{"id":11,"date":"2009-10-06T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:30:37","slug":"officers-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bowdoin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillel.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hillel<\/a> aims to provide students with a Jewish home on campus by celebrating Jewish holidays, planning Jewish educational events, and offering a social hub. Hillel strives to be not only a place where Jews can be with other Jews, but also an open environment where all Bowdoin students are welcome to participate and learn.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Officers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Avery Cutler &#8217;26<\/li>\n<li>Julia Starck &#8217;26<\/li>\n<li>Sabrina Rubenstein &#8217;27<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Advisors<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/index.html\">Rachel Connelly<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Rabbi Vinikoor,<br \/>\n<em>Hillel Rabbi and Advisor<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>lvinikoo@bowdoin.edu<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-371 size-medium\" style=\"font-size: 16px\" src=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/09\/LisaVinikoor_7_web-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rabbi Lisa Vinikoor\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/09\/LisaVinikoor_7_web-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/09\/LisaVinikoor_7_web-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/09\/LisaVinikoor_7_web-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/09\/LisaVinikoor_7_web-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/09\/LisaVinikoor_7_web-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/09\/LisaVinikoor_7_web-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/09\/LisaVinikoor_7_web-1980x2970.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/09\/LisaVinikoor_7_web-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was born and raised in Vermont and I\u2019m thrilled to return to northern New England to serve as Bowdoin College\u2019s Hillel Rabbi. I earned my Bachelor\u2019s degree in History from Smith College, Master\u2019s Degree in Education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and most recently my Rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Before entering the rabbinate, I worked for fourteen\u00a0years in the Greater Boston area, first as an elementary school teacher and later as a social justice organizer. As a social justice organizer, I worked with a team to engage thousands of clergy and lay leaders in a campaign to win expanded access to quality, affordable healthcare for nearly half a million low income people in Massachusetts. I also organized a campaign to stop the devastating effects of home foreclosures in Lawrence and Lowell Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>As Bowdoin\u2019s rabbi, I support students in creating vibrant Jewish religious and cultural life here at Bowdoin.\u00a0 I serve students in helping to build community, work for justice, explore various aspects of Judaism and engage in spiritual and religious practices.\u00a0 When I\u2019m not at Bowdoin, you can find me jogging, biking, cooking or trying to catch a glimpse of a moose or two in Baxter State park.\u00a0 I also love to drink coffee and look forward to meeting you for coffee or tea or at one of our events!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2009\/10\/rabbi-simeon-maslin-bowdoin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"141\" align=\"right\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rabbi Simeon Maslin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>January 31, 2022: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccarnet.org\/central-conference-of-american-rabbis-mourns-the-death-of-rabbi-simeon-j-maslin-zl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Central Conference of American Rabbis mourns the death of its past president, Rabbi Simeon J. Maslin, <em>z\u201dl<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowdoin Hillel aims to provide students with a Jewish home on campus by celebrating Jewish holidays, planning Jewish educational events, and offering a social hub. Hillel strives to be not only a place where Jews can be with other Jews, but also an open environment where all Bowdoin students are welcome to participate and learn. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}