[Jewish] amherst hillel stuff

Wed Feb 26 13:49:24 EST 2003

--- Hillel <hillel at amherst.edu> wrote:
> Subject: News of the Jews Update - SEX, food and much more - an AC
> Hillel update
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:33:26 -0500
> From: "Hillel" <hillel at amherst.edu>
> To: "Hillel" <hillel at amherst.edu>
> 
> Hey Jew Crew,
> 
> Read on for some amazing opportunities to eat free food, meet and
> mate with good-looking Jews from the five colleges and make money
> doing community service work.
> 
> You're gonna love this one!
> 
> 
> This email contains info on:
> UPCOMING JEWISH EVENTS AT AMHERST (and how you can get involved)
> JEWISH EVENTS AT UMASS AND THE PIONEER VALLEY
> COMMUNITY SERVICE, SOCIAL ACTION AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
> 
> 
> UPCOMING JEWISH EVENTS AT AMHERST
> 
> Feeling sick this week?  Missing mom's chicken soup with Matzoah
> balls?  Don't cry, come to Hillel and enjoy a FREE gourmet dinner of
> Chicken soup with matzoah balls, Pasta E Fagioli, salad and chocolate
> cake.  Cooking starts at 2:30pm, services at 5:30pm and dinner at
> 6:30pm.  Bring all your friends!
> 
> Interested in meeting a potential significant other or a new friend?
> Come to
> Speed Dating sponsored by Five-College Hillel this Saturday at 7:30
> in the
> Frontroom. All sexual orientations are welcome at this quick-paced
> event. If
> you're not interested in speed-dating, join us at 9 for mocktails.
> Dress to
> impress!  
> 
> We need help setting up for Speed Dating.  Anyone want to help with
> decorations? Available for about an hour before the event? Email
> Samantha at srlacher at amherst.edu.
> 
> Passover is just around the corner (April 16, 17 and 18).  If you
> want to eat at our fun, amazing community seder, we need an RSVP
> asap!  The Seder at Amherst College is April 16th.  The Seder at
> Smith College is April 17th.  Student from both schools can attend
> both seders.  April 18th is Shabbat dinner with leftovers from our
> first seder.  If you want to come to any of these meals (including
> Shabbat dinner), RSVP to hillel at amherst.edu right now!  In the
> subject line of your email write "Passover RSVP: April 16, 17, 18" or
> whatever dates you will be eating our amazing kosher for passover
> food.  Thanks.
> 
> Join us Friday, March 7 for a special shabbat that will feature an
> interfaith discussion about the war in Iraq.  Find out what Hillel,
> ACF, Newman and NOOR have to say about war and peace.  
> 
> By the way, are you interested in going to Israel for FREE this
> spring or
> summer?  If your answer is yes, then apply for Birthright Israel a
> FREE 10 day
> trip to Israel that allows you to reconnect with your heritage while
> exploring
> great sites such as the Dead Sea, the Western Wall, Massada, the
> Golan
> Heights, the old city of Jerusalem and much more.  For more info
> about the
> program visit http://www.birthrightisrael.com or contact Melissa
> Sidman at
> mrsidman at amherst.edu.  
> 
> 
> JEWISH EVENTS AT UMASS AND THE PIONEER VALLEY
> 
> Want to hear A Libyan Jew's Story About Growing Up in the Arab World?
> Come hear Malaka Bublil speak this Thursday, February 27, at 7pm, at
> the UMass Campus Center Rm. 163C.  FREE!  After being forced to flee
> Libya in 1967, Malaka Bublil co-founded JIMENA (Jews indigenous to
> the Middle East and North Africa), Ms. Bublil became a leading
> activist in the Soviet Jewry movement, for which she received the
> Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award. Today she works to raise
> awareness about the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab lands.
> 
> Join QUESHET, the Five College Jewish GLBT group!  Hang out, eat food
> and party with Jewish GLBT people!  Contact Susan Moser, Assistant
> Director at Umass Hillel to get involved, 549-1710 ext 203.
> 
> Want to know "Why the Media Gets Israel wrong?"  Come hear Jeff
> Jacoby, Boston Globe columnist, analyze the anti-Israel bias of
> Western Media.  He's an amazing and charismatic speaker.  He'll be
> speaking at the Jewish Community of Amherst Synagogue Sunday March
> 9th at 7pm.  FREE.
> 
> Come to a "Benefit Concert and Contra Dance for the Palestinian House
> of Friendship" next Sunday, March 9 at the Montague Center Grange
> Hall in Greenfield.  Proceeds from the benefit will support PHF
> efforts to launch a Palestinian youth chorus to involve boys and
> girls in singing songs of democracy and peace.  
> 
> 5:00 Potluck supper, 
> 6:00 Performances by songwriter and political satirist Peter Siegel
> and folk poet Gooselove 
> 7:30 – 10:00 Contra Dance with caller Rick Mohr.  Dance music
> provided by Anna Patton, Marko Packard, Ethan Hazzard-Watkins, Erica
> Morse and Peter Siegel.
> 
> Cost = $5.   For directions to the Montague Grange see:
> http://www.guidingstargrange.org/directions.html#Montague/Directions
> For more information contact (413) 625-9528 or (802) 254-2942.
> 
> 
> COMMUNITY SERVICE, SOCIAL ACTION AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
> 
> The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies is looking for 60
> students with distinguished records of campus leadership to go to
> Israel this August for two weeks of intense advocacy and political
> training in Tel Aviv entitled "Defending Democracy, Defeating
> Terrorism."  The curriculum will include courses such as "Current
> threats to the United States," "Terrorism in Kashmir: the
> Indo-Pakistani Conflict," "Roots of Islamic Fundamentalist
> Terrorism," and "Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction." 
> Applications are due April 1st.   Check out
> http://www.defenddemocracy.org/ for more info.
> 
> March 1st is the application deadline for the March of Remembrance
> and Hope, May 21-29, 2003.  Travel to Poland with an international
> multicultural group.  Visit Treblinka, Majdanek, and
> Auschwitz-Birkenau.  Discuss issues of the Holocaust from an academic
> perspective.  Contact Elana Heidman at 617-987-8541 for more info.
> 
> March 1st is the deadline for a year with AVODAH.  Want to get paid
> to make a difference?  AVODAH: the Jewish Service Corps is a
> year-long program combining frontline anti-poverty work, Jewish study
> and community building.  It provides an opportunity for you to live
> out and deepen your commitments to Jewish life and social change
> through a year of work in low-income communities in NYC and DC. 
> Amherst Grad. Noah Winer ('01) just got back from a year with AVODAH
> and would love to tell you about it.  Email him at
> ntwiner at yahoo.com.  Check out www.avodah.net for more info.
> 
> The National Union of Jewish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
> Students Presents:  The 7th Annual NUJLS National Conference April
> 4-6 at UCLA!  This year's conference will include high-profile
> speakers, great entertainment, group bonding activities, sharing of
> stories, exciting learning and discussion sessions based on
> Jewish/LGBTIQQ issues, and festive Shabbat meals and activities.
> Register before March 4th and pay only $65 for local housing in Los
> Angeles, kosher meals, and all conference materials.  Check out
> http://www.nujls2003.org/ for more info.
> 
> Project Interchange, the only national organization solely dedicated
> to providing educational seminars in Israel for America's political,
> ethnic, civic and religious leaders, is looking for interns (to be
> paid $10/hour ) for work this summer in D.C.  Interns will: Assist
> with media and public relations; Help organize post-seminar
> activities for seminar alumni; Keep website updated with Israel news
> and participant information; Help create a speakers' bureau of
> alumni; Maintain contact with seminar participants; Assist in
> coordinating upcoming seminars and; Research and expand current
> program ideas.  To apply, email Havi Arbeter, at arbeterh at ajc.org, or
> call 202-833-0025.
> 
> 
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> Dude.  That was tiring to type up.  Hope you made it this far.  
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