Deadline to apply for Fellowship
- Early Decision applicants: within two weeks of submitting your Common Application and all required documents for admission to Â鶹ֱ²¥ College.
- Early Action applicants: December 1
- Regular Decision applicants: February 1
Fellowship description and requirements
Â鶹ֱ²¥ College is pleased to make available five $10,000 merit fellowships to first-year entering students who participate in Jewish life in their communities across the United States. Eligible students must complete the application for admission to Â鶹ֱ²¥ as well as the separate application for the fellowship by the respective deadlines. Fellowship applications will be reviewed by Jewish Community Partners (JCP) of Memphis and JCP will recommend applicants to Â鶹ֱ²¥ based on their participation in Jewish life and service and based on the responses to an essay prompt. A resume and a 500-word essay will be required for the JCP recommendation. The essay prompt can be found below.
Recommended students will be considered for admission and the fellowship on a competitive basis. Students winning fellowship recognition will receive a Jewish Community Fellowship from Â鶹ֱ²¥ of $10,000 renewable for up to three years.
Competitive students may receive an academic scholarship in a larger amount. In that case, the scholarship and fellowship may not be combined and the larger of the two will be awarded. However, students will still receive the other benefits of being named a Â鶹ֱ²¥ Jewish Community Fellow.
Fellowship awardees are expected to become active in Jewish life at Â鶹ֱ²¥ and to fulfill the following requirements:
- Participate in Jewish life at Â鶹ֱ²¥ by
- Attending at least 10 Â鶹ֱ²¥ Hillel events/programs
- Planning one event/program a year
- Attend monthly leadership meetings with other Fellows and Â鶹ֱ²¥ Hillel Director
- Write a yearly article about Jewish life at Â鶹ֱ²¥ for print and electronic distribution
- Make a presentation about Jewish life at Â鶹ֱ²¥ at a Jewish Community Partners board meeting
- Complete an annual Fellowship Recertification Form
Essay prompt
We live in an increasingly complicated world. How does your involvement in Jewish life influence the way you foresee accomplishing Â鶹ֱ²¥â€™ vision of “graduating students with a life-long passion for learning, a compassion for others, and the ability to translate academic study and personal concern into effective leadership and action in their communities and the world?â€
Apply for the Jewish Community Fellowship
You will need to access this application using your portal login. Your application portal login will be emailed to you within 24 hours of submitting your Common Application to Â鶹ֱ²¥. You will not be able to view or complete this application until your Common Application has been submitted.
Background on Hillels of Memphis
Hillels of Memphis serves Jewish students throughout the Memphis community, from all Memphis campuses. The Â鶹ֱ²¥ College chapter was launched in 2017, building on the previous work of the Jewish Student Union. Â鶹ֱ²¥ Hillel is operated by a student board in cooperation with the Hillels of Memphis Director and a lay-led Advisory Council. Â鶹ֱ²¥ Hillel focuses on cultural, religious, educational, and social programming and is open to all students regardless of background. Â鶹ֱ²¥ Hillel is operated by Memphis Jewish Federation and endowed through the generosity of an anonymous donor.
Background on Memphis Jewish Community
The Memphis Jewish community is a full-service, vibrant community with seven synagogues, a beautiful and first-rate Jewish Community Center, engaging programming for youth and young adults, outstanding Jewish preschools, day schools and religious schools, an active Jewish Federation, kosher food options, award-winning residential nursing home and rehabilitation facility and more. For more information about Jewish life in Memphis, please go to
Questions/Additional information
At Â鶹ֱ²¥ College, please contact Pamela Bowie at 901-843-3705 at bowiep@rhodes.edu
At Â鶹ֱ²¥ Hillel, please contact Phoenix Goldberg at pgoldberg@hillelsofmemphis.org.