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Who is in your family?
How do we recharge?
How do we connect?
With smart phones, Facebook
Friends and Instagram on hand, we talk
about staying in touch, but really?
How do we truly connect?
Questions of Jewish identity, diversity
and community are as old as Hillel (the
rabbi) himself, asking, "If I am not for
myself, who will be for me? When I am
for myself, what am I? And if not now,
when?"
Today, at Hillel centers on college
campuses across the country, students
are put to the test to Ask Big Questions
with a new spin in a series of facilitated
conversations designed to help diverse
groups share their stories and find
common ground for understanding.
Ask Big Questions (ABQ) began as
a Campus Entrepreneurship Initiative
at Fiedler Hillel at Northwestern
University. The program is now
a national initiative of Hillel, the
Foundation for Jewish Campus Life in
partnership with the Einhorn Family
Charitable Trust. ABQ was brought to
Michigan State University via MSU
Hillel in the fall of 2011.
As part of the program, students are
trained as fellows. Ask Big Questions
Fellows promote discourse by building
a social network of students through
one-on-one dialogue and, on a larger
scale, by leading the ABQ Campaign.
ABQ Fellows work with their
supervisors to generate relevant
questions to engage their peers
in dialogue. Using the questions
they have generated and the social
networks they have built, each
fellow hosts two Ask Big Questions
conversations and two Ask Big
Questions forums throughout the year.
Additionally, ABQ works to develop
meaningful conversations for student
groups participating in Destination
Detroit: Building Bridges — another
program of MSU Hillel that brings
participants together for a day-long
excursion to Detroit where they tour
the city, meet community leaders and
engage in volunteer activities to benefit
disadvantaged youth.
Each month, on the evening prior to
the trip, MSU Hillel hosts a communal
dinner for the MSU participants. The
group meets, interacts and engages in
a meaningful, thought-provoking ABQ
session, designed to provide a common
starting point for the students to talk
about their values, traditions, customs
Questions on page 50
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