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Relive MEOR at MetLife Stadium 2013
Dinner Video Presentations Experience MEOR at MetLife Stadium through the presentations delivered by video at MEOR’s gala event on Sunday, May 12th Dinner Photo Gallery See the dinner highlights on our our online photo...
Continue ReadingMEOR JInternship: Jewish Learning + Career Advancement
In today’s difficult economy, most college and graduate students feel a ton of pressure to stay career-focused throughout the year, and spend their summers in professional settings so as to add experience to their resumes. Still, many Jewish students also desire some spiritual, intellectual, and practical depth through Torah study and Jewish connection in Israel, and wish they could spend time on programs like MEOR that cater to those goals. These two priorities have always seemed somewhat mutually exclusive, and unfortunately, the pressure...
Continue ReadingMEOR Light Unto the Nation Experience: Summer 2012
This summer, MEOR history was made. On May 31st 2012, Over 200 students and staff from campuses across the country all came together for a magical evening in Jerusalem: the first annual Cross-MEOR Israel Experience! Beyond The Classroom “Light Unto the Nation” was an event like no other, meant to offer an experience beyond classroom learning. The intention was to feel the “renaissance” of Judaism spreading throughout the country. The evening’s festivities included a delicious BBQ dinner, group discussions that fostered inter-campus...
Continue ReadingFeatured Campus: MEOR Northwestern
MEOR Northwestern is an incredibly warm, social, and active campus. Led by the dynamic duo families of the Livingstones and the Luries, they have truly made their own unique mark on the Jewish scene at Northwestern. Rabbi Josh and Tamar Livingstone came to Northwestern in 2006. They hoped to “create a home away from home on campus,” says Tamar. Six years later, they have clearly been a huge success, and only continue to grow and improve year by year. Rabbi Yitzchak and Julie Lurie arrived at the beginning of the 2011-2012 academic year,...
Continue ReadingOn Jewish Leadership
Remarks by President Morton Schapiro of Northwestern University On February 27, 2012, MEOR Northwestern became the first MEOR campus to welcome their own University President – Morty Schapiro – to its weekly Maimonides Leaders Fellowship class as a guest speaker. President Schapiro has led Northwestern University since 2009. In his talk he shared his thoughts on Jewish leadership and his personal experiences in an hour-long conversation with MEOR students. President Schapiro focused his address on what he considers to...
Continue ReadingLaura Dean, University of Pennsylvania
Class of 2012 Architecture Major Planning extended studies in Israel following graduation I was raised in a Conservative family, went to Solomon Schecter for elementary school and then public high school. I also went to Camp Ramah from ages 9 -16 and grew up knowing how to read and write Hebrew. I did not have many Jewish friends because our town in Connecticut was not very Jewish. One of my brothers went to Penn and did the Maimonides program. He became very close with Rabbi Lynn, so I knew who he was years before I went there too. ...
Continue ReadingKevin Weiss, George Washington University
Class of 2014 Business, Economics and Public Policy Major I grew up in a Reform congregation, where my family’s connection was more with the rabbi than with the temple. When he retired, we lost our connection to a certain extent. When I entered GW and found Rabbi Edelstein and Maimonides, I reconnected much more deeply than I ever had before. My sister had participated in an in-depth Jewish learning program that focused on one commandment per week. She loved it and told me I should look for something in my freshman year. The...
Continue ReadingMichelle Jacobs, Northwestern University
Class of 2011 Double Major in Psychological Services and Dance There is something really special going on at MEOR. It can be summed up in one word: community. I never expected that my Friday nights in college would include a Shabbat dinner, but MEOR is different. For the only time each week, I would sit and talk with my friends. Without cell phones, without a television blaring in the background, we would sit at long tables and, over steaming hot chicken soup, discuss our lives, our dreams and goals. MEOR is a place where I could sit down at...
Continue ReadingJulian Gindi, George Washington University
Class of 2014 Economics Major A friend who had studied in Israel came back and suggested we do some learning together. She researched Jewish organizations on campus and found MEOR, because they offer one/one learning. I met with Rabbi Edelstein, and it really clicked. I decided to do the MEOR Maimonides program and it was fantastic! I thought I would be way ahead of the pack because of my previous Jewish education, but every speaker we had was incredibly informative. This type of learning reinvigorated me. I really became attached to MEOR...
Continue ReadingAdrian Fernandez, Stanford University
Class of 2013 Biology Major I went to Hebrew school growing up, but it was not a big thing in my family to practice Jewish customs. It was a bit of a struggle after my mom passed away six years ago. My dad’s not Jewish and although he was very supportive, by the time I was in high school, I had to negotiate my Jewish identity by myself. When I came to Stanford, I went to High Holiday services, got connected to Hillel and met people who made me feel extremely comfortable in the Jewish community. I went to freshman...
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