For more, visit the Internships/Fellowships and Other Opportunities pages of our website!

  

-- Join Hebrew Union College on an American Jewish Archives Youth Retreat - Going Green...burg: What Judaism Has to Say About Living an Eco-Friendly Life. College students from across North America will engage in an interactive study about the Jewish concept of eco-friendly living, enjoy engaging sessions with HUC's world-renowned faculty and rabbinical students, experience the resources of the HUC campus, and spend Shabbat afternoon and Havdallah at Grailville Farm learning about humanely raised livestock and green agriculture. The program runs Apr. 8-10, 2011 at the Cincinnati Campus of Hebrew Union College. Cost is $100, which includes all meals and lodging - scholarships are available! For more information, contact hucyouth@huc.edu or visit the website.

  

-- Tikkun Olam in Tel Aviv-Jaffa offers Jewish English-speaking college graduates from around the world the opportunity to spend 5 or 10 months volunteering and studying in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, with a focus on Coexistence or Social Action. Applications are now being accepted! Visit the website for more information.

  

-- The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute is accepting applications for our Summer Internship Program for undergraduates and graduates with an interest in Jewish Gender Studies. During this eight-week internship program students provide HBI affiliated scholars with research assistance, and have the opportunity to carry out their own research and/or creative project. This residential program runs from Jun. 6-Jul. 29, 2011. Students are provided with free housing on the Brandeis campus and a stipend at the program's completion. Applications are available on the Brandeis website - deadline to apply is Mar. 24. For more information, contact Debby Olins at dolins@brandeis.edu.

  

-- Safe Zones is a Student Union Organization committed to educating the Washington University community in Lesbian, Gay, Genderqueer, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and Ally (LGBTQIA) issues. Educators are the leaders of Safe Zones. After 20 hours of extensive training, educators promote awareness and educate the community by facilitating workshops and reaching out to various campus groups and populations. If you are interested in becoming a Safe Zones educator, please fill out the application and return it to wusafezones@gmail.com by Monday, Feb. 21.

  

-- Interested in helping to start a Backgammon Club at Wash U? Backgammon is a wonderful way to use and grow your math, probability, and reasoning skills. A professional backgammon teacher in the area is willing to donate his time to coach the team and help set up tournaments. Please get in touch with Phil at psimborg@sbcglobal.net if you're interested!

  

-- The Israel Project is offering a high-powered fellowship opportunity for some of the world's best and brightest college and graduate school students; graduates in journalism, communications, marketing or public relations programs; and those beginning their careers in journalism or Israel advocacy. Six outstanding applicants will be accepted to the Washington, D.C., program, which runs from Jun. 20 to Aug. 19, 2011. An ideal Media Fellow is an excellent writer and researcher, has strong computer and communications skills, wants to publish or be on-air, follows current events, is a hard worker and team player and has a strong interest in Israel. For more information and to apply, visit the Israel Project website.

-- Apply now for the Eisendrath Legislative Assistant Fellowship. Eisendrath Legislative Assistants monitor, analyze and advocate on legislation, meeting with members of Congress, their staff, and the White House Administration. They also create synagogue social action programming and work with members of Reform Movement youth groups and confirmation students to help them connect their Judaism with social action. Legislative Assistants often go on to rabbinic school, law school, graduate school, careers on Capitol Hill, in progressive non-profits, and more. This year-long fellowship is a tremendous opportunity for a bright, social-justice oriented graduate. Applications and information are available online here, or e-mail the RAC's Legislative Director Barbara Weinstein at bweinstein@rac.org.

-- Spending your summer in Chicago? Apply now for the Lewis Summer Intern Program 2011! Internships are open to undergrads whose permanent (parental) residence is in Illinois. 26 paid internships are available in various agencies/departments of the Jewish Federation. Apply online at the JUF website. For more information, contact The Hillels of Illinois at lsip@juf.org, or call Lisette Dolgin at 312-673-2353. Applications are due by Feb. 25, and applicants must interview in Chicago by Mar. 25.

-- Apply now for the Kohn Summer Internship Program 2011. This innovative 8-week program provides college undergrads who are San Francisco Bay Area residents (even if you attend college elsewhere) the opportunity to work in Jewish communal service and receive a $2500 stipend. In your professional placement at a leading Bay Area Jewish communal agency, you will gain valuable work experience and receive supervision and mentoring from Jewish community leaders. Apply online at the JVS website.

-- The Marilyn and Sigi Ziering Brandeis Collegiate Institute (BCI) is an intensive experience in Jewish learning, culture and community offered to young adults, ages 18 to 26, at our summer camp in Southern California. It is a 26-day exploration of self and Judaism within a safe, pluralistic environment, bringing together young Jews from all over the world with some of our people's most compelling, talented scholars and artists to experience the multifaceted aspects of Jewish life, culture, nature and community. Apply by the early bird deadline of Mar. 16, 2011 and the cost is only $250 for domestic participants ($100 for international) AND we will reimburse your airfare! BCI 2011 will take place from June 21 to July 17. For more information and to apply, visit the website. And for a first-hand account of the BCI experience, feel free to contact our own Jewish Student Life Coordinator Rayna Schaff at 314-935-9044 or rayna@stlouishillel.org!

-- Cleveland Hillel Foundation is coordinating a paid, summer internship program for college sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Students are placed, based on skills and interests, at local businesses and non-profits for internships in fields such as real estate, marketing/PR/advertising, community relations and planning, environmental activism, business, accounting, finance, social work, biotech, arts and culture, radio, and more. Dates for the program are Jun. 13-Aug. 5, 2011. The final application deadline is Monday, Feb. 28. An in-person interview is required. For more information, check out the Cleveland Hillel website, or email Ilana Shafran Mandel at ishafran@clevelandhillel.org.