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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…

By 1943, there was clearly enough interest in Jewish services that the YMCA facilitated Friday night services for those service men who could not go on Saturday. This suggests that there was a moderate level of observance-- students who would go to…

Abel Wolman ('13) during his professional career notes in his diary Rosh Hashanah (on an earlier page) and Yom Kippur, indicating his taking those days off. There is no mention of other holidays (except Passover in some years) or of taking Friday…

Operation Understanding was an event co-sponsored by the Hopkins Jewish League and the Black Student Union. It was designed to increase dialogue between Jewish and Black students, who often were at odds over the Israeli-Arab conflict.

This is an example of one of many JSA social events which had the goal of bringing Jewish students together. These were very successful during this time period, and facilitated a popular JSA.

On several occasions, the JSA or other Jewish student organizations would screen movies about Israel. Although there was occasional pushback from progressive political student groups, many students were in favor of these films, and also supported…