[Jewish] Fwd: News of the Jews Update - SEX, food and much more - an AC Hillel update

[dmd02 at hampshire.edu]

There are some events here that I thought people would be interested in.  Also, 
while I have your attention, don't forget--if you want to go to Jewish 
Geriatrics this Sunday, we're meeting in front of UMASS Hillel House at 12:45.

<3 Diana

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    Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:33:26 -0500
    From: Hillel <hillel at amherst.edu>
Reply-To: Hillel <hillel at amherst.edu>
 Subject: News of the Jews Update - SEX, food and much more - an AC Hillel 
update
      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.



Dude.  That was tiring to type up.  Hope you made it this far.  






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