------------------------------------------------------------------------------ J E W I S H E L E C T R O N I C C A L E N D A R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Issue #31 FRIDAY, November 5, 1993 21 CHESHVAN 5754 FRIDAY 11/5/93 4:28 pm Hadlakat Nerot (Candle-lighting) SHABBAT 4:30 pm Mincha, followed by Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv - Conservative Jews at Columbia (CJC): 501 Schermerhorn - Yavneh: Earl Hall Auditorium 5:30 pm Reform Jews at Columbia (RJC) Services 6:15 pm Learner's Service, 302 Earl Hall 5:45 pm Pick up meal cards in Barnard Hall for Shabbat dinner 6:00 pm Shabbat dinner in Hewitt Dining Hall 9:00 pm Oneg Shabbat by The Jewish Theater Ensemble: John Jay Lounge SATURDAY 11/6/93 SHABBAT Torah reading: Parashat CHAYEY SARAH, Bereshit (Genesis) 23:1-25:18 Haftarah: Malachim Aleph (I Kings) 1:1-31 9:15 am CJC Shabbat morning services, Dodge Room in Earl Hall 12:30 pm Shabbat lunch in Hewitt Dining Hall 4:15 pm Yavneh afternoon services - Mincha, Earl Hall Seudah Shlishit 5:28 pm evening services - Ma'ariv, Earl Hall Shavuah Tov - Shabbat ends Havdalah, Earl Hall MONDAYS 7:30 pm Israeli Folk Dance instruction: Earl Hall Auditorium 8:30 pm Israeli Folk Dancing 11:00 pm Israeli Folk Dancing ends WEDNESDAYS Last day to sign up for Shabbat meals: Hewitt Dining Hall at Barnard 8:00 pm CJC Wednesday Night Egalitarian Service, bring Siddur Sim Shalom if you can: JSU Office in 105 Earl Hall 8:30 pm Wednesday Night Learn-in: Earl Hall Auditorium ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JSU SHABBAT ANNOUNCEMENTS - NOVEMBER 5, 1993 We will be most happy to see you when you stop by our office at 105 Earl Hall to find out about all of the following info. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8 - DOROT a group that helps the elderly of the West side is holding an Information Session at 7:00 P.M. in the Schiff Room. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 - KRISTALLNACHT - Rabbi Ib Bamberger will be speaking on "The Rescue of Danish Jewry 50 Years Ago" in commemoration of the Anniversary of a major pogrom that took place against Jews in Nazi Germany. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 - The Egalitarian Chavurah will be having a pot luck dinner and services and discussion thereafter. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13 - The Women's Tefillah Group will be having Shabbat services followed by Kiddush. The Jewish Office is looking for an office assistant who enjoys working with Mac Graphics.. It would be for about 10 hours a week and the hours are flexible. Let us know. This is the last call for buying mezuzot. They are available at our office until Friday, November 12. The application deadline for RJC's Shabbaton on November 19-21 is due by November 12. Be on the lookout for Tickets for The Merchant of Venice. Here's more worthwhile news...The Jewish Office has many English and Hebrew books available for FREE. They are on a first come first serve basis. They are located on a table outside of the office. Yet another reason to come by. For Yavneh Students only - A study is being made of Yeshiva High School students who did not spend time studying in Israel. We would appreciate if such students would come to the Jewish Office to complete a brief and interesting survey. If you are interested in dancing, singing, theater and organizing all of this into one performance... then the chair people of the Fourth Annual Collegiate Festival of the Performing Arts invite you to join as a committee member. Please contact Sarah Feinberg. Speaking of singing... Yavneh is proud to announce that Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach will be performing a concert of Peace and Joy. Tickets are on sale now. If you haven't been receiving phone messages or mailings like the first calendar of the year...please stop by the office. Next year the first day of classes is on Rosh Hashanah. Please have your parents write to the Dean of your college - Graduate schools as well - to ask that all necessary accommodations be made. This includes a copy of the Professor's notes and a copy of the syllabus be made available and of course all deadlines be adjusted. Also, please ask that a copy of this letter be sent to Rabbi Sheer. In a few weeks elections will take place for various positions on the JSU Board. We are pleased to announce that Jenny Levin will be serving as Election Commissioner. There are also various positions that students may apply for that are determined by a selection committee chaired by President Jeffrey Wechselblatt. Students who are considering running for office are invited to speak with current Board members or our Rabbis. Applications to run for office will be available next Tuesday at noon and must be completed by Monday, November 15. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Jewish Electronic Calendar and its e-mail list are separate from the JSU, its calendars, mailing and membership lists. Although the JSU Shabbat announcements are provided through the cooperation of the JSU staff, the JEC is published for free as a public service to the Jewish community, and receives no funding. I welcome any volunteers, funding, and ideas about the future direction of the Jewish Electronic Calendar. With more support, it might be possible to prepare the calendar sooner, publish some copies on paper, offer mailbox distribution, and include more information or, perhaps, a D'var Torah for the week or an electronic mailing of Columbia Perspectives magazine. Let me know what you think and, especially, if you can help out! The Jewish Electronic Calendar needs YOU to help gather information, prepare, edit, and distribute the Calendar. If you would like to see something new in this publication, make it happen! Learn computer skills and help out your community. YOUR help is needed! Please email mig@columbia.edu or call 222-2718. The JSU is participating in a volunteer program at the Jewish Home for the Aged, near CU. Contact Dara Feldman directly or via the JSU Office. WEDNESDAY NIGHT LEARN IN Over 150 students fill the Earl Hall Auditorium between 8:30 and 9:30 to study Jewish Texts, Hebrew, etc. You chose the topic, we provide a study partner amd light refreshments. No charge. For a list of Jewish discussion e-mail lists, e-mail the word "list" to listserv@jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il. Make sure all of your group's Jewish events are included in the next calendar! Events for inclusion in this calendar should be submitted to the Jewish Student Union office by Thursday at noon. Specify that you want your event in the Jewish Electronic Calendar, as well as the printed calendars. Jewish Student Union 105 Earl Hall (117th Street and Broadway) Columbia University New York, NY 10027 212-854-5111 If you have any questions about any Jewish activities in the Columbia area or events on this calendar, please feel free to call or stop by the JSU office. JTS events are coordinated through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, telephone number 212-678-8839. Corrections and comments on its format should be sent to mig@columbia.edu. All comments for discussion should be sent to jewish@columbia.edu, or posted directly to "notes jewish". Be sure to include your name and e-mail address in all messages. Subscribe to the free e-mail distribution of the calendar by sending your request to mig@columbia.edu. The calendar is also posted on "notes jewish" on Columbia's CUNIX systems, and on ColumbiaNet under "4: Calendar, Events & Schedules" (telnet columbianet.columbia.edu). Check out the "Jerusalem One Gopher" of Jewish information! Type "gopher jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il" (without the quotes). To view the Jewish Electronic Calendar there, select: 4. Events/ If you are using a Barnard free e-mail account, don't forget to send e-mail outside of Barnard's network via the "Internet gateway". For example, e-mail to mig@columbia.edu should be addressed to: INTERNET mig "notes jewish" is an open forum for Jewish-related discussions, on Columbia's cunix systems. If you know of a Jewish event or a rally, post it there. If you add the word "jewish" (without quotes) to ~/.notesrc, cunix will automatically check for new messages in "notes jewish". I hope you enjoyed this edition of the Jewish Electronic Calendar. Shabbat shalom! Meir Israel Green