What’s New This Week? (JEWS NEWS!)
This is my final Jews News to you all. What a four years it has been, nu? I’ve seen many changes in my time here: from the “kippah boys” to the Jewish Disaster Response Team…it’s been a good ride. I thank you all for reading and/or skipping the top of my emails and going straight to the list.
1. Hillel Academic Forum, featuring Professor Larry Yarbrough who will be talking about how Judaism has informed his career. BiHall 219, 7:30-9:30PM, this Wednesday, May 8.
Zayt gezint,
David
JEWS NEWS!
Mazal Tov to community members Joseph Heller and Rebecca Rose on the completion of their B’nai Mitzvah last Shabbat! It was very moving and beautiful.
We will be praying outside this week! It will be so beautiful. Just come to FIC at 5:30 sharp and we will migrate together to pray with a mountain view! Dinner will be at 6:30 as usual. Rumor has it kosher meat will be served!
To My Fellow Hebrews and Shebrews,
Yom Ha’atzmaut!!/Shabbat:
Come to FIC at 4PM Friday April 19th after the symposium to celebrate Israel Independence Day! There will be Israeli dancing! And snacks, followed by services at 5:30 and dinner at 6:30 with DELICIOUS Middle Eastern food, catered by Baba.
JEWS NEWS!
Link of the Week: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-04-26/news/36811659_1_passover-seders-freedom-seder-seder-plate an article on social justice and oppressed/enslaved people today, inspired by the content of the Passover Seder.
This Week’s Events:
MOQA-Hillel Shabbat!:
In honor of Gaypril, and Hillel’s commitment to LGBTQ inclusion, we will be having a MOQA-Hillel joint Shabbat this week. It will be the normal schedule, with an optional post-dinner conversation on Queering the Torah + Jewish Ritual.
Yom Hashoah Commemoration:
Hillel, Havurah, Scott Center and Middlebury Clergy will be commemorating the Holocaust this Sunday, April 7th at 4PM in Mead Chapel. It is a beautiful service with student speakers, outside speakers, and relevant songs from the College Choir.
2. Professor Schine Lecture: Spinoza in Germany: The Jewish Question. Wednesday, March 13, 4:30PM-6PM, Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103.3. Yiddish Film - Green Fields - in Sunderland 110 - Thursday, March 14 - Flatbread Pizza at 6:45PMfollowed by a 7PM screening of the film (the screening is NOT in Axinn but is in the Sunderland screening room). Basically, this is a Yiddish film from 1937 that I think of as an emotional cross between Up!, Love Actually, and Bend It Like Beckham. If you’re, like, a “film” person, you’ll appreciate this movie, too. It’s a pastoral tale of a young man who ventures into the Jewish countryside and finds true shtetl love (a.k.a. my dream). There are English subtitles, of course. Nu, how could I be more convincing??4. Shabbat! This week is faculty/staff Shabbat! Ya! This is a great opportunity to shmuz with all your favorite Hillel affiliated profs on campus. Services 5:30, Dinner 6:30PM at the Jewish Center in FIC.5. Passover/Easter interfaith dinner! March 18, 6PM Atwater Dining Hall. RSVP toEMcaky@middlebury.edu if you can go!6. Birthright registration is still open until March 22! www.freeisraeltrip.org to register. Please contact ischiffe@middlebury.edu with any questions.
7. Passover! If you are going to be staying at Midd over Spring break and are interested in having kosher for pesah food/a seder, contact Rabbi Ira at ischiffe@middlebury.edu.And here’s your weekly video. I can’t say the level or artistic craft is high, but what an attempt! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLsAsiSWExkWith everlasting love,David and Dave
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SENIOR SHABBAT
TOMORROW. Services 5:30, Dinner and a tribute to our graduating seniors at 6:30. Hope to see you there!
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Shabbat
Schedule this week is a bit different because of Midd Mayhem. Shabbat services this week will start at 5:00 (half an hour early!) so that we are not praying with music in the background. Because there will be an all-campus picknic, we won’t be cooking, but we will have SNACKS!
Senior Shabbat
SENIOR SHABBAT is next Friday May 18th. We’ll have a grand ole time honoring our graduating seniors! We hope everyone can join us.
Best of luck with final projects, exams, papers, presentations, extracurricular crunches, email catch-up sessions, summer planning, meetings, and whatever else you may have going on this week!
L’chaim!
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Please join us THIS THURSDAY APRIL 26 from 4:30-6 outside the FIC Jewish Center (or inside, depending on weather) for a fun celebration of ISRAEL’S INDEPENDENCE DAY! We’ll have some some delish, catered Middle Eastern food, and a good time will be had by all!
Shabbat+Vegans+Elections
Standard situation: Services at 5:30, dinner at 6:30 in FIC Jewish Center—all are welcome for one or both! This week, we’re having a special VEGAN SHABBAT!
In addition, we’ll be electing next year’s Hillel board at 5:00 before services start. Democracy!
Relay L’Chaim!
Register to be a part of Hillel’s Relay for Life team, RELAY L’CHAIM, at go/relay. Our team name is super clever. Just think about it.
Relay is Friday night, May 4 this year.
Birthright Event
Calling all Birthright alums, plus those planning to go on Birthright this summer! After a festive Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration, we’ll be meeting at the Jewish Center from 6-7 to discuss all things Birthright.
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Community Supper
Our friendly local Jews at Havurah will be hosting Community Supper this Saturday, April 21st at the Middlebury Congregational Church (right off the town green). They would love Hillel’s help in cooking, setting up, or serving dinner to members of the community, anytime between 4:30 and 7:30pm. Email Jake at jlessing@middlebury.edu if you want to help out!
Please join us for a Yom HaShoah memorial service this Sunday, April 22nd at 4pm in Mead Chapel. This brief and meaningful service will feature music, selected speakers, and other tributes.
Join Hillel’s Relay for Life team at http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?team_id=1166173&pg=team&fr_id=41339 or go/relay and look for Relay L’Chaim. Email Hannah athstonebraker@middlebury.edu if you need help signing up. Relay is Friday-Saturday May 4th-5th this year.
Treasurer: The treasurer manages the finances of Hillel. S/he serves as the liaison to the SGA Finance Committee and assists in event programming.
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Services at 5:30 and dinner at 6:30 this Friday at FIC Jewish Center. Come for a meaningful service or a homemade, Kosher-for-Passover dinner! All are welcome.
Ambassador Kurtzer
Join us for a talk with former US Ambassador to Israel and Egypt Daniel Kurtzer, entitled Israel’s Strategic Position in a Volatile Middle East. Tuesday, April 17 at 4:30 in the Robert A. Jones’ 59 House conference room. Should be a great talk!
NOTE: CORRECTION FROM LAST WEEK’S JEWS NEWS. The talk will be held on Tuesday, April 17.
Woody Allen Movie Night
Join us for another Woody Allen Movie Night! We’ll be screening Manhattan, an old favorite. This Thursday April 12, 7:30 PM, Axinn 232.
Mid-Passover Hillel Hangout
Stop by anytime tomorrow night from 7:00-9:00 PM in the FIC Jewish center to hang out and eat many, many Kosher-for-Passover goodies (including matzah brei, lots of macaroons, and other goodies).
Yom Ha’Shoah (Holocaust Day)
Please join us for our Holocaust Day memorial service on Sunday, April 22 at 4:00 in Mead Chapel. This brief and meaningful service will feature music, selected speakers, and other tributes.
Community Supper
Help Hillel and Havurah out—and serve at Community Supper, Saturday April 21. More details to follow in next week’s edition of Jews News.
Hillel Board Elections!
As Uncle Sam says: “I want you” to serve on Hillel’s board. We’ll be holding elections before services on April 27. All should come—exercise your democratic right to the franchise! Also, think about running and getting more involved in Hillel! Open positions likely to include (full position descriptions in next week’s Jews News): Co-president (must have served at least one semester on Hillel’s board), treasurer, secretary, Tzedek (social justice) Chair, Social Chair, Rituals Chair… And, most importantly, Meals Chair! Give it some thought.
Film Screening: A Film Unfinished
The documentary “A Film Unfinished” will be aired as a part of the Hirschfield series on Saturday, 3:00 and 8:00, in Dana.
Relay for Life—Relay L’Chaim!
Join Hillel’s Relay for Life team… Relay L’Chaim! (get it?). Go to relayforlife.org and find our team! Relay is May 4 this year.
Handy Passover Dining Hall Tips
1. ASK. If there’s something that you want specially prepared, or can’t find in the dining hall, the dining staff is there to help.
2. BE CREATIVE. Matzah goes with many things. Maple cream cheese. Tomato and mozzarella. Matzah pizza. Matzah and avocados go great. Matzah natchos=matchos. Have fun!
3. Come to the Jewish Center in FIC! We are stocked with Kosher for Pesach goodies. While you do need a key to get in, come around mealtime, when people tend to congregate–or get in touch with a Hillel board member (you can email me at carnowitz@middlebury.edu).
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Friday: 6pm SEDER in atwater. no shabbat in fic. Email Ellen McKay to sign up.
UP AND COMING
April 12th: WOODY ALLEN SCREENING, “manhattan” at 7:30pm in axinn 232
April 19th: ISRAEL LECTURE WITH DANIEL KURTZER at 4:30pm in RAJ with the rather obvious title of “Israel’s Strategic Position in the Volatile Middle East”
March 20, 2012
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Shabbat
There will be services this Friday (5:30 in the Jewish Center) for those still on campus. A trek to Proctor will follow in place of the regular Hillel dinner.
Samuel Heilman Lecture TOMORROW Lubavitch, Messianism, The Rebbe and the Denial of Death
Lubavitch, Messianism, The Rebbe and the Denial of Death by Samuel Heilman, Howard Proshansky Chair of Jewish Studies, Department of Sociology, Queens College. He is co-author, with Menachem Friedman, of The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, which won the 2010 National Jewish Book Award.
Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Religion, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Seder
Still not too late to register for a Passover Seder in Atwater Dining Hall on Friday April 6. Please reply today with your name and ID number to Ellen McKay at emckay@middlebury.edu if you are planning on attending.
March 13, 2012
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Shabbat
The Irish word for Shabbat is Sabóid. Who knew? Anywho, services, as per usual, this Friday evening at 5:30 in FIC, dinner to follow around 6:30ish.
But why is this Shabbat different from all other Shabbats?
Why, it’s QUEER SHABBAT! In addition to our regularly scheduled programming, we will be sharing Friday evening with MOQA (Middlebury Open Queer Alliance) and the Queer Studies House. It will be very informal—regular Hillel-ers as well as those interested in/involved with Midd’s Queer community should all come—ALL ARE WELCOME!
PASSOVER SEDER
Pesach is coming up fast–first night Seder is the first Friday we get back from break, April 6th. Hillel and the Chaplain’s Office will be hosting First Night Seder on Friday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, in Atwater Dining Hall.
Please reply today with your name and ID number to Ellen McKay at emckay@middlebury.edu <mailto:emckay@middlebury.edu> if you are planning on attending.
Next week… Samuel Heilman: Lubavitch, Messianism, The Rebbe and the Denial of Death
Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Religion, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
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Join us for a special Purim-themed Shabbat this Friday at 5:30 in the Jewish Center in FIC, yummy dinner to follow at 6:30. Definitely dress up in Purim/Halloween garb–there will be faculty kids to play with! And hamantaschen!
Holi-Purim Interfaith Dinner
If you signed up, don’t forget to go to Atwater on Wednesday, March 7th (tomorrow!) at 5:45pm for a brief talk and delicious meal, co-sponsored with the Hindu Students Association. Those on the list will be emailed tonight.
Jewish world opportunity you might be interested in: Into organic farming? Jewish environmental education? Check out summer & fall fellowships in Berkeley, CA at http://urbanadamah.org/
February 29, 2012
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SHABBAT
This Friday, services at 5:30 in FIC Jewish Center, home-cooked grub at 6:30.
Holi-Purim Interfaith Dinner
Holi/Purim Dinner on Wednesday, March 7th, 6-7:30pm in Atwater, co-sponsored with the Hindu Students Association. Not many spots left… Sign up NOW by following this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE0tbkJ2cUlUbUVTX0FvMGwzbGw1Rmc6MQ. Come learn from Rabbi Ira Schiffer and Professor Cynthia Packert about the celebrations of Holi and Purim and enjoy delicious food from both traditions!
CHALLAH FOR HUNGER
Return of the Challah Sale! Friday, March 2nd from 12-2pm in the McCullough Mail Room. $3 per loaf, all proceeds split between the Addison County Food Shelf and Mazon (national Jewish hunger non-profit). Email Dave at dyedid@middlebury.edu <mailto:dyedid@middlebury.edu> if you’re interested in helping bake the night before–beginners encouraged! (Thursday, March 1st, 7:30-9pm in Atwater dining hall).
MORE PURIM
In case our many Purim-related events didn’t tip you off… Next Thursday, March 8 is Purim! We’ll be reading the Megillah in Hebrew and English on March 8 at 4:30 in the Jewish Center. Grogers provided!
Plus, next Friday (March 9) is Purim Costume Shabbat! Come dressed to impress.
February 23, 2012
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All are welcome to come by for Friday Shabbat services at 5:30pm and/or a delicious homecooked dinner afterward (6:30ish). At the Jewish Center in FIC.
February 14, 2012
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Welcome back! Hillel is excited to kick off another excellent semester of Jewish programming, community-building, and good, old-fashioned, Kosher fun.
Leading off this week… Our first WOODY ALLEN MOVIE NIGHT! On Thursday February 16th, at 7:30 in Axinn 232. Join us for a screening of the timeless classic, ANNIE HALL.
Even MORE EXCITING… is the invasion of NEW FEBS here at Middlebury. Welcome to Midd—we’re excited to have you! Hillel is hosting its FRESHMAN WELCOME EVENT next Wednesday, February 22, in the FIC Jewish Center. All NEW FEBS, FRESHMEN, and enthusiastic upper-classmen are welcome!
This Friday night… Our weekly SHABBAT SERVICES and HOME-COOKED DINNER! At 5:30 in the FIC Jewish Center. ALL ARE WELCOME, for services or dinner or both!
But Charlie, how do you get to the FIC Jewish Center? Well, it’s easy! Go towards Bihall—you’ll notice a rather undistinguished-looking building just to its right. That’s Freeman International Center. Facing Freeman, you’ll notice a ramp leading slightly downhill. Follow that ramp and you’re at the FIC Jewish Center, in the basement of Freeman. A good hint is the large and imposing Hillel banner next to our door.
On the radar screen… PURIM is coming soon! This very merry holiday is Hillel’s favorite. Keep an eye out for exciting Purim-related events in the next couple of weeks.
Another reminder… Registration for BIRTHRIGHT opens tomorrow. Go to BirthrightIsrael.com for more!
Plus, don’t forget to follow us on Twitter! (@middhillel)
February 1, 2012
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January 25, 2012
Services at 5:30pm, dinner to follow at 6:30. Come to one or both! Especially all you Super Senior Febs out there!
Challah for Hunger
Want to bake delicious challah, then sell your loaves to raise money for the fight against hunger?
This Thursday, January 26th in Atwater Dining Hall, 7:30-9pm, Hillel will be hosting a workshop and baking extravaganza* (you’ll get to take home a small loaf yourself, no worries). Then, on Friday, January 27th from 12-2pm in the McCullough Mail Room, we’ll be selling challot (chocolate chip and original) for $3 a loaf. All proceeds will be split between Addison County Food Shelf and Mazon, a national Jewish non-profit that battles hunger.
*Email Dave at dyedid@middlebury.edu right away if you want to help bake Thursday night!
Scott Center J-term Film Series
Arranged really is a gem of a film; I highly recommend it! A funny, touching, soul-searching, interfaith feel-good movie. Showing today (Wednesday) at 7pm in Axinn 232 is Arranged: ”Centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common–not least of which is that they both are going through the process of arranged marriages.” http://arrangedthemovie.com/
Spring Break Trip to Kayam Farms in Maryland
Biking. Hiking. Sailing. Yoga. Jewish Learning. Organic Farming. What could be better? Please email me at bkearns@middlebury.edu to say you’re interested. Deposits are due by the end of this month, and there are only a few more spots!
Taglit-Birthright Israel
Registration opens February 15th for your summer 2012 free trip to Israel!!! Email Sarah Cohen at srcohen@middlebury.edu if you have any questions. Stay tuned for more details.
Israel Center of Vermont Film Screening
Midd alum Danielle Levine has graciously offered to drive up to 3 students to the Burlington premiere of Unmasked: Judeophobia–The Threat to Civilization this Sunday, January 29th at 7pm. Email her at levine.danielle@yahoo.com to reserve your spot!
Friday services at 5:30pm in the Jewish Center in FIC, dinner at 6:30. You’re welcome to come to one or both! Afterward, we will be having a HILLEL SLEEPOVER in the Ross Townhouse lounge. Head on over en masse after dinner, or join us later on for Apples to Apples: Jewish Edition, text study, yummy snacks, and more! Bring your toothbrush.
Spring Break Trip to Kayam Farms in Maryland
Biking. Hiking. Sailing. Yoga. Jewish Learning. Organic Farming. What could be better? Please email me at bkearns@middlebury.edu to say you’re interested. Attached is the sample itinerary and whole spiel. Deposits are due by the end of this month, and there are only ten spots!
Winter Nature Hike with the awesome Rabbi Cohen
It’s happening, and it’s full already! This Sunday, January 22nd, outside. For those of you who signed up, you’ll be receiving an email soon with further details.
Hebrew Table
Professor Orna Goldman is hosting Hebrew language table every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 12pm in Ross this J-term. Hebrew speakers of all levels are welcome to come.
Challah Baking Workshop
Want to learn how to bake delicious challah? Already know how, but want to make more loaves with friends? Email Dave at dyedid@middlebury.edu if you’re interested. Location and date to be announced.
Scott Center J-term Film Series
Showing tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7pm in Axinn 232 is Father G and the Home Boys:
Welcome back to another semester of Middlebury Hillel adventures! My name is Brenna Kearns, and this J-term and spring Charlie Arnowitz and I will be serving as your Hillel Co-Presidents. Here’s what’s in store for you:
Shabbat
Start the year off with some home cooking and friendly faces! Friday services at 5:30pm in the Jewish Center in FIC, dinner at 6:30. Feel free to come to one or both. If you’re interested in cooking, you can (and should) email Caroline at ckahlenberg@middlebury.edu, or come say hi in the kitchen sometime.
Scott Center J-term Film Series
Showing tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7pm in Axinn 232 is The Dhamma Brothers: “An overcrowded maximum-security prison — the end of the line in Alabama’s correctional system — is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program.” http://www.dhammabrothers.com/. Stay tuned for Father G and the Home Boys and Arranged later on this month.
Community Supper
The Religious Life Council is hosting Community Supper at the Congregational Church this Friday, January 13th. Please email Ellen McKay at emckay@middlebury.edu if you’re interested in helping out, anytime between 3pm and 7pm.
HILLEL SLEEPOVER! Friday Jan 20th after Shabbat. Wear your pajamas. Get excited.
Winter Nature Hike with the awesome Rabbi Cohen
Sunday, January 22nd, outside. 10am-1:30pm. Transcendentalism on snowshoes for Jews. First 8 people to sign up can go! Email Rachel at rmdicker@middlebury.edu to reserve your spot ASAP.
Spring Break Trip to Kayam Farms in Maryland
Biking and hiking and sailing and yoga and Jewish learning and organic farming. What could be better? Please email me at bkearns@middlebury.edu to say you’re interested. Deposits are due by the end of this month, and space is limited!
Cool post-Midd opportunity from lovely alum Gabi Friedman ’11: “Hello! I graduated from Middlebury last year, and miss Hillel services! I’m writing to let you know about the incredible year I am having learning about Jewish pluralism in Chicago, while engaging in socially just work. I’m currently a Corps member in AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps. I work at Apna Ghar, Inc. (a non-profit serving immigrant victims of domestic violence) as a legal advocate, and live with 13 other Avodahniks in Chicago. We are all working in full-time positions at anti-poverty non-profits, but as Americorps volunteers. We live in subsidized housing and create community through consensus decision-making. We also engage in experiential learning about Judaism and social justice through weekly educational programming. I would love to share more with you about my experience in AVODAH this year and help answer any questions you might have about the program! Please feel free to reach me at friedman.gabrielle@gmail.com. The application deadline is coming up on Sunday, January 29, 2012. Please let me know if I can help you in any way in completing your application! I know that the deadline is close, but I also heard of AVODAH late in the process last year, and it is definitely possible to get it done when your heart is in it! Good luck!”
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SHABBAT
Same time, same place in FIC with services at 5:30 and dinner at 6:30. It is the last official Shabbat of the semester, so come say goodbye before break, especially to those of us who will be abroad the rest of the year!
ELECTIONS
Elections will immediately precede services at 5 in FIC. If you are running please make sure you are on time (if not a little early!). If you are not running, still please be on time so we can get things moving. Come support your friends/Jewish acquaintances!
FILM
The Bubble will be screened on this Thursday (tomorrow) at 7 pm in Axinn 232. If you liked Walk on Water you will love this movie by the same director!
Next week, there will most likely be Shabbat services for people who are still on campus. We will keep you updated!
SHABBAT
Services starting at 5:30 at FIC with dinner following at 6:30 as usual.
ACADEMIC FORUM
Timi Mayer is speaking Wednesday night at 7:30 in BiHall 104 about her experience as an Israeli professor at a small, liberal arts college.
YIDDISH DISCUSSION
David Imber will be leading the third Yiddish event of the semester, a discussion about Yiddish poetry at 7 pm in FIC this Thursday night. There will be Flatbread pizza!
BAT MITZVAH PARTY
This Saturday is the annual Bat Mitzvah Party with our very own Bat Mitzvah girls starting at 10 PM.
ELECTIONS
Elections for new board members will be next Friday, December 9th before services. The positions that are available are:
Tzedek Chair- plans and organizes programming and events connected to community service and mitzvah work
Rituals Chair- coordinates and organizes religious programming, including leading Shabbat services and working with Rabbi Ira to plan High Holiday services
Israel Chair- plans and runs events about Israel and Israeli culture
Freshman Liaison- this position is for Freshmen only, who communicates with other Freshmen in Hillel and gain experience as a member of Hillel board
*these positions are open to everyone
If you want to run, please email me, helkin@middlebury.edu, a brief statement of intent detailing the position you are running for, your qualifications, and why you are interested in this position by Monday, December 5th.
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On Sunday, November 20th at 4:30 in Axinn 232 there will a screening of the Israeli film Walk on Water, co-sponsered by the Film Department and German Club. Come see the exciting tale of love, friendship, and Israeli spies hunting down Nazis (reminder: this film is not The Debt)
- Come hear Ted Sasson speak about his research on Birthright Israel for ½ hour to 45 minutes (with power point!). Questions/discussion to follow.
- BiHall 216 at 7:30 Wednesday the 2nd
YIDDISH TALK!
October 26, 2011
Shabbat
Back to normal time this week- 5:30 in FIC for services, followed by dinner at 6:30. Keep your eyes open for some of our favorite alums who will be in attendance!
Pumpkin Carving Hangout
Thursday night (i.e. tomorrow night) Hillel is participating in the VSO pumpkin carving event! Come by FIC at 8 pm to help carve pumpkins that will be donated to Porter Hospital.
Beth Berkowitz Lecture
Thursday/tomorrow at 4:30 in Hilcrest 103 (the Orchard) Beth Berkowitz, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, will be speaking about Orthodox responses to celebrating Thanksgiving.
Nature Trail Cleanup
This Sunday, Oct, 30th Hillel will be leading a nature trail cleanup trip. If you are interested, email Leah Robinson (lrobinson@middlebury.edu) to set up a time to meet up!
Havurah Film Screening
Havurah is sponsoring a screening of Live and Become at 4:30 this Sunday at the Ilsley Public Library in town
Things in the near future
Academic Forum- will be returning with a bang next Wednesday, November 3rd with a great lecture by Ted Sasson in BiHall 216
Philosophy Hangout- will also be returning next Thursday, Nov. 4th in FIC. Join us to take a break from studying for some relaxing, philosophical discourse!
Dance Marathon- sign up! Do it! Go/dancemarathon
Happy Halloween!
October 19, 2011
SHABBAT
There will be Shabbat services this Friday! 5:30 at FIC! Please come! There will not be dinner afterwards at FIC.
Yiddish Film- The Dybbuk
In case some of you haven’t heard (which would be hard to do because of all of the amazing advertising) tomorrow is the screening of the classic Yiddish film, The Dybbuk. Come to Axinn 232 at 7 pm Thursday night (or at 6:30 if you want to get some FLATBREAD) to watch the magic unfold!!
Dance Marathon
Please register! We want to dance the night away with you while raising money for charity! This is basically the last week to sign up, so do it! go/dancemarathon. Any questions, just holler at Leah Robinson (lrobinson@middlebury.edu)
Things to look forward to in the near future:
Nature trail clean up October 30th
The return of Academic Forums on November 2nd
Fundraising event of a gaga (basically Israeli dodgeball) tournament…while listening to Lady Gaga…or in short GaGa-gaga
October 12, 2011
THIS WEEK
Wednesday: SUKKAH HANG OUT at 9pm in front of fic (if it rains in fic)
Friday: 6:00pm SERVICES, 7:00pm DINNER in fic
Sunday: BAGEL BRUNCH at 11am in fic
UP AND COMING
Oct. 20th: YIDDISH FILM SCREENING, “the dibuyk” at 7pm in axinn
Oct. 30th: SPIRIT AND NATURE HIKE (more info to come)
Nov. 4th: COMMUNITY SUPPER, 5pm at the congregational church
Nov. 11th: DANCE MARATHON, 8pm in mccullough
and now, TO THE NEWS!
2. BRING YOUR PARENTS!
SUKKAH HANG OUT:1. tonight at 9pm in the sukkah, if it rains in fic!
BAGEL BRUNCH:1. come to fic w/ your parents at 11am on sunday morning.
YIDDISH FILM SCREENING:
1. hillel celeb david imber will host the screening of “dibuyk” at 7pm in axinn on thursday oct. 20th
SPIRIT AND NATURE HIKE:
1. a fun clean-up themed hike in ripton on oct. 30th
2. email leah robinson if you’re interested (lrobinson@middlbury.edu)
COMMUNITY SUPPER:
1. come partner w/ havurah to host community supper at the congregational church in town on november 4th!
2. they especially need volunteers from 4-5:30, email brenna kearns if ya wanna do it (Bkearns@middlebury.edu)
DANCE MARATHON:
1. sign up at go/dancemarathon
October 10, 2011:
Sukkot-
Sukkot will be starting this Wednesday! More Jewish holidays! This year, the sukkah will be located outside of FIC, not at the organic garden, to better prepare for HILLEL SLEEPOVER!! On Wednesday, Oct 12 there will be a sleepover in the sukkah! More information will follow, but come hangout, relax, and celebrate Sukkot the biblical way! -If you want to get a sleeping bag, be sure to contact the Mountain Club to check one out.
Parents’ Weekend-
It’s hard to believe, but it is almost Parents’ Weekend! I don’t know about you all, but I know I’m excited to see my mom and dad! We will be having Shabbat services as usual next week, as well as the Bagel Brunch on Sunday, Oct 16 at 11 a.m. No reservation is necessary, but please let Rabbi Ira (ischiffe@middlebury.edu) know how many parents/grandparents/pets/imaginary friends you will be bringing so we’ll have a rough estimate
Hebrew Table-
Good news for all speakers of Hebrew! Hebrew table will be starting up again this week! So if you feel like brushing up on your language skills, head on over Redfield Proctor on Mondays and Wednesday afternoons at 12:20, as well as Tuesday nights at 5:30. Even if the only thing you know how to say is “shalom,” come and say that!
Dance Marathon-
Some of you may still be a little confused about what Dance Marathon is- think of Relay for Life, except dancing for 12 hours instead of walking. To register with Hillel’s team, go to go/dancemarathon and sign up. We’ll prove that Jews are as great dancers as we are daven-ers!
Community Supper-
Havurah will be hosting a Community Supper on November 4 and are looking for some helpers. If you are interested, please email Brenna Kearns to find out more information (bkearns@middlebury.edu).
