Want to Reform Israel? Vote for the Reform Movement

By Evan Traylor April 15, 2015

Most Jews have at least heard of the World Zionist Congress. They know that it had something to do with Theodore Herzl and played a critical role in creating the State of Israel. What many don’t know is that the World Zionist Congress still makes very important decisions affecting Israel and the Jewish community around…

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Four Things You Don’t Know About the Swarthmore Hillel Controversy

By Derek M. Kwait January 9, 2014

  I have some reasonable propositions for how Hillel International should respond to the Swarthmore Hillel debacle based on four important facts missed by most other pundits on this subject. The first fact is that Swarthmore Hillel is uniquely financially independent. Swarthmore University has an endowment for all its religious groups on campus, and as…

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What are the implications of the nonprofit funding model?

By Harpo Jaeger March 15, 2010

Yesterday afternoon, I spent two hours on the phone for Brown/RISD Hillel’s fund drive.  We asked parents and alums for donations ranging from $20 to $1000.  About half of the funding for our Hillel comes from board members, and the rest from other donors like the ones we were calling.  The implications of funding an…

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