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Bogotá, Colombia. 10 p.m. Having endured a three-hour Shabbat dinner during which my hosts repeatedly implied that my summer roommate was a bad Jew while pretending I didn’t exist, I left Chabad House thinking I had survived the most hostile encounter of my night. Ignoring the advice of our dinner companions and every other human we had met so far, we decided not to call a taxi and instead walked towards a nearby bar, hoping to unwind to the calming sounds of Daddy Yankee...
...home,” said Reyzl R. Geselowitz ’10. As they tried to define their religion for viewers in Korea, the students at Hillel debated their own ideas of Judaism. “Does being Jewish mean keeping kosher? Does being Jewish mean celebrating Shabbat? Does being Jewish mean feeling proud when I see someone Jewish on TV?” one student queried. For many, the answer was social activism. “To me, it’s all about social justice. It’s about making the world a better place when...
...that they have Shabbat dinners at Hillel wasn’t really doing it for me,” says Stein, who is also on The Crimson’s Business Board. “We wanted to host our own thing and try our hand...
According to Gillete, Hillel regularly hosts between 150 and 200 people at its Shabbat dinners, but Stein estimates that Friday Night Lights consistently hosts 50 or more students. Non-Jews are also welcome and members are encouraged to bring their friends and blockmates...
...Ganong said that he enjoyed visiting Chabad houses on Shabbat, where he could attend services and connect with the local Jewish community...