A National Pathway Into Jewish Life
Torah Links connects Jewish college students and young professionals from across the U.S. and around the world to Torah learning, Shabbos experiences, mentorship, internships, and a warm Jewish community.
Your gift helps one more student experience the beauty, depth, and warmth of Torah life.
"That first Shabbos was the door. Everything else followed."
— A Torah Links alum
From the J³ Evening
An evening built around a simple idea: bring together Jewish college students and young professionals with established business leaders who have built serious careers while staying deeply connected to Torah and community. The conversations that night are still echoing — in study partnerships, mentorships, internships, and full-time job offers.
2026 J³ Photos
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Business leaders and mentors joined
Companies in the employment pavilion
Mentors signed up to take on a student
Students already applied for summer internships
Students at the J³ weekend retreat
The Greatest Need Right Now
Host a student this summer.
If your business can offer a meaningful internship — even a few hours a week or a short-term placement — it can change the direction of a young Jewish life. We match the right student, and we keep the process simple.
Submit an internship opportunity →What Is Torah Links?
Torah Links is a national outreach organization that walks alongside Jewish college students and young professionals as they encounter a modern Jewish life deeply grounded in Torah — through real families, real Shabbos tables, real learning, and real professional excellence.
Students are welcomed as guests by warm host families for a full Shabbos — and quietly discover what Jewish life actually feels like from the inside.
Each student is matched with a personal study partner for a weekly session — Chumash, Talmud, Jewish philosophy, or the question they've been carrying since high school. The pace is theirs.
Rabbis, business leaders, and young Jewish couples who take a student's growth personally — and remain in their life long after any program ends.
Summer placements at companies led by proud Jews who bring their Yiddishkeit into the workday — so students can see, from the inside, what a Torah-grounded professional life actually looks like.
Curated evenings where Jewish college students and young professionals meet 200+ established Jewish business leaders who built serious careers and serious Jewish lives at the same time.
When a student feels ready to spend time learning Torah full-time in Israel, we help with the right introduction — and we stay in the conversation.
Students aren't graduated out of our lives. Years later, alumni still call about a life decision, a question of Jewish law, or where to learn next.
Seeing Torah Life Up Close
Throughout the year, students come to Lakewood and the greater Torah community to experience Jewish life from the inside — not from a lecture hall, but from a Shabbos table, a study partner, a workplace, a mentor's living room.
They sit with families, learn one-on-one, visit workplaces, and meet a community where Torah is not separate from life. It is the foundation of life.
They discover that a Torah-centered life can be serious, joyful, ambitious, family-oriented, professionally accomplished, and deeply meaningful — all at once.
"Torah does not limit greatness. Torah gives greatness direction."
Lakewood Fellowship 2026
This summer, Lakewood Fellowship students spent a special morning at Beth Medrash Govoha, learning in chavrusa and experiencing the energy of a living beis medrash. For many students, moments like these offer a firsthand glimpse of Torah not as an idea or a lecture, but as something alive, personal, and deeply meaningful.
Year-Round Programming
Torah Links is not limited to one summer program or one annual event. Throughout the year, students and young professionals come to Lakewood and the greater Torah community to experience Jewish life in a real and personal way.
They join Shabbos meals, meet mentors, visit families, learn Torah, connect with professionals, and see what it looks like when Torah is the foundation for family, career, community, and purpose.
Shabbos visits, learning sessions, mentor meetings, and community gatherings woven through the entire year.
Each student has their own pace and their own questions. We meet them where they are — not where a program calendar says they should be.
Our team stays in touch long after a first visit — a text, a learning call, a Shabbos invitation, a check-in months later.
Mentors, host families, and study partners who remain part of a student's life as their Jewish journey unfolds.
Help create the next visit, the next Shabbos table, and the next relationship.
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The Need
"Our nation is a nation through its Torah."
In a 2020 Pew Research study, 76% of American Jews said remembering the Holocaust is essential to what being Jewish means to them. That memory is sacred — and we hold it with reverence.
Torah Links helps students also discover Jewish life as something living: Shabbos at a table, Torah with a study partner, mentors who pick up the phone, friendships, community, purpose, and joy.
We honor where students come from — and gently open the door to a Judaism that is joyful, forward-looking, and theirs to step into.
"Your gift helps a student discover not only where they come from, but what they can become."
Our Impact
Torah Links runs a seven-week summer Fellowship in Lakewood — with a dedicated Healthcare Track for pre-med students doing clinical research — plus a three-week Medical Research Retreat and J³ Business Networking Week in the winter. Students work and research by day; nights and weekends are Torah learning, mentorship, and Shabbos in warm homes. For those ready to go deeper, we guide them toward renowned yeshivas including Aish HaTorah, Shapell's, Ohr Somayach, Machon Shlomo, and Machon Yaakov.
Jewish college students and young professionals from across the U.S. and around the world
Students who took meaningful next steps in Jewish life through the yeshiva pathway
Hours of one-on-one and group Torah learning
Alumni now deeply connected to Torah life and community
Week Lakewood Fellowship summer program
Week winter Medical Research Retreat for pre-med students
Interns placed in Jewish-led workplaces in summer 2025 alone
Behind every one of these students is someone who chose to partner in this work. Help open the door for the next.
Our Story
Torah Links began in 2012 with a small group of college students and a simple idea: young Jews searching for meaning don't need a sales pitch. They need a Shabbos table, a personal study partner, and a mentor who actually shows up — and the dignity of being met as a whole person, not a project.
Through our summer Fellowship, J³ business networking, campus learning, weekend retreats, and internship placements, we've welcomed 500+ students from campuses across the country — and kept walking with them. More than 150 are deeply connected to Torah life and community today.
Read our full story →What Your Gift Makes Possible
Concrete gifts, concrete outcomes — described in the language of relationships and growth, not transactions.
Your gift helps welcome one student into a full Shabbos with a warm host family — from Friday night through Saturday night. For many students, it's their first real taste of Jewish life from the inside.
Your gift helps make a full semester of weekly one-on-one Torah study possible — a student thoughtfully matched with a study partner who learns with them at their pace, on the Jewish questions that actually matter to them.
Your gift helps welcome a Jewish college student or young professional into a summer internship at a company led by proud Jews who bring their Yiddishkeit into the workday — alongside mentors, hosted for Shabbos with welcoming families, and welcomed into a vibrant community.
Your gift helps underwrite a student's entire summer in our flagship Fellowship: daily Torah learning, a personal mentor, a professional internship, Shabbos every week in a host family, and our J³ network of business leaders — an unhurried summer of meaningful Jewish growth.
Your gift helps stand behind an entire cohort of students — every study partnership, every Shabbos table, every internship, every late-night conversation with a teacher and mentor. At this level, a whole group of young Jews is welcomed into Torah life from the inside.
Student Stories
"He had grad school lined up and a Department of Defense job waiting. Six weeks interning at a Jewish-led e-commerce company opened up something new. Today he learns Torah with multiple study partners — including a daily session woven into his workday — and has built warm friendships across the community."
"He joined our summer Fellowship after his freshman year and came back for a second summer. Something quietly clicked. Today he's deeply connected to Torah life and to the friends, mentors, and host families who walked alongside him along the way."
"During a panel on giving, a real estate developer said, almost in passing, that 'our purpose is to give.' Three days later the student texted: 'Rabbi, I set up a monthly donation. He actually meant it — that's why he's here.' He's now in conversations about a meaningful role at a Jewish-led company."
The Arc
A first conversation becomes a study partner. A study partner becomes a mentor. A mentor becomes a Shabbos table — and a life.
Why Donors Give
Your gift offers a Jewish college student a seat at a Shabbos table — and a family eager to know the young man sitting in it.
Your gift pairs a young Jew exploring Torah with a study partner who takes his questions seriously.
Your gift introduces a student to a mentor who quietly becomes a lifelong relationship.
Your gift opens the door to a meaningful Jewish future — at the student's own pace.
The Next Invitation
A Shabbos table, a study partner, a mentor, a workplace where Torah and excellence live together — partner with us to help create the next invitation.
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A community where Torah gives life its foundation — and where students see, up close, that a serious Torah life can also be a life of warmth, ambition, family, and excellence.