The New Hillel: It's Not Just About Praying Anymore

The Jewish campus organization is growing rapidly and trying to change its image

It's been more than 30 years, but Barbara Jacoby hasn't forgotten her introduction to Hillel, the Jewish student organization, at the University of Maryland's College Park campus. She remembers the "little, white clapboard house on Yale Avenue," the bowl of tuna salad and crackers on an old table, and the people -- oy vey.

"Only nerds went to Hillel," she recalls. Not her. She told her mother, "I'm

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