Campus Life

Students take comfort in Chabad’s Passover activities on familiar turf

Gatherings draw students from across North America.

Parallels drawn to the Jewish People’s Exodus from Egypt

Launching at CTeen International Shabbaton

Center part of wide-ranging network of support

Miami Torah Experience brings together far-flung college students

“A mind-blowing Jewish experience” at new center.

Rivkie Lipskier, co-director of the Chabad of University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla., arrived in New York City with 31 students Thursday. Amazingly, the transportation difficulties set in motion by Hurricane Sandy did not affect them.

Incoming Jewish freshmen will kick off their collegiate careers at the University of Delaware in style at the 10th annual Freshman Fest, a 30-hour programming gala sponsored by UD Hillel and Chabad on Campus in conjunction with the university’s Jewish Studies Department.

In the shadow of a skyline dominated by the General Motors Renaissance Center across the narrow Detroit River, the small, public University of Windsor draws close to 15,000 students from locations throughout Canada to the quiet and unassuming city of Windsor.

After tallying the numbers and sorting through the responses of participants, officials with the Chabad on Campus International Foundation proclaimed its annual conference for campus-based Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries an unqualified success.

Hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries serving college campuses from around the world have gathered at the Hilton Stamford Hotel and Executive Meeting Center in Connecticut for the 11th annual Chabad on Campus International Emissaries Conference that ends tomorrow.

A group of Washington University students was honored for time well spent with COAST, a program that brings together special needs children and college kids for Jewish connections and growth.

Jewish students at the University of North Texas now have a home away from home with the opening of a new campus Chabad House run by Rabbi Levi and Leah Dubrawsky, who moved up the I-35 corridor from Dallas just two months ago.

Students from New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Dartmouth College and several others touching on philosophy, the Internet, end-of-life questions, civil liberties, democracy, and scriptural belief in their response to the conference’s theme of “ancient ethics in a postmodern world.”

Offering context to its years’ long, but ultimately victorious, legal battle with the City of Hartford, Conn., the Chabad Chevra group welcomed more than 250 people to the new Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center for an inauguration ceremony that focused on the future.

Siobhan Waitzman, 22, a senior and president of the Chabad Jewish Student Association at Colorado State University, loves how tight-knit the Jewish community is on her campus.

A member of the Jewish-interest sorority Sigma Rho Lambda, which won an award for having the highest grade point average within Greek life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s campus, graduating senior Sarah Brown herself won honors for having the highest individual GPA within the school’s Greek Alliance Council.