Students
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Harvard Chabad: the soul of Jewish life on campus, serves as a home away from home for thousands of students on the Harvard campus. At Chabad you will experience family warmth, a lively social scene, Jewish ideas and values, and the best food on campus! Rabbi Hirschy and Elkie Zarchi, together with Chabad’s amazing student leaders, bring innovative programs to campus in the welcoming spirit of Chabad, where all feel right at home regardless of background or degree of observance.
Harvard Chabad has set a new standard for student programming and transformed the Jewish experience for undergraduate and graduate students on a university campus. Thousands of students have had their connection to Judaism deepened through the work of Harvard Chabad.
Rabbi Hirschy and Elkie are always available to meet with students to discuss personal, religious and philosophical matters or just to chat over a cup of coffee.
We hope you’ll visit soon!
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Undergraduate Students
A Menorah shining brightly in Harvard Yard, latkes and lively Jewish music in the Hong Kong, ABSOLUT Purim party at the Harvard Crimson – students celebrating Jewish life at Harvard!
These are just some of the programs sponsored by Chabad raising Jewish consciousness and pride throughout the Harvard campus.
We invite you to join us at Harvard Chabad — a warm and elegant space that will serve as your home away from home.
Relax in our lounge, enjoy Kosher Chinese dinner, BBQ in the courtyard, explore, experience, or just chill. And of course, meet new and old friends from every niche of the Harvard campus at Chabad’s centerpiece program, Friday Night Live: Shabbat Dinner.
We’d love your input, suggestions, and leadership involvement. Together, let’s create a vibrant, inclusive and welcoming Jewish community and keep the flame of Judaism shining brightly on the Harvard campus and beyond.
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Graduate Students
Harvard Chabad has created one of the most dynamic and successful graduate student programs in the Jewish world.
At Harvard Chabad one will find an amazing and rare social hub for an international array of law, business, government, and graduate school students in the faculty of arts and sciences.
Chabad works in partnership with the Jewish student groups on the respective graduate and professional schools to create educational and social events to build a vibrant and inclusive Jewish community.
We invite you to join us and visit for a warm and elegant space to explore, experience, or just kick back.
Lookout for our signature events serving graduate students:
HLS Shabbat – Wasserstein Hall, HBS Shabbat – Spangler Center, HKS Shabbat Dinner, HMS Shabbat Dinner in Longwood, Lunch ‘N Learns, Jewish Business Network, The Jewish Leaders Forum, Bagels, Lox, and Megillah.
We’d love your feedback and invite you to partner with us in enhancing individual and communal Jewish life at Harvard. Together, let’s keep the flame of Judaism shining brightly in the Harvard community and beyond.
Admitted Students
Allow us to be among the first to welcome you to Harvard and wish you a huge mazel tov on your acceptance!
Harvard Chabad is here to help you learn about the Jewish student experience at Harvard, share opportunities to get involved before and when you get to Cambridge, and provide connections for new Jewish students and their parents to meet each other.
Above all, we want to get to know you and be a resource to you throughout your time at Harvard especially as a first-year student!
We invite you to browse our site and familiarize yourself with the many programs and services of Harvard Chabad.
Leaving home is exciting, but it can be scary too. It doesn’t have to be. Not when you know you have Chabad waiting for you on the other side with its doors and heart wide open!
Chabad offers a compelling, rich, and meaningful Jewish experience to all. We invite you to visit and spend a Shabbat at Harvard Chabad to experience it yourself.
Please contact us if you have any questions or for more information.
Please click here for Visitas Schedule and Class of 2029 WhatsApp groups.
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Prospective Students
Considering Harvard?
Choosing a campus is an important decision that will have a huge impact on your future. To help you make your decision we invite you to browse our site and familiarize yourself with the many programs and services of Harvard Chabad.
Leaving home is exciting, but it can be scary too. It doesn’t have to be. Not when you know you have Chabad waiting for you on the other side with its doors and heart wide open.
Chabad offers a compelling, rich, and meaningful Jewish experience to all. We invite you to visit and spend a Shabbat at Harvard Chabad to experience it yourself.
Please contact us if you have any questions or for more information.
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Welcome to Campus!
Summer Students
Will you be spending your summer in Cambridge?
There’s a wonderful community at Harvard Chabad throughout the summer! The community includes Harvard undergraduate and graduate students who stay in town for internships, research, and summer courses. In addition, there are visiting college and high school students attending Harvard’s summer programs, and other interns and young professionals.
We are open for Shabbat services and meals throughout the summer, and host various other educational and social programs throughout the week. You are always welcome to join.
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