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This picture was taken during one of the heights of Jewish fraternal life. Fraternities grew after the Bowman quotas, and these were the locations in which Jews gathered to experience college life.

AEPi, after several years of inactivity, was revamped in 1986 and later again in the late 1990s. They have sponsor challah bakings, barbecues, Hillel social events, and other activities for the Jewish community.

The YMCA handbook listed these synagogues, as well as several others over the following years, as resources where Jewish students could turn. In many instances they did, with several meetings of the Menorah and Zionist Societies taking place in the…

The Black Student Union wrote a letter encouraging Spring Fair to change the date from Passover. Not only would many Jewish students have been home for the holiday, but they also could not eat bread, harshly limiting their choices at Spring Fair…

JSA and the JHU Administration worked together to facilitate the campus visit and speech of then-Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin. This was during a period of high Jewish population and activity, in which the Administration was openly cooperative.