Friday Night:  

Orthodox services 5pm (Hillel, MPR)

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

Kick off the semester with a snack of Bagels and schmeer. 

Where: Hopkins Hillel

When: Monday January, 30th at 4:30pm

For more information check out the event on Facebook

Welcome back to campus! Miss Israel already? So do we! 
Join CHAI on Tuesday, January 31st from 7-9 in the Hillel Basement to kick off the semester right with free Israeli food, and giveaways! There will be a presentation of "Israel 360", followed by shmoozing and learning about the many opportunities to get back to Israel for little or no cost!  

For more information and RSVP on Facebook

Are you interested in education?  Martha Kanter, the Under Secretary of Education, will be at the Smokler Center on Tuesday at 10:30am for a meeting with local Jewish leaders, Hopkins administrators and a small group of students.  If you are interested in possibly being a part of this meeting and are free from 10:30am to 11:30am on Tuesday, January 31st, please email Debbie at  dpine@jhu.edu.  In your email, please indicate your involvement in education and why you are interested in attending.  Debbie will get back to you on Monday.  

Attention Hopkins seniors and students over the age of 21!! Hopkins Hillel Senior Board is heading to the Jewish Museum of Maryland's "Warm Your Soul: A Coffeehouse Brews & Schmooze" on Thursday, February 2, from 6pm to 9pm! 

Transportation and admission are FREE! Light refreshments will be served! Alcohol will be available for purchase with appropriate ID.

We will be leaving from the Hillel building (Smokler Center, 3109 N. Charles St.) by 5:30pm. 

Guests MUST RSVP to this page or by emailing hopkinshillelsab@gmail.com by Monday, Jan. 30th!! 

Be sure to check out JMM's website for this event!  

For more information check out the Facebook event

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

Come watch the Superbowl at Hillel! Delicious snacks will be provided. Kick-off is at 6:30 PM. We will also being showing Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl on the big screen, beginning at 3 PM.

 For more information check out this event on Facebook

Are you interested in going to Israel this June with Taglit-Birthright Israel? Spend 10 days with other Hopkins students traveling all across Israel, learning about Jewish and Israeli culture through the places, the people, the food, and more. Registration for Summer 2012 trips opens February 15 at 10:00am, if you applied in the past you can register early on February 14 at 12:00pm. Any questions? Email Julie at jminor@jhu.edu, who will also be in Gilman on February 15 to help with registration.

Interested in hearing a new perspective on some old texts? Join the Jewish-Christian Coalition! This semester, we will be having guest speakers as well as monthly text studies. Email Bernie Hodkin at  bernie.hodkin@gmail.com for more information.     

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.