------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 #41 FRIDAY March 4, 1994 21 ADAR 5754 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FRIDAY 3/4/94 5:30 pm Hadlakat Nerot (Candle-lighting) SHABBAT 5:30 pm Mincha, followed by Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv - Conservative Jews at Columbia (CJC): 501 Schermerhorn - Learner's Service: 302 Earl Hall - Reform Jews at Columbia (RJC): Dodge Room at Earl Hall - Yavneh: Earl Hall Auditorium 6:45 pm Pick up meal cards for Shabbat dinner: Barnard Hall 7:00 pm Shabbat dinner: Hewitt Dining Hall at Barnard 8:30 pm Oneg Shabbat "Divine & Human in Jewish Law": John Jay Lounge SATURDAY 3/5/94 SHABBAT PARAH Torah reading: Parashat VAYAKHEL, Shemot (Exodus) 35:1-38:20 Bemidbar (Numbers) 19 Haftarah: Yechezkel (Ezekiel) 36:16-38 9:15 am CJC services: Dodge Room at Earl Hall 9:30 am JTS Chavurah: Goldsmith Hall, 121 St and Broadway 12:30 pm Shabbat lunch: Hewitt Dining Hall at Barnard 5:15 pm Yavneh afternoon services - Mincha: Earl Hall Auditorium Se'udah Shlishit: Earl Hall Auditorium 6:30 pm Evening services - Ma'ariv: Earl Hall Auditorium 6:33 pm Shavu'a Tov - Shabbat ends Havdalah: Earl Hall Auditorium ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JSU SHABBAT ANNOUNCEMENTS - March 4, 1994 We would be most happy for you to stop by our office at 105 Earl Hall to find out about all of the following info: We would like to thank the following people for making Purim at Columbia so enjoyable: Rachel Feinerman - coordinator of the Purim Chagiga Carrie Lieberstein, and Anna Sokolin - coordinators of the Purim Bash 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. 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. Take a study break from midterms! Come to the 2nd floor of East Campus Lounge, Sunday night, 3/6 at 9:00pm to eat ice cream and discuss with JSU board members what you want from your Jewish Community. This will be an open forum to let the JSU know what changes you want made. Interested in spending the summer in NYC? The BBH-JACY summer internship program offers students an opportunity to work for a Jewish agency, learn about the Jewish community, and earn $$$ too. The Joint Distribution Committee, Jewish Service Corp., is looking for a program coordinator in Budapest and Bombay for next year. For additional information, come to the Jewish Office. Project renewal is currently accepting applications for summer internships in Israel. Contact Rabbi Oren for more information. Interested in helping a 97 yr. old Upper West Side woman who is losing her eyesight by reading to her? If so, please contact Jordana Kofman or the Jewish office. Doing this Mitzvah would really brighten her day! Rabbi Chaim Brovender will be speaking on Wednesday, at 7pm in the Law School. The topic will be ÒSeparation of Church and State in Israel: Is Halacha a Viable Option?Ó For more information, please contact Andrew Treitel. Professor Alan Dershowitz and Mr. Nathan Lewin, the noted Constitutional litigator, will debate on ÒSeparation of Church and State: How High a WallÓ, on March 23rd at 4:30pm in the Law School. Dr. Yosef Leibowitz, from the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, will be speaking about ÒThe Divine and Human in Jewish LawÓ at the Oneg Shabbat, Friday March 4th at 8:30pm in the John Jay Lounge. He is the Rabbi of Kfar Saba, holds an M.A. from Brandeis and a Ph.D from Berkeley. Come join RJC at the Hebrew Union CollegeÕs soup kitchen on Monday March 21st and Monday April 18th. The program is from 4-7pm and we will cook, serve and clean-up dinner for the homeless at HUC in the Village. If interested, contact Erin Miles or the Jewish Office. Yom Hashoa is on Thursday April 7th. As is done every year, we will be reading the names of victims of the Holocaust out loud on College Walk from 9am-8pm. If you would like to participate in reading the names, please sign up on the door of the Jewish Office for a half hour time slot. 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. The Jewish Electronic Calendar will not be published during Spring Break. Use "notes jewish" for all events information. Good luck on Midterms and have a fantastic Spring Break! SUNDAY March 6, 3pm - Yugntruf, Youth for Yiddish, and the Workmen's Circle Hemshekh Branch 105 are co-sponsoring a PRE-PEYSAKH POST-PURIM SING-IN (YIDDISH SONGS) led by composer-pianist Binyumen Schaechter at the Workmen's Circle building, 45 East 33 Street (bet. Park and Madison). Learn to sing many Yiddish Peysakh songs to help keep your seders lively. We'll start getting you ready for next Purim as well. Refreshments will be served. Members $5, non-members $7, all students $4. 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. SUNDAY March 13, 2pm - Yugntruf, Youth for Yiddish, invites you to join the Yiddish conversation circle to discuss the topic 'Zionism and Yiddish: Friend or Foe?' in Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116 Street (bet. Amsterdam and Morningside). Refreshments will be served. Members $2, non-members $3, all students $1. Further information: Brukhe Lang 212 280-1166. Frank Unlandherm, the Middle East/Jewish Studies Librarian for Columbia University Libraries would be happy to receive any suggestions for improving the collections--books that ought to be ordered, etc. Also if anyone needs help using CLIO--e.g. how to search Hebrew titles--please feel free to contact him. Send e-mail to Unlandhe@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/ " 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". 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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