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Article: Hillel Targets Russian Immigrants at City Schools
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- August 11, 1995
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Julia Gorin
Forward
08-11-1995
Hillel Targets Russian Immigrants at City Schools.
NEW YORK -- Come September, Brooklyn College will unveil its new Center for Russian Jewish Life, a student organization run by Hillel that will cater to the Russian students who have flooded the campus in the past couple of years. At other City University of New York campuses, as well as state universities upstate, once-moribund Hillel Houses are experiencing a renaissance thanks to the arrival of the young Russian Jews.
For many of the Russian immigrants, being Jewish means little more than "a stamp on their passports," in the words of one Queens College Hillel official. They have little sense of religiosity ...
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