The URI Hillel's Student Leadership Team is made up of different Leadership Committees. The committees work to create programming, share content, and build community around different areas of interest! 

• Social Action Committee
• Israel Committee
• Jewish Life Committee
• Food and Cooking Committee
• Major Programming Committee
• Freshmen Committee 

Any URI student can join one or more of the committees!  

The Social Action Committee focuses on engagement and programming centered on volunteer, service, and philanthropy. Some examples of their projects are:

• Alternative Breaks
• Good Deeds Day
• Service programs, such as:
  • Volunteering with Jewish Community Services
  • Baking for the Welcome House of South County
• Creating and curating online content and programming

The Israel Committee works on meeting with students who have a connection to Israel; building students' connection and knowledge about Israel; and Israel cultural and educational programming. Some examples of their projects are:

• Promoting Birthright Israel trips and following up with students who have participated in Birthright and other Israel experiences
• Working with the community Israeli Emissaries to put on programs/initiatives
• Campus Yom Haatzmaut (Israel Independence Day) Programs
• Create and curate online content 

The Jewish Life Committee creates programming centered on Jewish holidays, rituals, traditions, and education and makes Judaism accessible to college students. Some of their projects include:

• Shabbats
  • Organizing creative services and dinner themes 
  • Shabbat social programs (onegs, lunches, havdalah)
• Holidays
  • Create online content
  • Holiday-related social programs such as
    • ​Sushi in the sukkah
    • Hanukkah party
    • Hamentashen Bake
    • Prince of Egypt Movie Night
  • High Holidays planning
  • Passover Seder planning

The Food and Cooking Committee is a group of students who like to cook! They create programming for Hillel sharing the art of Jewish and Israeli cooking and they prepare meals for different Hillel programs. Some of their projects include:

• Sunday Bagel Brunches
  • Organize and plan themes or variations
  • Recruit and organize kitchen volunteers
• Creating menus for Shabbats and other programs
• Creating grocery lists and going shopping
• Working with each committee on programming involving food

The Major Programs Committee works on creating and advertising larger programs that Hillel puts on for the URI community. Some of these programs include:

• Multifaith/Multicultural Shabbat
• Holocaust Remembrance Week
• Good Deeds Day
• Keynote Speakers or Performers

Each committee chooses its own leader(s) to represent them as their Committee Chair(s). Each committee will meet regularly and the Committee Chairs will meet together regularly to communicate their committee's projects with each other. 
All of the Leadership Committees and their members will meet together twice a semester.