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Friday, January 20, 2006 Hey Guys, …and so another semester begins here at Columbia University. It’s amazing how time flies when you’re having fun. The Yavneh Board would officially like to welcome everyone back from winter break – we hope you had a great vacation! As this is our first pre-Shabbat announcement e-mail, we thought we’d make everyone aware of the fact that some new features will be added and some revamping will take place. Don’t be alarmed if you see something random or difficult to explain. Just ask us; that’s what we’re here for! (among other things…) Let’s get this party started: a) Shabbat Times, etc. b) Committee Meetings Next Week!!! c) Winter Week of Learning d) Bikkur Cholim e) Girls Visitor Coordinator g) Meet the Board! h) Factoid of the Week i) Joke of the Week ------------------------------------------------- a) PARSHAT SHEMOT SHABBAT TIMES: Yavneh- Candle Lighting: 4:40Koach- Friday Mincha: 4:45Women’s Tefillah- Shabbat Mincha: 4:10Hewitt Meals- Friday Night Dinner: 6:15This week’s Dvar Torah will be given by none other than Jeremy Bressman, our newly inaugurated Yavneh President. The topic is not yet known but will likely include Jeffrey Feder in some capacity. This week Shiur by Your Peers will be given by outgoing Yavneh president Dov Ber Sebrow on the topic of Tochacha at 3:55 (half an hour before Yavneh Mincha) on the fourth floor of Kraft. Dov has taken time out of his busy schedule of putting “shrimp on the barbie” in order to give this shiur so please do your best to attend. Kiddush this Shabbos is sponsored by friends of Atara Hiller in honor of her recent engagement to Meir Flancbaum. Kiddush this week and every week is no longer sponsored in part by the Kiddush Fund made possible by a generous alumni donation. This is because we no longer have that alumni donation (We suspect the MEALAC department may have stolen it…). In light of this, we ask that you sponsor Kiddush more often and/or ask any alumni you may know to create a new Kiddush fund via a generous alumni donation much like the previous one so that we can all enjoy our weekly post-prayer snacks. Coming soon: Save the Date!! The shabbos of February 4th we will be having a scholar-in-residence come to visit and address our community. Rabbi Hefter of the Bat Ayin Yeshiva and Midreshet Lindenbaum will be in town and will be spending Shabbos with us that weekend, so cancel any other plans. Stay tuned for more details… -------------------------------------------- b) COMMITTEE MEETINGS NEXT WEEK!!! Haven’t you always wanted to get involved with Yavneh? If so, you have two options. You can either ask it out on a date or come to committee meetings next week!! (I spoke to Yavneh recently and it’s not looking for a relationship right now so you’re better off just coming to committee meetings)- Check out our four committees: Education/Initiatives, Social, Shabbat/Chag, and Chesed. Each is unique and offers great experiences and opportunities to get involved - join some or join all! Committee meetings to be held as per the schedule below will provide an opportunity to get to know what sorts of activities are organized within each committee, who is in charge of each committee and most importantly how you can help out and make a difference. GET PUMPED!!! The meetings will take place as follows: Shabbat/Chag Mon. 1/23 @8:30PM Chesed Mon. 1/23 @9:00PM Social Wed. 1/25 @7:30PM Education Wed. 1/25 @8:00PM All meetings will take place on the 4th floor of the Kraft Center. ---------------------------------------------- c) Winter Week of Learning The Beit Midrash Committee is proud to present the Winter Week of Learning for this coming week. This does not mean you learn for a week straight in the winter. But you try. The lineup is as follows: Sunday- Rebbetzin Peshie Neuberger Speaking on David and Sefer Tehillim 3:30 pm on the 5th Floor Monday- Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky Speaking on a topic TBA 7:30 pm in Room 404 Tuesday- Rabbi Yosef Blau "How Halakha Responds to Societal Changes" 7:30 pm in Room 403 For more information about regular and guest shiurim and other events check out the new and improved website of the Beit Midrash Committee: www.hillel.columbia.edu/beitmidrash ------------------------------------------------- d) Bikkur Cholim Interested in spending an hour visiting sick patients? Come join Bikkur Cholim (visiting the sick) this Saturday January 21st. We'll meet at the Amsterdam and 116th street gates at a time TBA at Saturday morning services. Hope to see you all there! ------------------------------------------------- e) Girls Visitor Coordinator The position of Girls Visitor Coordinator has just been vacated! That’s right if you act now you can fulfill your dream of helping female guests find a place to stay for shabbos when they come visit us for shabbos here at Columbia University. You will be following in the footsteps of hachnasas-orchim greats such as Noah Schmutter, Deborah Mann, and Avraham Avinu. If you are a girl interested in this position, please contact Gaby Rothberger at glr2102@columbia.edu. --------------------------------------------------- g) Meet the Board! Gaby who? Who’s Jeremy? How do you even pronounce Bondarsky? If you find yourself asking these questions, have we the solution for you! Thanks to the efforts of new webmaster Joshua Samuel Poritz, we now have the biographies of all the members of the new Yavneh board on the Yavneh website for your viewing pleasure. Just go to http://www.columbia.edu/cu/jsu/yavneh/board.shtml and see who’s running your favorite campus group and what they are like. An informative and amusing experience is guaranteed! ------------------------------------------------- h) Factoid of the Week That’s right. The moment you’ve all been waiting for. The reason you even open your weekly Yavneh e-mail, the factoid is here! Featured in this week’s factoid is Barnard junior Samantha Weltz. Samantha hails from Holliswood, Queens, NY and is lucky enough to call the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) her alma mater. A huge fan of organic chemistry, Ms. Weltz would gladly change her name to Mrs. O’Brien if Conan would only propose. Regarding her personal life, her only Valentine’s Day card last year was from Samantha’s lesbian friend, her blind girlfriend and her seeing-eye dog. She also has a major phobia of bugs, especially centipedes and will scream bloody murder if one comes into sight. Despite this fear, people still think her family is in the mafia. On an unrelated note, she once broke a lamp in a hotel in Puerto Rico, so she put it in a garbage bag and drove out to San Jose where her grandmother dumped it and disposed of all the evidence. ------------------------------------------------- i) Joke of the Week A new addition to the Yavneh e-mail, the joke of the week will provide emergency laughter in case none was experienced while reading the rest of the e-mail (as if that could really happen). Anyway, here goes the first ever Yavneh joke of the week: Four guys are standing on a street corner...an American, a Russian, a Chinese man, and an Israeli... A news reporter comes up to the group and says to them: "Excuse me...What's your opinion on the meat shortage?" The American says: What's a shortage? The Russian says: What's meat? The Chinese man says: What's an opinion? The Israeli says: What's "Excuse me"?... ------------------------------------------------- Anyway, that does it for this week’s Yavneh e-mail. We hope you have a great shabbos! The Yavneh Board (for names go to the website mentioned in section g) |
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