1859: Albert H. Mordecai 1863 of South Carolina, believed to be one of the first Jewish students at Princeton, matriculates.
1915: First Friday Shabbat service.
1919: Ten men gather in a student’s room for services — the first documented prayer minyan of Princeton students.
1920s: Jewish enrollment is limited to about 3 percent, though no official, written quota exists.
1947: The Student Hebrew Association is founded and holds its first service on campus, attended by Albert Einstein. In 1948 it becomes a chapter of Hillel, the national Jewish campus organization.
1958: Dirty Bicker: Of 23 sophomores denied bids to selective clubs, 15 are Jews.
1961: Yavneh House, at 21 Olden St., opens to serve the Orthodox student community.
1971: Stevenson Hall, the first University-sponsored kosher kitchen in the Ivy League, opens at 83 Prospect Ave.
1983: The Committee on Judaic Studies is formed; it becomes the Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Judaic Studies in 1995.
1988: Harold Shapiro *64, Princeton’s first Jewish president, is installed.
1993: The Center for Jewish Life opens.
2002: The Lubavitcher Chabad movement arrives on campus.
2015: An inconspicuous physical boundary, called an eruv, is completed, allowing observant Jews to carry items within its enclosure on Shabbat.
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