November 2020
A modest proposal: Democrats an Republicans should start marrying each other
Executive Director Uri Cohen contributed this article to Scribe, the Forward’s curated contributor network. To read it, Click Here
October 2020
The Last Time I Saw Them – New Democracy Seminar Forum
Rabbi Jason Rubenstein and Dr. Arielle Rubenstein contributed to a discussion of contemporary significance of the Fortunoff Archive’s new video sharing the stories of children separated from their parents in the Holocaust. To view the article and video, Click Here
Memory’s Fragile Thread
Judaism’s view of – and response to – family separation as theological crisis, written by Rabbi Jason Rubenstein
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Slifka Reimagines Community During the Jewish Holidays
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June 2019
Message from Uri Cohen, Executive Director
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Message from Rabbi Jason Rubenstein, Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish Chaplain at Yale
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Finding Common Ground On College Campuses
May 29, 2019, 12:13 pm
Twice over the past few weeks I was asked to make presentations to high school students about what it’s like to be Jewish on a college campus. Usually implicit in that kind of invitation is a request for me to talk to about anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment on campus.
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May 2019
Message from Uri Cohen, Executive Director
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May 2019
Message from Rabbi Jason Rubenstein
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Campaign encourages decluttering during midterms
As students face the pressures of midterm season leading up to spring break, a Yale campaign is encouraging University community members to reduce both clutter and stress in their lives.
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Slifka prioritizes sexual harassment policies
ALICE PARK 1:28 AM, JAN 23, 2019 STAFF REPORTER
As members of the Yale community and beyond grapple with sexual misconduct in the #MeToo era, the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale is working to improve its own policies and culture surrounding sexual harassment in the Jewish community.
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Slifka to offer late-night dining
ALICE PARK 2:42 AM, JAN 14, 2019 STAFF REPORTER
Starting Monday, students will have a new late-night dining option at the Joseph Slifka Center, which will offer dinner from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m on Monday through Thursday nights.
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December 2018
Message from Uri Cohen, Executive Director
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November 2018
Message from Uri Cohen, Executive Director
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Hundreds mourn synagogue shooting victims
On Sunday night, hundreds of Yale community members gathered at the Women’s Table to mourn the victims of Saturday’s Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
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October 2018
Message from Uri Cohen, Executive Director
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Yalies Celebrate High Holy Days
The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale is celebrating the High Holy Days this year under new leadership.
In addition to the appointment of Uri Cohen, the new director of the center, the Slifka Center has added six new positions — mainly staff and clergy — to improve the center’s day-to-day operations.
Juli Goodman, the assistant director for programming at the center, described the changes as “really exciting.”
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Meet Team Slifka
Yale’s Slifka Center welcomes not one, but two new leaders who are passionate about the Jewish future
By Stacey Dresner – August 28, 2018 – Connecticut Jewish Ledger
NEW HAVEN – Uriel Cohen, the new executive director of the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, fondly remembers the time he spent at Hillel when he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania.
“I went to visit Penn…and absolutely fell in love with Hillel first and Penn second,” he recalls. “It was really the community – the whole feeling of being in a tight-knit Jewish community for the first time in my life. And it was tremendously important – I don’t over-exaggerate in any way when I say that everything that I have accomplished in my professional career is because of what I learned about myself at Penn Hillel.
“It was and continues to be a phenomenal place, though it is about to be eclipsed,” he laughs, referring to the Slifka Center and his plans for the Jewish campus organization.
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Slifka appoints new leadership team
Uriel Cohen, an experienced Hillel administrator, will serve as the next executive director of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life and Rabbi Jason Rubenstein will take over as Jewish chaplain, Slifka’s board of directors announced in community-wide emails last month.
When they begin work later in August, Cohen will succeed Peggy Gries Wager ’82, who has served on an interim basis for the past year, and Rubenstein will fill a position that has remained vacant since the abrupt departure last summer of Rabbi Leah Cohen, who worked as both executive director and Jewish chaplain.
“I’m just so excited to come to Yale and to get started at Slifka,” said Cohen, who previously served for seven years as executive director of the Queens College Hillel in New York. “The impact that we can all have is just tremendous.”
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