Yavneh > Announcements > 4/06/2006

Greetings,

Congrats to proud Yavneh-member and captain of the Columbia softball team Maiya Chard-Yaron on achieving one of the greatest milestones a pitcher can achieve—the no-hitter. She did so against quite a formidable opponent. The opposing team, Fairfield, came into the doubleheader 20-10, having swept Dartmouth the day before in dominant fashion, 8-3 and 8-4. Yasher Koach to Maiya. (or is it Yasher Yavneh?)

Check out this website to read all about it: http://gocolumbialions.cstv.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/040406aaa.html

Here goes:

a) Shabbat Times, etc.
b) Chulent and Foosball Competitions
c) Pre-Pesach Chametz Drive
d) Pesach Info
e) Maot Chittim
f) Yavneh Skit
g) NYU/OCC Battle of the Bands
h) Factoid of the Week-FED!!!
i) Joke of the Week

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a) PARSHAT TZAV SHABBAT TIMES:

Yavneh-

Candle Lighting: 7:08
Friday Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:10
Shabbat Morning Shacharit: 9:15
Shabbat Mincha: 6:50
Havdalah: 8:10

Friday Mincha: 7:10
Shabbat Morning Shacharit: 10:00
Shabbat Mincha: 6:40

Friday Night Dinner: 8:40
Shabbat Lunch: 12:30

This week Shiur by Your Peers will be replaced by a Shabbat Hagadol shiur given by Rabbi Almog on the topic of “Redemption and Recreation” in Rennert Hall of the Kraft Center at 5:45pm. He will analyze the Talmudic debate over whether creation occurred in the month of Tishrei or Nissan and its implications for the redemption we experience over Pesach.

Kiddush this Shabbos is sponsored by Lindsay Sohacheski in honor of Emerson and Boussi because she loves BMC. It is also sponsored by a new Kiddush fund via a generous alumni donation. ‘So what?’ you might say. Well, this means that Kiddush is now much cheaper to sponsor. Thank you generous alumni

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b) Chulent and Foosball Competitions

Got skills? Prove it. This shabbos following Shacharit we will be having a chulent-making and a foosball-playing competition. The winner will get a gift certificate and unlimited amounts of bragging rights. Email Gaby at glr2102@columbia.edu if you are interested in participating in either competition.

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c) Pre-Pesach Chametz Drive

There is a box in the Kraft lobby for our pre-Pesach chametz drive! So bring that can of vegetables that's been sitting in your apartment, or stop by Morton Williams on your way to Kraft this weekend and pick up something small! Food will be donated to a local Church before Pesach.
**Please bring unopened food only! Thanks!**

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d) Pesach Info

JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT GOING HOME FOR PASSOVER DOESN'T MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE A HOME ON CAMPUS FOR THE SEDER! JOIN US FOR THE FIRST NIGHT SEDER, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 12 8:15 PM. REGISTRATION IN ADVANCE REQUIRED. $18 FOR STUDENTS, $25 FOR GUESTS. REGISTER, STARTING MONDAY, APRIL 3, AT HEWITT DINING OFFICE (BARNARD) OR AT THE HILLEL OFFICE (3RD FLOOR KRAFT CENTER). CALL 212-854-5111 FOR MORE INFO.
Rabbi Almog will be selling people’s chametz for them if they would like on Monday April 10th between 1:30pm-6:30pm and Tuesday April 11th between 10-2. Anyone selling Chametz should be prepared with the following:
1) a set secure place or places where they will be storing their chametz, whether in food, medication, liquor, or cosmetic forms, or that attached to pots, oven wracks or other utensils
2) if you will not be available to grant access to the secure place for any significant portion of Passover (e.g. going away for the seder), please provide the name of someone who can and is willing to grant such access (e.g., someone in your dormitory)
3) a rough estimate of the value of the everything being sold
If you cannot make it for those times but are still looking to sell your chametz, please contact Rabbi Almog at rabbi@hillel.columbia.edu.
IMPORTANT: Yavneh WILL NOT be having services over Yom Tov or Shabbos-Chol-Hamoed on Pesach. If you need help finding a place to daven or just general questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Yavneh Board. HOWEVER, there WILL be Yavneh services the shabbos immediately following Pesach (4/21-4/22).

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e) Maot Chittim

Don't forget to give your Maot Chittim (Special Tzedakah which is customary to give on Passover)!!!
Money will be donated to the Jewish Family Services of New Orleans to help provide Kosher for Passover food for Jewish communities affected by Hurricane Katrina
Tzedakah can be dropped off at 600 10F, EC 808, or given to any member of the Yavneh board. For more information, please contact Jodi at ju2126@barnard.edu

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f) Yavneh Skit

You think youÂ’re funny? Are you organized? Maybe you do a great impression of someone in Yavneh? If you would like to help work on the Yavneh skit (or anything else for the dinner), contact Eric at eeb2003@columbia.edu.

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g) NYU/OCC Battle of the Bands

NYU and the OCC are hosting a battle of the bands on April 8th (Saturday Night) at 9:15pm at the Kimmel Center at NYU- for more info contact Jeremy at job2101@columbia.edu. Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at door.

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h) Factoid of the Week--It’s always better with Feder

This weekÂ’s factoid features SEAS Junior and master of soils, Jeffrey Feder, aka The Fed.

When you hear the name Jeffrey Feder, you think sports. The Fed eats, breathes and bleeds sports, especially basketball. He has twice picked all four Final Four teams in the NCAA tournament, a difficult feat. He also gives responsibility to the New York Knicks playoff run in 1999 to his “lucky shorts.” Every time he wore those shorts, the Knicks would emerge victorious. He even went so far as to hide them from his mother so she wouldnÂ’t throw them in the washing machine, and hurt the KnicksÂ’ chances in the playoffs. Once, when the Knicks were playing on a Friday night, he wore them under his suit when he went to shul. Now thatÂ’s dedication. His enthusiasm for sports even carried over into the classroom setting when his eleventh-grade English teacher pronounced his name FEY-der and he screamed back, “ItÂ’s FED-der not FEY-der!!”

Another big part of Feder’s life is his major: civil engineering. This past summer he worked for Bovis Construction and wore a hard hat and construction boots. He also loves soils. He is currently taking a class called Mechanics of Soils Lab where he basically spends an hour a week playing in dirt—or should I say...Mudd? He also bought his first ever pair of jeans this past summer probably due to the fact that heÂ’s taking a class called Structural Analysis and he realized that denim is clearly the superior material, structurally. Finally, his love for parve desserts, a mystery for many years, was finally solved this year when he realized that the Mechanics of Materials of parve brownies made it simply better than that of Milchig desserts.

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i) Joke of the Week (for all those of you flying to Israel to celebrate Passover)

It was mealtime during a flight on El-Al. "Would you like dinner?" the flight attendant asked Moshe, seated in front.

"What are my choices?" Moshe asked.

"Yes or no," she replied.

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Good Shabbos and Chag Sameach!

Jeremy, Taryn, Shira, Gaby, and Eric