Welcome to SF Hillel!

We provide inclusive, innovative, and fun Jewish experiences and programs for college students across San Francisco. With active communities at SF State, USF, UC Hastings, and UCSF, SF Hillel helps students of all backgrounds cultivate connection, make meaning, pursue justice, and meet their basic needs as they author their adult identities and launch careers.

• Cultivating Connection
• Making Meaning
• Pursuing Justice
• Meeting Basic Needs

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Cultivating Connection

Connect with our professional team or check out our upcoming events to connect with our vibrant community! And make sure you're subscribed to our newsletters to stay up to date each week with the latest events, job/internship opportunities, free food on campus, holiday celebrations, & so much more!

Making Meaning

SF Hillel is here to help you make Jewish wisdom relevant to your everyday life, however that looks to you! Our weekly Shabbat dinners give you the opportunity to learn centuries-old grounding rituals while connecting with other Jewish students from across the city.

​Our Design Tribe fellows in the Meaning Makers track are passionate about making and marking sacred time, bringing wisdom and relevance into their peers’ lives.

Pursuing Justice

We are here to be your partners in your pursuit of justice and tikun olam, our shared value for repairing the world. Check out these opportunities to volunteer or email us with new opportunities to share!

• Jewish Family & Children Services is looking for volunteers to call high-risk seniors during the COVID-19 outbreak.
  • ​Or volunteer more broadly by filling out the JFCS volunteer form.​
• Support Gift of Life by requesting a kit and swabbing yourself at home.​
• Help with COVID-19 by volunteering remotely or on-site through Volunteer Match in your city.
• Find COVID-19 related volunteer projects near you with Israel Action Committee CARE.
• Read and give feedback on poetry from current incarcerated persons through Free Minds.
• Volunteer with other college students in food distribution to vulnerable populations (with a strict hygiene protocol).
• Donate SF's Coalition On Homelessness to help our unhoused neighbors move into vacant hotels.

Below is a compilation of wellness resources, counseling services, COVID-19 specific resources, and campus-specific resources.

Do you know of a resource we missed? Please email us.

Need Help Now?

Text “HOME” to 741-741 for the Crisis Text Line
Text “START” to 678-678 for The Trevor Project LGBTQ support
Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273- TALK (8255) for free, confidential 24/7 support
For more services click here. 

Wellness Resources

Free online resources:

• Wellness Check In
• Interactive Self Care Guide​​
• Read one of the pages from At The Well's book, "Holy Bodies", to get in touch with your inner self
• Try cooking with these recipes: Shakshuka, Hummus, Israeli Chocolate Balls, and Tehina Cookies
• Create a Vision Board
• Check out these online libraries and archives turned into coloring books
• Print out or color online with these adult coloring pages 
• Take a virtual tour of some of the most prestigious art museums around the world
• Feeling stuck? Use Shabbat as a way to get moving. Try doing a movement Shabbat! 

COVID-19 Resources

• The Basic Needs initiative at SFSU is still supporting SFSU students with food, financial services, and other basic needs
• Find your local food bank
• ​​Information regarding student loans and COVID-19
• Learn about CalFresh eligibility
• Information regarding Unemployment Insurance and COVID-19
• Mock letter to landlord for rent relief
• Free online counseling resources for families
• JFCS services during COVID-19
• Tikkun Olam Makers - COVID-19 call to action
  • ​​Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM) is a global movement of communities that creates and disseminates affordable solutions to neglected challenges of people living with disabilities, the elderly and the poor. They currently have an open call for projects related to face masks and shields, hygiene supplies, and respirators and ventilators. If you have an idea, the skills, or the tools to potentially help with one of the above projects (even on a small scale), sign up - you could help at least one person overcome the coronavirus.

SFSU Hope Crisis Fund

The HOPE Crisis Fund provides students at San Francisco State University who are experiencing crisis beyond their control with emergency funding that meets their immediate needs and allows them to continue their studies and graduate. In response to COVID-19, the HOPE Crisis Fund is now focused on giving students in need support to complete the current semester.

USF Dons @ Home

Keep connected and find inspiration in the Dons community.

Check out Hillel International's ​Hillel @ Home portal for even more online gatherings & programs!