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by
Eugene Rothman, PhD, Executive Director of UGalilee
Did you ever try to get credit for a course taken as part of a study abroad program? How about getting the grade included as part of your GPA or meeting your Major requirements? Or, can you transfer your federal grants and scholarships to a study abroad program? The answers to all of the above are usually - "often with great difficulty". This is particularly true in areas such as Pre-Med where programs do not recognize courses taken outside the United States and will not include the grades in the GPA. The
University of Miami's (UM) new UGalilee program may have come up with a
way to have your study in Israel cake and eat it. UGalilee is UM's satellite campus in
Israel. Launched in January 2009, UGalilee, held every Spring Semester, is
located in Karmiel, a city in the center of the Galilee, where the
countryside is the classroom. It is also one of Israel's most
culturally and ethnically diverse areas.
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by Amy Holtz, President of JerusalemOnlineU.com What does being Jewish have to do with me? Why should I support Israel? These are just a few questions that echo in the minds of Jewish students and are engagingly explored in JerusalemOnlineU.com's cutting edge courses. Many Jewish students will say they are Jewish or "feel" Jewish, but life is demanding for them. Between the social scene, college applications, homework, studying and internships, many such crucial questions are left unanswered. Shockingly, recent studies show that over 50% of Jewish students on college campuses in the US and Canada do not see the need for having the State of Israel. An astounding 70% do not consider connecting to Israel and fellow Jews around the world as very important. There's hope though! We are finding students who were once part of these disturbing statistics now Jewishly inspired and vowing to help others learn about the beauty of their identity and develop a passion for the State of Israel. Sam Schear had always identified himself as a Jew and had Jewish friends. He had a Bar-Mitzvah, but had little connection to his rabbi and little understanding of what it meant to be Jewish. In high school, Schear participated in a program that exposed him to Jewish ideas and he began to think more about what Judaism and Israel meant to him. |
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by Adina Wolkenfeld (2012), Bioengineering major and JLIC Intern The Hillel at UCLA presents a vibrant and diverse array of Jewish experiences for students. A broad spectrum of programming-ranging from Israel advocacy to "Challah for Hunger" social activism-exists at the Hillel at UCLA, yet JLIC stands alone in providing a framework particularly designed to meet the specific needs of Orthodox students on campus. JLIC provides kashrut supervision, daily minyanim, lively and inspiring shabbatot and yom tov celebrations, and, of course, Torah learning. JLIC
has made UCLA the center of Orthodox college life on the West
Coast. It has not only united the diverse group of students at UCLA
into a strong and close-knit, community, but it has made UCLA a
popular destination for Orthodox students from out of town.
Commuter students often choose to spend Shabbat on campus, while
many students who attend other area colleges choose to live near
the UCLA campus in order to be part of UCLA's warm and inclusive
JLIC community and the social and educational programming it
offers.
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Hope that you have a wonderful day! Sincerely,
Olivia Wiznitzer, Associate Program Director at Alumni Connections Orthodox
Union
email:
olivia@ou.org
phone:
212-613-8124
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