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Dressed in a dark suit, Heller is sitting in the library at Hillel and talking about the Mishnah. The future rabbi is discussing how this 1,800-year-old code of Jewish law bears upon modern issues such as liturgical change and homosexuality...
...eller ascribes much of his decision tobecome a rabbi to his experience with theEgalitarian minyan at Hillel. As one of the"gabbais" of this group of Conservative Jewishstudents, Heller helped organize and conductreligious services. Heller points to his work asgabbai as being the most enjoyable and rewardingof all his jobs at Hillel...
Shapiro was a charismatic, friendly leader.According to Feldstein, Shapiro was something of amaverick within the national Hillel organizationbecause he was not a rabbi; Shapiro's concern asthe chapter's first director was more with thelives of the students than with a specificreligious purpose...
...Jewish organization had gotten itssecond director, Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmund, andmoved to a house on Bryant Street, near theDivinity School. In the late 1970s, theorganization moved to 74 Mt. Auburn St.--which hadpreviously housed the Iroquois final club--whereit remained until April of this year...
Hillel's director emeritus, Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, echoed the president's remarks. Gold said it was remarkable that "a community which began 50years ago with a handful of students," has"developed into the Jewish cultural center of thiscommunity...