Since the beginning of the current spring semester, students at NYU have participated in the L'SHMA Lecture Series, an innovative lecture series that brings leading Orthodox rabbis, academicians, and thinkers to the Bronfman Center every Wednesday night to confront the opportunities and challenges that University life present to students. Funded in part by JLIC, L'SHMA students have heard topics on such wide ranging topics like "Homosexuality and Orthodoxy" delivered by Orthodox Union Executive Vice President Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Weinreb, "Can Talmud Be Studied in The University" taught be RIETS Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dr. Jeremy Weider, "What Would You Go To Jail For" delivered by Rabbi Avi Weiss, Dean and founder of YCT Rabbinical School, and "Can Mikvah Make Your Marriage Happier" taught by a Dr. Michelle Friedman who chairs the Pastoral Counseling Department at YCT Rabbinical School.

Mission: To invigorate and inspire Jewish college students to play a leadership role in active Jewish life, thereby revitalizing the religious experience of their campus communities.
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By Yoni Levinson, president of the Orthodox Community at Penn

On a cold February Shabbat in 2005, Orthodox community leaders from six university campuses gathered together at NYU. They had a vision: an organization through with Orthodox students across the country could meet, interact and unite. And thus, the Orthodox Campus Coalition was born.

When one walks into the Maryland Hillel on Tuesday nights, one cannot help but notice the large mass of people gathered into the multipurpose room.
Hundreds of chumashim are spread out on dozens of tables, along with many slices of pizza, bags of chips, and cans of Coke...

.... What better way to spend winter break?!?

This past December a delegation of students from UCLA participated in the first JLIC Alternative Winter Break Trip through Hillel International. These students spent one week in Kilm, Mississippi helping the community rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...