Tufts Hillel

Ravdallah
2024-03-30 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Bayit, 98 Packard Avenue, Somerville, MA, 02144
Reform Havdallah! Join us at Bayit to welcome in the week.

Friends, food, and warm vibes! All are welcome!

Pikuach Nefesh and Personal Autonomy: Jewish & Medical Ethics of Bone Marrow Donations
2024-04-01 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
Have Jewish questions or want to learn more about registering for Gift of Life? Want to explore what it means ethically and personally to become a potential donor? Come explore some of these questions with Rabbi Leah!

We will have snacks!

Community Gathering
2024-04-02 18:00 - 19:15, 2024-04-09 18:00 - 19:15, 2024-04-16 18:00 - 19:15 | MA
Find community, process with you peers, and eat dinner at Hillel.

Food. People. Comfort.

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Senior Eat and Educate: Financial Literacy and Insurance 101
2024-04-02 18:30 - 20:00 | MA
Before graduating, come learn the basics about credit cards, loans, budgeting, and bank accounts. We will also discuss health, auto, and homeowners insurance with Marilyn Goldman.

All seniors are welcome! This will be an educational conversation over dinner provided by Hillel.

Sign Up!

Beyond Darkness: Stories of Renewal from Cambodia, Darfur, Bosnia, and the Holocaust
2024-04-03 18:30 - 21:00 | MA
RSVP Here

Hear from a panel of survivors and those impacted by the Holocaust and genocides in Darfur, Bosnia, and Cambodia. Listen to the panel’s experiences of strength, fear, uncertainty, and their tireless efforts to advocate for their communities.

Reception: 6:30pm at Tufts Hillel

Panel: 7:30pm at Tufts Hillel

Food and refreshments will be provided at the reception, and guests will have the opportunity to meet the speakers prior to the panel.

Gesher: Building Bridges
2024-04-03 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-04-10 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-04-17 20:00 - 22:00 | MA
Since October 7th, we’ve felt many things—grief, mourning, anger, fear, confusion. And one thing has been missing: dialogue. “Gesher: Building Bridges” is a new Tufts Hillel initiative aimed at bridging the divides within the Jewish community.

Gesher fellows will engage in weekly seminars over 10 weeks to study diverse perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a focus on seeing the other and building bridges, particularly amid the ongoing war. We will delve into important themes, including identity, diaspora, humanization, and challenging hate. This is a student-led fellowship designed for all students—Jewish and allies alike—committed to shared learning, open to new experiences, and respectful toward diverse voices. Fellows will have the opportunity to explore their own views in a challenging, tolerant, and respectful environment. The fellowship will feature a highly subsidized trip over Patriots’ Day Weekend to hear insightful speakers and come together in pursuit of collective healing.

Club Cholent
2024-04-04 14:00 - 15:00 | MA
Come join Tufts Hillel’s first-ever Club Cholent, where we’ll be making cholent for this week’s Shabbat lunch. Feel free to come for as little or as long as you’d like – drop by once or come every session! Don’t enjoy cooking? Come taste each of our Cholents on Saturday afternoon, during Shabbat lunch.

What is cholent, anyways?

Cholent is a traditional stew, prepared prior to Shabbat and slow cooked throughout the day. It stems from both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish traditions, with variations on recipe and flavor profile. Bring a favorite recipe, chop some veggies, or just come to taste test! Meat and vegan options (both gluten-free) will be offered.

Israel Book Club
2024-04-05 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-04-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-04-19 12:00 - 13:00 | MA
Students and faculty members will meet weekly to discuss readings from Aaron J. Hahn Tapper and Mira Sucharov’s book “Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates.” We will allot time during the meetings for participants to read the texts that we will be discussing, so no outside reading is necessary. All reading materials will be provided, and discussions will be run so that weekly attendance is not necessary to participate. Feel free to join us whenever you can! Lunch will be served each week.

All are welcome! Please contact Professor Hedda Harari-Spencer or Skyler Goldberg with any questions.

Shabbat Friday Night
2024-04-05 18:00 - 20:30 | Tufts Hillel-Dining Room, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Services and Dinner

Join us for Shabbat services and dinner at Hillel! To help us accommodate you for dinner please sign up via sms/text: Text HILLEL TO 617 420 7411

Shabbat dinner is provided compliments of Hillel. If you are on an unlimited meal plan, or have the resources to do so, please allow us to subsidize your meal by using a meal swipe.

Schedule

6:00pm Candle Lighting & Services

7:00pm Kosher Dinner Vegetarian and meat options

Saturday Morning Services
2024-04-06 10:00 - 12:00 | MA
Join Tufts Hillel for Saturday morning Conservative services throughout the semester. Services will take place at Hillel then followed by lunch.

Shabbat Lunch at Hillel
2024-04-06 12:00 - 13:30, 2024-04-13 12:00 - 13:30 | MA
Join Tufts Hillel on Saturday for Shabbat lunch! No need to pre-register – just show up! All are welcome, we hope to see you there!

Tufts Hillel Formal
2024-04-06 21:00 - 23:30 | MA
Come to Tufts Hillel Formal to dance the night away with your Hillel community! The party of the semester.

RSVP here!

DJ music, food, friends and a good time! All are welcome! See you there!

Gift of Life: Join the Bone Marrow Registry
2024-04-08 10:00 - 15:00 | Campus Center, 44 Professors Row, Medford, 02155
Each of us has the cure to someone’s blood cancer within our cells. Get swabbed to save a life!

By a simple cheek swab, you have the opportunity to save a life. Come to the Campus Center on April 8th, to learn more about Gift of Life and join the Bone Marrow Registry.

Become an HFEL!
2024-04-11 09:00 - 2024-04-21 23:50 | MA
We are SUPER PSYCHED for first-year orientation this fall and WE NEED YOUR HELP TO WELCOME THE CLASS OF 2028! Orientation week will be tons of fun and we will need plenty of volunteers to show these Baby Jumbos what Hillel is all about. Being an HFEL is all about building relationships with the new students and helping them adjust to life at Tufts. That goes beyond just helping with the logistics of the orientation events.

Sign Up!

Please fill out this form by Sunday, April 21st at 11:59 PM!!! It shouldn’t take longer than 20min! If you have any questions, please contact:

Elle Weingarten, VP of Community Programming on Student Board elle.weingarten@tufts.eduNatalie Lopez, Student Life Coordinator at Tufts Hillel natalie.lopez@tufts.edu

Challah For Hunger
2024-04-11 15:00 - 20:00 | MA
Challah for Hunger is a group dedicated to doing Tzedakah (charity) through baking and selling Challahs! The current flavors are Chocolate Chip, Cinnamon Sugar, Everything Bagel, and Plain. 100% of the proceeds go to Family Table, one of the largest Jewish Food banks in the Greater Boston Area.

Join us to bake, make new friends, and make a difference.

Sign up HERE!

Challah for Hunger - Challah Sale
2024-04-12 10:00 - 13:00 | MA
Are you hungry? If so, stop by the Campus center to buy delicious Challahs! The current flavors are Chocolate Chip, Cinnamon Sugar, Everything Bagel, and Plain. 100% of the proceeds go to Family Table, one of the largest Jewish Food banks in the Greater Boston Area.

Conservative Minyan Pre-Neg
2024-04-12 17:00 - 18:00 | MA
Come hang out and chill with the Conservative minyan before Shabbat services! There will be snacks, drinks, and cool people. Come enjoy the Shabbos vibes!

Please DM us on instagram for the location. See you there!

Back to Summer Shabbat
2024-04-12 17:15 - 20:30 | Tufts Hillel-Dining Room, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Crafts, Services and Dinner

We’re missing summer…how about you? Join us for a summer-themed Shabbat. Whether you went to summer camp or have fun memories from different summers, join us for an evening of summer-themed fun.

We’ll be making Friendship Bracelets and Shabbat-O-Grams from 5:15-6:00pm. After services and dinner, we’ll be having a special summer-themed dessert bar, with Smores and more! We hope to see you there!

Join us for Shabbat services and dinner at Hillel! To help us accommodate you for dinner please sign up via sms/text: Text HILLEL TO 617 420 7411

Shabbat dinner is provided compliments of Hillel. If you are on an unlimited meal plan, or have the resources to do so, please allow us to subsidize your meal by using a meal swipe.

Schedule

5:15pm Friendship Bracelets and Shabbat-O-Grams

6:00pm Candle Lighting & Services

7:00pm Kosher Dinner Vegetarian and meat options

Senior Havdalah and JP Licks
2024-04-13 20:00 - 21:30 | MA
Close out Shabbat with fellow Seniors for Havdalah and then join us for ice cream at JP Licks!

Meet at Hillel at 8pm for Havdalah, and we will walk to JP licks together following Havdalah! See you there!

Casino Night
2024-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 | MA
Come join Tufts Hillel for a night of fun and games!

We have a company hosting card tables, and there will be a prize for the winner! See you there!

A Conversation with Dan Pashman
2024-04-16 17:00 - 18:00 | MA
Tufts alum, Dan Pashman A99, is stopping by Tufts Hillel on Tuesday, April 16th! Dan is currently on tour live taping his podcast The Sporkful and promoting his new cookbook Anything’s Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People. He’s making this stop to talk to us about his time at Tufts, his journey into the podcasting world, what it was like inventing a viral pasta shape, and more! Join us in welcoming Dan back to campus, followed by our Community Dinner.

About Dan: Dan Pashman is the creator and host of the two-time James Beard and Webby Award-winning podcast The Sporkful, and the creator of the viral pasta shape sensation, cascatelli. Known for his charmingly obsessive, idiosyncratic takes on food, Dan launched The Sporkful in 2010, and it remains one of the most listened to food podcasts today, with notable guests like Rachel Maddow, David Chang, Samin Nosrat, Nigella Lawson, Guy Fieri, Alton Brown, Carla Hall, Kumail Nanjiani, Jamie Oliver, Rosie Perez, Jim Gaffigan, Marc Maron, Weird Al, Kwame Onwuachi and W. Kamau Bell, among many others. His pasta shape cascatelli, has received widespread acclaim including being featured on the cover of TIME magazine as one of the Best Inventions of the year.

Information on Dan’s national book tour can be found at www.sporkful.com/tour.

Tufts Hillel Student Board Elections
2024-04-17 18:00 - 19:30 | MA
Come cast your vote! All candidates will deliver their speeches, which will be recorded in case you can’t make it. The voting form will go live as soon as speeches wrap up and remain open for 24 hours. The voting form will have a link to recorded speeches and written speeches (depending on position). Election results will be shared a few days after. Reach out to us with any questions.

Access the voting form here.

Exploring Jewish Womanhood: A Panel Sponsored by the Jewish Women's Collective
2024-04-18 18:00 - 19:00 | MA
Join the Jewish Women’s Collective in an important discussion about the trials and triumphs of Jewish womanhood. Come to hear from prominent Jewish women and female rabbis from the surrounding area!

We hope to see you there!
