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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.

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.

Pictured are selections from the Sonneborn Collection, currently located at Johns Hopkins Hillel. The Sonneborn Collection, donated in 1901, was perhaps the first University collection of "Jewish ceremonial objects"16. It was matched by "no doubt the…

For a brief period, a group of Johns Hopkins students published a paper titled Israel Weekly Perspective. The paper mostly consisted of photocopied article clippings, and likely circulated around the campus's Jewish population. The paper was one of…

This represents a rough charting of the Jewish percentage of Johns Hopkins undergraduates. This should not be considered definitive, as there are approximately 12 data points. Yet these data points seem exemplary and can be used to give an idea of…

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.

In 1966 the Kosher Dining Hall was established as a partnership between the University and the National Council of Young Israel as an option for kosher-observant students. It did not have an enormous following, and during the Seventies there were…