<p>I'm specifically looking for the availability of a kosher meal plan and daily Orthodox services. </p>
<p>I'm also looking for a critical mass of fellow students who would attend friday night and Shabbat morning services and meals. Does this exist at CMU?</p>
<p>Or a reformed jewish synagogue?</p>
<p>I know that there's a dry jewish fraternity on campus. Search for it on google.</p>
<p>I know that there are at least vegetarian options for food, so we should be good for kosher food...</p>
<p>The only vegetable I eat is potato, prepared as chips or fries.</p>
<p>Seriously, I live in an observant Jewish world, and attend an observant Jewish day school. I like this life. I want to go to college and study engineering in a school that champions diversity. But I know that I will only feel at home if there is a critical mass of other observant Jews, that will observe and celebrate my Jewish customs with me. The big ones being Kashrut and Shabbat. A daily quorum for morning/evening services (a minyan) would be a very nice to have.</p>
<p>Can I find that at CMU?</p>
<p>"Kosher Korner" in the UC (a case near Bento Bowl) sells kosher food, though it doesn't look particularly appetizing. There's a Kosher reserved microwave in the UC, too, to heat up the refrigerated meals from the korner. The Hillel building is about a block from campus (<a href="http://www.hilleljuc.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.hilleljuc.org/</a>) and the group on campus seems fairly active (cooking hamburgers and kosher hotdogs on the cut at the begining of the year, holding a name reading in remembrance of the Holocaust).</p>
<p>CMU has no religious 'stuff' on campus like some schools do, but Rodef Shalom (<a href="http://rodefshalom.org/index.cfm?)%5B/url%5D">http://rodefshalom.org/index.cfm?)</a>, which is reform, is 2-3 blocks from campus. There is at least one more synagogue in Squirrel Hill, which is a 5 minute bus ride/30 minute walk from campus. There's also the Jewish Community Center on the corner of Forbes and Murray. Squirrel Hill is the Jewish part of Pittsburgh, and I see Orthdox Jews in Friday nights, so there must be an orthodox congregation somewhere. There's also a kosher mediterranean restaurant in Squirrel Hill and a kosher sushi place somewhere, and a very yummy italian ice place (Rita's) has many of its products certified kosher.</p>