It’s the most wonderful time of the year. School is off, joy is in the air, and
the NFL playoffs are about to start. Christmas and Chanukah? Well…they’re done,
and with them the holiday season is now reduced to the solar New Year.
But we all know what that means. It’s the time of year where every website, magazine, and newspaper bands together to create the traditional late-December tradition we like to call the Year-In-Review. Looking for this year’s biggest celebrity feuds? No need to fear…that list exists. Searching for a review with an especially corny name? Feel free to check out PBS’s The Year of You. Feeling selfish? Just log into Facebook and there’s an application to create your own personalized year-in-review that will cover the most interesting development in the world: Your life.
Because I’m a shameless conformist, and because these years-in-review make me giddy, I’ve decided that New Voices needs a similar year in review. It has been an eventful year for Jewish college students, and a few storylines have the potential to drastically affect the landscape of Jewish life on campus as we head into 2013 and beyond. Here are five stories from 2012 that might be worth remembering as we look to the future.
But we all know what that means. It’s the time of year where every website, magazine, and newspaper bands together to create the traditional late-December tradition we like to call the Year-In-Review. Looking for this year’s biggest celebrity feuds? No need to fear…that list exists. Searching for a review with an especially corny name? Feel free to check out PBS’s The Year of You. Feeling selfish? Just log into Facebook and there’s an application to create your own personalized year-in-review that will cover the most interesting development in the world: Your life.
Because I’m a shameless conformist, and because these years-in-review make me giddy, I’ve decided that New Voices needs a similar year in review. It has been an eventful year for Jewish college students, and a few storylines have the potential to drastically affect the landscape of Jewish life on campus as we head into 2013 and beyond. Here are five stories from 2012 that might be worth remembering as we look to the future.
1. Rick Jacobs commences his term as President of
the Union for Reform Judaism.
For two organizations, this year was a year of profound change. At the Union of Reform Judaism, Rabbi Rick Jacobs of Westchester, New York started as President, promising profound changes from the leadership style of Eric Yoffe, whose administration Jacobs had criticized harshly while serving as a congregational Rabbi. Officially taking the helm in July, in Jacobs’s first few months, he demonstrated an interest in campus Jewish life, spending his High Holy Days on a college campus (Brown University) and attending Hillel Institute, Hillel’s annual leadership-training conference in St. Louis, which served almost 1,000 Hillel staff and student leaders.
2. Wayne Firestone steps down as CEO of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
For two organizations, this year was a year of profound change. At the Union of Reform Judaism, Rabbi Rick Jacobs of Westchester, New York started as President, promising profound changes from the leadership style of Eric Yoffe, whose administration Jacobs had criticized harshly while serving as a congregational Rabbi. Officially taking the helm in July, in Jacobs’s first few months, he demonstrated an interest in campus Jewish life, spending his High Holy Days on a college campus (Brown University) and attending Hillel Institute, Hillel’s annual leadership-training conference in St. Louis, which served almost 1,000 Hillel staff and student leaders.
2. Wayne Firestone steps down as CEO of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
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