Plans for the establishment of kosher dining facilities on the campus of the University of Maryland next fall were announced here yesterday by the University’s B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation.
Establishment of kosher dining facilities follows a recent university decision that Jewish students who observe dietary laws will not be required to pay board assessment if dining at the Hillel Foundation. Previously, Orthodox Jewish students paid for board regardless of whether they ate meals on the campus.
Rabbi Meyer Greenberg, local Hillel director, who hailed the university for its “sympathetic understanding of the needs of students as individuals and a sensitivity for the finer implications of religious freedom,” said that about 50 students were expected to take advantage of the new arrangements. Three kosher meals will be provided for the Jewish students daily, he said.
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