Hillel House

Hillel House

Hillel House is an establishment run by the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) to allow any Jewish student to study across the UK without compromising his or her religion (kitchens will be kept kosher for instance). It is effectively a hall of residence.

Hillel House was named for the esteemed first-century rabbi Hillel the Elder.

Hillel Houses in the United Kingdom

As of March 2007, there are official Hillel Houses in the cities of Birmingham, Bournemouth, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield and York.

Hillel House in Manchester

The Hillel House in Manchester, which used to be located in converted terraced-house accommodation in Grafton Street, Rusholme, and is now in purpose-built premises in Greenheys Lane, Hulme, has recently been renovated and is now a state-of-the-art residence for anyone wishing to study in the local universities (including Manchester University, UMIST and the Metropolitan University of Manchester (formerly manchester Polytechnic. It serves as the meeting place and headquarters of the local Jewish Society and Israel Society.

External links

* [http://www.kosherdelight.com/UnitedKingdomHillel.shtml List of official Hillel Houses and affiliated establishments in the UK]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Hillel Poisic — Rabbi Hillel Poisic (15.1.1881 Zlatopol, Ukraine – 1953 Tel Aviv, Israel) was a communal worker and Torah scholar. He was an expert in releasing agunot from their husbands, who abandoned them without divorce.The Poisic (also Poisik, Posek,… …   Wikipedia

  • Hillel and Shammai — were two great rabbis of the early first century. They each founded a major school of Jewish thought, respectively known as the House of Hillel and House of Shammai , and they and their schools had ongoing debates on matters of ritual practice.… …   Wikipedia

  • HILLEL — (the Elder; end of first century B.C.E. and beginning of first century C.E.), considered one of the fathers of the world (Eduy. 1:4; Tosef. Eduy. 1:3) who laid the foundations for the spiritual and intellectual movement of the tannaitic period.… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Hillel the Elder — Hillel (הלל) (born Babylon traditionally c.110BCE 10CE [ [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=730 letter=H Jewish Encyclopedia: Hillel] : His activity of forty years is perhaps historical; and since it began, according to a… …   Wikipedia

  • HILLEL — (third century C.E.), scholar. Hillel was the son of gamaliel iii and the grandson of judah ha nasi , to whom it would seem in his youth he put halakhic queries (BB 83b). He was the younger brother of judah nesiah . He is mentioned as having paid …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Hillel Yaffe — (1864 1936, Hebrew: הלל יפה) was a doctor who immigrated to Israel during the First Aliyah. His notable achievements include fighting malaria and participating in the Hovevei Zion movement. The Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera is named after …   Wikipedia

  • Hillel Kook — MKs Date of birth = 24 July 1915 Year of Aliyah = 1924 Date of death = 18 August 2001 Knesset(s) = 1st Party = None (Independent) Former parties = Herut Gov t roles = Hillel Kook ( he. הלל קוק, born 24 July 1915, died 18 August 2001), also known… …   Wikipedia

  • Hillel — /hil el, ayl, euhl, hi layl /; Seph. Heb. /hee lel /, n. ( ha Zaken ) c60 B.C. A.D. 9?, Palestinian rabbi, president of the Sanhedrin and interpreter of Biblical law: first to formulate definitive hermeneutic principles. Cf. Beth Hillel. * * *… …   Universalium

  • House of Shammai — The House of Shammai (or Beit Shammai , beit is Hebrew for house) was the school of thought of Judaism founded by Shammai, a Jewish scholar of the 1st century. A non literal translation that perhaps gives a better flavour of the expression would… …   Wikipedia

  • House of Hillel — The House of Hillel ( he. בית הלל, Beit Hillel ), also known as the Academy of Hillel, founded by the famed Hillel the Elder, is a school of Jewish law and thought that thrived in first century Jerusalem. The House of Hillel is most widely known… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”