Kassow Hillel Kosher Eatery Opens

The Kassow Hillel Kosher Eatery, a place where Jewish students as well as students of all faiths can dine on kosher food, opened in Mather Dining Hall on May 3, 2012. The facility was made possible by gifts from many individuals and organizations, including the Zachs family, the Samuel Roskin Trust at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and the law firm of Rogan Nassau LLC in Hartford.

The Eatery is named in honor of two distinguished members of the Trinity community: Lisa Pleskow Kassow, director of Trinity College Hillel; and Samuel D. Kassow’66, Charles H. Northam Professor of History. President Jones noted that the Eatery is meant to create a welcoming and nurturing environment for Trinity’s
Jewish students and a place where students of all religions “can sit down and exchange ideas.”

Lisa Kassow thanked Jones for his support of the project and thanked Henry Zachs ’56, whose gift to the College “resonates beyond this room” and will “affect generations to come.” Zachs, who has contributed to other facilities on campus and whose name adorns the Hillel House, noted that Trinity has played a central role in the lives of the Zachs family for nearly a century. Zachs is a former trustee and a member of the Watkinson Library Board.