KU Hillel has announced its annual Rock Chalk Shabbat will be held Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, at the Kansas Union on the University of Kansas’s campus in Lawrence.
Rock Chalk Shabbat, KU Hillel’s largest Shabbat experience of the year, invites Hillel parents, alumni and friends to be with the Jewish student community at KU. It also helps support KU Hillel programs and Jewish education for thousands of students each year.
“I am looking forward to bringing the Jayhawk ruach (spirit) together again,” said Suzy Sostrin, executive director of KU Hillel. “Connecting and reconnecting with so many generations of Jayhawks makes this such an exciting event.”
Rock Chalk Shabbat will include a kosher Shabbat dinner followed by student-led services and a dessert reception for mingling. Throughout the evening, attendees will learn more about KU Hillel, its students and the community.
Kate Jacobs, this year’s KU Hillel development coordinator and KU senior, enjoys helping with Rock Chalk Shabbat from start to teardown.
“Seeing a community of people brought together for such a special event makes me feel proud to be a part of KU Hillel,” Jacobs said.
Rock Chalk Shabbat is a yearly tradition for the KU Hillel community. Over more than two decades, the event has grown to have more than 300 supporters, and many more have joined in virtually from their own Shabbat tables.
Sostrin said that continuing to build a “strong, tight-knit community of students, alumni, parents and friends creates the thriving Jewish community at KU.”
“Each year Rock Chalk Shabbat continues to help this community,” she said. “It is incredibly moving to pause and see all we have accomplished together.”
Those interested in sponsoring a table or attending Rock Chalk Shabbat can visit kuhillel.org/rcs or contact Savannah Kannberg, donor relations and communications director, at .
