Hillel

Activating Jewish service through partnerships, collaboration - opinion

Engaging in shared service is one way to see each other’s humanity and counter the isolation and misinformation that fuel anti-Jewish hatred.

STUDENTS PARTICIPATING in the National Days of Jewish Service campus cleanup.
 A man has been arrested for arson on suspicion of starting a dumpster fire outside San Francisco Hillel on December 5 while the members were inside.

Man arrested for setting fire to SF Hillel while students inside preparing for Shabbat

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem on July 23, 2025.

Power struggles emerge in Netanyahu's Likud internal elections ahead of national primaries

Students and others at City College of New York participate in a pro-Palestinian encampment on their West Harlem campus on April 26, 2024.

Imam-led walkout over Jewish participant at CUNY interfaith event draws wide condemnation


ADL, Hillel work together to document antisemitism on university campuses

Hillel and the ADL will together create a college-level curriculum on antisemitism and jointly document antisemitic incidents on campuses in the United States.

The University of Iowa.

Princeton Hillel and an Israeli flag - opinion

Inclusivity is a two-way street. I, along with many other students, feel excluded by a Hillel that refuses to prominently display the Israeli flag.

STUDENTS WALK along a path on the Princeton University campus.

New book explores Hillel's rebuilding Jewish life in former Soviet Union

Sprinkled throughout the book are many vignettes that illustrate Hillel’s approaches.

EX-SOVIET dissident and then-minister Natan Sharansky (left) meets in Moscow with mayor Yuri Luzhkov, 1997. The book covers Hillel’s efforts to build Jewish activism among Sharansky’s successors in the former USSR in the 1990s, subsequent to his making aliyah.

Swastika, Hitler photo found during weapons arrest at Cal State Monterey Bay

Authorities said they found chemicals and wires in the home prompting them to call in the bomb squad, but no bomb-making materials were found.

The Tanimura and Antle Family Memorial Library at Cal State University, Monterey Bay.

Hillel Int'l launches educational winter initiative amid coronavirus

More than 1,200 students worldwide have already signed up for the free classes.

Abigail Adams, sitting in chair on the right with white mask, got to attend one in-person Hillel event at UNC-Chapel Hill before the school shut down.

‘It’s not the same and everybody knows it’: Jewish campus life online

Being involved with Hillel and other Jewish student organizations forms a significant part of the social lives of many Jewish students.

Abigail Adams, sitting in chair on the right with white mask, got to attend one in-person Hillel event at UNC-Chapel Hill before the school shut down.

Philanthropic groups join forces to create a community for Jewish students

By moving to Hillel International, IACT will build on an already successful program, currently on campuses serving nearly 20% of all North American Jewish college undergraduates.

Students on campus at Tel Aviv University

Hillel Int'l lays off, furloughs 20% of staff amid coronavirus uncertainty

The organization did not disclose which staff positions were eliminated and which were furloughed, but the nearly 100-year-old group operates some activities that are not possible during the pandemic

University of Michigan Hillel, 1429 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Jewish organizations launch online portals to minimize coronavirus impact

Israel advocacy and educational groups have taken their programs online, offering a range of seminars and study programs for those in lockdown.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man attends a computer course at a technical college in Jerusalem October 16, 2013.

Former head of Iowa U. Hillel convicted of sexually abusing young boy

The former executive director of the University of Iowa Hillel has been convicted of molesting a 9-year-old boy in the Jewish center building.