“Off the Beaten Path,” Part II: At the University of Texas, Ex-Hillel Rabbi Brings Students Where Birthright Won’t Take Them
Last summer, a group of students from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin met up with Ben Packer, a fringe, far-right nationalist, in Jerusalem. Their trip leader, then-Hillel Rabbi Moshe Trepp, says the meeting was unplanned, a happy accident. He asked Packer to show them around. “The great guy that he is, and so…