The Study Travel Seminar, which is offered in different locations, depending upon faculty and student interest, is a program of reading and travel that is designed to emphasize experiential and integrative learning by utilizing the resources and environment in which it takes place as primary instruments for teaching and learning. In the spring of 1995, Hillel and other groups on campus sponsored a lecture by Dr. Herbert Hochhauser, a Holocaust survivor. Other Holocaust remembrance activities include a Yom Hashoah candle lighting service and a display of photographs and information from Nazi Germany. The Holocaust Memorial Service remains a permanent part of the cultural calendar. Other events include the annual Jewish Students' brunch on Parents' Weekend, Shabbat and Havdalah services, inter-faith discussions in Lowry Pit, and the building of a sukkah on the hill outside of Lowry Center.
Students are welcome to eat, sleep, and sit in the sukkah at any time.
Hillel also sponsors a Krystallnacht poetry reading and remembrance service that is open to all students. A Passover Model Seder, held yearly at the Wooster Inn, is led by students of Hillel with the purpose of exposing the greater campus community to the traditions and ceremonies of Passover and Judaism as a whole. In the future, Hillel hopes to incorporate more special and cultural events into its program. Some projects under consideration include an alternative fall break trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D. C., more speakers from across the nation, planting a tree in Israel, and expanding the library of Jewish books and resources. Hillel's main goals remain to expose the students and community of Wooster to Judaism and to build strong bonds between the students of Hillel and the larger Wooster community.