Community Service

Jewish students at Northeastern have myriad opportunities to have fun together while helping such places as homeless shelters, elderly neighbors, and needy people as far away as El Salvador and Mexico. During Thanksgiving week, we participate in the PBJam, joining Northeastern fraternities, sororities, and residence halls to make hundreds of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for delivery to food pantries in Boston. Before Purim, we make hamentashen with the elderly residents at the nearly Symphony West Apartments, and join them for a Passover program as well. A Hillel team raises money for Project Bread by walking twenty miles in the annual Walk for Hunger, and we participate in the Jewish Coalition for Literacy by tutoring area children.

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