This past Monday night, TABC and Ma’ayanot hosted their annual Jewish Life on Campus program. The evening featured 23 college students from schools including Brandeis, City College, Columbia, Cooper Union, CUNY Queens, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Princeton, Rutgers, SUNY Binghamton, UMass Amherst, University of Chicago, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, WashU and Yale. Attendees were privileged to hear not only from these students in round-robin sessions, but from the Director of Professional Recruitment and Leadership Development for OU-JLIC (OU-Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus) Rabbi Gideon Black, who clearly and persuasively explained the “what, why and how” of JLIC’s mission. Most of the carefully selected universities who were invited to the event have JLIC rabbi/educators on their campuses. They are sent from the OU and work in partnership with Hillel, to help college students navigate the college environment and balance their Jewish commitments with their desire to engage in the secular world.