Who We Are
Where We Are

Yes, we have a house, but Hillel is not a building, it is a community of students and staff playing and working together to create a warm and lively environment where Jewish students of all backgrounds - religious and secular - feel at home and included. The Grinspoon Hillel House provides a center for this Jewish life on campus.  So, whether you're interested in social events, community service, religious services, the arts - Hillel has it all. Recognized internationally as a leader in creative campus programming, UMass Hillel is the only campus Hillel in the world to win the William Haber Award for outstanding programming six times!

We invite you to come and see what Hillel at UMass is all about and what it has for you!

Opportunities for you include:
• Social events – BBQ’s, coffeehouses, hikes and sports - Check out the calendar.
• Community service – locally and in New Orleans, Uruguay, and Israel
• Israel – last year Hillel took 143 students to Israel on UMass group trips
• Shabbat and holiday services and meals (reform, conservative, and orthodox)
• Courses on Jewish cooking, social issues, everyday Hebrew, Bible, Talmud, etc.
• Residence in Hillel’s Jewish Living and Learning Community
• Information about jobs, scholarships, travel, study, careers
And much more…  

Hillel House offers many helpful resources: library, free WiFi, kosher kitchen & dining room, lounges and study areas, conference room, the Max Goldberg Jewish Living and Learning Community housing up to 26 students on the third floor, along with the most important resource of all, our great staff.

The PVTA bus stop is half a block away. If you drive to the Hillel House please use the metered public parking behind the Robsham Visitors Center.

Address: 388 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts, 01002 (google map)
Hours: Monday - Thursday, 9am-4:30; Friday 9am-2pm
Phone: 413-549-1710
Fax: 413-549-0329
Email: info@umasshillel.org
Web: www.umasshillel.org  

Campus Map

DIRECTIONS
From Boston: Take Mass Pike (I-90) W, take exit for 91 (exit 3) Take 91 N to exit 19 (Amherst/Northampton) Make a right off the ramp, go over the bridge onto Rt. 9. You will continue for a few miles, made a left onto Rt. 116N (towards Sunderland). Take the first exit for UMass. Drive straight through the campus, pass the visitor's Center. The road will curve to the right, take the first right after the light onto Phillips St.

From New York Take Mass Pike (I 90) E. Take exit for I 91. Take 91 North to exit 19 (Amherst/Northampton) Make a right off the ramp onto Rt. 9. You will continue for a few miles, make a left onto Rt. 116 (towards Sunderland) Take the first exit for UMass. Drive straight through the campus. Pass the visitor's Center. The road will curve to the right, take the first right after the light onto Phillips St.