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12.07.2010  Guess what every Jewish family in Belarus has been waiting for during the whole year?
Jewish tradition is full of questions and numerous answers to them. Sometimes there are several answers to one and the same question, sometimes there are none. Still there’s one question that has a definite and unambiguous answer… Here it is: Guess what every Jewish family in Belarus has been waiting for during the whole year?.. The answer is simple: they’ve been waiting for a new family camp season organized by the Joint and the Jewish Student Center “Hillel”.

26.04.2010  The Jewish Student Organization “Beit Hillel” Launches a New Project
On April 18, 2010 the Jewish student organization ‘Hillel’ sponsored a concert in the Zhodino town orphanage within the framework of a new social welfare program “Hillel Multiplies Smiles”. Hillel students, volunteers and popular Belarusian singers put on a real show for the orphaned children.

16.04.2010  Pessah University
For 4 years already a joint project of the Minsk Jewish organizations and the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and AJJDC has been running in Belarus. The aim of the project is to unite the groups of young leaders from the Jewish organizations and to train them in conducting Pessah Seder for Jewish community members.

11.03.2010  Intellectual Game Was Born with A Smart Person
Every year the joint project “Intellectual Café”, organized by the Jewish Student Organization “Beit Hillel” and the Jewish Agency for Israel, attracts more and more participants. This time more than a dozen teams play this game, even the members of the Intellectual Quiz league and students who are interested in Jewish history have joined the project.

02.02.2010  UNESCO Table of Talks
Table of talks “Development of Programs on Informal Education in Youth Summer Camps” was held in Minsk on the initiative of the “Belarus Federation of UNESCO Clubs”. Minsk Hillel is a recognized authority in the sphere of informal education in Belarus. That’s why representatives of the organization were invited to the meeting.

28.12.2009  From Generation To Generation
Hanukkah symbolizes spirit of Jewish nation. All the 8 days of the holiday we honor the memory of heroes who stood up for their religion, Commandments and traditions. And it’s great that young generation has an ability to learn from such an example of fortitude and identify two-thousand-year-long history with the history of their granddads’ heroism.

06.11.2009  Hillel Show Tour
Hillel Show Tour 2009 that took place on October 26-31, 2009 in Belarus is a unique project. During five years of project's existence “Show Tour” teams of best performers and studios from Hillel CASE region made their way across the cities and communities in all parts of Ukraine bringing Jewish art and performance to hundreds and hundreds community members of all ages. Now finally we were honored to meet Belarus community members presenting them this year’s program of the best dance, vocal and musical performances by “Expressiya” vocal group from Kharkov, Simferopol dance studio “Signon sheli”, Yulia Pankeeva from Sevastopol, “Step by Step” dance duet from Kishinev and Alexander Zmachinsky from Minsk.

15.09.2009  Bike-quest «Back to Future».
There have been many projects implemented by Minsk Jewish Student Organization Hillel during this summer. The projects were all different and different people took part in them. They have even been implemented in different countries, but… But there has been one element that united all the projects; this is a usual wheel: a wheel of a bus or a car, a wheel of a bike and a wheel of a barrow for waste removal, a wheel of a train or undercarriage.

04.09.2009  Expedition to Jewish places of Belarus
All Jewish communities across Belarus have projects one can only be proud of. Though, there are plenty of them in Minsk, but there is one project singled out as the most unique. It has been existing for 5 years already. More than 200 young people from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine have participated in it. The project is called “Student Expedition to Jewish places of Belarus”.

26.06.2009  Up On the Jewish Frequency
The Jewish people all over the world are proud of their traditions and keep hard to follow them. In period from 15 to 24 June, 2009 there was a traditional (ninth already) JDC summer family camp for the members of Belarusian Jewish Community. The camp was worked out and organized by Youth Student Club “Hillel”.

26.05.2009  International Games of Cheer and Intellect
In the end of April Jewish Student Center “Hillel” received a phone call from organizers of Belarusian Club of the Cheerful, Witted and Intelligent Games. It turned out that this year Minsk welcomes International Games of the Club, so a team of Israel arrived to contend with Belarusian team.

05.06.2007  Minsk Hillel's 10th Anniversary
More than 200 people gathered in one of Minsk night clubs to celebrate Hillel's 10^th Anniversary. “Veteran” students, who established Minsk Hillel, present Hillel students and a lot of guests and friends came to the party. It was a real celebration with guests, congratulations, presents, firework and a huge cake!

30.05.2007  The Belarus Party Profiles: Hillel's 10th Anniversary
Jewish communities across the Former Soviet Union were astir with chatter this week following the blowout party run by Hillel Minsk in honor of its 10^th birthday. This invitation–only bash turned out to be the sizzling soiree of the season, with over 200 lining up along Vera Khoruzhay street to get into the Reaktor nightclub.

07.05.2007  Family Camp Planning
37 high school and university student-leaders from JCC Emuna and Hillel joined forces this weekend to organize family camps for Jews of Belarus. These camps, an initiative of the Joint Distribution Committee, will welcome affiliated and unaffiliated Jewish couples and their children from Minsk and the periphery to enjoy 10 beautiful summer days together in the woods.

11.04.2007  Big Seder in Hillel!
This Sunday, the Minsk Jewish Campus attracted over 70 people to a big seder organized by Minsk Hillel, the organization for Jewish students in Minsk. This massive undertaking was only the culmination of a sequence of courses of the “Pesach University,” a Hillel Pesach program offered to exceptional young people seeking to enhance their knowledge of Pesach.

01.03.2007  3rd Group of Purim Postmen Return to Home as Hillel Program Comes to a Close
While most Jews had already started getting nervous about Passover after the one–day Purim holiday was over, a group of students from Emory University had only just begun the highpoint of their celebrations one week after Purim was through. The timing was not important, however. What mattered was delivering the joy of Purim throughout Jewish communities of Belarus.

13.12.2006  This Year's Hillel Seminar Comes to a Close
Jewish students and young professionals are returning to class and work invigorated and exhausted from a weekend of amusement, competition, self–improvement, and religious rejuvenation. Minsk Hillel, in partnership with the Israel Cultural Center attracted 60 young Jews ages 18–30 to this weekend's seminar, held in a retreat center just outside Minsk.

15.11.2006  25-40 gauge in action
The combination of two numbers sounds somewhat soldierly and would make an excellent name for a club of retired military, resuscitating past acts of bravery and trench camaraderie. Hopefully, this was not the case though the name sticks perfectly to the social venue launched by Minsk Beit Hillel offering everyone a rare opportunity to have a comprehensive look back to the Nineties when it all started: first madrihim, religious revival, new Jewish organizations. It was a club all right if only for one night: Kosher wine, Vietnamese food, jazz and klezmer music.

04.09.2006  Before, then, never…
Time adverbs often become inseparable from impressions and feelings they stuck to under the burden of circumstances.

04.04.2006  Songs in Yiddish are Forever
“Folklore Heritage in Jewish Songs” is a new project which started in the Minsk Beit Hillel on March 26, 2006. It is one of the most interesting projects ever run by the Hillel students. Within the framework of the project, young people will travel to small Belarusian towns and remote settlements, where they will meet with the Jewish folklore bearers. The students will record the melodies and write down the words of the previously unknown songs in Yiddish.

03.01.2006  Loving Hearts Find Each Other in Hillel
Katya’s and Arkady’s wedding took part in Minsk in the end of December. This young Jewish couple would not have met but for vibrant activities of Minsk Beit Hillel.

19.09.2005  Wedding
The Minsk Beit Hillel must be a record-holder in a number of Hillel weddings – about 20 young Jewish families appeared in the city of Minsk during the last few years.