Avi Shabbat 2012
This year, campuses across the country remembered Avi by hosting an Avi Shabbat. Of the dozens of campuses joining this initiative, 36 campuses received mirco-grants from ASF with the specified purpose of creating events to engage in an interfaith Shabbat experience with Muslim students, as well as students from other faith traditions.
We want to share some of the exciting feedback that we have been receiving:
On February 3, NYU Hillel invited University President John Sexton to speak during a program where students attended both Jummla and Kabalat Shabbat services before sharing a meal together, and on February 10, the University of Rhode Island hosted an Avi Schaefer Muslim/Jewish Shabbat and Tu B’shevat Seder, a collaboration between the URI Muslim Student Association and URI Hillel, where the students prepared the meal together in the Hillel kitchen as well as created a booklet sharing words from both Jewish text and the Quran. On February 24th, Avi Shabbat was held at Brown University. In reflecting on the evening, Rabbi Mordechai Rackover shared these comments with us: “Avi elevated us. That is his legacy. To help us recognize in ourselves and in each other that we can raise up, even the simplest, but especially the most precious – the other….. I bless us all that in the coming year you remember Avi and that when we assemble again in 12 months that you can say that you’ve helped change the world because he no longer can.”
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