What You Can Find on the Santa Barbara Hillel Website (sbhillel.org)

sbhillel.org is the official site for Santa Barbara Hillel, a Jewish student life organization. If you are a current student, an admitted or prospective student, a parent, or a community member, the site is organized around four practical things: upcoming events, recent photo highlights, a mailing list signup, and an Instagram feed. The sections below explain what each one gives you and how to use it.

What Santa Barbara Hillel Is

The site describes its mission as enriching student lives so they may enrich the community, the Jewish people, and the world. In practice, that means the organization runs Jewish student programming in Santa Barbara, and the website is the front door to that programming rather than a general information portal.

Upcoming at Hillel: Event Listings

The "Upcoming at hillel" section is where scheduled events appear. This is the first place to check if you want to know what is happening soon — for example, a Shabbat dinner, a holiday gathering, or a social event.

How to use it:

1. Open sbhillel.org.
2. Find the "Upcoming at hillel" heading.
3. Read the listed events for dates and descriptions.

What to expect: the site shows upcoming items as a list. If nothing is listed at the moment you visit, that reflects the current calendar rather than a broken page — check back later or use the mailing list below.

Recent Highlights and Hall of Fame Photos

Two photo-oriented sections sit under the "explore santa barbara hillel" area:

• Recent Highlights — a look at what the organization has been doing lately.
• Hall of Fame Photos — a photo collection presented as a highlight reel.

These are useful if you want to see what participation actually looks like before attending: the scale of events, the setting, and the kinds of activities involved. They are visual records, not signup forms, so treat them as context rather than a way to register.

Admitted & Prospective Students

There is a dedicated "Admitted & Prospective Students" entry point. This is the section to use if you are considering or have just been admitted to a Santa Barbara-area school and want to connect with Jewish student life before arriving.

Use it when:

• You have an admission decision and want to get involved early.
• You are still deciding and want to understand what Jewish life on campus looks like.

If you are already a current student, the events and mailing list sections are the more direct route.

Join Our Mailing List and Instagram

Two channels keep you updated between visits:

The mailing list is the better choice if you want event details delivered to you. Instagram is better for a running visual sense of what is happening.

A Quick Way to Decide Where to Start

• Want to attend something soon? Start with "Upcoming at hillel."
• Want to see what it is like first? Browse Recent Highlights and Hall of Fame Photos.
• Not yet on campus? Go to "Admitted & Prospective Students."
• Want updates without checking back? Join the mailing list or follow the Instagram account.

The site does not publish pricing or login requirements in the material available, so treat any event-specific cost or registration requirement as something to confirm through the mailing list or the event listing itself.