{"id":15263,"date":"2025-03-25T13:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/hillel-the-campus-jewish-group-is-thriving-and-torn-by-conflict\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:21:46","slug":"hillel-the-campus-jewish-group-is-thriving-and-torn-by-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/hillel-the-campus-jewish-group-is-thriving-and-torn-by-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillel, the Campus Jewish Group, Is Thriving, and Torn by Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was chicken tenders night at Yale\u2019s chapter of Hillel, the Jewish student group, and the basement dining hall was packed with boisterous, hungry students attracted by overflowing vats of kosher fried chicken and mac and cheese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some students kissed the mezuza on the way in. Others were not even Jewish, but came for the food and companionship, a sign of the pluralism that Hillel \u2014 the dominant Jewish campus organization in the United States \u2014 says it embraces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet under the surface, there were signs of strain, after months of divisive protests on campus over the war in Gaza. A silent question hung in the air, several students said: \u201cWhich side are you on?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Few American organizations have been touched by clashes over the war quite the way Hillel has. The movement, founded in 1923 at the University of Illinois, now has chapters at 850 colleges and universities around the world, from highly selective private schools like Yale to big state universities like Texas A&amp;M. The Hillel movement, including Hillel International and the campus Hillel chapters, had $200 million in revenue in 2003, received from tens of thousands of donors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hillel centers are where college students go to cement their sense of Jewish identity, or to discover it. Its slogan is \u201call kinds of Jewish,\u201d and it aims to be welcoming to all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But as the conflict in Gaza continues, some Jewish students believe that Hillel is not critical enough of the Israeli government\u2019s conduct of the war, and too defensive in its support of Zionism, a belief in the right of Jews to a Jewish state in their ancestral land of Israel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hillel, for its part, is unapologetic. \u201cHillel as an institution has been and remains committed to the support of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, that fulfills the right of Jewish self-determination in an ancestral homeland,\u201d Adam Lehman, Hillel\u2019s chief executive officer, said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The shock of the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023, against Israel has moved many Jewish students to explore what it means to be Jewish, fueling significant growth in interest in Hillel on campuses around the world. During the 2023-24 school year, as the conflict in the Middle East escalated, a record 180,000 students participated in Hillel activities at least once, 12,000 more than the year before, according to the organization. There was also an uptick in the number of \u201csuper-users,\u201d who visited Hillel at least six times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over the last year and half, though, the solidarity that came with that identity has cracked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fissures can be felt in public life and in synagogues. And the division among Jews more generally is playing out among Jews on campus, as some complain that Hillel is too aligned with Israel, while others say that it is too open to critics of Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many students find it hard to divorce themselves from Hillel completely, especially in this time when they may not feel safe expressing their Jewish faith and identity outside their own community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some students, like Emanuelle Sippy, a senior at Princeton, look for a middle ground. She still goes to Hillel for prayer services, meals and lectures. But in the search for a more congenial left-wing political environment, she also helped to revive a small rival group, the Alliance of Jewish Progressives, on her campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is a group of people \u2014 very close friends, people I respect and admire \u2014 who are fighting battles within these institutions like Hillel,\u201d she said. \u201cThey might be showing up to events. Hillel might be counting them. It doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t have criticisms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This is not the first time that there has been a schism among students at Hillel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Students at Harvard launched an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2015\/03\/18\/swarthmore-hillel-breaks-parent-organization-over-israel-issues\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Open Hillel<\/a> movement in 2012, in protest against the parent organization\u2019s policy against partnering with anti-Israel groups. In December 2013, students at <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2015\/03\/18\/swarthmore-hillel-breaks-parent-organization-over-israel-issues\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Swarthmore<\/a> Hillel declared themselves the first \u201cOpen Hillel\u201d chapter in the nation, vowing to promote open inquiry, regardless of ideology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The current ideological split feels sharper, as campus protests for and against Israel have led to arrests, suspensions and lawsuits. When it comes to the campus Hillel, \u201ca lot of students don\u2019t feel comfortable going in for political reasons,\u201d said Danya Dubrow-Compaine, a senior and a co-founder of Yale Jews for Ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There is also a growing generation gap. In a Pew survey conducted in February 2024, 38 percent of adults under 30 years old said Israel\u2019s reasons for fighting Hamas were valid, down from 41 percent two years earlier. That compares with 78 percent of people 65 and older who said the same, up several points from the earlier survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Elijah Bacal, a sophomore who is an organizer for Yale Jews for Ceasefire, said the institutional leadership of the Slifka Center, as Yale\u2019s Hillel is known, has been slow to adapt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think there is a real, honestly, just like an out-of-touchness,\u201d Mr. Bacal said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hillel is still one of the first places Jewish students go when arriving on campus, to meet others, do homework and enjoy a meal with friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI was looking for a place where my intellectual life wouldn\u2019t be siloed into the classroom, but would spill out to a broader community,\u201d said Medad Lytton, a Yale senior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Oct. 7, he said, he \u201cfelt a strong sense of peoplehood.\u201d A singing circle at Slifka helped him connect with others to express<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>his grief. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a second home for me,\u201d he said of the center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nili Fox, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis, was brought up in a religious Jewish family, and sought out Hillel as soon as she arrived on campus. After Oct. 7, Hillel was her \u201crock,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt has really been helpful to know that whenever I feel uncomfortable I have a place where I was supported and loved, no matter what,\u201d Ms. Fox said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Other students are dismayed by what they perceive as Hillel\u2019s uncritical view of Israel in the face of a complicated and morally challenging reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some students object to Hillel houses flying the Israeli flag, which they see as a symbol of a nation that has, from Ms. Sippy\u2019s perspective, committed war crimes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Uri Cohen, the executive director of the Slifka Center at Yale, says the flag represents Hillel\u2019s values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere are some who don\u2019t come because it crosses a line for them, and there are many who come,\u201d Mr. Cohen said. \u201cSlifka is very clear. We are a Zionist institution. We are also not checking anybody\u2019s credentials at the door.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In January, Yale Hillel hosted a talk by Naftali Bennett, a former Israeli army commando, defense minister and prime minister, who was once considered a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel\u2019s current prime minister. Many Jewish students objected to Mr. Bennett\u2019s hawkish politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">(At a later talk at Harvard Business School, Mr. Bennett joked that he would give exploding pagers to people who disagreed with him, according to The Harvard Crimson.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Bacal, the organizer with Yale Jews for Ceasefire, helped lead a peaceful protest against Mr. Bennett in the lobby of the Slifka Center. He did not contest Mr. Bennett\u2019s right to speak, Mr. Bacal said, but he did not see why the event had been held in a spiritual place, a chapel where students went to pray and that contained an ark with a Torah in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think it\u2019s a real shame, because the Jewish community at college should welcome and represent all Jews on campus to the best of its ability, no matter where they are coming from,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another student, Netanel Crispe, a senior, said that he objected not to the speaker but to Hillel\u2019s having allowed the protest against him. Mr. Crispe said that Slifka staff stopped him and several others from filming the protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He faulted Yale Hillel for trying \u201cto play to both sides in a way that doesn\u2019t reflect core values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Cohen, Slifka\u2019s director, defended the invitation the center extended to Mr. Bennett, noting that his talk drew 300 people to a space that only held 100. \u201cWe did it out of our love for Israel and our love for Zionism, and the opportunity of giving access for our students to an influential world leader,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To illustrate Hillel\u2019s dilemma, Mr. Bacal, the protest leader, recalled how honored he was to lead Shabbat services for the first time. His parents came to town to be there, and friends attended. But it took place around the time of the Naftali Bennett event, and one of his friends stayed away in protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She told Mr. Bacal she did not feel comfortable stepping into Slifka that week. \u201cI totally get that,\u201d Mr. Bacal said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Alain Delaqu\u00e9ri\u00e8re<!-- -->, <!-- -->Susan C. 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