End of Spring Semester
Program Highlights
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Cleveland Metro
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The students organized a large end of semester party.
They called it a Shavuot party and hundreds of students came to enjoy a
jazz band and cheese cake.
- During finals week over 100 students attended the concert of Israeli band HaDag
Nachash at the JCC in celebration of Yom Haatzmaut
At Oberlin where
classes continued to mid May...
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Yom
Hashoa commemoration and Yom Haatzmaut celebration
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125
students attended the end of the year
all campus Jewish and Muslim Community BBQ
featuring the campus band "The Sauce" Bat Mitzvah celebration of a Hillel leadership student
- Special
programming during graduation and
alumni weekend and for Shavuot
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Mark your calendar!
Tuesday evening October 28,
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Cleveland
Hillel Foundation will be hosting Harvard Law professor and author AlanDershowitz at Severance Hall for a
public lecture open to all followed by a student reception. Both student and board committee groups have
started meeting to plan the content of the evening and raise the funds required. If you are interested in helping us with this, please contact me at gcoleman@clevelandhillel.org
As mentioned we are still in the process of
reaching out to sponsors and identifying underwriters, but want to give an
early thanks to the Hyman and Esther Rapport Trust, CWRU College of Arts and Sciences and Rosenthal Center for their support.
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June 18,
2008
15 Sivan
5768
Dear
Friends,
The
summer is upon us. During May students
graduated from colleges and universities including Cleveland State,
Case Western Reserve, and Oberlin. We hope that they continue their studies or
embark on their careers and professions as proud Jews who integrate their
particular Jewish and universally human characteristics to build a pluralistic
and dynamic Jewish community and a caring, tolerant, and better world. We are also proud of the many students involved
in Hillel who received special awards and honors at their commencement and that
our Oberlin Director Shimon Brand delivered the invocation at the Oberlin
graduation.
Summer is
a time of staff turnover. We want to
take this opportunity to thank Miriam Ignatoff for her three years and Erika
Dantzig for her year of work at Oberlin.
Both of them went well beyond the call of duty and have made a lasting
impression on the students there. We
wish them well on all their future endeavors and hope they stay in touch with
us. During the summer their replacements
will start at Oberlin. In addition an
Israel Fellow will be joining our staff and we are looking for a part time
person to work as an assistant for graduate student programming. Our director of graduate student programming,
Allison Peterson, will be returning to work after the birth of her first child.
During
the summer our board of directors is orienting new board members, meeting to
discuss outstanding issues, and setting the agenda and goals for the board
committees. A full list of board members can be found here. If you are interested in
the work of our board please contact me at gcoleman@clevelandhillel.org
As June ends we are finishing our fiscal year. I ask you to consider a gift to our Hillel at
this point so we can continue to assure a brighter Jewish future. Donations can be made on line at www.clevelandhillel.org by clicking
on the Network for Good link or by
sending checks to our office at 11291
Euclid Ave, Cleveland OH 44106
During
the summer we are also embarking on our new initiative, the Summer Internship and Leadership Program. More can be read about it later in this
report.
As always
I am interested in hearing from you, your comments, feedback, and ideas so you
can either call me at 216-231-0040 or e-mail me at gcoleman@clevelandhillel.org
With Blessings,
Gary
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Summer Internship and Leadership Program starts
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We
are pleased to announce that our Summer Internship and Leadership Program
started this past Monday, June 16, 2008.
Twenty three undergraduate students
started their eight week internships at eighteen different businesses and not
for profit agencies. They will be
working four days a week and come together on Fridays for professional growth
seminars, reflection activities, learning about community agencies and
opportunities, and planning educational and social programs for the hundreds of their peers in Cleveland for the summer.
These
businesses and agencies have placed interns:
Advertising
and Communication (Doner Advertising, Envision Radio
Networks)
Bio-Tech
and Industry (Cleveland Medical Devices and Olympic Steel)
Consulting,
Finance, and Insurance (Brunswick Companies,
Glenmede Trust Company, and Levin Consulting)
Real
Estate and Construction (NRP Group, Titan Realty,
Landmark Management, Gross Builders)
Jewish
Community (Jewish Family Service Association
[JFSA], Jewish Community Federation [JCF], Maltz Museum, Gross Schechter Day
School, Cleveland Jewish News[CJN], Jewish Education Center of Cleveland
[JECC], Jewish Community Center [JCC])
 Prior
to the first day of work almost all the interns (a few were still in finals)
had a one day orientation where they
met one another and discussed their goals. The interns then learned about Cleveland on a Lolly the Trolley tour that included
visiting a downtown artist's colony, viewing the city from Key Tower,
and meeting with Councilman Joe Cimperman in Tremont.
We want to thank both The Cleveland
Foundation and Strengthening and Growing Jewish Cleveland for special grants
that enabled us to initiate the program.
We believe that the program goals of offering students the opportunity
for professional growth, strengthening their connection to Cleveland, and creating a summer scene for
Jewish undergraduate students will be met.
An evaluation will be done
both immediately after the program and six months later to learn what was
successful and what should be improved.
We hope that these evaluations will demonstrate the importance of the
program and that we can secure continuous funding so the program can grow and
encompass more students in the future.
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