http://www.jewishpress.com/news/will-new-hillel-head-honcho-continue-stretching-the-big-tent/2013/07/10/
THE PROGRAMS CONDUCTED AT HILLEL ORGANIZATIONS ARE DETERMINED BY THE INDIVIDUAL LEADERS AT THE CAMPUSES….THEY INCLUDE PERNICIOUS PROPAGANDA FROM MUSLIM “INTERFAITH’ GROUPS, J STREET AND THE OLIVE TREE INITIATIVE ABOUT WHICH I WILL POST A REPORT. EVEN IF THE HEAD OF HILLEL WERE ZEEV JABOTINSKY, THE INDIVIDUAL CAMPUSES ACT AUTONOMOUSLY AND DEPEND ON PARENT AND ALUMNA CONTRIBUTIONS….AND CAN BE THWARTED BY PARENT AND STUDENT INTERVENTION…..RSK
The desk where the buck will stop at Hillel headquarters is about to get a new occupant. There are those who worry that a recent, perhaps accelerating Hillel trend towards allowing everyone “in the tent” will come to mean that there are no standards at all.
Hillel: the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, serves Jewish students in more than 500 universities worldwide, the vast majority of which are in the United States. The annual operating budget is just under $90 million.
But while Hillel is “the largest Jewish campus and community-based organization in the world serving the college-age population,” some wonder whether the orientation which is increasingly about “self-authorship” regarding Jewish practice, is likewise so open-ended about support for Israel that the words mean very little.
For instance, in the last year, the venomously anti-Israel group “Breaking the Silence”, an organization which exists solely to demonize the Israel Defense Forces, has been welcomed into Hillel, the Jewish communal home on campus. And this didn’t only happen on the west coast University of California at Berkeley, as suggested in an article by JNS.com reprinted in EJewishPhilanthropy.org.