Resources

Affordable College Online

College students looking to find a robust Jewish community and other resources to practice their faith on campus have a lot of options at their disposal. This guide explores how to choose a college, locate social and community groups on campus, and find scholarships for Jewish students.

AMCHA

AMCHA Initiative is a non-profit organization dedicated to investigating, documenting, educating about, and combating antisemitism at institutions of higher education in America.

Forward College Guide

The guide is designed so that it contains enough information to be useful for every type of Jewish student – for aspiring neuroscience researchers and future business tycoons, for those looking for robust religious options, for those just hoping to meet another Jewish student for the first time.

Hillel International

Hillel is at colleges, universities and in communities around the world range from those that serve thousands of Jewish students, through a full complement of leadership and resources, to those that are smaller, either led by campus professionals or students with support from an advisor.

Jewish Teen Initiative Boston

JewishBostonTeens.com is Greater Boston’s online resource for teens, their families and the Jewish professionals who work with them. This website connects teens to our community’s vast menu of nationally-recognized programming and opportunities and supports professionals with resources and opportunities.

Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus

The OU’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (OU-JLIC) helps young men and women thrive and observe key aspects of Jewish life in secular campus environments across the United States, Canada and Israel.

Jewish Teen Initiative

Are your high school or college plans changing? There are many exciting directions you can take your Jewish journey this year—virtually, in the U.S. and in Israel! Use this guide to learn about many of the available programs, as well as other resources available.

Masa Israel Journey

Masa is the Hebrew word for journey. Masa Israel Journey is the leader in immersive international experiences in Israel for young adults, ages 16-35. We offer authentic and life-changing journeys through Israeli society, culture, politics, and history.

Yachad Gap Year

Yachad Gap Year gives you the opportunity to have the ultimate immersion experience in Israel, by living, studying and volunteering in Israeli mechina programs with Israelis your age.

Hillel

Jewish Scholarships Portal by Hillel International is your one-stop shop for hundreds of scholarships for Jewish students!

America’s Pro-Israel Lobby (AIPAC)

AIPAC aims to engage with and educate politicians on how it is in the US government’s best interest to strengthen the bonds between the US and Israel and to “help ensure that the Jewish state remains safe, strong and secure” through promoting a pro-Israel, anti-terrorist, two-state solution political agenda.

Aish on Campus

Aish works to engage and educate today’s young Jewish adults in order that they live inspired Jewish lives, making active positive contributions to Jewish communities. They provide a variety of opportunities for students to meet like-minded young Jews, to gain greater Jewish knowledge and to form lasting relationships with Jewish mentors and role models.

Akiva

Akiva offers the Classic trip to Israel, Pre-War Jewry and historical trip to Poland, and deepen your Judaism while exploring NYC for ages 18-30.

Academy of Life Training (ALT)

ALT’s goal is to provide college students or recent college graduates with an internship in Israel combined with a deeper exploration of Israel.

ALUMS for Campus Fairness

Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF) harnesses the unique power of alumni to counter antisemitism, including demonization of Israel and other forms of bigotry at universities. In the face of unprecedented attacks on Jewish and Zionist students, staff and faculty, ACF’s network acts to address acts of antisemitism on campus and ensure that universities remain pillars of truth and academic freedom. ACF members proactively engage with the administration at their alma maters to prevent discrimination, promote open dialogue, and foster respectful debate. ACF accomplishes its goals through educational, advocacy and outreach activities. Alumni are kept informed through webinars and local chapter engagement and are empowered to spread their message through media and digital campaigns, and to speak directly with university leaders. With many chapters across the United States and thousands of alumni, ACF sends a clear message that there is no place for hate on campus.

Birthright Israel

Birthright is a non-profit educational organization that sponsors free ten-day heritage trips to Israel for young adults (ages 18-32) grounded in deepening one’s connection to the land and people of Israel.

Camera on Campus

Camera founded in 1982 serves as the leading media monitoring, organization ensuring accurate and balanced reporting of activities happening in Israel and the middle east. Camera on campus provides assistance to students that includes guidance in finding and connecting with speakers, films, planning and creating events, funding for student groups, and addressing Middle East distortions in campus publications, fliers, rallies, and classroom teaching. Camera encourages Jews and non-Jews to understand that strong Zionist’s do not have to be Jewish.

Challah for Hunger

Nazun develops leaders and builds communities of people eager to take action to end campus hunger, and to work collectively to solve other urgent social challenges. Through Nazun’s program, student leaders address the issue of food insecurity on a campus, state, and national level through their three pillars of philanthropy, advocacy, and community building.

Chabad on Campus

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement is spreading a culture of community, kindness and enlightenment. With homes on more than 260 campuses worldwide Jewish students can chill and connect. The Chasidic-run houses nurture social, educational and spiritual enlightenment. No judgment, just joy.

Hasbara Fellowships

Hasbara Fellowships is a leading pro-Israel advocacy organization working with over 95 universities across North America. Hasbara Fellowships brings hundreds of students to Israel every summer and winter, giving them the information and tools to return to their campuses as educators about Israel.

Hillel International

Hillel is a pluralistic welcoming community that helps people find Jewish connection through social action, Israeli policy, participating in services, attending Shabbat dinners or Passover Seders. Students can meet and interact with other Jewish students locally and from around the world through a variety of online and in person opportunities.

IfNotNow

IfNotNow is a pro BDS supporter and a progressive movement of Jewish activists trying to end Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

NOTE: Pro BDS
(A Palestinian-led movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel)

Israel on Campus Coalition

Israel on Campus Coalition is designed to inspire American college students to see Israel as a source of pride and empower them to stand up for Israel on campus by uniting the many pro-Israel campus organizations in different ways.

itrek

Itrek is a nonprofit that helps and guides graduate students and faculty at top universities in leading their peers in a 7-10 day trip to Israel focused on developing leadership skills and a deeper understanding of Israel.

Jewish Voice for Peace

Jewish Voice for Peace is a pro BDS supporter and views itself as the “Jewish wing” of the Palestinian solidarity movement and seeks to “end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.

NOTE: Pro BDS
(A Palestinian-led movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel)

Jewish Heritage Program

The goal of JHP is to engage with and energize individuals not normally involved in Jewish communal activities, through peer-to-peer progamming, participate in activities that celebrate Jewish pride and tradition and helps individuals understand their own ability to have an impact in making the world a better place.

Maccabee Task Force

Macabees Task Force was founded in 2015 specifically to combat anti-Semitism/anti-Zionism targeted at those that support the BDS movement. They educate students on the history and on the tactics to respond.

Masa Israel Journey

Masa is the Hebrew word for journey. Masa Israel Journey is an immersive experiences for young Jews (18-30), lasting 4-12 months. It offers authentic and life-changing journeys of Israeli society, culture, politics and history through study, volunteer, and career development programs.

New Voices

Published since 1991, New Voices is the official magazine of the Jewish Student Press Service, the only Jewish and justice-focused magazine by and for Jews ages 18-24.

Onward Israel

Develop your professional future and build your resume this summer with a high-level internship in the field of your choice in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, or Haifa. This custom internship program places you in a work place based on your skills, interests and future plans. Each week features a day trip devoted to learning about Israeli society.

Religious Action Center

For over 60 years, the Religious Action Center (RAC) of Reform Judaism has been the central address to educate, advocate and mobilize the Jewish community on a myriad of issues: Disability, Economic justice, Healthcare, Immigration, Women’s Rights, Gun Violence, LGBTQ+, AntiSemitism and Hate Crimes and more. They offer leadership opportunities for students to develop their skills as young leaders to go on and help advocate for fairness and combat injustices in the world.

StandWithUs

StandWithUs is an international organization that educates people of all ages on the challenges of antisemitism and anti-zionism. They provides workshops, fellowships and campus programs to help students be more informed on how to be better advocates for Israel and the Jewish people.

Student Alliance for Israel

Student Alliance for Israel is a grassroots organization that reflects the diversity of Israel and the Jewish people, and of their allies. They prepare their national membership base to engage Israel’s detractors face to face to expose their lies and to educate supporters of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) campaign about the Jewish peoples’ indigenous roots and their right to self-determination in Israel.

Students for Justice in Palestine

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a network of pro-Palestinian student groups which disseminate anti-Israel propaganda often laced with inflammatory and at times combative rhetoric. They are a leading campus organizer of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel, and specialize in using confrontational tactics such as disrupting student-run pro-Israel events, and constructing mock “apartheid walls” and distributing fake “eviction notices” to dramatize what they consider Israeli abuses of Palestinians. As proponents of “anti-normalization” between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel advocates, they make it more difficult for groups with diverging views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to work together and achieve mutual understanding.

NOTE: Pro BDS
(A Palestinian-led movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel)

Students Supporting Israel

Students Supporting Israel is an independent, nonpartisan, grassroots campus movement that was created by students, for students, in order to organize a strong and united pro-Israel front on college campuses. Made up of students from different political, religious, and ethnic backgrounds, all working together as Students Supporting Israel, it provides students on college campuses and universities with the opportunity to support the position of Israel in the Middle East, and to reassure students who opposed the demonization of the State of Israel on campus that they are not alone.

Tamid Group

TAMID is an organization that connects college students to Israel through business. It is apolitical and areligious and has chapters on 60 college campuses globally, with over 3,000 students engaged in those chapters. TAMID Group’s program is designed to offer experiential business learning. Beginning with an interactive classroom curriculum, the program soon progresses to give members hands-on experience with companies in the heart of the startup nation. TAMID offers students something they want for themselves: an opportunity to build an incredible career. Students join TAMID and have the opportunity to consult for Israeli companies, intern in Israel over the summer, and meet lifelong friends who share their values. Most importantly, students who join TAMID leave with more knowledge of and a stronger connection to Israel.