About the JLIC

The Heshe and Harriet Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC) is a program of the Orthodox Union in partnership with Hillel. JLIC brings Jewish thought, Torah, learning, and shiurim to a secular college campus.  Orthodox presence is only complete when the proper learning nourishment is provided, and this is exactly what the JLIC program is set out to achieve. 

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Take a look at the photos from the recent Parent's Weekend!

   JLIC February 2011 Brief 

 JLIC January 2011 Brief

 JLIC November 2010 Newsletter

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Calendar of Events

FRIDAYS
Services, 6pm 
Dinner, 7:15pm (free to UMass students - Sign up) 

SATURDAYS 
Orthodox Service 9:30am,
Lunch at 1pm ((free to UMass students - Sign up)
Info on other services/meals on Saturday

TUESDAYS:
Pasta and Parsha, 7:15pm

WEDNESDAYS:
Morning Minyan and Breakfast, 8:30am
Advanced Chabura in the Laws of Shabbos, 7:30pm

THURSDAYS:
TNT-Thursday Night Torah, 9pm

Meet for coffee or study! Rabbi Yosi and Sheera Eisen

 Rabbi Yosi and Sheera Eisen, JLIC Educators

413-549-1710 x209 (Sheera: x208)
jlic@external.umass.edu  (Yosi)  
seisen@educ.umass.edu (Sheera)

Rabbi Yosi Eisen grew up in Memphis, TN and attended the Yeshiva of the South through high school. He holds a B.A. in both Math and Economics from Yeshiva University in NYC and completed a Masters degree from Columbia University in the area of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (2005). Yosi received rabbinic ordination from his Rebbe, Rabbi Efraim Greenblatt, a student of Rav Moshe Feinstein, upon completion of 1:1 study while in Memphis, TN, in 2005.  Recently, Yosi received additional ordinations from Rabbi Michael Broyde of Atlanta GA, and Rabbi Gedlaya Dov Schwartz Av Bais Din of the Beis Din of America, in Chicago IL. Yosi was also recently accepted as a chaver of the Rabbinical Council of America.

Sheera Eisen grew up in Brookline, MA and attended the Maimonides School and Bais Yaakov of Boston before going on to study in Jerusalem at Michlelet Mevaseret Yerushalayim (MMY) for two years (1999-2001). She then returned to the US and completed her BA at Stern College for Women in the areas of Psychology and Jewish History (January 2004). Sheera began teaching Hebrew School in New York City, and then assistant teaching at the SAR Academy in Riverdale NY, before beginning her Masters Program in Educational Psycholgy at Fordham University in NYC (MSEd, Februrary 2007). Sheera spent her summers involved in the Bnei Akiva summer camps (Moshava and Camp Stone) as both a counselor and informal educator. During the school year Sheera continued to teach in greater NY/NJ area day schools, in addition to offering classes at both Stern College for Women and Lander College for Women.  Sheera is a certified as a school psychologist by the National Association of School Psychology and holds educational certifications in School Psychology in the states of Wisconsin and Massachusetts.  Sheera is working on her doctorate in School Psychology at UMASS Amherst.

Yosi and Sheera spent nearly 2 years working on the UW-Madison campus, facilitating the development of community among the Jewish students, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with education and programming. In addition, Yosi oversaw and addressed halachik issues related to kosher meal production as a representative of the "Wisconsin K", Wisconsin's Kosher certifying agency.