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Michigan State Hillel
Is Changing Its Image
JENNIFER FINER
Special to The Jewish News
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epending on the
school, Hillel Founda-
tion can either be a
"cool" place to go or it can be
a place where some college
students would not be caught
dead.
For Hillel at Michigan
State University, the latter
used to be the norm for a ma-
jority of students, but thanks
to a lot of hard work and ef-
fort, Hillel is slowly changing
its reputation.
On Sept. 11, an un-
precedented 125 students
packed into Hillel for a free
Shabbat dinner. Another 10
had to be turned away for lack
of space.
Attendees came because
they wanted to meet more
people, wanted to see what
Hillel was about or admitted
they were there for the free
meal. All were surprised to
see such a large turnout.
Randee Carp, an MSU
senior from Farmington Hills,
remembers one of her first
Shabbat dinners at Hillel.
She estimated 20 people were
in attendance.
"Something is working if
they have all these people
here," she said.
Freshmen Mike Fleischer
and Kevin Agrest had never
been to Hillel and did not
know what to expect. They
were surprised at the turnout
and took advantage of the
evening to meet people.
Although Hillel had more
people than they technicallY
could accommodate, the at-
mosphere was friendly and
laid back. One table of most-
ly upperclassmen joked about
meeting future spouses at
Hillel.
Lee Sobel attends Cooley
Law School in Lansing and is
from Miami. "The food is
good and the environment is
good," he said. "I would pro-
bably come back for other
significant activities.
"Compared to the Hill-21
where I went to school in
Florida, there is a good tur- -
nout here tonight," he added.
According to Jennifer Eps--
tein, the program director at
Hillel, over the past few years
the number of people par-
ticipating in MSU Hillel has
dramatically risen.
"In the past three years, we
have tripled the number of_
students we are serving," she
said.
Those active in Hillel are
attributing its success to the
increase in social activities
and programming as well as
giving students the oppor-
tunity to take ownership of
Hillel.
"With the increase of social
events we are getting new,
people in the door for the fun
things and once they are here
they tend to stay," said Zaron
Frumin, Hillel's publicity
chair.
"This shows that the people
who come to Hillel are nice,
normal people and we have
things to offer everyone," Ms-.
Epstein said.
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Bonn (JTA) — As renewed
right-wing attacks on for-
eigners were reported in
several German cities, a
German parliamentary
leader assured her Israeli
counterpart that she shares
his concern over the wave of
neo-Nazi violence in Ger-
many.
Rita Sussmuth, the
speaker of the Bundestag,
sent a letter to Knesset
Speaker Shevah Weiss in
which she said she fully
understood feelings in Israel
over attacks on foreigners in
Germany.
Mr. Weiss had written her
a letter saying the attacks
"are very harmful to all of
us."
"There is no need to point
out to you that there is nat-
urally a particular sensitivi- -
ty about such events in
Germany," he had written.
Ms. Sussmuth said there
agreement by all parties in
the parliament that the
right-wing radicals would
not undermine the country's -
democratic institutions.
The large number of refu-
gees seeking asylum in
Germany constitutes a real
problem, she said, but under
no circumstances could that
justify aggression against—
foreigners.
The Bundestag condemned -.-
the violent attacks against
foreigners and urged effi?
cient measures to protect
lives of those vulnerable to
attack.