Matt Vogel

Jan 22, 2025 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Matt Vogel

With the recent resolution of the Title VI complaint filed by Students Against Antisemitism, Harvard University has taken a significant step toward ensuring that its Jewish and Israeli students feel safe, welcome, and valued on campus. This moment represents a turning point, not just for Harvard but for higher education institutions grappling with how to create inclusive spaces for Jewish students in the face of rising antisemitism.

Dec 7, 2024 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Matt Vogel

You should have seen it; the pure joy emanating from students’ faces as they accepted a glittery blue bag filled with potatoes, an onion, a couple eggs, oil, stickers, swag and yes…a box grater. It was a look I haven’t seen from UVM Jewish students in a long while and it reminded me how far we have come in the past five years. After the anxiety and uncertainty of what this semester would be, I needed that reminder that Jewish joy still happens.

Nov 19, 2024 | qoshe.com | Matt Vogel

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Nov 18, 2024 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Matt Vogel

There’s something peacefully unique about Cheshvan at UVM Hillel. No major holidays. No rush to prepare challah bake marathons or big community dinners. Just a quiet month tucked into the calendar between Tishrei’s high holidays and the lights of Chanukah. Cheshvan meets us during midterms and just a few weeks away from finals, when everything feels heavy, like the layers we pile on to brace for the impending Vermont cold. And still, students make their way to Hillel.

Nov 6, 2024 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Matt Vogel

This morning Jewish college students woke up to perhaps a very different America than they had expected to find after the ebb and flow of political exuberance from the past few months. While these past few years have been hard for Jewish students and their families, both here on campus and across the world since October 7th, last night’s shift had a different but significant impact on their psyche that our Hillel team is seeing manifest today. Many students have asked where we should turn?