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
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.
Frequency: Daily
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It was the first day of move-in for my first year at University of Maryland, College Park. My dad helped me move into my dorm and then, to my complete shock, dropped me off at Maryland Hillel with the firm suggestion, “Go make friends.” I was terrified until I walked in and started meeting the […]
Coming to campus as an observant Jewish student, I was immediately drawn to Hillel as the center of Jewish life at University of Maryland. I went to Hillel for kosher meals, for services, to meet friends, and to learn Torah. I’m also a lifelong basketball fan (go Sixers!), and was looking for a way to […]
RootOne is an organization that helps thousands of Jewish teens travel to Israel during their high school years. Many of those students go on to become leaders in their campus Hillels. The stories of these transformative trips are a snapshot into what inspires students to become leaders who are proud of their Jewish identities. Stay tuned as we share more of their stories.
Check out some of the scholarships available for University of Maryland, College Park Jewish undergraduate students.
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."
Jewish studies minors and majors in their first year of enrollment in the major are eligible to apply for one of five $1,000 scholarships to advance their studies.Jewish studies majors in their third year are eligible to apply for one of three $4,500 scholarships.These scholarships may also be applied to accredited study abroad and other academic programs.Please contact [email protected], or see the application form.Please Note: These funds are for students enrolled at the University of Maryland and may not be used for pre-university gap years.
The Meyerhoff Center supports Jewish studies and Israel studies scholarship both on campus and abroad. Majors and non-majors planning to study at an Israeli university are eligible for scholarships. To learn more, visit the application site and click on “For Other Students."
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