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Maryland Hillel is one of the nation's premier Hillels engaging 4,000 Jewish students annually out of the approximately 6,000 Jewish students at the University of Maryland. This past academic year Maryland Hillel provided leadership training to 200 students, served over 10,000 funded Shabbat meals, took 320 students to Israel, ran four service-learning trips nationally and internationally, hosted hundreds of lectures and classes, and worked with individual students to foster their personal identities and activism. This is the place for students who seek a leading public university and a robust and entrepreneurial Jewish community.
Undergraduate Enrollment
5,800 Jewish Students (19.2%*) 30,246 Students
*Percent of population
Graduate Enrollment
800 Jewish Students (7.8%*) 10,205 Students
*Percent of population
Anti-Israel Student Government or BDS Resolution
Failed
Kosher Dining
Maryland Hillel offers delicious Kosher food at the Rosenbloom Hillel Center. Students can purchase full or partial meal plans or buy meals one at a time. Maryland Hillel also offers Kosher meals for orientations, Shabbat, and holidays.
Options:
Hillel meal plan-extra cost
Religious Services
For services, more than 350 students join weekly Conservative and Orthodox and semi-regular Reform services for Shabbat on Friday night. In addition, Maryland Hillel offers Conservative, Orthodox, and Reform holiday services. Maryland Hillel's team features Conservative and Orthodox rabbinic staff and educators.
For Elyon Topolosky, the music director of Rak Shalom, one of University of Maryland’s two Jewish a cappella groups, his introduction to the world of competitive collegiate Jewish a cappella came before he was a college student himself.
From chanted prayers to summer camp song sessions to improvised harmonies in niggunim (the wordless melodies often sung as part of services), music is an integral part of Jewish culture.
When college student Alex Davidson attended a dance marathon hosted by the University of Maryland to raise money for Children’s National Hospital in 2013, the last thing he expected was to kick off a series of events that would save the life of a little girl. But that’s exactly what he did. “Hillel had sponsored […]
The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies (GIIS) is grateful to Michael and Catherine Gildenhorn and Carol and Michael Winer for their generosity in creating an annual scholarship for an outstanding UMD student pursuing a minor in Israel studies. For more information about how this merit-based scholarship of $1,000 will be awarded, visit the application site and click on “Israel Studies Minors."
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