While there, he became a leader of the Hillel Foundation, which was founded at the university.
Some of the movements sometimes cooperate by uniting with one another in community federations and in campus organizations such as the Hillel Foundation.
It gave its debut concert in April 1953 in Berkeley's Hillel Foundation.
The organization occurred three years before the national Hillel Foundation was organized at the University of Illinois.
The Hillel Foundation has received numerous praise and awards over the years.
Early in his career he was associated with the Hillel Foundation at Cornell University.
Although his extreme shyness kept him out of university politics or the media, he worked extensively with the university's Hillel Foundation.
He was also the director of the Hillel Foundation at the Hebrew University for 23 years.
There, eventually, he became the national head of the Hillel Foundations, a job in which he thrived - until the organization moved its headquarters to Washington.
He joined the organization in 1940 as director of the Hillel Foundation of the University of West Virginia.