Hillel to hold ‘reJEWvenation’ program this weekend at the Hoosier Room at Memorial Stadium

There are nearly 3,000 Jewish students at IU who aren’t attending Sabbath services on Friday nights, says Tslil Shtulsaft, a senior Jewish Campus Service Corps Fellow at the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center. Although the Hillel Center offers service and dinner every Friday evening, students simply aren’t making as much of a showing as the center would like.\nSo the Hillel Center, the largest Jewish campus organization worldwide, is creating ways for students at more than 500 college campuses to practice and honor their faith in “nonthreatening” environments.\nOne of the ways in which the Hillel Center is looking to increase Jewish student activity at universities is through a program called reJEWvenation.\nAlthough this initiative will eventually reach many campuses across the country, IU is the pilot campus for the effort. \n“ReJEWvenation aims to rejuvenate the Jewish student base on campus in a nonthreatening way,” said Tslil Shtulsaft, a senior Jewish Campus Service Corps Fellow at the Hillel Center. “It offers an alternative way to celebrate the Sabbath that one can experience with their peers.”\nIU’s reJEWvenation program, which has co-sponsorship from Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Sigma Alpha Mu and Zeta Beta Tau, will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Hoosier Room at Memorial Stadium. Food will be provided. The program will feature musical guest Craig Talbum, as well as a performance by the step team of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.