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FEDERATION NEWS November 2020 21A
Hillel High Holidays from afar
By Sydney Harlow, Gulf Coast Hillel Program Director
he High Holidays this year spread apart. We are very appreciative program. Unfortunately, some of them with Hillel and Jewish traditions. We
looked a little different for Jews that Rabbi Katz was able to come to were in class or work at the time of look forward to more upcoming cre-
Taround the world, and our Gulf both Ringling College of Art + Design Break Fast so all of these meals went ative and alternative programming.
Coast Hillel was no exception. In a and New College of Florida so students into our new Gulf Coast Hillel lunch- If you have any questions about
typical year, we would receive High would be able to fulfill the mitzvah of boxes. Those who were able, joined to- Gulf Coast Hillel, please contact me at
Holiday tickets for our col- hearing the shofar in per- gether via Zoom to eat and schmooze sydney@gchillel.org.
lege students to attend any son. across campus and across the country!
of the local synagogues. We As many of our stu- Within their lunchboxes, they also
would attend services as a dents chose to continue received Legos as preparation for the
group. their studies from home next holiday, Sukkot! Since we are not
This year with virtual this semester, we also took allowed to gather in person, we could
services and the students not the opportunity for them to not build our traditional sukkah on
being allowed to congregate join us via Instagram live. campus this year. Instead, I challenged
in person on campus, we They were able to see and my students to come up with their own
had to be creative with how hear what we were seeing sukkah, providing them with Legos as
we would “get together” for Sydney Harlow in real time and interact a starting point.
the holidays. Services were the easy with us – the next best thing to having Even with all these changes, our
part. Hillel International offered online them there in person! students remain connected and engaged
services geared to college students with Yom Kippur landed on
topics and speakers that they would a weekday, which is always
connect with. Possibly more important, harder for students. They
they were short and to the point, easy have to make their own
to fit into already packed class sched- choice whether to attend
ules minimizing online fatigue! There services or go to class, and Mortie with the Lego sukkah
were some students who decided to go to fast or not to fast. Also,
“home” for services. Joining with their
College scholarships report for many of our students STAY CONNECTED
around the country, this was
friends and families at their home con-
Lisa Feinman, Resource Development Manager gregations made this new type of High their first year making these
decisions for themselves.
Holiday services and transition a little
Chemistry with a focus in easier for some of them. We made Break Fast bags
Chemical Biology and Health; We received permission to hold for our students who are
Science, Society & Policy one in-person event for the holidays in Sarasota-Manatee, filled
English on each of the campuses. Community with bagels, cream cheese,
English Education Chaplain Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz from orange juice, mac and
Environmental Policy and JFCS of the Suncoast was invited to cheese, apples and honey
Planning blow the shofar for our students. Stu- and more. They were deliv-
Finance, Business Analytics dents looked forward to seeing each ered to the students on cam-
Information Technology other, potentially for the first time this pus prior to Kol Nidre as Akiva Baskt (Ringling ’21) and Eden Aflalo (Ringling ’22) twitter.com/jfedsrq
Jazz Trumpet Performance with a semester, even behind the masks while part of our new Jewbereats with the Break Fast bags
minor in Classical Composition
Musical Theater
Naval Architecture
Psychology
Statistics with a Mathematics
minor Where YOU belong
Zoo and Conservation Science
Below is some other statistical in-
formation.
For more information on our Ed-
ucation Scholarship program, please
contact me at lfeinman@jfedsrq.org or
941.706.0034.
JOIN US to learn more about the exciting reimagination
of the Larry & Mary Greenspon Family Campus
for Jewish Life. Visit JFEDSRQ.org/ProudStrong.
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