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CLIP: The Collegiate Leadership Internship Program

Are you a CLIP (or SIP) alum? Update your contact information today to stay connected to the CLIP community!
Are you an employer interested in hosting a CLIP intern this summer?

The Collegiate Leadership Internship Program is generously supported by a grant from the Jewish Communal Fund.

Hillel is the primary partner agency of the UJA-Federation of New York for sparking the Jewish renaissance on our community campuses. Serving 65,000 students in New York, Hillel is the last Jewish gateway through which these students will pass before embarking on the rest of their lives. On over 20 campuses, Hillel provides a pluralistic and creative celebration of Jewish life—a Jewish renaissance taking place in our community in our time.

FEGS was established in 1934, by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of NY, to find employment for unemployed men and women. F·E·G·S has evolved to become the largest and most diversified private, not-for-profit health related and human service organization in the United States and was instrumental in founding CLIP over 27 years ago..

Previous interns have worked at many Jewish professional service, non-profit and for-profit sites.

Are you a Hillel professional who would like to advertise CLIP on campus? Feel free to print the CLIP flyer!

Meet Some of the CLIP 2008 Participants

Rachel Ball My name is Rachel Ball. I am a rising junior at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and I'm from New York City. This summer I worked at Stuart Portfolio Consultants, a small business that represents hedge funds and private equity funds, building databases and supporting the company's business. CLIP gave me many resources and networking opportunities that helped me further my on campus activities with "women in business" as well as introduced me to new fields of study. Through CLIP I have had the privilege of meeting an amazing and diverse group of Jewish students. This experience has opened my eyes to the ways in which Jewish students with different levels of observance can relate and also learn from each other's differences. I think of myself as a cultural Jew. I've never been very observant but have always identified very strongly with the Jewish community. This summer I learned about the ways others practice Judaism, grew to understand how and why people observe the way they do, and gained an appreciation and respect for everyone's different approaches to the same religion.

Ari Somekh My name is Ari Somekh and I am a junior at the University of North Carolina studying Economics and Public Policy. During my search for a summer internship my Hillel director told me about this great program called CLIP, and as soon as I found more about it I realized that it was the program for me. I was placed in an internship with Newmark Knight Frank, one of the largest commercial real estate companies in the world. My experience at Newmark gave me valuable insight into the professional world, something that I was expecting to get out of the summer. What was largely unexpected was the priceless experience I got from the CLIP program. CLIP gave me the opportunity to explore my Judaism and shape my long-term goals through a variety of group activities, guest speakers, a volunteer day, and most memorably a Shabbaton weekend in the Poconos. I made great friends with college students from all over the country and world, and I also discovered what it is to be a leader in every facet of my life. I hope to continue to discover more about my Judaism throughout the rest of my career and I intend to immediately start giving back to the Jewish community that has provided me with so much throughout the years. My CLIP experience has also motivated me to become more involved and innovative with Jewish life on my campus, and I will most certainly encourage my peers to apply for this program in the future.

Andrew Cohen Hi, my name is Andrew Cohen and I’m a junior at New York University studying Hebrew and Judaic studies as well as being premed. My internship at Weill Cornell Medical College allowed to me experience an amazing opportunity that far exceeded my highest hopes. CLIP was a unique opportunity for me to partake in engaging seminars, thought provoking guest speakers, and reflective discussion groups. CLIP has also enabled me to gain a better understanding of what it means to be a member of the broader Jewish community, and not just the one that I interact with on a daily basis. While I do value what I have learned from others over the course of the summer, I value the most what I have learned about myself.

Adina Goodman My name is Adina Goodman and I’m a rising sophomore at Barnard College - I’m contemplating a major in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures (or Comparative Literature). I love observing and engaging in the arts of writing, drawing, film, dance, and music. I’m interning at a JInsider.com, a website featuring ‘the world through a Jewish lens.’ Throughout the summer I’ve been researching and creating profiles for Jewish thinkers, artists, and other leaders, ranging from Jon Stewart to Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. Researching and editing web pages for JInsider appeals to me because I’ve learned that not all Jews connect to Judaism in the same way, and projects such as JInsider provide numerous pathways toward meaning and connection. Also, there are worlds of information on the Internet today, and sites such as JInsider aggregate it logically and innovatively so that time-conscious college students and working wo/man can efficiently find high quality information. In addition to spending the summer learning about interesting and inspiring Jews and ideas, I learned immeasurably from my CLIP peers, who represent an equally diverse spectrum of Jewish (and other) beliefs. The diversely-populated CLIP seminars progressed logically so that we started the summer learning about self-awareness and Jewish identity, and we later engaged in hands on sessions and projects whence we learned about developing our ideas and bringing them to fruition. Ultimately, the CLIP experience proved to be greater than the sum of its parts.

Hannah Weinerman My name is Hannah Weinerman. I'm a rising sophomore at Cornell University where I'm studying Industrial and Labor Relations. I heard about CLIP from a friend who had done it the year before. For my internship, I was placed at the Jewish National Fund and interned with the National Director of the Women's Campaign for Israel. My experience at JNF coupled with the weekly seminars gave me the opportunity to meet and hear from experienced professionals in many different areas of the Jewish non-profit world, which is a field that I'm very interested in pursuing. What's great about CLIP is that it brings together a group of students who are very diverse in both their Jewish identities and personalities. It was a unique opportunity to be among students who share a passion for Judaism even though they each have a different way of defining it. I'm returning to campus with many great ideas and student initiatives that I was exposed to through CLIP and the hope that I can implement them at Cornell.