This year, KU Hillel has hosted many events to bring the senior class together. Usually student-led but overseen by KU Hillel staff members, seniors have participated in events like Senior Shabbat Dinner, Senior Happy Hour and Senior Leadership Dinners where students discuss ways to continue Jewish life post- college.
“My favorite events have been the Senior Shabbat Dinners. Hillel has been different this year compared to past years because everything has become "the last”: the last kick off event, the last Rock Chalk Shabbat, the last Bagels and Basketball, but with that, I know many firsts are to come as well,” Mackenzie Litt, KU senior said.
“The staff has been extremely supportive of the senior class thus far with any programmatic ideas we have for senior events, conversations about our futures as Jewish leaders and how we choose to spend our senior year in Hillel,” she explained. “They’ve been encouraging us to enjoy ourselves and our time at Hillel.”
KU senior Cameron Smith did not spend much time at Hillel during his college career. However, since it is his last year at KU, Smith decided he wanted to get more involved. Smith explained that Rabbi Neal Schuster, KU Hillel’s Senior Jewish Educator, reached out to him a few times to attend the senior leadership dinners. Upon accepting the invitation, Smith felt Hillel would be a good place to rekindle his Judaism.
“I’m moving to New York after graduation. I will have to rebuild a Jewish network there and I thought coming to Hillel would be a good way to not only make memorable Jewish experiences, but also develop a sense of what I am looking for in New York.
Daniel Tabakh, also a KU senior, feels that there’s been a clear transition from how Hillel affects you as a freshman to how it affects you as a senior. He has enjoyed the Senior Shabbat Dinners that KU Hillel has hosted.
“In the first few years, you are building a relationship with Hillel and those who participate in it,” he said. “As senior, you’re figuring out how you can leave your mark on Hillel.”
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