About the campus institute

Growing out of Rabbi Klapper’s decade of experience as Orthodox Adviser at Harvard Hillel, the Campus Education Institute runs programs that enable college students to see and utilize their university experience as catalysts for religious growth and Jewish commitment. Our core program, The Boston Intercampus Yom Iyyun Program, runs four-hour programs on Sundays that attract over 25 students from Harvard, MIT, BU, Brandeis, Wellesley and Lesley to discuss issues such as maintaining faith on a secular campus, Orthodoxy in a pluralistic setting, and the relationship between kashrut and ethics. Other programs have included a lecture at Columbia University Hillel on Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, at Wellesley Hillel on halakhic labor ethics, at Harvard Hillel on the political science of Halakhah, and a Shabbat lunch discussion about faith and science with the MIT Orthodox community.