Archive: Jewish
34 Articles
- Reflections
Building Trust with Patience, for Patients
A recent alumna on how her academic training shaped her approach to interfaith engagement at Georgetown By Claire Auslander (N’26) When I first began my journey in interfaith…
July 10, 2026
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It’s Never Too Late: On Becoming a Bar/Bat Mitzvah at Georgetown
By Rabbi Ilana Zietman, Director for Jewish Life “You don’t really have a bar or bat mitzvah, you become one.” This is how I like to begin the opening session of Jewish Life&;…
May 14, 2026
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Prison Scholars Program: Teaching Jewish Wisdom for a Broken World
Recently, Georgetown University’s Prison Scholars Program at the DC Jail received a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the program and begin offering…
January 9, 2020
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Finding Community with Jewish Life at Georgetown
Shaun Ho is a sophomore majoring in Regional and Comparative Studies. Before coming to Georgetown, I never imagined I would be involved in any aspect of Jewish life in college.…
January 16, 2018
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Jewish Life thrilled to welcome Rabbinic Fellow Benjamin Barer to the Hilltop
Ask any senior involved with Jewish Life to reflect on their time at Georgetown, and they will say that the community has grown, Shabbat attendance has quadrupled in size, and…
November 1, 2017
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Walls and Inscriptions
Paige Harouse, a Theology and Arabic double major and student worker for the Office of Campus Ministry, is spending her junior year in Amman, Jordan and Jerusalem, Israel. In…
September 28, 2017
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Finding Nachas at the Jewish Life Retreat
Something we love talking about here at Georgetown is “cura personalis,” or care of the whole person. What exactly does this mean? For some, it refers to self-care: taking time…
March 3, 2017
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The Intersection of Music and Shabbat
In my four years as the music leader for the Georgetown Jewish community, I have seen Jewish life grow and prosper. Our Shabbat attendance has quadrupled, from 15-20 people to -…
January 9, 2017
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My Penultimate Jewish Life Retreat
The semi-annual Jewish retreat is always an event I look forward to. Georgetown often gets a bit too hectic, and disconnecting from it for 28 hours is a great way of stopping to…
December 8, 2016
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Jewish Community Looks to 272
As members of Georgetown’s Jewish community gathered for Rosh Hashanah services Oct. 3 and Oct. 4, Andrew Meshnick (COL ’17) delivered a sermon on a seemingly unrelated topic:…
October 14, 2016