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… with us at University of Michigan Hillel three minutes after I met him five years ago," recalls Michael Brooks, executive director of the Hillel Foundation at U-M. As Rabbi Richard Kirschen readies to…
… leave his position as U-M's associate Hillel director to become executive director of the Brown University-Rhode Island School of Design Hillel Foundation in Providence at the end of this month, he looks…
…. Chosen as last year's Berman Fellow, she worked at U-M Hillel in a one-year fellowship program established by phi- lanthropist Mandell L. Berman of Franklin to help young Jewish leaders prepare for Jewish…
… communal positions. "After graduation, I started working here. I couldn't let it go, mostly because of Rabbi Rich," she says. "Working at Hillel is a pretty special kind of niche within the Jewish world…
… organization that serves any of the 6,000 Jewish U-M stu- dents interested in Hillel programming. Remember When From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 1991 The…
… pursuing Jewish commu- nal work in Chicago. Rabbi Potter will become assistant director of U-M Hillel the following year. "Rabbi Kirschen's vision of Jewish possibilities and his indefatigable energy have…
… left an indelible mark on the cul- ture of Jewish life at Michigan and he will be sorely missed," Brooks says. In a farewell e-mail to students, Rabbi Kirschen shared his feelings of sadness at leaving…
… back upon his time at I: M. "It has been a most remarkable five years," he says of the post he took just m3riths following his 1996 ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jerusalem Institute of Religion…
… (HUC-JIR) in New York. "I had a lot of fun here. Both the staff and the students were amazing," says Rabbi Rich, as he is typically called by students. "I always knew I wanted to work in informal…
… touched by Hillel can't always be measured by counting participants attending a lecture or a religious service. "We can have a Torah study for 15 peo- ple or a program with Dennis Ross for 800 or a talk by…