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| | Meet Abby. |  | | Hometown: Birmingham, AL
School: DePaul University
Major: Journalism; Religious Studies
Graduation date: 2010
Hillel involvement: Hillels Around Chicago: Depaul Hillel; JCRC/Hillel Israel Initiative “It was what I wanted in a leadership position; it encompasses so much—to enlighten the student body about all the beautiful facets of Israel.”
Read more about Abby » | | | | The Hillels of Illinois Benefit 2009: Online registration open! | .jpg) | | The Hillels of Illinois Benefit 2009 will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Avenue, on Thursday, June 25, 2009. Dana Gordon and Frances H. Krasnow are chairing what is sure to be one of the most enjoyable Hillel Benefits to date. Rather than a formal sit-down dinner, this year’s event will start promptly at 5:30 p.m. with a Dinner Reception and a silent auction. Guests can fill their plates from food stations, select a beverage from the open bar, and then go sit at their tables or mix and mingle. By 7:15 all guests will be seated for the show, which will begin with a few very brief remarks from students, followed by the very smart, the very funny, and the very interactive antics of Chicago’s own ComedySportz Improv Group from 7:30 – 8:30. The evening will conclude with a dessert reception and the closing of the silent auction. To support Jewish campus life, community members can purchase seats at the dinner or buy an ad in the programme. Register online and get more information at the Benefit site,orcall 312-673-2354. | | | | In its sixth year, Russian Shabbaton continues to engage Jewish students | 
What happens when 96 Russian-speaking college students and young professionals gather for a weekend of Jewish learning? “A sense of instant community,” is Steve Bogdanov’s answer. Bogdanov, who was born in Minsk and came to the United States in 1995, was among the participants at the sixth annual Russian Shabbaton and Birthright Israel Reunion, the flagship event of Russian Hillel, which is a program of Hillels Around Chicago. The Shabbaton, which was held Feb. 20-22 at Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomingdale, began in 2004 with the goal of offering Russian-speaking Jewish young adults in Chicago a venue to meet each other and learn together. This year’s Shabbaton attracted participants from Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Tampa, Fla. Continue this article at theJUF News, or see a greatconversation with participants and organizers at Hillel.org. Read more » | | | | ASB: Connecting Jewishly through social justice | 
Throughout The Hillels of Illinois system, students are participating in a variety of Alternative Spring Breaks (ASB) designed to give students powerful experiences relating to Jewish values of tzedakah, helping others and building community. Read more » | | | | Libenson wins prestigious AVI CHAI grant to support Newberger Hillel's engagement of students | Dan Libenson, Executive Director of the Newberger Hillel at the University of Chicago, was recently made a recipient of the prestigious AVI CHAI Fellowship, one of five AVI CHAI Fellows for this year. The purpose of the AVI CHAI Fellowship is to advance and promote the individual winners as important forces in building a vital American Jewish future built upon these values. Dan intends to use the AVI CHAI Fellowship to launch the creation of a center for Jewish ideas and innovation, which would leverage the power of the university for the benefit of the Jewish people. With a "faculty" of practitioner-scholars spending half their time on research, design, assessment, and dissemination and half their time implementing and experimenting on the ground, the center marries an academic think tank to a living laboratory, creating a rapid innovation cycle. The center, which will also seek to partner with and create non-student Jewish laboratory communities, will become an ideas engine for the Jewish people, playing the role in Jewish society that the university plays in general society. Read theAVI CHAI press release and theCampus Beat one-on-one with Dan.
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