Shabbat Lunch at Hillel
2025-02-22 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-03-01 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-03-08 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-03-15 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | 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!

Shabbat Board Games
2025-02-22 12:30 - 15:00 | MA
Stuck in a Saturday slump and craving some chai-energy and fierce board-game action? On Friday, February 22 from 12:30 to 3:00, recharge at Hillel’s conservative Minyan! Come for the services and stay for the delicious lunch, great vibes, and friendly board-game competition. You won’t want to miss it!

Visualizing the Divine
2025-02-24 19:00 - 20:30 | MA
Join Professor Chajes for an eye-opening exploration of ilanot, the ancient visual maps of Kabbalah. These intricate parchment scrolls, dating back to the 14th century, were used by Jewish mystics to map out the divine, blending spiritual insight with stunning imagery. Almost forgotten today, these “tree diagrams” offer a fresh perspective on how Kabbalists viewed the world, absorbed different cultural traditions, and connected with the divine. Whether you’re a history buff, a visual learner, or just curious about the intersection of religion and art, this talk will change the way you think about knowledge, spirituality, and creativity.

Background: J. H. (Yossi) Chajes (Ph.D., Yale University 1999) is the Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. Chajes directs the “Ilanot Project”—an ambitious and unprecedented attempt to research kabbalistic cosmological diagrams. His pioneering work has been awarded five Israel Science Foundation (ISF) research grants, the Friedenberg Prize for the outstanding ISF-funded project in the humanities, and two Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony/Volkswagen Foundation grants to develop the digital humanities project “Maps of God – The Visual Kabbalah Portal” (ilanot.org)

Community Dinner
2025-02-25 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-03-04 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-03-11 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-03-18 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-03-25 17:30 - 18:30 | MA
Find community, make connections with your peers, and eat dinner at Hillel. Join us for a kosher meat dinner with a vegetarian option.

Food. People. Comfort.

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Beat Midrash: A live performance and open conversation
2025-02-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Tufts Hillel Building, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Join us at Hillel for “Beat Midrash,” a live performance and open conversation, followed by a dessert reception. With Neta Weiner and Stav Marin, explore how creative language shapes community and drives social change. Blending music, text, and movement, the performance weaves English, Hebrew, Arabic, and Yiddish to reflect diverse cultural roots.

It tells the story of System Ali, a multilingual Jewish-Palestinian arts collective. The performance connects the audience (Kahal) and the community (Kehila) to examine art’s role in dialogue and conflict. Straddling the line between hip-hop and Klezmer, it offers a lens into the diverse city of Jaffa’s complexities while envisioning a brighter future.

New Leaders Shabbat
2025-02-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Tufts Hillel Building, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Join us for our first New Leaders Shabbat of the semester! This special evening is designed for anyone interested in getting more involved with Hillel services, whether you’re hoping to lead future services or experience Shabbat in a new way. The service will be divided into smaller sections, allowing multiple people to participate in a low-pressure, supportive environment.

To sign up to be a leader, click here.

Game Show Shabbat
2025-02-28 18:00 - 20:30 | MA
Join Tufts Hillel for Game Show Shabbat! From Jeopardy to Survivor to Minute to Win-it, it will be a night of laughter, competition, and fun. Hope to see you there! 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

6:00 pm Candle Lighting and Services

7:00 pm Dinner and Game Show Shabbat

8:00pm Dessert

Shabbat Yoga
2025-03-01 10:30 - 11:30 | Tufts Hillel Building, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Reconnect, recharge and find your flow at Yoga Shabbat. This monthly gathering invites you to embrace the peaceful spirit of Shabbat through guided movement and breath-work. Join us on Saturday, March 1 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM for a grounding yoga practice open to all. No experience needed, just bring yourself!

Schmüsic Night
2025-03-05 20:00 - 22:00 | MA
Love music? Looking for an opportunity to perform? We’re hosting an open mic event to bring together you, aspiring performers, to play music. Sign up below to perform. Whether you’re on stage or in the audience, everyone is welcome to join and enjoy the show!

Sign up to perform!

Challah For Hunger
2025-03-06 15:00 - 21:00, 2025-03-27 15:00 - 21:00 | 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.

Dough 3-4PM

Braiding 5-6PM

Baking 7-9PM

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

Sign Up!

Bingo Night
2025-03-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Tufts Hillel Building, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Think you have what it takes to get 5 in a row? Hillel’s Bingo Night will be an evening of friendly competition, exciting prizes, and plenty of fun. Bring your friends (and your luck) because the first to get 5 in a row won’t only win a prize, but they’ll also get to claim the ultimate Bingo bragging rights.

Challah for Hunger – Challah Sale
2025-03-07 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.

Shabbat of Service
2025-03-07 17:00 - 20:30 | MA
Join Tufts Hillel as we kick off a weekend of service with Shabbat! We’ll begin with creating blankets for Project Linus, followed by candle lighting, services, and Shabbat dinner. We hope to see you there! To help us accommodate you for dinner please sign up by Wednesday at 10:00am 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

5:00pm Blanket Making

6:00pm Community Candle Lighting and Services

7:00pm Kosher Dinner Vegetarian and meat options

8:00pm Dessert

Saturday Morning Services
2025-03-08 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.

Ice Skating!
2025-03-08 12:00 - 16:00 | MA
Join us for an afternoon of ice skating at Skate @ Canal District Kendall! Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, come skate, hang out, and enjoy music and hot drinks with friends!

Folding and Filling: A Purim Celebration
2025-03-11 18:30 - 19:30 | Tufts Hillel Building, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Kick off the Purim celebrations by baking some delicious Hamantaschen! These triangle pastries – traditionally filled with sweet fruit jams, chocolate, and more – are said to represent the three-cornered hat of Haman, the infamous villain of the story of Purim. While your Hamantaschen bake to golden perfection, we’ll prepare Mishloach Manot, gifts of food and drink to share with family and friends on Purim Day. So fill some hamantaschen with your favorite flavors and embrace the spirit of Purim!

Hamantaschen and Hot Chocolate: A Queer Purim Text Study
2025-03-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Tufts Hillel Building, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
How can the story of Purim inspire us to embrace our most authentic selves? We will dive into traditional texts to explore how the story of Purim speaks to Queerness through its themes of identity, hidden truths, and transformation. We hope to uncover the ways this ancient story resonates with modern expressions of selfhood. Come enjoy some delicious hot chocolate and Hamantaschen, and reflect on what it means to embrace your true self.

Megillah Mania
2025-03-13 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
Celebrate Purim at Hillel with Megillah Mania! Show up in your best costume to hear the Megillah reading and enjoy hot apps, desserts, and hamentashen! Grab your grogers and head to Hillel!

Mishloach Manot
2025-03-14 10:00 - 13:00 | Tufts Hillel Building, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Happy Purim! Before you leave for Spring Break, head over to Tufts Hillel to pick up some sweet treats for the road! We’re handing out Mishloach Manot, festive gift bags filled with Hamantaschen and other special treats, perfect for a travel-day pick-me-up.

Shabbat Friday Night
2025-03-14 18:00 - 20:30 | MA
Join us for Shabbat services and dinner at Hillel! To help us accommodate you for dinner please sign up by Wednesday at 10:00am 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

Great Yiddish Baking Show Sign Up
2025-03-23 11:00 - 2025-03-30 17:00 | MA
Love baking? Love Judaism? Sign up with your friends to compete in THE baking event of the year: The Great Yiddish Baking Show 2025!

SIGN UP!

Student Board Elections
2025-03-24 08:00 - 2025-04-17 17:00 | MA
Hillel Student Board elections are just around the corner! Check out the timeline below if you’re interested in running for a position and please reach out to Eva Sheedy (Eva.Sheedy@tufts.edu) if you have any questions!

Intent-to-run

CLICK HERE FOR INTENT TO RUN FORM

Interested in taking on a leadership role next school year? Are you thinking about running for Hillel Student Board? Consider filling out the intent-to-run form! If you are planning to run for a position on the Tufts Hillel Student Board, you must fill out the Intent-to-Run form by 4/6 at 11am EST.

Hillel Leadership Interest Dinner

Thursday, April 1st @ 6:30pm

Come learn about all the ways to get involved at Hillel next school year and find the best fit for you! All are welcome and representatives from several leadership opportunities will be present to answer questions about their groups and the application process.

Student Board

President and Exec in general (Eva Sheedy): eva.sheedy@tufts.edu

Spiritual and Religious Life Branch (Liana Smolover-Bord): liana.smolover_bord@tufts.edu

Community Branch (Jordana Raich): jordana.raich@tufts.edu

Operations VP/Treasurer (Hannah Friedman): hannah.friedman@tufts.edu

Engagement VP (Elijah Fraiman): elijah.fraiman@tufts.edu

Campus Relations Branch (Sydney Cohen): sydney.cohen@tufts.edu

Community Building Fellows

Senior Fellows

Carter Wagner: carter.wagner@tufts.edu

Emilia Nathan: emilia.nathan@tufts.edu

Owen Thomas: owen.thomas@tufts.edu

Shabbat Fellows

To learn more about getting involved with Shabbat Fellows, please contact Katie Hamelburg kate.hamelburg@tufts.edu

Digital Media Fellows

For questions regarding becoming a digital media fellow, please contact Ilan Persing ilan.persing@tufts.edu

Hillel Student Board Election Night

Tuesday, April 15th @ 6:30pm

CLICK HERE FOR VOTING FORM

Come cast your vote! All candidates will deliver their speeches, which will be available for viewing/reading 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.
