------------------------------------------------------------------------------ J E W I S H E L E C T R O N I C C A L E N D A R Serving the Jewish Community of Columbia University in New York, NY Issue #37 FRIDAY February 4, 1994 23 SHEVAT 5754 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4:57 pm Hadlakat Nerot (Candle-lighting) SHABBAT 5:00 pm Mincha, followed by Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv - Conservative Jews at Columbia (CJC): 501 Schermerhorn - JTS Egalitarian Chavurah followed by dinner: Goldsmith Moadon on West 121st Street and Broadway - Yavneh: Earl Hall Auditorium 5:30 pm Reform Jews at Columbia Services 6:15 pm Learner's Service: 302 Earl Hall 6:15 pm Pick up meal cards for Shabbat dinner: Barnard Hall 6:30 pm Shabbat dinner: Hewitt Dining Hall at Barnard 8:00 pm "Singing Oneg Shabbat": John Jay Lounge SATURDAY 2/5/94 Torah reading: Parashat MISHPATIM, Shemot (Exodus) 21:1-24:18 Haftarah: Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah) 34:8-22 & 33:25-26 12:30 pm Shabbat lunch: Hewitt Dining Hall at Barnard 4:30 pm Yavneh afternoon services - Mincha: Earl Hall Seudah Shlishit: Earl Hall 5:50 pm evening services - Ma'ariv: Earl Hall 6:00 pm Shavuah Tov - Shabbat ends Havdalah: Earl Hall ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JSU SHABBAT ANNOUNCEMENTS 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. JSU elections will take place next week. Polling will take place Monday through Wednesday at various locations. Check our fliers for the details. If you would like to help Benny please contact him. There will be a candidates forum 7:30 at 405 Kent on Sunday night. This Sunday night AIPAC, which encourages our support for Israel, will be holding its first meeting at 6:30 in the Jay Lounge. The Director of Political Leadership will give an update on the Middle East process. A short video will be seen and refreshments served. On Thursday the Jewish Women's Coalition will meet with women leaders of the NY Federation for an intergenerational dialog. A special Rosh Chodesh observance will be held. Bikur Cholim (Visiting the Jewish sick) will take place at St. Luke's this Shabbat afternoon. Please speak to Israel Kochin. All are encouraged to register for one of our 15 Jewish study classes. The Homeless lunch program is on Sunday at 12:30 in Hewitt Dining Hall. We will be packing and distributing lunches for our local homeless. The JSU is sponsoring a petition to the Columbia Senate to postpone the first day of classes which currently conflicts with Rosh Hashanah. Students are asked to have their parents write to Dr. Karl Krober who chairs the education committee, with a copy to Rabbi Sheer. The letters can be sent care of the Jewish Office. The JSU is planning to publish a cookbook. Contact Sarah Bronson to help with all aspects of this great project. The Fourth Annual Jewish Collegiate Festival of the Performing Arts will be on Sunday, February 13. Tickets are available at the Jewish Office. Purim is coming. If you would like to chair the Purim Party or work on our traditional Chagigah please come to the Jewish Office. Also, you can order Mishloach Manot gifts to benefit the Beit Midrash. Anyone interested in reading the Megillah for Women's Tefillah please contact Adena Shoulson. We have received an urgent call from many Hillels in the Los Angeles region who suffered different types of damages from the Earthquake, through out the country students are being asked to contribute whatever you wish to offer some of the Hillels whatever they may need to re-establish themselves. Contributions are being taken at the Jewish Office. Rabbi Sheer has written an article called "Multiculturalism on Campus: Is it Good for the Jews?" for the publication Sh'ma: a Journal of Jewish Responsibility. Copies are available in the Jewish Office. Horizons is a new series of extracurricular mini courses sponsored by Columbia. Rabbi Sheer will be giving two classes on Monday Afternoons, a poetry reading and discussion of Robert Frost's poems and a 3 session class on science and religion entitled "Genesis, Galileo, and the Big Bang Theory". Come to the Jewish office for an application. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NB: The Jewish day begins at sundown of the previous secular day. Ex: PURIM is Feb 25 so it begins the evening of Feb 24 and ends Feb 25. FRIDAY, February 4, is the Egalitarian Chavurah Service and Dairy Potluck Dinner at JTS! Please RSVP to Tania at 212-678-8871 or sign up in 201 Brush at JTS. SUNDAY, 7-11 PM: Wallach Hall Lounge and MONDAY, 7-11 PM: Shapiro Practice Room H. Auditions for "Sweeny Todd", a joint production of JTE (Jewish Theater Ensemble and Columbia Musical Theatre Society. Please prepare a musical selection. Source: ank5@columbia.edu via "notes jewish". WEDNESDAY is the last day to sign up for Shabbat meals in Hewitt Dining Hall at Barnard. WEDNESDAY NIGHT EGALITARIAN SERVICE: 8:00 pm, JSU Office in 105 Earl Hall WEDNESDAY NIGHT LEARN IN: 8:30 - 9:30 pm, Earl Hall Auditorium Over 150 students fill the Earl Hall Auditorium to study Jewish Texts, Hebrew, etc. You choose the topic, we provide a study partner amd light refreshments. No charge. FRIDAY and SATURDAY, February 11 and 12 ROSH CHODESH ADAR - Mi-she-nichnas Adar marbin be-simchah! February 25th (FRIDAY) is PURIM! SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20, 7:30 pm - Yugntruf, Youth for Yiddish, lecture IN YIDDISH: "What is the difference in historical significance between Purim and Hanukkah?", by David Weiss-Halivni, prof of religion at Columbia: Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116 Street. Homentashen and other refreshments will be served. Yugntruf members $3, non-members $4, all students $1.50. For further information contact: Beatrice Lang, telephone 212-280-1166. 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/ " Also check out the NYSERNET gopher: "gopher nysernet.org". For a list of Jewish discussion e-mail lists, e-mail the word "list" to listserv@jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il. "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". You can also post there by sending e-mail to "jewish@columbia.edu". 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. The Jewish Electronic Calendar (JEC) is a free weekly electronic schedule of the events relevant to the Jewish community of Columbia University. 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. 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). 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 I hope you enjoyed this edition of the Jewish Electronic Calendar. Shabbat shalom! Meir Israel Green