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Welcome to Rice Hillel

About Rice Hillel

As Rice University’s only inclusive, egalitarian and pluralistic Jewish campus organization, we provide a place of belonging for LGBTQ+ students, those from interfaith backgrounds, and everyone's Jew-adjacent friends.

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We've been at Rice since 1940. Interested in our history?

Check out the Hillel Scrapbooks in Rice's Woodson Center.

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Rice Hillel Staff

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Kenny Weiss

Rabbi & Executive Director

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Ulrika Shragge

Assistant Director

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Shayna Ellsworth

Springboard Fellow

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Rotem Tertman

Israel Fellow

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Anna Ashburn

JFS Counselor

​Rice Hillel enriches the lives of Jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich

the Rice University community, the Jewish people and the world. 

 

Rice Hillel is part of Houston Hillel, a multi-campus Hillel Foundation that engages undergraduates, graduate students, and young professionals throughout Southeast Texas.

 

Houston Hillel, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation, is a partner agency of the 

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston and appreciates the generosity of its many donors.

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Thank you to the Rice chapter of REM on Campus for the research and design of our website.

Rice Hillel
Ida & William Zinn Building - Closed for renovation
1700 Bissonnet     Houston TX 77005
713-526-4918     hillel@ricehillel.org     Map

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