Jeff Seidel's Jewish Student Centers: Get Shabbat

Free Shabbat and holiday meals with Jerusalem host families for Jewish students and young adults, arranged through an online sign-up form.

Address: 8 Beit El St, Jewish Quarter, Old City, Jerusalem
Areas served: Jerusalem (Old City, French Hill and host families across the city)
Website: jeffseidel.com
Last checked: 2026-11

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Jeff Seidel's Jewish Student Information Centers have placed students with Jerusalem families for Shabbat and holiday meals since the 1980s. You fill in the Get Shabbat form on the website, then confirm the placement with the office by WhatsApp; the meal is not booked until you confirm.

The centres also run separate sign-ups for festival meals (Rosh Hashana, Sukkot, Shavuot, Pesach) and for a Thanksgiving dinner, and offer a limited number of sleeping places for Shabbat. There is a student centre in the Old City Jewish Quarter and one for Hebrew University students on Lechi Street in French Hill.

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Aimed at Jewish college students and young adults; tourists are also accepted.
The meals are free; the organisation is funded by donations.
Say exactly where you are staying on the form; hosts are matched by area.