and excitement in Israel, would feel different amidst a global pandemic, especially during a nationwide lockdown prohibiting large gatherings. Israel is the one place in the...
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