Hillel Kornwasser

“For me, it's a little weird. I'm getting up in front of a room with some kids my age or kids a year older than me, but the reality is there's no waiting till tomorrow for this fight,”

Hillel Kornwasser · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-08

Kornwasser served as a presenter at the JSU Presidents Conference, demonstrating peer-to-peer leadership in real time.

“The world that we live in today, in America, in New York City, the western world as a whole, is not a world that I want my children to — my future children to — grow up in,”

Hillel Kornwasser · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-08

Kornwasser expressed concern about the world he wants his future children to grow up in amid rising antisemitism.

“In a world where they have to look behind their shoulder every single second with a yarmulke on or their Star of David out wondering if the next person is going to stab them in the back literally and figuratively for being Jewish.”

Hillel Kornwasser · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-08

Kornwasser described the fears Jewish people face wearing visible symbols of their faith in the current climate.