Final Project (Samantha Ebner)

                                       

UMD's Hillel is located right off campus on 7612 Mowatt Lane, April 25, 2022. 

Freshmen Elie Lowenstein and Eytan Pomper wear their Tefillin, a leather box on their heads and strap on their arms, while praying at the Bima, podium, while freshman Nili Lang prays on the women's side of the mechitza, or separation, in the Hillel, April 11, 2022.

Subsequent to the reading of the Torah, which was recited on the men's side, junior Rachel Palatinsky carried it through the women's side with sophomore Meira Kidorf behind her in the Hillel, April 11, 2022.

Junior Tani Levensohn wears tzitzit, which resembles tassels, on his waist as he learns Talmud in the Beit Midrash, or Jewish learning room in the Hillel, April 25, 2022. 

Jewish Life on Campus educator Rikki Lehman learns Chovas HaTalmidim, a book about teaching kids the importance of upholding Jewish values, with freshman Rebecca Adler in the dining room in the Hillel, February 8, 2022.

Freshman Tamar Fineberg recites the afternoon prayer, Mincha, in her dorm room in Worcester Hall, February 3, 2022.

Jewish students sit with friends in the Hillel during lunch, April 29, 2022.  

Freshman Ori Amiel eats special Jewish bread called Challah in the Hillel lobby, April 29, 2022.  

Freshman Elie Lowenstein wears his Kippah, a cap made of cloth, while he eats lunch in the Hillel, May 2, 2022.

The Hillel dining room upholds Kosher by having separate tables for meat and dairy, April 25, 2022.

Hillel worker Fivel Cohen makes rice stir-fry for dinner, April 27, 2022.

Freshman Yonina Semer says "Grace After Meals", known as Bracha Achrona, after finishing her lunch in the Hillel, March 16, 2022.

The Hillel has a snack pantry of Kosher foods in the lobby, marking which foods are dairy (which cannot be eaten after one eats meat) or pareve (which can be eaten after any food), May 3, 2022.

Freshmen Orrin Berkeley and Bayli Alter and junior Zev Roberts use the lobby of the Hillel to do work, May 2, 2022.

Freshmen Abigail Cohn, Gilly, Fried and Yonina Semer enter the Hillel smiling, March 7, 2022.

Freshmen Micah Cohen, Rebecca Adler and Emily Dennis are spotted outside of Tydings Hall because of Cohen's Kippah, March 7, 2022. 

Freshmen Alex Zucker and Micah Cohen wear their Kippahs as they walk through Preinkert Drive, March 8, 2022.

Freshmen Yonina Semer and Micaela Thau walk to the Hillel in their skirts, upholding the Jewish idea of Tzniut, or modesty, April 1, 2022.