In Need of a New Home!

We have some sad news to report. The Mansard House, where we have had an apartment for the past three years, recently informed us that they will not be renewing our lease agreement. They plan to renovate the apartment and increase the rent to four times what we had been paying. This leaves us with no place to go.

Hillel has recently seen a rapid increase in involvement and we need help from the community in the creation of a new home.

Students
To many of you the Hillel apartment has become a comfortable place to relax and meet other Jewish students on campus. Please know that we are doing our best to attain a new place for this coming school year and we will inform you of our plans as soon as we know.

Community
We have had a large increase in student participation this past year. The apartment became a comfortable place for the Jewish student population creating a home away from home. We hosted Shabbat dinners that filled the apartment with little room left to even walk around. This excitement has trickled down to incoming students as well. The past couple of weeks we have met dozens of students at orientation and they can’t wait to get involved with Hillel at WMU.

It would be unfortunate for Hillel to lose a place to call its own and we would greatly appreciate any and all assistance that you may be able to pass on. Please contact Hillel through email at kazoohillel@yahoo.com.

Follow the developments here.

New Website!!!

Have you noticed something different about us? We have a new website! Well sort of, we put up a redirect until we can host something more substantial at our own domain. No worries though its still us, just with a fresher look. So make sure to re-bookmark us or just go to the usual url and you’ll be redirected here.

In fact, with this new site we’ll be able to update things super quick and get the word out in literally an instant. The blog on the front page will have most of the announcements and the rest of the site, click on the buttons up top, will have information on more of the standard stuff.

If your a fancy super World Wide Web user and use a rss feed reader you can subscribe to us by dropping the following address into your favorite aggregator (wmuhillel.wordpress.com/feed/).

We are still developing the content for the site so understand that its still in beta form and make sure to check back to see what we are up to.

Orientation

To all the new students heading to Orientation this summer check out the Hillel table! We have had a lot of fun meeting everyone these last two weeks and can not wait to meet everyone else coming in the next two.