Welcome to the Ohio Wesleyan Hillel Homepage

I have received a number of inquiries recently about Hillel and Jewish life at Ohio Wesleyan.  I thought I would construct this brief homepage to make people aware of the range of activities.  When the students return in the fall with their superior computer skills, look for a new and improved page.  In the mean time, please feel free to contact me with any questions you might have.

Bob Gitter
Professor Economics
Hillel Advisor
740-368-3536
rjgitter@cc.owu.edu
Department of Economics
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, Ohio 43015

So What Does the OWU Hillel DO? 

We have a wide mix of activities.  In the last two years we have had

• Shabbot Dinners
• A Trip to a Temple in Columbus for Shabbot Services
• Visits to Columbus Synagogues and The Ohio State Hillel for the High Holidays
• A Hanukah party  (See below.  Marsel Tadger made latkes at the party last December.  A good time was had by all!)

• A Holocaust speaker
• A movie night
• A Passover Seder (We had fifty people.  Professor Michael Flamm led a beautiful seder.  We enjoyed lamb, gefilte fish, matzo and all the rest.)

Mazel Tov

• Gabe Elias and another OWU Hillel member were selected by Livnot for an Israel Birthright trip this summer to explore Judaism and Israel.
• Bob Gitter, Hillel Advisor, was selected by the Ohio Wesleyan Religious Life Committee for the Kearns Award.  The United Methodist Church has designated him at the Exemplary Teacher of the Year from Ohio Wesleyan, in part for his work with Hillel.