Training on track
For the first time, the UJS Summit training weekend for newly elected JSoc committees included members from Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Over 100 students from 23 JSocs took part in activities at Grittleton House in Wiltshire.
Budgeting, campaigning, event-planning and Israel engagement were just some of the topics covered in sessions run by UJS staff and speakers from Keshet UK and the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance.
Ella Rose, UJS President, said: “Seeing so many inspirational peer-leaders gathered together proves that Jewish students are passionate about creating vibrant, and diverse Jewish experiences on campus.”
Lighting up chanucah
Oxford University students took part in a chanuciah decorating session organised by student chaplain Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schueler.
Eight students took time out to cover chanuciot with decoupage — paper cut-outs — before painting them ready for candle-lighting next week.
Rabbi Rosenfeld-Schueler has organised crafts activities for Oxford and Oxford Brookes students, including jewellery-making and mezuzah decorating.
“We tried to make it a stress release kind of project, something different from their heavy academic schedule. It is an intense term here. It was about letting ago and doing something different for a while,” he said.
