Several members of Old Dominion University’s Hillel attended Congressman Bobby Scott’s 43rd Annual Labor Day Cookout in Newport News.
Amy K. Milligan, PhD, ODU’s Batten Endowed Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, director, Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding, and director of Hillel, accompa- nied the students.
“It was an absolute pleasure and a thrill to hear from all of those speaking, including Rep. Bobby Scott, Senator Tim Kaine, and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff,” says Ben Rosenthal, an ODU student. “Listening to them speak reinvigorated my spirit for this country and this election. I have nothing but confidence being a Jewish young adult in America.” Jon Conn, an ODU graduate student, says, “It was an honor to meet Doug Emhoff, the future First Gentlemen. As a Jewish man dating an Indian woman who’s clearly my better half, we’re practically living parallel lives!”
