------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 #39 FRIDAY February 18, 1994 7 ADAR 5754 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FRIDAY 2/18/94 5:14 pm Hadlakat Nerot (Candle-lighting) SHABBAT 5:15 pm Mincha, followed by Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv - Conservative Jews at Columbia (CJC): 501 Schermerhorn - Yavneh: Earl Hall Auditorium 5:15 pm Learner's Service: 302 Earl Hall 5:30 pm Reform Jews at Columbia (RJC) Service: Dodge Rm. at Earl Hall 6:30 pm Pick up meal cards for Shabbat dinner: Barnard Hall 6:45 pm Shabbat dinner: Hewitt Dining Hall at Barnard 9:00 pm Oneg Shabbat: Wien Lounge SATURDAY 2/19/94 SHABBAT ZACHOR Torah reading: Parashat TETZAVEH, Shemot (Exodus) 27:20:30:10 Devarim (Deuteronomy) 25:17-19 Haftarah: Shmuel Aleph (I Samuel) 15:1-34 12:30 pm Shabbat lunch: Earl Hall 4:55 pm Yavneh afternoon services - Mincha: Earl Hall Seudah Shlishit: Earl Hall 6:05 pm evening services - Ma'ariv: Earl Hall 6:08 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: The Homeless lunch program is on Sunday at 12:30 in Hewitt Dining Hall. Come join us to pack and distribute lunches to homeless persons living in our neighborhood. A variety of programs will be taking place in Israel this summer; for information about travel and study, and about special scholarships available for people who have never been to Israel, contact the Jewish Office. The JSU is planning to publish a cookbook. Contact Sarah Bronson to help with all aspects of this great project. Purim is coming this Thursday. The JSU will be having 3 services at 6:30pm: CJC - Earl Hall Auditorium RJC - Dodge Room Yavneh - Horace Mann, Teachers College, (enter on 120th St., right near Broadway) At 10pm 2 Purim parties will be held. A gala Purim bash will be in Wollman Auditorium, FBH. The traditional chagigah will be in Earl Hall. There will be one admission price covering both parties - $5 with CUID, $10 without CUID. Guests will only be admitted if accompanied by a CUID holder. Purim day, Yavneh will be sponsering 2 morning services followed by Megillah readings. The 1st service will be at 7am and the first megillah reading at approximately 7:35am. The 2nd service is at 9am, and Megillah reading approximately 9:35. Nontraditional Purim Hagigah will take place on Thursday night at 10pm at Wollman Auditorium. Costumes are encouraged. Prizes will be awarded. $5 CUID $10 guests. Volunteers needed see Carrie Lieberstein. Yavneh will be sponsering a Beatachon-Kol Achai concert on Saturday the 26th. Yavneh is also having a Siyum Tanach on March 6. The entire community is urged to sign up and learn a chapter. The sign up sheet is on the door of the Beit Midrash. Women's t'filah is sponsering services Friday morning at 8am for and by women, followed by a Megillah reading taking place in Dodge room. We would greatly appreciate if you could bring your own text of the Megillah to the various readings. We have received an urgent call from many Hillels in the Los Angeles region which suffered different types of damages from the recent earthquake. Students throughout the country are being asked to contribute whatever you are able, to help these Hillels re-establish their operations. Contributions are being taken at the Jewish Office. Horizons is a new series of extracurricular mini courses sponsored by Columbia. Rabbi Sheer will be giving a 3 session class on science and religion entitled "Genesis, Galileo, and the Big Bang Theory". Come to the Jewish office for an application. There will be a general meeting of the Jewish Women's Coalition on February 22 at 7:30pm in the Dodge Rm. This meeting will be to plan events for Women's History month. A Hebrew musical production of "Peter Pan" will be performed at J TS on Wednesday February 23 at 7pm, February 26th at 8pm, and February 27th at 2pm. Advance discount tickets can be purchased from cast members or at the JTS Student Life Office. The Oneg tonight will be at 9pm in the Wien Lounge and will feature Jonny Schippel, a most dynamic personality. Come for a night of song, discussion and brownies. Shabbat Lunch is at 12:30. However, as you all know as Shabbat Lunch is usually in Hewitt, due to the shabbaton this week, lunch will be in Earl Hall. And finally, Please Don't forget to eat free pizza! Come to Carman lounge this Sunday night at 10:00pm to eat free pizza and meet the new exciting JSU board! Please stack all chairs on the casters! Shabbat Shalom! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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. 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. THURSDAY, February 24th is Taanit Ester (Fast of Esther) FRIDAY, February 25th is PURIM! Several people have e-mailed to suggest that I e-mail the JEC earlier than Friday afternoon. I, too, would like to send it earlier. In order to send the JEC on Thursday, I would need all of the materials for that edition by Thursday afternoon. However, the JSU staff has been unable to provide their Shabbat Announcements until after 12:30 pm on Friday, and often later. I feel that the Shabbat Announcements are integral to the JEC, therefore I must wait for them. If enough people feel that this is important to them, then perhaps it would be possible to petition the JSU to finish at least a subset of the Shabbat Announcements by Thursday. Please e-mail me your comments on this and I will pass them along in print to the Rabbi if they are appropriate. Thank you. --Meir 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