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Friday, January 27, 2006 Helloooooooooo Yavneh! Hope your first full week of classes went well! Now it’s time to get back in the swing of things… In this packed e-mail: a) Shabbat Times, etc. b) Rosh Chodesh Shevat Breakfast c) Yavneh Think Tank d) Scholar-in-Residence next shabbos e) Yavneh & Koach are going to Lazer Park!!! f) Free shuttle to Fairway g) New feature on Yavneh website h) Yavneh cookbook i) Tea and Torah j) Nach Yomi k) Girls Visitor Coordinator l) WZO elections m) YU Medical Ethics n) NYU Battle of the Bands o) “Divan” p) Factoid of the Week q) Joke of the Week (that’s right, we made it to Q) ------------------------------------------------- a) PARSHAT VAERA SHABBAT TIMES: Yavneh- Candle Lighting: 4:48Koach- Friday Mincha: 4:50Women’s Tefillah- Shabbat Mincha: 4:30 (Beit Midrash)Hewitt Meals- Friday Night Dinner: 6:20This week’s Dvar Torah will be given by Barnard junior, Avigail Sugarman. She loves VBM. This week Shiur by Your Peers will be given by none other than Suffolk County native Evan Schutzman. The topic will be "Is it a mitzvah to Speak Hebrew?" He also maintains a hebrew listserve which provides subscribers with 10 (sometimes more) Hebrew words a week on a different topic every week complete with sentences. To sign up for this listserve just e-mail him at ejs2103@columbia.edu and he will put you on his listserve before you can say “mah?” Kiddush this Shabbos is sponsored by friends of Jay Chudow in honor of his 18th birthday. 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. 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. -------------------------------------------- b) Rosh Chodesh Shevat Breakfast “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast” --John Gunther Come join us for a special Rosh Chodesh breakfast this Monday morning, January 30th, after davening. Breakfast is co-sponsored by the Beit Midrash Committee. ---------------------------------------------- c) Yavneh Think Tank The first meeting of the Think Tank will take place this Wednesday Night at 10pm (right after WNLP). If you are interested in expressing your thoughts, ideas, concerns, or anything else regarding Yavneh in an open forum, this is the right place for you. This is a great way for you to have a great impact on our community, and a medium through which you can implement your ideas for Yavneh. ------------------------------------------------- d) Rav Hefter visit Next shabbos, February 4th-5th, Rav Hefter of Midreshet Lindenbaum and the Bat Ayin Yeshiva will be visiting our community. He will be with Yavneh twice over the weekend: first, Friday night at the first Yavneh Tisch of the semester, and again on shabbos morning for a shiur after davening. ---------------------------------------------------- e) Yavneh & Koach are going to Lazer Park!!! Have you ever wanted to shoot your friends with an infrared beam? If so, come join Yavneh and Koach on February 11th (note the change of date) as we go to Times Square and run around with oversized guns while listening to techno music! The cost will be approximately $20 and we will arrive at Lazer Park at 8pm. To reserve a spot email Eric at eeb2003@columbia.edu by Sunday February 5th. --------------------------------------------------- f) Fairway shuttle Starting next week we're organizing a shuttle on Friday morning to and from Fairway on 125th. The possible times are 9:30, 10 and 10:30. We need a min. of 10 people (max 21.) The shuttle will go to Fairway and stay for up to 2 hours; the driver will return earlier if we so desire. If you're interested, please email Gaby (glr2102@columbia.edu) and let her know what time(s) you'd be willing to go. ------------------------------------------------- g) New Yavneh website feature There is a new Submit a Simcha feature on the Yavneh website. If you have recently enjoyed a simcha and want to be on our mazel tovs page, just go to the Yavneh website and click on the Mazel Tovs! link on the left toolbar or just visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/jsu/yavneh/mazal_tovs.shtml to submit your simcha. It will be posted along with the other mazel tovs on the page. ------------------------------------------------- h) Yavneh cookbook We want your recipes! Yavneh will be producing a community cook book and we need your help. E-mail Gaby Rothberger your favorite recipe (or more than one if you have) for anything: kugel, chicken, dessert, Loike salad, etc. It's Shabbos Made Easy and it'll be awesome. Gaby's e-mail address is glr2102@columbia.edu Anyone who is interested in helping out – please e-mail her as well. ------------------------------------------------- i) Tea and Torah Tea and Torah starts again this Friday night at 8:30 pm in the Beit Midrash. It’s pretty self-explanatory… ------------------------------------------------- j) Nach Yomi If you are interested in learning a little Torah with your peers everyday - join NACH YOMI. Simply learn a perek a day for about half an hour after mincha on Mondays thru Thursdays - and there is no real committment - you can come one day or all four days. It's an easy and interesting way to make Torah "keva" in your life. For more information, speak to or email Leora: lg2220@barnard.edu ------------------------------------------------- k) 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. ------------------------------------------------- l) WZO elections “Support our Religious Zionist values and programs. Register now to vote in the 35th Zionist Congress Elections.” Billions of dollars are at stake in the upcoming World Zionist Organization elections, and registration is over in a few weeks. To register go to: http://www.votetorah.org. Any questions? Email Jon Berliner at jmb2154@columbia.edu ------------------------------------------------- m) YU Medical Ethics On Wednesday February 1st, from 7:30-9:00, Rabbi Kenneth Brander, Dean of the Center for the Jewish Future, and expert on fertility and Halacha, as part of an ongoing series on Medical Ethics, will speak about Jewish ethical perspectives on the implications of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis at YU's Rubin Hall(185th and Amsterdam). Among other issues, Rabbi Brander will discuss choosing the gender, eye color, and mental or physical status of a child. YU’s Medical Ethics Society has invited the entire Yavneh community to this dinner and lecture. If you are interested in attending, please email Shira at sri2101@columbia.edu. ------------------------------------------------- n) NYU Battle of the Bands NYU is hosting a huge battle of the bands with bands from schools all over the East Coast on Saturday night, March 25th at 8:30pm. If you are interested in this opportunity to show your musical talents in front of many many stunned spectators, we still have one more spot left for a band. Please reserve your spot by sending an email to Eric at eeb2003@columbia.edu by February 1st. ------------------------------------------------- o) “Divan” Come to the first of a series of films in room 400 of Kraft to watch the excellent film, "Divan," by Director, Pearl Gluck, while enjoying free food! Next Thursday night, at 8:00 pm (Sponsored by Koach, who have invited our community to join in watching this film) Here is a short synopsis of the film: To reclaim an ancestral couch upon which esteemed rabbis slept, Pearl Gluck travels from her Hasidic community in Brooklyn to her roots in Hungary. Along the way, a colorful cast of characters gets involved – the couch exporter, her ex-communist cousin in Budapest, a pair of matchmakers, and a renegade group of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews. Divan is a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery. ------------------------------------------------- p) Factoid of the Week! This week’s factoid portrays Barnard freshman Debbie Goldschmiedt. Debbie loves the color blue, Lord of the Rings, and playing board games. Since there is little to do in Dallas, she spent much of her childhood volunteering to organize "board game get-togethers" on Saturday Nights in Dallas. Engrossed in the middle of a fight in sixth grade, Debbie proceeded to boldly jump out of a nearby window. Granted, she was on the first floor but it still took a lot of courage. Her parents are Peruvian and rumor has it they don’t speak English too well. Keen listeners will also notice that Debbie messes up common phrases all the time, like "I'll see it when I believe it" or she adds an extra ‘s’ to everything like "macaroni and cheeses." This may be due to the traumatic fall she took in the sixth grade or from hearing the incorrect grammar from her immigrant parents. Another theory is that it might be from the time last semester when she got hit in the head with a foosball during a heated foosball game involving Yogi Schulman, Dave Berman, Jakob Reich and Eric Bondarsky. If you look really closely you may still be able to see a soccer-ball pattern above her right eye. ------------------------------------------------- q) Joke of the Week Three Jewish men arrive in New York from Europe, and decide to meet again in 20 years to see how they all made out in America. 20 years pass... The first man asks the second, "So, nu? How'd you do?" He replies: Vell, you know...ven I came to this country I had no idea vhat to do with myself to make a livink. So I looked at my last name. Goldberg. So I vent into the gold business. And oy, did I make a FORTUNE!" He turns to the next man and asks, "So nu, how 'bout you?" He says "Vell, like you I had no idea vhat I vas going to do in this vast country to make a livink, so I too, looked to my last name. Silverstein. So I vent into silver. And oy, did I make a fortune!" So they both turn to the last man and say, "And you? Vat happened to you?" So the third man said, "Vell, I too had no idea how I vas to make a living here in America, so I looked at my last name. Taylor. I said, das no good. I never make money as a tailor. So I went to shul and prayed. I said "God, if you make me a wealthy man, I promise to make You my partner." So the first man said, "So, vat happened?" The man replied, "Vas the matter? You never heard of Lord and Taylor?" ------------------------------------------------- Phew! That does it for this week’s Yavneh e-mail. We hope you have a great shabbos! Jeremy, Taryn, Shira, Gaby, and Eric |
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