News

This is a comprehensive listing of all events on campus that are related to spiritual and religious life. Some are presented by student organizations, others by administrative or academic departments.
Asa grew up in Vermont, and received her bachelor’s degree in Africana Studies and French from Connecticut College in 2018. She spent the spring semester of her junior year studying at Middlebury’s ...
Michelle McKenzie Nelson (she/her) joined the Middlebury Admissions Office in 1999, returning to the northeast after a 5-year stint in Seattle, Washington where she worked in the sporting goods and ...
Summer around here is for planning High Holidays. There are logistics to figure out, honors and roles to fill, sermons to write, and prayers to coordinate with our alumnus cantor, Aaron Mendelsohn ’95 ...
Nicole assumed the role of Dean of Admissions on July 1 st 2019. She develops and manages strategic and creative recruitment planning efforts that enable the Admissions team to identify, assess and ...
What are we putting down this year? We didn’t know quite what to expect this year. Last year we were surprised when 70 new students, some Jewish and some not, all curious about Shabbat and hungry for ...
Jewish pluralism is always on my mind. At large universities, Hillel may have the capacity for three or more prayer minyans that represent different denominations and allow students to immerse ...
As many of you know, this Jewish year of 5782 is a shmita, or sabbatical year, in the Jewish calendar. The Torah declares that every seventh year shall be a year of rest for the land, of reset for the ...
Spring 2025: Tuesday 5:00-6:00 p.m. & Wednesday 1:30-2:30 p.m. or by appointment. Russian literature may be best known in the West for producing big lumbering novels, novels thicker than bricks—think ...
If selected as a Fellow, you commit to: —Attend lunch meetings every other week on Wednesday from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm (beginning in the fall semester).
It is good to be back in Vermont. Although I have felt longing for the stone alleys and stairs of Jerusalem, and for the melodies of Shabbat floating out of small synagogues every few blocks, I have ...
Although we call this newsletter Hillel Hayom, this title does not really do justice to the news we share, which is about many aspects of Jewish life on campus, including, but going beyond, the ...