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Tumah and Torah- First Day of Rosh Hashanah Sermon

First Day of Rosh Hashanah Sermon- September 17, 2012

Tumah and Torah

Delivered at Rollins Chapel

Dartmouth College

Introduction

It was a summer ערב שבת and I was hiking the Appalachian Trail towards Holt’s Ledge. I was going to the Ruddemacher cabin for a Hillel Shabbaton. Most of it was uphill. I...

May the Words of My Mouth – Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon

Sermon Erev Rosh Hashanah September 16, 2012

מעריב רשה השנה

דבר תורה

יהיו לרצון אמרי פי

May the Words of My Mouth

Delivered at Rollins Chapel

Dartmouth College

Introduction

Many years ago, I took my voice teacher Ruth Morton, עליה השלום, to this very Chapel.  I had worked with others to design a Rosh Hashanah service based...

High Holiday Service and Meals

rosh hashanah

Dartmouth College Hillel—High Holiday Services 5773

Sunday Sept 16

5:00 pm           Erev Rosh Hashanah Dinner*                                                       Roth Center

7:00 pm           Erev Rosh Hashanah Service (w/musical instruments)    Rollins Chapel

7:00 pm           Erev Rosh Hashanah (Traditional/Egalitarian)                    Roth Center

8:30pm           ...

Roth Center Hillel Choir

music-notes

Like singing? Looking for a Jewish music group? Directed by Dartmouth student Evan J. Griffith, the Roth Center Hillel Choir meets each Sunday night to work on Jewish choral music from the lively and exciting to the beautiful and...

Project Preservation 2012 – Journal Entry #5

Karolina

June 21, 2012

One of the first times I have ever entitled a journal entry by name.  I am now flying high above Poland towards Munich where in about an hour or so we will be landing and have quite the lay-over (over 7 hours).  The six students returning (a few...

Project Preservation 2012 – Journal Entry #4

June 20, 2012

Our work is very near completion; there being over 500 headstones to catalogue, to transcribe, to photograph, and so forth.  Not everyone is readable, but the vast majority can be read, such that there seems to be so much work lies ahead upon our return.  Yesterday was very...

Project Preservation 2012 – Journal Entry #3

Korcyna

June 16, 2012

I begin with an attempt to overcoming guilt.  I have davened this morning and I know that unless I write during the Shabbat, I will fall behind too much and get too discouraged and feel as though I am not with the people I care most...

Project Preservation 2012 – Journal Entry #2

June 15, 2012

Krasno, Poland

One cannot begin to adequately describe the range of our journey these last twenty-four hours; from Krakow to Auschwitz and now to Belzec.  I suspect that many have never heard of such a place and may there never be one like it ever on the face of...

Thoughts from Project Preservation 2012 – Poland

Rabbi Boraz and students will be posting journal entries while traveling and working in Poland to restore a Jewish cemetery. Read Rabbi Boraz’s first entry here:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hillel/rabbis-column/project-preservation-2012-journal-entry-1

Lag B’Omer celebration (belated)

ledyard

Join us for an evening of free canoeing and a BBQ at Ledyard on Thursday, May 24th at 6pm in a belated celebration of Lag B’Omer!