SHALOM PRINCETON!
The Newsletter of the Center for Jewish Life/
Hillel at Princeton University
   
In This Issue
Shabbat Shalom
Purim Package
Women's Megillah Reading
Megillah Madness
Yavneh Megillah Reading
Costume Ball & Talent Show
But you can't draw G-d
What is Consent?
Judaism & Homosexuality
Rachel Shabi
Shush! Growing Up Jewish Under Stalin
2010 Koach Kallah
This I Believe
What does the Bible SAY?
Talumd Classes
Crash Course in Hebrew
Kehilla Dinners
Join a Committee!
JGAP at Shabbat
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Celebrate Shabbat with the CJL 
 
Shabbat Shalom! 
  Friday, February 26, 2010
  
 Reform Services 5:30pm
Conservative Services 5:30pm
 Orthodox Services 5:35pm
 
 
  
Join the CJL Community for Shabbat Dinner at 6:45pm in the CJL Dining Hall
 
 

Last Chance to Send your friends a Purim Package!

 
email jstanger@ for an order form
 

First Recipient: $5

 Each Additional Recipient: $0.25
 
 
 
 

Women's Megillah Reading 

 Feb 27 6:30pm
 
 
megillah
Looking for a few good women to read from the Book of Esther on Purim
 

Don't know how to read? No problem - we'll teach you. Contact wsara@ for more info.

 
Join Kesher & Koach for
 A Night of Megillah Madness & Mayhem!
 
Saturday, February 27
6:45pm
@ the CJL
 grogger
 Costumes Highly Encouraged!
 
Want to participate?
Contact Brad for more info - jstanger@
 
YAVNEH MEGILLA READING
 

megillah

 

7:15pm @ the CJL

 
Purim Costume Ball & Talent Show
8:30pm
Campus Club
 
Purim 
 
 But you can't draw G-d!? How Modern Art created Traditional Judaism

Join us on Monday March 1st from 6-7pm over dinner for this lecture by Rabbi Lance Sussman. Dinner will be free for all upperclassmen and grad students.

 E-mail kfischl@princeton.edu with any questions.
 

 

What is Consent? (and how to ask for it)

Wed, March 3
6-7pm
Campus Club 

Join SHARE for a discussion based dinner on Wednesday, March 3 at Campus Club. We will be featuring group discussion facilitated by a health educator, all about the topic of consent and its importance in relationships of any kind.

Free T-shirts!
Free food (vegetarian and Kosher options will be available)!
And great conversation with people passionate about the subject. Hope to see you there!


For more information, contact yamasaki@princeton.edu, krodrigu@princeton.edu, or share@princeton.edu

Co-Sponsored by: SpeakOut, Let's Talk Sex, Equal Writes, Pride Alliance, Sexual Health Advisors, Center for Jewish Life, and the LGBT Center

The Center for Jewish Life presents

with the support of the LGBT Center, the Pride Alliance, SHARE, JLI, JGAP, Koach, Kesher & Yavneh
Judaism and Homosexuality
A Conversation
 Wednesday, March 3
8-10pm
@ the CJL
 

Thursday March 4th

  at 4:30 PM in the CJL
shabi 

Rachel Shabi will be discussing her book "We Look Like the Enemy," winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

The lecture will discuss the history of Arab Jews and the role they play in Israeli society.
 

shush! 
Tuesday, March 9
4:30pm
@ the CJL
Emil Draitser, presents his book
Shush! Growing Up Jewish Under Stalin
 

 

2010 KOACH Kallah, March 4-7, at the Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center in Reisterstown, MD. 

 

This year's Kallah focuses on Setting the Agenda:  Jews and Public Policy and features Rabbi Leonard Gordon, co-chair of the USCJ Committee on Public Policy and Social Action and rabbi of the Germantown Jewish Centre in Philadelphia.  The Kallah brings together college students from across North America for a weekend of inspired conversation, service to the community and an incomparable Shabbat. 

 

Details and registration are available at

www.koach.org
This I Believe:
Jewish Concepts of God
Taught by Rabbi Julie Roth
Tuesdays at 6pm
Starts February 9th
 
From the rational to the esoteric, this series will allow each of us - agnostic, believer, and atheist - to better understand what we do and do not believe about God.  
 
This five-session class will include FREE DINNER, discussion, and personal reflection
 
Leadership, relationships and growing up.
 
Have you considered that the Bible might have something interesting to say about these topics? Join other students to question and explore the Book of Samuel and the lessons that it offers for personal and political life.

No prior knowledge is necessary, all opinions are welcome!

8:30pm Tuesdays, second floor of the CJL. 

For more information contact Avital 
ahazony@princeton.edu

 
Beginners & Advanced Talmud Classes
 Taught by Rabbi David Wolkenfeld
 
 Mondays in the Beit Midrash
Beginners Talmud - 7:30-8:30pm
Advanced Talmud - 8:30-9:30pm
 
 
books 
Crash Course in Hebrew Reading
taught by Boaz Haberman '10 
Tuesdays, 4:30-6pm
  starting Feb 16th
  at the CJL

This five week series will teach basic knowledge of Hebrew reading. Those who attend for five weeks should gain the ability to read Hebrew, which we hope will facilitate greater participation in Jewish life of all kinds.

 
 
Kehilla Dinner - Tuesday nights!


Kehilla is a social group started by students at the CJL who want to help foster a sense of community for everyone, whether you are an upperclassman, freshman, sophomore, or grad student. To help us all stay connected to one another despite our busy schedules, Kehilla invites everyone to make the CJL dining hall their venue of choice for Tuesday night dinner. We hope to see you there!

This meal is free for students with no full meal plan (either through the university or through an eating club). Students with no pre-paid meal plan anywhere, or with partial meal plans through the university or through a co-op, eat FREE provided they RSVP by noon on Tuesday to wsara@. If you've already RSVP'd to Kehilla, then no need to do so again.

Dinner is served at the CJL between 5:30 and 7:30. Please note: Kehilla is open to ALL students who would like to participate. In addition, the dining hall will be open for all students as usual.

We hope to see you there!


 

Are you interested in Tzedek?

Are you interested in Shabbat?

Are you interested in Israel?

 

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you should join a committee! This spring, join the Tzedek Committee, Shabbat Committee, or Israel Committee and help plan CJL events.

 

If interested or for more information, please contact Rebecca (rscharfs@)

 
 

JGAP at Shabbat Meals

We welcome Post-Docs & local young professionals at our delicious CJL Shabbat meals for $10 per meal*!
 
Free for Graduate Students
 
To take advantage of this discounted meal price, contact Arielle 

 
*Advance payment & RSVP required to receive this special $10 price!
 
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