UW Hillel Cohort Learning Application

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Select your cohort for Fall 2025

JLF 1.0: Life's Big Questions with Rabbi JudyJLF 2.0: Life's Bigger Questions with Rabbi AndreaFlavors of Diversity with Rabeen

Cohort Descriptions

JLF 1.0: Life's Big Questions, with Rabbi Judy, is an opportunity to build a community of peers while exploring Jewish wisdom and applying it to our lives. Come connect deeply with new friends over some of these questions: How can Shabbat be a lens for looking at our daily lives as students? Where do I fit in the broader Jewish story? How can I tap into joy and vulnerability by sitting in a sukkah? What is God? Who do I want to be? Through discussions and explorations of Jewish texts, both traditional and contemporary, we will begin to answer some of these questions.
JLF 2.0: Life's Bigger Questions, with Rabbi Andrea, is a meaningful and intentional space to explore deep questions through a lens of Jewish wisdom. Together, we’ll examine practices like gratitude and forgiveness, wrestle with the balance between self-care and communal responsibility, and unpack what it means to be spiritual, religious, or somewhere in between. Our conversations are rooted in the richness of Talmudic texts and contemporary Jewish thinkers, creating space for reflection, dialogue, and connection. It's a chance to engage deeply with Jewish ideas that shape how we live, relate, and grow.
Flavors of Diversity, with Rabeen, is a unique discussion-and-cooking-based cohort where we explore Israel’s rich ethnic and cultural mosaic, from Mizrahi Jews to Druze, Bedouins, Ethiopians, and more. We will do all this while preparing and tasting iconic traditional dishes from each community and dive into the stories, identities, and flavors that shape Israeli society.

A $180 scholarship may be available to students who sucessfully complete the fellowship (Eligibility may also depend on whether you've participated in JLF before. Ask a Hillel staff person for more details!)

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We'd love to get to know you a bit better! For JLF 1.0 and 2.0, please tell us your Jewish story. For Flavors of Diversity, tell us about your relationship to Israel.*

Which, if any of these, have you participated in previously? Please check all that apply.*

Have you participated in JLF, Kol Yisrael or Shabbat Hosting Lab at UW Hillel before?*

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Why are you interested in this cohort? What are you interested in? What do you hope to gain from the experience? What do you hope to contribute? How do you think this experience will impact your Jewish life or to your relationship with Israel?*

Who else do you think would be interested in learning with Hillel? Please share their first and last name and we'll reach out to them!*

Have you participated in a Birthright free trip to Israel?*

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JLF is a program of Hillel International on over 130 campuses across North America! While participating in the program, you will receive occasional communications from JLF, such as information about more opportunities to get involved and surveys to help Hillel understand your experience in the program. In addition to occasional emails from the JLF team, would you be interested in receiving emails about future Jewish opportunities for young adults from Hillel's funders?*

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The Jewish Learning Fellowships (JLF 1.0 & 2.0) and Flavors of Diversity

6-7:30pm, Wednesdays, September 17 through December 3