Dear Alumni:

In recent years Indiana University has significantly enhanced its exceptional status by becoming one of the foremost universities in the country. The Jewish community at IU has also grown significantly as a result, and the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center for Jewish Life currently serves almost 4,000 Jewish students at IU’s Bloomington campus and has become one of the strongest Hillels in North America.  Because of this major surge in Jewish students attending IU we are in need of your help more than ever.  Please consider helping us meet our goal of raising $100,000 from Indiana University alumni. (if each graduate from the past 10 years  gave at least $36 we would more than double our goal).  

The staff and student leaders at Hillel are committed to creating a warm, welcoming, and pluralistic community to create a “Jewish home away from home” for all students on campus.  We therefore offer a wide array of unique and innovative programs which foster the vibrant Jewish student body found at IU. In addition, Hillel has become instrumental in enriching campus diversity through strong friendships and partnerships.

These are some of the highlights of programs Hillel has held this year:

• Hot, homemade matzah ball soup has been personally delivered, free of charge, to over 1000 students already this year!
• We have created a world record dreidel spinning event with well over 700 students & community members, and held a Hanukah candle lighting in a different dorm on campus each night of Hanukah.
• We provide FREE SHABBAT DINNER to over 100 students weekly.
• Hillel has established an award winning and nationally recognized Business Leadership Initiative (BLI), one of Hillel’s most popular programs, offering students an opportunity to learn from and network with a diverse group of prominent Jewish business leaders in an intimate dinner setting at no cost to the students.

Programs like these cannot exist without the support
of alumni & friends like you!

As an IU graduate, you understand the need to provide students with a welcoming, caring Jewish community on campus.  Hillel is meeting this need by moving beyond the traditional notion of serving as a “synagogue on campus”, by providing opportunities that have reinvigorated the social and religious life among the Jewish student body through a full menu of programs and services.  However, in order to continue to meet the needs of the ever growing Jewish student population on campus we need you to be invested too.  Please consider making a gift this year benefiting the Jewish students at your Alma Mater.  You can save a stamp by donating on our secure online server:  https://iuhillel.org/ssl/donate/alumni.php. 

Thank you,

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