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2 unusual facts about Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life


Camp Kesem

The first Camp Kesem project was founded at Stanford University in 2001 as a project of Hillel at Stanford, a nonprofit serving Jewish students at the University.

Marshall Goldman

Goldman has served as a trustee of the Noble and Greenough School as well as The Commonwealth School of Boston and is past president of the Hillel Council of Greater Boston.


Agricultural research in Israel

In 2012, Daniel Hillel received the World Food Prize for his pioneering work in micro-irrigation techniques.

Ben Bag-Bag

Ben Bag-Bag was a rather mysterious Rabbi and a disciple of Rabbi Hillel of the early Tannaim age, appearing at the end of the Mishnah in Pirkei Avot.

Columbia/Barnard Hillel

During the Columbia University protests of 1968 the predecessor organization to the Hillel was headed by Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman.

Ezekiel Isaac Malekar

“According to Rabbi sic Hillel, the Torah can be capsulated into only one commandment: ‘What is hurtful and hateful to you, do not do to another.’ Everything else is footnote.”

Gad Elbaz

Elbaz has performed at the Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School; an Orthodox Jewish school in Miami, Florida and at a public high school in Queens, New York.

Gili Bar-Hillel

As well, she also reviewed picture books for the Israeli women's weekly LaIsha for several years.

H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College

Jewish sororities used the Hillel foundation to get lists of names of Jewish first year students.

Hillel Zeitlin

Arthur Green (2012) Hasidic Spirituality for a New Era; The Religious Writings of Hillel Zeitlin.

Hillel, son of Gamaliel III

As illustrating his modesty the following incidents may be quoted: He and his brother were once at Biri, where people remonstrated against their walking on the Sabbath in shoes with golden buckles, which was not customary at that place: they resignedly removed their shoes and handed them over to their accompanying slaves.

Humanitarian Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust

The program was run by Hillel in New York, New York and the University of Miami in Miami, Florida and began operations in the fall semester of 2004.

Jaggi Singh

On September 9, 2002, he participated in a protest against a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which was to be presented by the pro-Israel Hillel club at Concordia University, with support from the Asper Foundation.

Menahem the Essene

The Mishnah, Tractate "Hagigah" 16b, cites that he "went forth out", and as a result of that he was replaced by Shammai, that became from that point on the "Pair" mate of Hillel the Elder.

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

The cantor of the Sephardic synagogue in Amsterdam, Hillel, worked with Luzzatto to set several of his poems to music.

Richmond Jewish Foundation

Affiliated agencies include Beth Sholom Campus and Weinstein JCC, Jewish Community Federation of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia area Jewish congregations such as Temple Beth El and Congregation Kol Emes, museums like Virginia Holocaust Museum and Congregation Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives, schools like Rudlin Torah Academy and programs like Hillel.

Satriale's Pork Store

Silvio Dante and Paulie Gualtieri beat Ariel, the brother-in-law of Hillel Teittelbaum in a room in the upper floor of the store and debate whether to murder him with Tony

Seymour Martin Lipset

He was also President of the American Professors for Peace in the Middle East, chair of the National B'nai B'rith Hillel Commission and the Faculty Advisory Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal, and co-chair of the Executive Committee of the International Center for Peace in the Middle East.

Zlatopol

Some of the most famous Jewish families of Zlatopol are: Brody, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, rabbis Elijah and Hillel Poisic, (the composer) Pokrass, and Zola.


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