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Join us for Eco-Week at Hillel in honor of Tu-B?Shvat (Jewish Arbor Day) February 7th-11th! Tuesday February 7th ? The Environment as a Bridge to Peace, Rabbi Michael Cohen from the Arava Institute and Free Dinner! Wednesday, February 8th ? Screening of Carbon Nation and snacks! Thursday, February 9th ? Jewish Environmental Opportunities Fair, Kindle Raffle, All proceeds go to JNF to plant trees in Israel Friday, February 10th ? Eco-Shabbat Dinner Saturday, February 11th ? Eco-Lunch + Learn with Rabbi Mike For more information, contact: micheg@sas.upenn.edu  Tevel B'Tzedek Applications Closing for Nepal Mission Applications close soon. Check it out: http://www.tevelbtzedek.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=8&lang=en For more information, contact mntreiger@gmail.com.  Jewish Organizing Fellowship Apply now to become a Jewish Organizing Fellow! The Jewish Organizing Fellowship is recruiting emerging social justice leaders for our year-long, paid community organizing training program in Boston. The Fellowship is a professional development opportunity for Jewish young adults (ages 21-30) who are currently working as organizers or who are looking for jobs in the field. If not already employed, Fellows are placed in full-time paid jobs that address a wide range of issues including: the environment, civil rights, health care, and interfaith cooperation. We seek Fellows who are eager to learn the theory and practice of community organizing and explore the connections between Judaism and social justice. Early Selection Deadline: January 30, 2012 Regular Selection Deadline: May 7, 2012 Please join us for an informational conference call on Wednesday January 11th from 5:00pm-6:00pm EST, featuring the Fellowship Director and current and former Fellows, who will share information about the Fellowship and answer any questions. Register now to receive the dial-in information.  Hadar Shabbaton Schedule Friday Night Beit Midrash-a Hevruta/partner learning experience- 7:15-8:45 "Keeping Shabbat in a Non-Shabbat World: a halakhic investigation" with R. Ethan Tucker Lippman Family Beit Midrash (3rd floor) Friday Night Tisch, 9pm Join in for spirited niggunim (melodies) Divrei Torah, and snacks with R. Aviva Richman Dr. Lynne B. Harrison Library Shabbat Lunch 'n Learn, ~12pm "Shabbat as an Agent of Change in the Hassidut of the Sfat Emet" with R. Aviva Richman Falk Dining Commons Sponsored by Hillel Education and Mechon Hadar  Win a Nook Color! Please take 5 minutes to share your Jewish experiences at Penn, and then enter a drawing to win a Nook Color! One Penn student who completes this survey will win a random drawing. Survey will be open until December 14, 2011 and the winner will be announced on or before December 21, 2011. All responses are confidential and kept separate from students entry into the Nook Color raffle. Click here (http://pennhillel.org/node/45387) to take the survey! This survey is conducted by Penn Hillel on behalf of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia Questions? Contact Debbie - dyunker@pennhillel.org  We are excited to announce the positions for a revamped Steering Committee! The job descriptions are below and on pennhillel.org/2012elections. Next Monday, November 28, at 7:30 PM there will be a mandatory information session for all those considering applying for Steering positions. At this time, we will elaborate on the positions and outline the application and selection process. The applications will open at that session and will close at 10:00 PM on Thursday, December 1st. Please take some time over the Thanksgiving break to give some thought to which position you feel is most suitable for you. No prior Hillel leadership experience is necessary; all are eligible and encouraged to apply. Additionally, please note that some of the new sectors will have boards of their own. In thinking ahead, those who are considering running for President or Executive Vice President of the 2012-2013 Steering Committee are very strongly encouraged to apply for a Steering or Sector Board position this term. If you have any questions, please contact Alex Jefferson, President Elect (abjefferson@gmail.com), or Abigail Jablansky, Executive Vice President Elect (abbyjab@gmail.com). Have a great Thanksgiving! Communications and Social Media Chair -Promote and market Hillel?s vision and activities to the greater Penn community through developing the use of social media including Hillel?s website and calendar, Facebook, Picassa, Twitter, and YouTube -Compile and disseminate information regarding Hillel?s activities via a weekly email (Shabbat Shalom Weekly) sent out Thursday evenings and a weekly ?palmcard digest? -Manage the Hillel listserve -Coordinate marketing initiatives to advertise past and future activities in innovative and eye-catching ways -Oversee and meet with a committee every 2-3 weeks to brainstorm and discuss accomplishments, goals, and progresses made -Meet regularly with Penn Hillel staff -**Work with the President and Executive VP between candidate selections and January 8, 2012 to more fully flush out how this committee will operate. -Meet with Hillel Steering weekly and take meeting minutes Community VP: -Catalyze relationships among individuals from across the greater Jewish community -Serve as the catalyst to bring together students from diverse backgrounds with shared passions and goals -Meet regularly with the Hillel staff to get a sense of the passions of different students that regularly attend Hillel as well as from the vast alumni networks of programs including the Maimonides Leadership Program, Taglit-Birthright Israel trips, CEI, Kavannah Initiative, and JRP in order to catalyze partnerships -Facilitate the formation of a large number of small groups of individuals with shared interests to plan small initiatives, thus building meaningful relationships among the planners as well as the participants -**Work with the President and Executive VP between candidate selections and January 8, 2012 to more fully flush out how this sector will operate. -Meet with Hillel Steering weekly External VP: -Work to promote Hillel as a presence in the greater Jewish community and the greater Penn community -Catalyze the formation of initiatives geared at concrete ways to make Hillel, especially the first floor and dining hall, feel like a more welcoming place -Each week, coordinate initiatives utilizing Shabbat as a common tradition that unites Jews from diverse backgrounds -Catalyze the formation of groups of students to plan initiatives between Hillel and other groups on campus with significant Jewish populations, including but not limited to the Greek system, Red and Blue Crew/Penn Athletics, Penn Women?s Center. In so doing, foster meaningful relationships and community surrounding common passions -Oversee Hillel?s representation on PRISM -**Work with the President and Executive VP between candidate selections and January 8, 2012 to more fully flush out how this sector will operate. -Meet with Hillel Steering weekly Internal VP: -Hold a seminar with constituent groups at the start of the semester -Meet with group leaders every 2-3 weeks to brainstorm and discuss accomplishments, goals, and progresses made -Coordinate the formation of groups of students from across the Hillel spectrum who will work together to plan an array of projects within the Hillel community on topics ranging from but not limited to holidays, culture, religion, and education. In so doing, foster meaningful relationships and community surrounding common passions -Coordinate the creation of new small initiatives planned by passionate individuals fostering relationships among both the planners as well as the participants in the initiative -Serve as the catalyst to bring together students from across the Hillel community with shared passions and goals to work together on the above projects -**Work with the President and Executive VP between candidate selections and January 8, 2012 to more fully flush out how this sector will operate. -Meet with Hillel Steering weekly Israel VP: -Hold a seminar with constituent groups at the start of the semester -Meet with group leaders every 2-3 weeks to brainstorm and discuss accomplishments, goals, and progresses made -Coordinate the creation of initiatives planned by constituents of various Israel-related groups for themselves, Hillel, or the greater campus community. In so doing, foster meaningful relationships and community surrounding a common passion for and curiosity of Israel -Coordinate the creation of new small initiatives planned by passionate individuals fostering relationships among both the planners as well as the participants in the initiative -**Work closely with the Israel Fellow over the course of the year and specifically between candidate selections and January 8, 2012 to more fully flush out this sector -Meet with Hillel Steering weekly Tzedek Social Justice VP: -Work to expand the sector to include different Social Justice initiatives such as Moral Voices, Eco Reps, service trips, etc. -Hold a seminar with constituent Tzedek Social Justice groups at the start of the semester -Meet with group leaders every 2-3 weeks to brainstorm and discuss accomplishments, goals, and progresses made -Coordinate the creation of new initiatives planned by constituents of various existing projects, emphasizing social justice as a Jewish value and working to strengthen the relationships between the TSJ constituents and the greater Jewish community. In so doing, foster meaningful relationships surrounding a common passion for tzedek social justice. -Coordinate the creation of new small initiatives planned by passionate individuals fostering relationships among both the planners as well as the participants in the initiative -**Work closely with the Repair The World Coordinator over the course of the year and specifically between candidate selections and January 8, 2012 to more fully flush out this sector -Meet with Hillel Steering weekly  Study Abroad in Israel! About time to get back to Israel? Learn more! Sign up at http://www.gofurtherabroad.com/ to get more information about the opportunity of your choice, and enter a raffle for a $100 gift certificate to Patagonia! Please contact Naomi Hachen, naomi.hachen@gmaill.com, with questions.  Drisha's Co-ed Collegiate Winter Immersion Program Drisha's Co-ed Collegiate Winter Immersion Program SHARED SPACE: COMMUNITY AND DISSENT Questions surrounding issues of social responsibility are making headlines worldwide. What does a just city look like? How can society express dissent while maintaining its over-arching unity? How should we allocate resources and use public spaces? Come join Wendy Amsellem, Dudi Goshen, Jon Kelsen, Daniel Rynhold and more as we explore these questions and others through the lens of Halakhah, Aggadah, Tanakh and Jewish Thought. JANUARY 3-5 2012 DAYTIME & EVENING CLASSES 9AM-8PM DINNER PROVIDED, Tuition: $75 To learn more and to register, visit: http://drisha.org/ or call 212 595 0307  We would like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves. Rabbanit Gilla Rosen has assumed the position of Director of the Alisa Flatow Program at Midreshet Nishmat. Michal Kaye has taken over the position of Director Recruitment & Alumnae. We look forward to the opportunity to work together in bringing more college women to study in our midrasha. The Alisa Flatow International Program offers full time, semester abroad, summer and Elul programs for college women and beyond. Our students include women of all ages and backgrounds, including those who are studying texts for the first time and those with extensive learning background. Nishmat is proud of its open and intellectual environment. Our Rosh Tochnit, Rabbanit Gilla Rosen, will be visiting campuses this winter. We would like to schedule a campus visit and shiur, please advise us if you have available shabbatot or specific mid week days that are slotted for guest speakers. We are also approaching the beginning of our second semester (January ? June 2012) and would appreciate your assistance in recommending appropriate students. A student who takes a semester off to learn Torah in Israel, returns to campus energized as a Jewish leader and a source of inspiration. Scholarships and financial aid are available. Attached please find a brief description of our program. Please forward it to appropriate students. Looking forward to working with you and appreciate all your assistance. Sincerely, Rabbanit Gilla Rosen and Michal Kaye  Hillel Alternative Spring Break Trip in Nicaragua Global vs. Local? What does it really mean to be a global citizen? Figure it out through Penn Hillel?s ASB trip to Central America! Through local service and dialogue prior to the trip and after the trip, we?ll explore what it means to be a citizen of the world and push you to consider where you think you can have the biggest impact. We will also provide resources for you to act on that decision after our trip together. In partnership with American Jewish World Service, we will travel to San Juan del Sur in southwestern Nicaragua. We will work with an NGO called Servicios Medicos Comunales (SMC) to construct a classroom at their training center. For more information, go to our website HERE or contact Debbie Yunker ? dyunker@pennhillel.org. Upcoming Info Sessions/Open Hours: Monday, Nov. 7 at 7pm at Hillel (Steinhardt Hall) Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 1pm at the Starbucks in Commons  JRP Alternative Spring Break Trip in Los Angeles Did you know that on any given night, some 82,000 people are homeless on the streets of LA? Did you know that one in four Jewish Philadelphians lives under the poverty line ($21,000 annually for a family of four)?
Are you interested in learning about and engaging in direct service connected to social justice issues (such as homeless and hunger) that affect communities like Los Angeles and Philadelphia?
Join us for a week in Los Angeles where we will engage in direct service work, learn and reflect about the experience, integrate into the community, meet with inspiring community members and guest speakers, and participate in Shabbat, Purim, and other Jewish experiences.
Dates: Sunday, March 4 ? Sunday, March 11
Cost: $400 program fee* + $100 fundraising commitment** + the cost of travel
More info and online application: visit jrp.com/jrpasb
Questions: Email Emily (JRP?s Assistant Director) ateperl@jrp.com
Upcoming Info Sessions/Open Hours: Monday, Nov. 7 at 7pm at Hillel (Steinhardt Hall) Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 1pm at the Starbucks in Commons
Application Deadline: Monday, Nov. 14th at 9 am EST!
* The program fee includes a full week of housing, Kosher meals, local transportation, service projects, educational program and materials, and all on-site activities. Small need-based scholarships are available. ** All fundraising money will directly benefit the local organizations we will be working with. Not only do they need our time and help, but they are in need of various resources to continue the important work they do. We will work together as a group to fundraise and you will be provided with various fundraising resources.  Torah trope tutor wanted for bar mitzvah preparation for 12 year old boy, beginning February 2012. Our son, Eli, attends Jewish Day School and has good Hebrew proficiency as well as some experience reading Torah. We seek an experienced, meticulous Torah reader to tutor Eli in preparation for his bar mitzvah in February 2013. We live in Center City and would want Eli to have lessons one evening a week at our home for up to an hour each week. Pay is commensurate with similar tutoring positions and experience. Please contact Deborah Diamond and Jonathan Block atdiamond.deborah@gmail.com and/or blockj@math.upenn.edu.  Kollel Yom Rishon this Sunday at 9AM--R' Zvi Sobolofsky--Individual and Communal Responsibility in the Mitzvah of Brit Milah Please join us as we welcome R Zvi Sobolofsky for Kollel Yom Rishon this Sunday, October 30 at Lower Merion Synagogue. The shiur will begin at 9AM, immediately after the 8:30 AM Shacharit, and is sponsored by the Seif family in honor of the brit milah of their son, which will take place immediately following the shiur at 10AM. (There will also be a 9:15 minyan immediately preceding the brit in the Main Sanctuary) Rabbi Sobolofsky is a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University where he gives one of the most popular shiurim. Rabbi Sobolofsky also serves as the spiritual leader of Congregation Ohr HaTorah in Bergenfield and lectures at the Bergen County Beis Medrash Program. He is the author of the sefer Reishis Koach on Maseches Bechoros.  The highly acclaimed Yeshiva Maccabeats, after a successful worldwide tour & a performance at the White House, will be performing at the Katz JCC in Cherry Hill on Chol Hamoed Sukkot, Tuesday, Oct 18 at 7:30 PM. Due to special underwriting, the ticket price for the first 100 college students to make reservations is only $10 (the adult price is normally $20). The concert is quickly selling out & will most certainly be sold out soon. To make reservations email greatconcert2011@yahoo.com or call Menorah at 856-482-7537  10 Day Interfaith Trip to Rwanda 10 Day Interfaith Trip to Rwanda and Spring Semester Seminar Click here to apply. Email Greta gdeerson@penn.edu with questions! Trip Details The cornerstone of this program will be a 10-day service trip to Agahozo Shalom Youth Village (ASYV) in Rwanda to work with children who were orphaned during the Rwandan genocide. The trip is a partnership between Penn Hillel, the ASYV, The Heyman-Merrin Family Foundation, and Hillel International. The goal of the trip is to create a forum for interfaith and inter-ethnic service learning that will bring Penn students together to explore the dynamics of cultural and ethnic violence and strategies for their elimination.  Call For Blood Donors Are you the ?needle in a haystack? bone marrow match that could help save someone?s life? Rivka Weiser, daughter of Tova and Howard, grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her spouse Ted, (also an OCP alum,) and nine-month-old baby Rayut. She was recently diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and a world-wide network of bone marrow registries is currently being used to try to find the stem cell / bone marrow transplant match that would greatly help her chances of winning this battle. There is also a young boy in Teaneck, New Jersey ? also in need of a bone marrow transplant.
A previously-scheduled bone marrow registry drive is being held by the Gift of Life Foundation at a shul in West Orange this Tuesday, October 4. More drives are being planned.
Please consider being tested in Israel or in your own community, wherever you live, if you are between 18 and 60 years old and in general good health - it involves just a simple cheek swab! Registering enables you to be included in searches when Rivka and other people like her look for a potentially lifesaving match. Information about the testing can be found on www.giftoflife.org. You may also contact me directly. Samuel Pepper spepper@metropolitan-mortgage. Thank you Ketiva vechatima tova  Take a break from work and make your voice heard! Hillel's Schusterman International Center has launched a national survey to gather feedback and insight from Jewish students. They are going to use the results to develop new goals and priorities for the next 5 years, and they want INPUT FROM AWESOME PENN STUDENTS LIKE YOU! Click here to share your thoughts.  There has been interest expressed in reforming Chazon Ish, an all male a cappella group. For more information, please speak to Josh Shore.  To whom it may concern, I am a psychology undergraduate student at Northwestern University conducting a study on the relationship between faith and body image within the Orthodox Jewish community. I am asking women to complete a brief, completely anonymous survey. The survey should take about 20 minutes to complete and individuals who participate in the study will receive a $5 gift card (to Amazon.com) for their time. For those who would like to participate, please click on the link below: http://nwpsych.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0e3FpuFxQ0TXG4s For those who would like more information about the study, I can be contacted at KaitlinMeyer2012@u.northwestern.edu . Thank you very much, Kaitlin Meyer  Vote for Hart Levine, founder of Heart to Heart, and overall great guy in the Jewish Community Heroes Contest. You can vote daily! http://www.jewishcommunityheroes.org/nominees/profile/hart-levine  Next Wednesday, the Durban III conference will take place in New York. In 2001, the UN hosted the first World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa. The purpose of the conference was to create a forum to address racism, discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance; however, the discussion was centered on Zionism which it linked racism. According to Colin Powell ?the hateful language singled out only one country in the world, Israel, for censure and abuse.? The second World Conference against Racism was held in Geneva April 2009. There, even more controversy arose due to the attendance and speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The question remains: why was a notorious anti-Semite and oppressor of human rights ever invited to speak at an anti-racism conference? The Durban III conference is scheduled for September 21, 2011 in New York City. Though Durban I and Durban II only succeeded in advancing racism, bigotry, and anti-Semitism, the UN has planned a third anti-racism conference in commemoration of the previous two. Canada, Israel, and the US have already boycotted the upcoming conference. The Penn Israel Sector, along with other groups in Hillel, has decided to be proactive and express Israel's voice on our campus during this critical time. Israel will face serious international criticism and anti-Semitic opinions will be voiced. We must make a stand. We have made t-shirts (see the attached picture) for students to wear on the day of the conference to help us make a unified statement. Along with wearing the t-shirts, we will try to open up discussion around campus about Durban III and the issues it poses. It is important for us as a community to respond to the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiments of Durban III in a unified way. We simply cannot let this problem go unnoticed at Penn. If you would like to take part in our campus response to Durban III, please fill out this google form: http://tinyurl.com/63nleeq. In order to be informed enough to open up the conversation on campus, students are encouraged to attend one of our two educational sessions at TIME1 or TIME2. This is an important moment for Israel and the Jewish community and every voice counts. Please let us know if you have any questions. Todah Rabah, Students committed to taking a stand -- Sharona Kramer Israel fellow Penn Hillel 215 S. 39th St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 215-287-6229  Join us for a Book Launch Tour of A Daughter's Recitation of Mourner's Kaddish by Rahel Berkovits A JOFA Ta Shma: Come & Learn Halakhic Source Guide Wednesday, September 21 8:30pm At the Home of Suri and Eitan Halpern (29 Radcliff Road, Bala Cynwyd) Please RSVP, if possible to carolyn.hochstadter@gmail.com Explore the Sources Reciting mourner's kaddish for a parent stands at the heart of the Jewish bereavement experience. While traditionally this public recitation has been seen as a son's responsibility, a daughter reciting kaddish is not a modern concept. The halakhic literature addresses questions such as: May a daughter recite mourner's kaddish? May she recite kaddish alone or must it be in conjunction with a man? Should her kaddish be said aloud or quietly? Rahel Berkovits lectures in Mishnah, Talmud and halakhah at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. She has published entries in the CD-ROM, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia and lectures widely in both Israel and the United States on topics concerning women and Jewish law.  Do you enjoy eating at Hillel? Do you have any comments or suggestions to improve the Hillel dining experience? Do you want help Hillel keep its reputation as being the best dining hall on campus? If so, join the new Hillel Dining Advisory Board! We?ll be working directly with the dining staff to plan theme days and brainstorm new ways to make Hillel dining even better than it is. If you?re interested, please email Sari at SariLev@nursing.upenn.edu.  Want to spend time in Israel but not sure what to do? Figuring out post-college plans? Considering spending a semester abroad? From classes to volunteering to career work, from Eilat to the Galil, there?s a program for you. Contact Naomi Hachen, Hillel?s Masa Israel Intern, to learn more. Consultation is free, and so is your free Masa Grant. naomi.hachen@gmail.com  To whom it may concern, I am a psychology undergraduate student at Northwestern University conducting a study on the relationship between faith and body image within the Orthodox Jewish community. I am asking women to complete a brief, completely anonymous survey. The survey should take about 20 minutes to complete and individuals who participate in the study will receive a $5 gift card (to Amazon.com) for their time. For those who would like to participate, please click on the link below: http://nwpsych.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0e3FpuFxQ0TXG4s For those who would like more information about the study, I can be contacted at KaitlinMeyer2012@u.northwestern.edu . Thank you very much, Kaitlin Meyer -- Kaitlin Meyer Northwestern University WCAS Class of 2012 Psychology Religious Studies  Submit a new classifieds postingTo submit a new posting, fill out the form below. Your submission will be reviewed and posted to this page. |