The Best Thing I’ve Ever Done

I graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in Public Policy and immediately landed a dream job on President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign. That opportunity, eventually, brought me to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where I met Rabbi Zalman and Yehudis Bluming, shluchim at the Chabad Center. The next summer I had the incredible opportunity to attend the Mayanot Learning Program. Coming from the world of academia and understanding the struggles of being a young Jew on a college campus, Mayanot is unique in the sense that it is a non judgmental, warm, welcoming, and open minded environment, perfect for young university students to study the depth of Judaism and its philosophy. I can say with complete sincerity that I learned more, in six weeks, at Mayanot than I've ever learned, in any classroom, at any university. Mayanot is a place where college students can feel totally comfortable being themselves as they explore and learn about Judaism. I