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College years go by fast. Once it's all said and done, the only thing we leave campus with is a degree in hand and the memories we made. With Chabad, it can be more than that. You will be able to leave college with a feeling of impact and fulfillment that you won't find anywhere else. Here are 10 reasons to want to go to Chabad on Campus: 1) Fantastic people-Some of the greatest people you'll meet and friendships you'll make in college will happen at Chabad. From the second you walk in for the...
During the spring of 2017, CAMERA sponsored ex-IDF soldier Hen Mazzig to speak on 17 college campuses. On one of his last stops was the University of Central Florida where Knights for Israel hosted Hen to speak about his life, his family, and his service. He began the night speaking about his family background and their journey from Tunisia and Iraq to Israel. His family belonged to the Amazigh tribe in Tunisia and he shared his grandparents’ accounts of the tiny Jewish community within the tribe. He spoke about how his grandmother fled Iraq d...
This past November, Knights for Israel (KFI) and Central Florida Hillel collaborated to host the very first Israel Diversity Week at the University of Central Florida; the second largest school in the nation with over 62,000 students. With the help of CAMERA on Campus, the two organizations came together to host a number of events with the goal of educating students on the diversity that makes Israel the sole inclusive state in the Middle East. The week began with the screening of “Mekonen,” the sequel to the successful Jerusalem U doc...
