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| On Valentine's Day, I decided to table outside of Hillel and hand out Hershey kisses to the students passing by on their way to class. However, I wanted to add Jewish content, so I compared Valentine's Day to the Jewish holiday, Tu B'Av. While the students passing by thought the idea was good, a few students on the HLC objected to promoting a holiday that is not Jewish. However, the job of the JCSC is to relate to the students "where they're at" and on Valentine's Day, ALL students were celebrating. This was a very simple tabling program. On the front side of the info sheet, I wrote "Happy Valentine's Day! Have a Kiss From Hillel!" On the other side, I wrote: A Jewish Valentine�s Day?? Tu B�Av A Day of Love �There are no days as festive to Israel as those of�the fifteenth of Av. The daughters of Israel used to dress in white and go out to the fields to dance and young men would follow after them.� (Ta�anit 4:8) Tu B�av is celebrated as a day of courting, in which young women took the lead. This year Tu B�av falls on July 24th. Celebrate Valentine�s Day all over again this July!! And remember your kiss from Hillel. |
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