Featuring Emily Linick
What is your major, and why did you decide to pursue this degree?
I am a Psychology major with an Anthropology minor. I chose this major because I want to be a Child Psychologist when I am older. I also just find psychology super interesting.
Why did you choose Binghamton University?
I always knew that I needed to go to college where I could proudly be Jewish. When I visited Binghamton in the fall of my senior year, I saw people walking around in kippas, and I knew I could feel comfortable as a Jewish student here. The scholarship and FRI program also helped.
Where are you from? Where did you go to high school?
I am from Waldwick, NJ and I went to Waldwick High School.
What do you love about Jewish life on campus?
I love how 400+ people from all different backgrounds/levels of observance come to Chabad every week to celebrate Shabbat together.
Do you have any siblings?
I have an older sister, Alana, who just turned 23.
What is your favorite Jewish food?
I know everyone thinks that their grandmother's brisket and matzo ball soup is the best, but in my totally unbiased opinion, no one beats my grandmother's brisket or matzo ball soup.
What is your favorite Jewish childhood memory?
Definitely being bribed with ice cream to memorize the Four Questions for the seder in Hebrew School.
What is your favorite Chabad experience?
I love coming to Chabad on Thursdays and helping to cook/set the tables for Shabbat. Food for 400+ students doesn't make itself, and there's something so great about seeing it all come together every week and knowing that I contributed to the meal.
What's your favorite lockdown experience?
Every Friday, in addition to buying dinner for Shabbos, my sister and I would go to our favorite kosher deli (shoutout Kosher Nosh in Fair Lawn) and buy a hotdog. Every single week. We called it Hotdog Friday. It was the only thing that kept us sane during the pandemic.
The history of the Jewish people is not just one of rise and fall. It is a process, a purification, a sieve of many filters, a smelting furnace that refines the raw ore again and again until only the purest gold remains.
