{"id":54,"date":"2023-08-19T01:19:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T01:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.com\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:59:34","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div class=\"x-section e54-e1 m1i-0\"><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e54-e2 m1i-1 m1i-2\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e54-e3 m1i-3\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e54-e4 m1i-4\"><p><!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\",\"fontSize\":\"medium\"} --><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">Hillel at SMU is your Jewish home away from home, a group for meaningful relationships, joyful Jewish celebrations, deep conversations, service, learning, and fun activities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"className\":\"is-style-default\"} --><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/President-Posed-Hug-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-232 size-large\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/President-Posed-Hug-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/President-Posed-Hug-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/President-Posed-Hug-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/President-Posed-Hug-1536x1025.png 1536w, https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/President-Posed-Hug-2048x1366.png 2048w, https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/President-Posed-Hug-100x67.png 100w, https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/President-Posed-Hug-1200x801.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\",\"fontSize\":\"medium\"} --><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">Under the leadership of our Executive Director, Rabbi Heidi Coretz, our Director of Jewish Student Life, Ali Vogel, our Student Board and our Advisory Board, Hillel at SMU is a thriving organization serving a population of over five hundred Jewish students at SMU. Some regular programs we offer include Boulevarding, the Jewish Learning Fellowship, Bagel Mondays, Shabbat dinners, and Jewish holiday celebrations. Through our sacred work on campus, we endeavor to make a difference in the lives of our members as they strengthen the Jewish people and work to change the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"className\":\"is-style-default\"} --><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-11-at-9.55.37-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1060\" height=\"524\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-11-at-9.55.37-PM.png 1060w, https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-11-at-9.55.37-PM-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-11-at-9.55.37-PM-1024x506.png 1024w, https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-11-at-9.55.37-PM-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-11-at-9.55.37-PM-100x49.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\",\"fontSize\":\"medium\"} --><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">Our 501(c)3 is responsible for raising all of our funds each year. Hillel at SMU is proudly supported by the <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishdallas.org\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none;\">Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas<\/a><\/span>, our Advisory Board, and other local foundations and donors, as well as our parents, alumni, students, and friends. We are so grateful to all who make this possible, as we proudly partner to continue to build the growing Jewish community at SMU. Pony up!<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillel at SMU is your Jewish home away from home, a group for meaningful relationships, joyful Jewish celebrations, deep conversations, service, learning, and fun activities. Under the leadership of our Executive Director, Rabbi Heidi Coretz, our Director of Jewish Student Life, Ali Vogel, our Student Board and our Advisory Board, Hillel at SMU is a thriving organization serving a population &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-blank-4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillelatsmu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}