Washington University’s Chabad is increasing and streamlining its High Holiday offerings to make them more accessible to students. In addition to its traditional meals and Rosh Hashana evening service, Chabad is adding morning services on the Thursday and Friday after the holiday.

St. Louis Hillel at Washington University will offer free Shabbat dinners for graduate and undergraduate students, starting Friday. This is the first time Hillel has regularly offered Shabbat dinners for free. In the past, students were required to pay for the meal in advance with meal points.

The St. Louis Hillel at Washington University has entered into an agreement to sell the eastern portion of its property to the neighboring Forsyth School in the fall. The money from the sale will enable Hillel to renovate its remaining facilities and cover additional programming and operating expenses.

At the risk of legitimizing a baseless and ill-spirited letter, we as leaders and students of all stripes in the Jewish community here at Wash. U. feel compelled to raise our voice in support of our two rabbis on this campus, Rabbi Hershey Novack and Rabbi Andy Kastner, who were attacked in a letter to Student Life on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.

Dear Editor, I write to correct the portrait of Washington University’s new campus Rabbi, Andy Kastner that was painted in Norman Pressman’s unfortunate invective (Letter, September 8, 2010).

The executive director of the St. Louis Hillel at Washington University, Michael Landy, resigned on Monday morning.

Correction appended below. With the Jewish New Year only 16 days away, the staff at the St. Louis Hillel at Washington University, and involved students, are finalizing plans for High Holiday services with an additional focus in mind this time—the greater involvement of faculty in service events. As in the past, students will have the [...]

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