Homecoming services, Shabbat lunches, social evenings and Sunday brunches are among possible activities. You can provide an easy link with your college students by simply placing them on your mailing list and sending them your monthly bulletin. The sermon can be reproduced and sent to the college mailing list. Some congregations purchase the United Synagogue calendar and distribute it to college students when they first arrive at school. A host of congregations send out special holiday packages on Hanukkah, Pesach and other holidays.
Packages contain holiday foods, ritual supplies, recipes, and information on the holidays.
Some send Shalch Manot for Purim. Many have provided subscriptions to Jewish periodicals or gift certificates for Jewish books. Many rabbis, cantors, educators and youth directors visit their college students on campus. Students have returned from this conference with a renewed passion for Jewish life on campus and for Conservative Judaism in their own communities. Congregations can use this time to create social links and communal bonds.