JEWSLETTER-Tuesday, May 26
Overview(for those of you who refuse to scroll):
Wednesday 5/27- Jews & Java from 3-5
Thursday- Last Jew Crew and elections @ 6:30 (note time change
Friday- Shabbat
Sunday- Bagel Brunch 1:00
Monday- Execs 5:30 generals @ 6:30
This Week in the Jews:
WEDNESDAY 5/20
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Come to Jews & Java Wednesday from 3-5 at the Dartmouth bookstore. Get your drank on...coffee drank
THURSDAY 5/21
*********Jew Crew*************
6:30 PM (note the time change!!!)
We will be having elections for the advisor to next years Jew Crew.
This is the last Jew Crew that '12s will ever be able to attend!!! Better come and make it count!!!
FRIDAY 5/22
Loosen up at WINE & CHEESE at 5:30 at the Roth Center, then head on up to services@ 6:30 and dinner @ 7:30
SUNDAY 5/24
0o0o0o0o0o0o0o00oooooBAGEL BRUNCHooooo0o0o0o0o0o00o0o0o0o0
1 pm @ the Roth center
Carbo-load...Its good for your finals-fried brain.
MONDAY 5/25
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Execs at 5:30
Generals at 6:30- We will be voting on the Fall VP religion at meetings. Blitz in nominations to Hillel!!!
Other Upcoming Events:
...cuz Hillel always has something up its sleeve
**Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 4:30 pm
JUDAISM & THE ENVIRONMENT DINNER
Wednesday, May 27 at 7:30pm at the Chabad House
Please RSVP to Bari Wien by Tuesday night. Space is limited!!
We will discuss how environmentalism fits within Judaism and vice versa over a delicious meal of local/organic Kosher food. Join us to learn, discuss, and debate the interconnectedness of these two very important traditions!
Food for thought:
# The beginnings of a Jewish environmental ethic emerge out of Bereishit, - Genesis - through the two creation stories, which set up models of our relationship as human beings with the rest of creation, and which obligate us to tend and to protect the world.
# Our agricultural roots, celebrated on holidays and in sacred texts, are intended to connect us to the land.
# Shabbat - stopping and resting on the Sabbath - teaches that there are higher values than production and consumption. Resting on Shabbat - one day in seven - lies at the heart of a healthy relationship with oneself, one's friends and one's family.
# The biblical concept of shmitta - having the land rest on its seventh year - provides an equivalent model of rest for the land itself.
# The biblical concept of peah - leaving the corner of the field unharvested for the poor to pick themselves - connects ecological issues with the need for people to live free of hunger, and with their basic needs met.
** Hebrew Lunch at the Pavilion from 11:50- 12:50. FREE COOKIES!!! Blitz Joe Friedman '09 with questions.
Important Announcements:
-We will be voting for VP Religion at Monday General Meetings. Blitz in Nominations!
-Wonderful opportunities available at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, a program in Jerusalem where young men and women of all backgrounds spend a year learning classical Jewish texts, touring Israel, and building a diversecommunity. This year Pardes is also offering three NEW specialty tracks and a FREE TUITION offer that may be of interest. In particular, these opportunities may interest seniors who are just graduating and want to spend some serious time in Israel. Pardes would greatly appreciate you spreading the word to your list serve, and to anyone else interested in spending a year in Israel.
Please blitz Hillel for more information.
-Livnot's Galilee Fellowships --For young Jewish adults ages 21-30 with
minimal Jewish background. Work on community service projects throughout northern Israel, hike, seminars and workshops. Typical day features working in the morning with Israelis and your peers, hiking in the afternoon, funand thought provoking programs in the evening. 14 days. Presently July 5th - 19th 2009 for Metro New York residents, sponsored by the New York Federation. http://www.livnot.com/pages/Galilee_Fellowship/
Humor:
Jews of the Week: Our Future Summer and Fall Exec Boards! Congratulations to:
SUMMER
President: Brielle Milano '11
VP Programming: Max Gelb '11
VP Membership: Kathleen Mayer '11
VP Religion: Eliana Fishman '11
FALL
President: Chiara Klein '10
VP Programming: Rebecca Gotlieb '12 & Rachel Groh '12
VP Membership: Kathleen Mayer '11
VP Religion: TBA
Goy of the Week: Claudia Palmer. For hosting Claudallah at her beautiful home on Saturday. What a success it was! We enjoyed her delicious home cooked dinner and scrumptious s'mores. Did we mention she has the most gorgeous dog ever?!
Joke of the week:
One dark night outside a small town, a fire started inside the local chemical plant and in a blink it exploded into flames. The alarm went out to the fire departments from miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All of our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved.
I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact.
But the roaring flames held the firefighters off. Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate.
As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's secret files.
From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Jewish rural township volunteer fire company composed entirely of menschen over the age of 65. To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine operated by this Jewish Fire Department passed all the newer sleek engines parked outside the plant.....and drove straight into the middle of the inferno.
Outside the other firemen watched as the Jewish old timers jumped off and began to fight the fire with a performance and effort never seen before.
Within a short time, the Jewish old timers had extinguished the fire and saved the secret formulas.
The grateful chemical company president joyfully announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave, though elderly, Jewish fire fighters.
The local TV news reporters rushed in after capturing the event on film asking, "What are you going to do with all that money?"
"Vell," said Abe Hertzfeld, the 70-year-old fire chief, "the foist thing ve're going to do is fix the brakes on that feshtunkena truck!"
*** Great video, courtesy of Elliot Mattingly '09:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzXJXd-oz9Q&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.frumsatire.net%2F&feature=player_embedded
***Overheards:***
Jewish girl: I think I like Uzi. What do you think of him?
Jewish guy: I don't like him. He's annoying. And he's a Jew.
Jewish girl: What do you mean 'And he's a Jew'? You're a Jew!
Jewish guy: No.
Jewish girl: Yes...
Jewish guy: No, I quit that cold turkey...cold ham if you will...
Blitz communications chairs Kathleen Mayer '11 or Rebecca Gotlieb '12 to report any funny overheards you hear, especially if you heard them around Hillel or from Hillelians!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^Execs Corner^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The moral from Laurel (Laurel Marcus '10 Co-President): As finals approach remember... you work hard now, and you will reap the fruits later.
The fact Checker Anna Lugosch-Ecker (Anna Lugosch-Ecker '10 Co-President): always believed that Walt disney was frozen after he died and stored somewhere at disneyland??? Well, this myth is FALSE
Jews in review with Andrew (Andrew Kaminski '09 Exec Vp of Programming): This Week the American Girl Doll Company announced that it is releasing a new doll named Rebecca Rubin. She is a Russian-Jew and lives on the lower east side of Manhattan in the year 1914.
Eliza Varner From whom Knowledge you can Garner (Eliza Varner '10 VP Membership): Did you know the Earth is not round? It is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.
Recall with Saul (Saul Zebovitz '11 VP Religion): Remember when we had Claudallah at Claudia's house on Saturday? That was sooooo fun!!!
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For a complete calendar of Dartmouth Hillel events, go to http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hillel/calendar.php?month=04&year=2009
For questions/comments about this week's Jewsletters, please blitz Hillel.
Shalom Haverim! B'hatzlacha (good luck) on finals!!! |