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HILLEL COLLEGE ENGAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Celebrates 10 Years BY MARISSA STERN
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Just around the corner from Hopkins Hillel in Baltimore is a coffee shop that feels out of a different place and time. You might walk right past Carma Cafe’s subterranean St. Paul Street entrance if it were not for the 10-foot-tall old-fashioned lamp post and the cope of twinkling white lights stretched out high above the scene. Even the menu is quirky: strawberry rhubarb coffee cake, pumpkin pie latte, lavender lemonade. In short, this place feels authentic. And that’s why Rachel Underweiser (Johns Hopkins, ’19), a new Hillel engagement intern this semester, has invited fellow Jewish student Julia Phoon, ’17, here on one of the “coffee dates” Hillel has become famous for in the decade since the internship began.
PHOTOS BY GEOFFREY W. MELADA
Top right: Mia Berman, ’18, Johns Hopkins Hillel student (left) and Rachel Underweiser, ‘19; Bottom left: Rachel Underweiser, Johns Hopkins, engagement intern; Julia Phoon, Johns Hopkins, ’17.
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