Meteor Helper not working with if statement

I'll try to clarify this as much as possible because I believe the answer is going to be something very simple I'm overlooking.

My HTML:

<ul class="nav nav-tabs">
    <li class="profile-info active"><a href="#">Personal Info</a></li>
    <li class="profile-groups"><a href="#">Groups</a></li>
    <li class="profile-commitments"><a href="#">Commitments</a></li>
</ul>

My Helper:

Template.Profile.helpers({
'personal':function(){
    if ($('.profile-info').hasClass('active')) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

});

I just want 'personal' to return TRUE. However it always returns false no matter what type of "IF" statement I give it.