Jewsletter – 4/30/12

THE JEWSLETTER

News for all Dartmouth’s Jews

Events and Announcements (see details below):

  • Summer Fellowship Opportunity
  • Claudallah this Saturday, May 5th
  • Sign Up for Cooking for Friday Night Dinners at Hillel
  • CongraJEWlations to our summer and fall executive board members
  • Dartmouth Celebrates Israel and Palestine Week

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Reminder of Weekly Events in the JEWNIVERSE:

On Monday, April 30th:

  • @6pm Hillel Board meetings at the Roth Center
  • @7pm General Meetings with a free meal, open to all of campus at the Roth Center! Come for great food and a chance to have your ideas become reality!

On Wednesday, May 2nd:

  • Jews and Java from 3-5pm in town at the Dartmouth Bookstore

On Thursday, May 3rd:

  • @ 6pm Jew Crew Meeting at the Roth Center.
  • @ 8pm “Guide for the Perplexed” at the Roth Center with Rabbi. Interested? Come to find out more! New people welcome!

On Friday, May 4th:

  • @ 6pm Friday night services will be led by Asher Mayerson.
  • @7pm Friday night dinner cooked by Nick Parillo and friends, who will be making another FEAST FOR THE AGES.

If you would like to go to Hebrew Lunch, blitz Ittai Eres

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Announcements/Events:

Summer Fellowship Opportunity

The Uri L’Tzedek Summer Fellowship is a transformative leadership program that combines innovative social activism with leadership development and Torah.  This full-time, 6-week program, from June 22nd-August 3rd, is an opportunity to work alongside Uri L’Tzedek’s staff and board, experiencing first-hand the many mechanisms that come together to create an effective non-profit organization, gaining exposure to communal Jewish life, effecting change, and learning Torah, social justice philosophy, and community organizing models. For more information please contact David Bookbinder at David.Bookbinder@utzedek.org.

Claudallah this Saturday, May 5th

Claudallah will be this Saturday! We know it’s first year family weekend but parents are more than welcome to attend! If you want to come, please RSVP by blitzing the Hillel account. For those of you who have never been, Claudallah is a celebration of Havdalah (the end of Shabbat) that Claudia hosts at her house with great food and conversation! If you would like more information, please see this past Friday’s blitz (or blitz the hillel account with questions).

Dartmouth Celebrates Israel and Palestine Week

April 30th through May 4th is Israel and Palestine Week: A Look at Conflict Through Culture. Israel and Palestine Week aims to reveal the human component of the conflict through showcasing different personal stories, cultural expressions, and dialogue.  By bringing together movies that highlight various perspectives, we hope to enable individuals here to better understand how Israelis and Palestinians live through the conflict.  And, through comedy and poetry, we want to gain an appreciation for the richness of the cultures in the region.

  • April 30th, 6:00PM Haldeman 041: “Paradise Now” & Dinner
  • May 1st, 6:00PM Rocky 02: “To Die in Jerusalem” & Dinner
  • May 2nd, 6:00PM Haldeman 124: “Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah,” Dinner & Discussion
  • May 3rd, 8:00PM Cutter Shabazz First Floor: Israeli and Arab comedians
  • May 4th, 6:00PM Casque & Gauntlet: Poetry Reading, Israeli and Palestinian Music & Dinner

Sign-ups for Cooking for Friday Night Dinners at Hillel

Know how to cook? Can’t even butter a piece of bread? Somewhere in-between? If you said yes to any of those questions, then you should sign up to help below. Cooking at Hillel is always a lot of fun, and Nick is looking to make the food even more tasty and delicious. So, if you want a fun way to spend your Friday afternoons (really, what better do you have to do at the time??), then sign up with your friends for a Friday afternoon cooking slot. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AptIw-_Qjb4odG5qTWw1OUhxYkVENFg2M1VUdHNzWnc

CongraJEWlations to our summer and fall executive board members

Summer:

  • President – Ittai Eres
  • Exec VP/Programming – Michael Klein
  • VP Membership -  Talia Weiss and Sarah Rossow
  • VP Religious Affairs and Education – Matt Garczynski

Fall:

  • President – Alex Lucas
  • Exec VP/Programming – Ittai Eres
  • VP Membership -  Michael Klein
  • VP Religious Affairs and Education – Asher Mayerson

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Of the week….

JEW OF THE WEEK

Rebecca Gotlieb is this week’s Jew of the Week. Rebecca is a ’12 and has been a part of the Hillel board for a long time! Rebecca organized all of this year’s Yom HaShoah events, which were all tremendous successes! Hillel greatly appreciates Rebecca’s tireless work for Yom HaShoah and for the Board. So if you see Rebecca, give her a big thank you from all of us!

GOY OF THE WEEK

In keeping with last week’s theme of Dartmouth related news, this week’s goy of the week is Wendy Kopp, the Class of 2012′s graduation speaker. Kopp is the founder and CEO of Teach for America. According to the Dartmouth, more than 11% of the Class of 2012 applied to Teach for America.

For more information on Wendy Kopp and Dartmouth’s reaction to the choice: http://thedartmouth.com/2012/04/27/news/tfa

JOKE OF THE WEEK:

Had a bad week? Someone made fun of your new haircut? Got a bad grade on your midterm? Your life could be worse… You could have Hot Problems. These two girls articulate the problems of being hot in a new, fabulous song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__HeE6NWmDE

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This is Rachel Funk, blitz me with any comments, questions, or concerns. Yay May!!