Hillel Staff

• Cramer Bonnie, Director

   cramerb@union.edu

  518-388-6539

  Bonnie Cramer is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University.  She has spent the last two decades serving the Jewish community from Executive Board of her synagogue to Sisterhood President.  In addition to her responsibilities as the director of Union College Hillel, she dons a chef's jacket on Friday afternoons to facilitate a student-cooked kosher Shabbat meal.  Cramer spent 14 summers at Camp Ramah of New England in her position as Rosh of the specialty staff and 7 years teaching in the Schenectady Midrasha.  She co-led the art and spirituality workshop for the Greater New England Jewish Women's Retreat for over a decade.  Temple Israel in Natick invited her to serve as Scholar-in-Residence in 2008 to teach Kabbalah.  Cramer has also taught a segment on Jewish mysticism in a Union philosphy class.  She loves working with students as they wrestle with their Jewish identity and feels privileged to facilitate their journey.