Student Organizations

Yale Hillel
Yale Hillel is an undergraduate organization for the Jewish community at Yale. Located at The Slifka Center on 80 Wall Street, we offer programming, opportunities, and a strong community to anyone who wants to get involved. We encourage students to identify with their Judaism in many different ways, from religious life to social events. Take a look around the Slifka Center Website and the Hillel page for more information about what we do, or come visit us!
 

Welcome to Yale’s Jewish graduate and professional community! Whether you’re new to campus or have returned to Yale to continue your studies, we look forward to seeing you at JGAP events throughout the 2012-2013 academic year. Please sign up for our 2012-2013 electronic mailing list. 

 

YIHY is the student organization responsible for Orthodox student life on campus. We provide support, programming, and learning opportunities to the observant community, as well as reaching out to the greater Jewish population at Yale.

 

Affiliated student organizations are undergraduate groups whose activities and initiatives share common goals with those of Slifka Center. These groups are not organized or administered by Slifka and determine their leadership independently. However, they often participate in and collaborate on Slifka Center programming.

 

AEPhi is Yale’s Jewish  sorority. We want to create an entirely new social scene at Yale for the culturally Jewish girl, or for anyone that loves to hang out, eat matzah ball soup, and kvetch. Email lian.zucker@yale.edu for more information.

 

Yale’s only Jewish fraternity, AEPi is located on 395 Crown St. The perfect place to find a social scene, AEPi prides itself on being the classiest fraternity on campus. We are culturally Jewish, and try to incorporate those values into everything we do. Popular events include the weekly Dinner & Torah on Thursday nights at Slifka, multiple campus-wide parties such as Gin & Jews, and Shabbat dinners at the house. Interested students can rush at the beginning of each semester. For more information, check out our website. 

 

Challah for Hunger
Challah for Hunger is a nationwide non-profit that bakes and sells challah to raise money for charity. At Yale’s chapter, we mix, braid, and bake everything ourselves in Slifka’s Kosher Kitchen on Wednesday nights and we sell on Thursdays in Commons. All proceeds benefit the American Jewish World Service’s Sudan Relief and Advocacy Fund and New Haven Jewish Family Services.

 

Fiat Lux is the new journal of religion at Yale. We publish personal reflections, book reviews, interviews, academic papers, and more. We dine and discuss religion or religious journalism every Wednesday night with guest speakers. Around the publication of our journal and our regular meetings, we seek to establish a conversation about the fact of religious pluralism and how this pluralism might develop further. We hope to use Yale as a microcosm, a starting point for understanding the complex relationship among religions and among religious people in America and the world today. Visit our website.

 

 

Hunger Heroes
Slifka is the Sunday location for DESK, the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen of New Haven. On Fridays and Sundays, the soup kitchen is staffed by volunteers from Hunger Heroes, the student branch of DESK. Come volunteer with Hunger Heroes!

 

Jews and Muslims at Yale
Jews and Muslims at Yale (JAM) seeks to establish a safe space and forum to facilitate dialogue on issues between Jewish and Muslim communities. By establishing a base of friendships and strong relationships, JAM endeavors to break down barriers and create new perspectives on present conflicts. JAM works proactively to resolve tension on campus and in the wider community, to address hot topics, and to prevent future conflict. Finally, JAM attempts to also educate on Judaism, Islam, points of friction between Jews and Muslims, and the technique of dialogue so as to empower others to work constructively on similar issues.

 

Jews for Justice
Jews for Justice is a pluralistic community of Jews united by a commitment to pursuing social and economic justice at Yale, in New Haven, across America, and around the world. As a group, we are committed to exploring our Jewish identities and the role of Judaism in our lives through creative ritual and learning, and we are equally committed to infusing our lives with social justice through reflection and action. When we gather, we share good food, powerful song, and thoughtful conversation..

 

Magevet
Magevet is a Jewish, Hebrew, and Israeli a cappella group from Yale University. All of its members are undergrads devoted to spreading beautiful music of the Jewish tradition to the far corners of the globe. Magevet was founded in the spring of 1993 (allegedly by a bunch of Orthodox men singing in a sauna), and has since then entertained audiences the world over with its delightful music and spunky schtick. The Magevet repertoire is extremely diverse, spanning from liturgical Renaissance arrangements to the folk melodies of the Abayudaya tribe – and everything in-between. Most of our music has been arranged by current or former members of the group, and our performances always include a combination of old and new, near and far, and more than a modicum of humor!

 

Magevet regularly travels nationally and internationally. We undertake two major tours and numerous minitours per year. Recently, our major tours have brought us to Prague, Berlin, Florida, Chicago, Las Vegas, Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris, London, San Francisco and New Orleans, and our minitours reach out to local areas from Boston to Philadelphia. Our members run the gamut in religious background and area of study, but we are united by a singular passion for our music, and this enables us to achieve a supreme harmony, both musically and socially.

 

For more information visit the Magevet website. 

 

 

STAND
Yale STAND is an undergraduate student organization at Yale University dedicated to ending and preventing genocide and related conflicts around the world. As one of many STAND groups at high schools and colleges around the country, we are a part of the growing movement to establish a permanent coalition against genocide. We strive to assist those suffering as a result of ongoing conflicts and to pursue political and social policies that prevent them from occurring in the first place.

 

Yale Friends of Israel
Yale Friends of Israel (YFI) is the umbrella organization that coordinates and plans Israel-related programming at Yale. YFI is dedicated to supporting Israel as a Jewish democratic state, secure in her borders. We seek to promote an appreciation of Israel on campus through cultural, political, and educational programming. Visit us at www.yale.edu/yfi.

 

Yale Klezmer Band
Yale Klezmer Band brings the joyous, rousing sounds of klezmer to the halls of Yale, to its Hillel as well as to anyone who likes energized dance music. See us at www.yale.edu/klezmer. 

 

Yale Israel Journal
The YIJ explores the cultural, political and historical issues concerning Israel. The journal includes work from academics and students. Visit us at www.yaleisraeljournal.com.