Hey Everyone!

Welcome back to campus! I hope you had a great winter break! We are really excited for this semester and have a lot of great programs happening at Hillel. Please come stop by the Kraft Center (606 W115th Street) and check out everything that Hillel has to offer!

Shabbat Shalom

Marnina Cherkin
Program Coordinator

IN THIS ISSUE:
Highlights

1)   Friday Night Hang Out
2)   Frost Yourself at Hillel: A Dessert Affair
3)   S'madar Spring S'mauditions
4)   Arts on the Move Committee
5)   Attention Class of 2012
6)   Screening of Lonely Man of Faith
7)   NEW PROGRAM: The Living Room!
8)   Shabbat: the Liberal Jewish Experience
9)    Project Sunshine Book Buddies Info Session
10) Hillel Spring Class Schedule

Calendar:
See this week's events!

2) Frost Yourself at Hillel: A Dessert Affair
Usher in a sweet start to the semester with free food, friends, and fun!  Meet the new student executive board, and enjoy some delicious desserts!
When: 8:00-9:30PM, Monday, January 26th
Where: Kraft Center, 5th floor
(115th and Broadway, across from Schapiro)
 
3) S'madar Spring S'mauditions!
Come out and audition for the Jewish Women's A cappella group of the Columbia/Barnard Hillel!
Auditions will take place:
Sunday, 1/25 6:00 PM Rennert Hall (Basement of the Hillel Building, which is located on 115th st between B'way and Riverside)
Monday 1/26 8:00 PM Sulzberger Parlor (3rd Floor of Barnard Hall, which is located at 117th and Broadway)
Please prepare a song, either Hebrew or English.
If you have any questions, please contact Rachel Hilker at rachelmhilker@gmail.com

4) Arts on the Move Committee
Are you interested in the ARTS?
How 'bout JUDAISM?
For a chance to CONNECT with other JEWISH ARTISTS (writers, musicians, painters, etc.) on and off campus,and for a chance to help plan EVENTS that reach out to the GREATER ARTIST COMMUNITY on campus, join the Arts On The Move Committee!
Please contact Adina Goodman at ahgoodman5@gmail.com if you're interested or have any questions.

5) Attention Class of 2012!
Did you know that Hillel has an email list just for you? Email Benjamin - bam2169@columbia.edu to ensure you're getting those emails. He has weekly updates and events just for first years!

6) Screening of Lonely Man of Faith: The Life and Legacy of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
Lonely Man of Faith is a new documentary film on the life and legacy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the intellectual leader of Modern Orthodox Judaism in 20th Century America.  Throughout his life, in Europe, New York and Boston, he struggled to forge a path between Jewish tradition and the modern age, an ordeal that frequently resulted in loneliness.  His impact was tremendous but his legacy was complicated.  Following the screening, we will have an audience question and answer session with the producer/director Ethan Isenberg.
Date: Wednesday, January 28th, 7pm
Location: Rennert Hall, The Kraft Center for Jewish life
606 W115th street (between Broadway and Riverside).
Advance registration is preferred and required for non-Columbia students.
Please RSVP https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=28787®ISTER_SESSION_NAME=9588e15bfafa4f6c81ac6abc4dc75529&state=init&.

7) NEW PROGRAM: The Living Room!
A new, weekly hang out at Columbia/Barnard Hillel. Come with friends or make new ones, relax with a mug of coffee or tea, play board games, try your hand at crafts, or dabble in weekly discussion topics.
The Living Room is open to you starting Wednesday, January 28, 7:00-8:30pm in Bishop Library. See you there!

8) Shabbat: the Liberal Jewish Experience
Whether you're a liberal Jew, Reform Jew, Humanist, Pluralist, Conservative Jew, Reconstructionist, not a Jew, Progressive Jew, or Jew-ish...we've got a place for you at:
Shabbat: the Liberal Jewish Experience - Come for an upbeat, religiously liberal, camp-style service and FREE dinner event!
WHEN:    Friday, Jan 30, 2009. Services 6:15pm, Dinner 7:15pm (come for one or both!)
WHERE:  Sulzberger Parlor (3rd Floor, Barnard)
any questions, email kesher@hillel.columbia.edu

9) Project Sunshine Book Buddies Info Session
January 28th @ 8PM in Room 404, Kraft Center
Do you like reading? Working with kids? Come to our information session to learn more about this pediatric reading program. Magnolia Bakery cupcakes will be served!
Information about the program:
Book Buddies volunteers are Columbia and Barnard students who commit two hours a week to read with kids from Harlem and Morningside Heights in the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic of St. Luke's Hospital.
Every child is given a book to take home to start or build his or her personal library. This program has two primary goals: 1) Promoting literacy and a genuine love of reading and 2) Cheering up the clinic, alleviating the stress on parents and children in the hospital.
Contact Leora (lmk2108@columbia.edu) or Kara (kgf2103@barnard.edu) with any questions.

10) Hillel Spring Class Schedule

mtc2123@columbia.edu.  

The Hassidic Teachings of Rebbe Nachman: Rebbe Nachman of Breslov's Torah and Philosophy - Sundays 8:00 PM- Avishai Gebler (Room 404 Kraft Center)
Come learn about Rebbe Nachman's unique outlook on life, and the practical advice given for day-to-day situations through learning Likkutei Moharan, a collection of his main discourses and lessons.  

Introduction to Hebrew - Mondays 6:30-7:30 PM-  Student Rabbi Mara Judd (Room 404 Kraft Center)
Want to learn Hebrew? Here is your chance! Learn the alphabet and how to read Hebrew with the wonderful and inspiring Rabbi Mara Judd! 

Midrash and Piyuit - Mondays 7:00-8:00 PM- Ayala Rosen (Room 403 Kraft Center)
This advanced, textually based class will plumb the depths of Chazal's (the sages) thought through the lens of Medrashim (homiletic interpretation) and Piyutim (poetry).  

Advanced Talmud: Sepher Torah and Mezuzah - Mondays 9:00 PM- 10:00 PM- Yosef Bronstein (Room 404 Kraft Center)
Yosef Bronstein will be continuing his popular advanced Gemara (Talmud) lecture on the new and exciting topic of Sefer Torah (Torah scroll) and Mezuzah (scroll traditionally placed on the doorpost of Jewish homes).   

Introduction to Bible - Tuesdays 7:00 PM- Rabbi David Almog (Room 404 Kraft Center)
What is the Bible about?  Come learn with Hillel's Rabbi Dave and discuss the world's most controversial and provocative books in history from a Jewish perspective.   

Lunch 'N Learn: Studies on Megillat Esther and Purim - Thursdays 12:15-1:00 PM- Rabbi Helfgot (Hewitt Dining Hall)
Come join us in Hewitt for a conveniently located lunchtime lecture about Megillat Esther (The Scroll of Esther) and the holiday of Purim. This lecture requires no background and is open to all.  

Women and Halacha - Thursdays 6:30-7:30 PM- Meira Levinson (Room 403 Kraft Center)
In this class, we will examine women's relationships with traditional Judaism and halacha (Jewish law) discussing topics such as perception and depiction of women in rabbinic literature, women's obligations regarding mitzvot (commandments), concepts of gender, sexuality, as well as contemporary issues of women and Orthodoxy.  This class is open to women only.

01/22/2009

No public events scheduled

01/23/2009

Time and place	Title	Sponsoring group
8:00 PM-12:00 AM Cafe Nana (2nd Floor)	Friday Night Hangout	*GENERAL SOCIAL PROGRAMS
9:00 PM-11:59 PM Beit Midrash	Tea & Torah	Beit Midrash Program

01/24/2009

No public events scheduled

01/25/2009

Time and place	Title	Sponsoring group
2:00 PM-5:00 PM Off Campus	Day at the Museum	Koach

01/26/2009

Time and place	Title	Sponsoring group
8:00 PM-9:30 PM 5th Floor Auditorium	Welcome Back Event - Frost Yourself at Hillel	E-board
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Sundial	Rally for Israel	LionPAC
7:30 PM-10:30 PM Sulzberger Parlor	Smadar Auditions	Smadar

01/27/2009

No public events scheduled

01/28/2009

Time and place	Title	Sponsoring group
7:00 PM-8:30 PM Bishop Library (2nd Floor)	The Living Room	Hillel General
8:00 PM-9:00 PM 3rd Floor	Israel Committee Interest Meeting	Israel Va'ad
9:00 PM-10:00 PM 5th Floor Auditorium	Learning Session	Wednesday Night Learning Program
7:00 PM-9:00 PM Rennert Hall	Lonely Man of Faith Screening	Beit Midrash Program
8:00 PM-9:00 PM Room 404	Book Buddies Info Session	Project Sunshine

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Additional information:

Collegiate Leadership Internship Program (CLIP)
The Collegiate Leadership Internship Program (CLIP) is a competitive, paid, summer internship experience in New York City.  CLIP matches interns with with meaningful and engaging internships at a variety of for-profit, non-profit, and Jewish communal organizations.  Participants also engage in weekly seminars in a dynamic, peer-driven experience.  To learn more about the program, participant eligibility, and how to apply, please visit www.nyu.edu/bronfman/clip.  APPLY TODAY - applications due February 20th, 2009.

Apply now for AJWS’ World Partners Fellowship fall 2009 to India
Application Deadline January 30th
World Partners Fellowship is awarded to recent Jewish college graduates and young professionals seeking an intensive international volunteer service opportunity. For ten months, fellows live independently and volunteer at an NGO (non-governmental organization) in India. As part of this service-learning experience, fellows engage in personal reflection, educational seminars and skills-building workshops through an in-country orientation and retreats with a peer-learning community.
The program is an opportunity to learn about human rights in an international context, make valuable contributions to a grassroots organization and explore Jewish values that substantiate and motivate this work. Fellows return to their communities inspired by what they have seen and accomplished, prepared to advocate for community building and social change at home and abroad.
Upcoming Departure and Application Deadline
India: departure October 2009
Application Deadline: January 30, 2009
For more information about World Partners Fellowship go to: http://ajws.org/what_we_do/service_and_travel_opportunities/world_partners_fellowship/

Upcoming Courses Taught by Visiting Professors from the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies:

CompLit: Yiddish G4200 AMERCA IN YIDDISH,YIDDISH IN AMERICA (ENG)
Instructor: Alyssa Quint Location: 513 Fayerweather Hall
Day/Time: R 4-6 (NEW TIME)
America of the nineteenth and twentieth-century Yiddish imagination is the Jew’s destination of freedom and financial security but also of crass materialism and assimilation; the land of multiethnic and multiracial coexistence and of slavery and social injustice; a place where mass Yiddish culture may thrive without impediment and the place of the language’s demise. How did Jews still in Eastern Europe imagine America and how did the experience of America reconfigure their sense of home and self? We will examine a series of great literary texts alongside texts that represent the greater cultural context.

Art History W3827 - TRACING IDENTITIES: JEWISH ART FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
Day/Time: R 6:10pm - 8:00pm Location: 934 Schermerhorn Hall
Instructor: Aaron Rosen
This course will examine the multiple ways in which Jewish identity has surfaced within, and been influenced by, visual art. We will begin by examining attitudes towards art in the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud. Moving through the medieval period, we will look at Jewish ceremonial art, manuscripts, and synagogues. We will conclude with such modern artists as Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Mark Rothko, R.B. Kitaj, and Judy Chicago. Throughout the course, we will take advantage of the wealth of visual resources available in New York City.

History W3633 - ZIONISM & THE STATE OF ISRAEL
Day/Time: TR 2:40pm-3:55pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Derek Penslar
A survey of Jewish nationalist thought, the Zionist movement, Jewish nation-building in Palestine, and the state of Israel from the 1880s to the present. Adopting a comparative approach, we will analyze Zionism against the background of other forms of modern Jewish collective identity as well as nationalist movements throughout the globe. We will also explore the interdependence between Israeli and Palestinian Arab history and the internal dynamics of the two people's national movements.

NEW YORK SEPHARDIC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
CELEBRATES BAR MITZVAH YEAR WITH 15 FILMS FROM 14 COUNTRIES
MANY WORLD, U.S. & NEW YORK PREMIERES
FEBRUARY 5-12, 2009
THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY
A rare glimpse into the hidden secrets of Toledo, Spain. A heartbreaking drama about a Tunisian Jewish family in Paris. A poignant portrait of Iraq’s Jewish society. An introduction to a small Jewish community in Mumbai that believes itself descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel. The story of an Ethiopian Jewish boy who dreams of being the Spike Lee of Israel.
These are but a few of the fifteen films from fourteen countries being screened at this year’s gala 13th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the American Sephardi Federation, Sephardic House and the Yeshiva University Museum, to be held February 5-12, 2009 at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street in New York City.
For information about tickets and a schedule of the screenings please visit http://www.americansephardifederation.org/images/FF2009/film%20festival.asp. Unless otherwise noted, all films will be screened at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York City.