As a pre-semester welcome back to campus, we're having a FREE Shabbat Kiddush/Fiesta on Friday night, January 27! Join us at Hillel at 6pm for some chips and dip and some schmoozing! 

Following this, we will be having a regularly priced Shabbat dinner at 7pm. Please RSVP to the Facebook groups for the Fiesta and for the dinner so we know how many people to expect. Can't wait to see you all back at Hillel! 

 

 

 The Smokler Center will begin normal hours on Monday January 30th. We will be open starting Monday January 30th from 9am to 10pm. 

 

 

Looking for a relaxing yet meaningful spring break? Join Hillel in Jamaica!!! This unique program offers the chance to learn about the Jewish history of Jamaica while having fun in the sun and doing meaningful community service work. You'll stay at the (www.greathuts.com) Great Huts Resort in Port Antonia, Jamaica and while there volunteer at the (www.prmhomeless.org) PRM homeless shelter and work with the elderly at their nursing home. In addition to service work you'll be able to learn about the history of the Jewish community in Jamaica and visit their (http://www.ucija.org) synagogue.  You'll end the week with a relaxing Shabbat while staying at the (http://www.jamaicapegasus.com) Pegasus Hotel. The trip is $1200 including all meals, accommodations, local travel, and more, plus round trip airfare to and from Kingston, Jamaica. For any questions contact Julie at jminor@jhu.edu.

 

 

Go to Israel with Hopkins Hillel and JNF on Alternative Spring Break, March 17-24, 2012. Join other Hopkins students and young adults for a week of community service benefiting JNF's Operation Carmel Renewal to help rebuild Northern Israel from the devastating fire of December 2010. The trip is free, paid for by generous JNF donors, but participants are responsible for raising a minimum of $1100. Register under the Hopkins Hillel team and check out our Facebook page. Any questions please contact Julie at  jminor@jhu.edu

Spring 2012

 

Course Description: Focusing on the inscriptions of Israel and its neighbors from the first millennium BCE, learn what texts reveal about cultures and experience hands-on history writing, using primary sources in translation.