B∙O∙O∙ MIDWEEK ANNOUNCEMENTS
April 23rd, 2012 – 1 Iyyar, 5772
Quick Glance At What’s Ahead
▪ Run for BOO's Fall Semester Social Events Coordinator!
▪ Learning Oneg
▪ Chessed Kiddush - Sponsor Kiddush For Hunger Relief!
▪ Lost and Found
▪ BOO President Office Hours
▪ Bikkur Baskets!
▪ Chaburot This Week (through Thursday)
▪ Hillel’s Israel Week
▪ Yom Hazikaron
▪ Looking to See What You're Doing This Summer?
▪ Brandeis Genocide Awareness Month
▪ Senior Edition of Torat Emet
▪ Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals Fellowship
▪ Punk Jews Screening
▪ A Few More Spots Left in Uri L'Tzedek Summer Fellowship!
▪ WATCH Out 5k Run and Walk
▪ Shlomo Chevra! A Taste of "The Soul Doctor" Coming to Campus!
▪ Do You Like Pickles?
▪ Learners wanted for Shas Initiative
▪ Rachel's Rides
What’s New in B∙O∙O∙
Davening Times:
Mincha followed by Maariv: 7:30 PM
You can view Minyan times at www.booweb.org.
Everything You Need to Know
B∙O∙O∙ Announcements:
Run for BOO's Fall Semester Social Events Coordinator!
What's that? An open position on BOO Board?? Our current social events
coordinator has stepped down and we are looking to fill this spot. If you are
interested in being BOO's Social Events Coordinator for the Fall Semester of
2012, please submit your platform to Gali by 12 PM on Thursday, April 26th!
To view a sample platform and information about elections, click here. There
will be a Candidate's Forum on Saturday Night, April 28th following Havdala
(at approximately 8:40 PM) in International Lounge and elections will be
on Monday, April 30th during meal times in Sherman.
Any questions regarding this vacancy should be addressed to BOO President,
Kimmie Kfare. Questions about the elections can be directed to BOO Secretary
& Chief of Elections, Gali Gordon.
Learning Oneg
This Friday night there will be a learning oneg in the beit midrash! There will
be great chaburas and great food! More details to follow.
Chessed Kiddush - Sponsor Kiddush For Hunger Relief!
Not everyone gets to eat Kiddush. This week we will be tabling for the first
annual Chessed Kiddush, which will take place Shabbat, April 28th! How it
works: you sponsor Kiddush by bringing $3-$5 cash or check to one of the
tabling times, and get to request one food item of your choice. The Kiddush
Coordinators will do their best to fulfill your requests, and all money raised
will go to Mazon, a Jewish charity that is dedicated to preventing and
alleviating hunger. Learn more about Mazon here. Tabling will be happening
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 12-2 PM and 5-7 PM at Sherman. Help
BOO help out with this important cause. Questions? Contact Kiddush
Coordinators Jacob Agi or Leeyat Slyper.
Lost and Found
A men’s suit jacket was found after Maariv on Motzei Shabbat right outside
International Lounge. If it is yours or you know the owner please contact
Sarah Jaffe.
BOO President Office Hours
BOO President, Kimmie Kfare, is holding weekly office hours in Hillel Lounge
every Monday from 10:30-12 PM. Feel free to stop by with any questions or
suggestions, or just to spend some quality time with the president! And as
always, please feel free to contact Kimmie about anything at any time (even if
you can't make it to her office hours)!
Bikkur Baskets!
Know someone on campus who is feeling a little bit under the weather? Perk
them up with a BOO "Bikkur Basket," filled with various goodies to help your
friend get better at no cost to you! Just email the person's name, room
number, and any special message you would like to leave them to Rone and
she will have it taken care of!
BOO Education:
Chaburot This Week (through Thursday):
Zachor L’Miriam Chabura (Category: Mussar/Personality)
Tuesday, 8:15-9 PM
Given by: Daniel Kasdan
Iyun Talmud: Succah (Category: Gemorah)
Tuesday, 9-10 PM
Given by: Rabbi Kaplowitz
King David on Trial: Rabbinic Approaches to the Incident with
Batsheva (Category: Tanach)
Wednesday, 8-9 PM
Given by: Daniel Kasdan
Shabbat: A Day for the Soul (Category: Halacha)
Wednesday, 9-9:30 PM
Given by: Zevvy Goldish
Tehillim: Taamei Emet (Category: Tanach)
Wednesday, 9:30-10 PM
Given by: Nathan Young
What’s Brewing? (Category: Parsha)
Thursday, 10 AM at Einsteins and 5 PM at the Stein
Given by: Rabbi Kaplowitz
Parsha Learning with Eitan and Friends (Category: Parsha)
Thursday, 7:30-8 PM
Given by: Eitan Cooper
Fundamental Jewish Questions and Answers (Category: Philosophy)
Thursday, 8-8:30 PM
Given by: Dina Kritz
Pirkei Avot (Category: Mishna)
Thursday, 8:30-9 PM
Given by: Atara Chouake
Beit Midrash Hours
Thursday, 8:30-10 PM
Cooridinated by: Rabbi Kaplowitz
Mishmar
Thursday, 10 PM
Coordinated by: Alyssa Moore
Breakfast Club- The Crown of Torah: 48 Maalot
Sunday-Friday, 9 AM in Sherman Dining Hall
Given by: Sarah Jaffe, Nathan Young, and Zahava Guz
Shloshim Yom Kodem Hachag
Monday-Thursday, 1-1:15 PM in the Beit Midrash
Given by: Eitan Mosenkis
Other Information:
Hillel’s Israel Week
Come celebrate Israel with Hillel and the Brandeis Community!
We have a full week's worth of events with food, entertainment and more!
Attached is a flyer with all of the events! Be sure to check it out!
Yom Hazikaron
Yom Hazikaron, Israeli Remembrance Day, is an important day on the Jewish
calendar. BZA will be holding a commemoration for Israel's fallen soldiers on
Tuesday, April 24th at 9 PM in Pearlman Lounge. Please come join us, as well
as Professor Ilan Troen, Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies,
and Professor Michael Feige, Visiting Professor in the Schusterman Center for
Israel Studies and the Departments of Anthropology and Near Eastern &
Judaic Studies, to honor those who fell in Israel's many wars and in terror
attacks.
Looking to See What You're Doing This Summer?
Why not go to Israel (Jerusalem or BatYam)? Below is brief information about
the program. Click here for a youtube video about the program and click here
for the program website. "Spend your summer in Israel with Amirim, giving
back through community service! Amirim is your opportunity to experience
authentic Israeli life in Bat Yam or Jerusalem while giving back to the
community through meaningful volunteering options. The program gives
participants a structured yet independent framework, in which you will
volunteer four days per week at a non-profit organization in your area of
interest. Outside of volunteering, you will discover the Israeli landscape
through weekly trips and explore Israeli culture through fun and insightful
speakers, events, and learning opportunities. Make friends, expand your
global network and your resume while living in apartments with young adults
from North America, Israel, Europe, and Africa."
Brandeis Genocide Awareness Month
April is internationally accepted as a Genocide Awareness Month, and many
organizations on campus, including Hillel, Chaplaincy, BIG, and Amnesty have
put together a list of events on and off campus in which you can
participate. View all of the events here! Please take the time to stop and
reflect with our community at any of these events.
Senior Edition of Torat Emet
This week we are doing a Senior edition of Torat Emet. If any senior is
interested in writing a dvar Torah please email us. Also - if anyone (non-
seniors included) wants to write a SHOUT-OUT to a senior please email us by
Wednesday, April 25th. Thanks!
Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals Fellowship
This $600.00 paid fellowship is offered through the Institute for Jewish Ideas
and Ideals, which was founded by former RCA president Rabbi Marc Angel in
order to spread a vision of Orthodoxy that is vibrant, compassionate, and
inclusive. It's a very supportive arrangement: Campus Fellows get a stipend
of $300 per semester plus another $300 per semester for program supplies,
and the responsibilities include putting on just two events per semester about
issues affecting the Modern Orthodox community. It's a great way to get
resources behind students’ creative vision for the kind of conversations that
could be happening at Brandeis about Orthodoxy. The application, which is
due on Monday, May 7th, is available here.
Punk Jews Screening
This Tuesday, at 2:00 PM in Wasserman Cinematheque (in IBS) there will be
a screening of Punk Jews followed by a Q&A with Director Jesse Zook Mann &
Producer Evan Kleinman. Profiling Hassidic punk rockers, Yiddish street
performers, African-American Jewish activists and more, Punk Jews explores
an emerging movement of provocateurs and committed Jews who are asking,
each in his or her own way, what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century.
Jewish artists, activists and musicians from diverse backgrounds and
communities are defying norms and expressing their Jewish identities in
unconventional ways. In the process, they are challenging stereotypes and
breaking down barriers. Meet Yishai, lead singer of Moshiach Oi, the Sukkos
Mob of the New Yiddish Rep, the hipster Orthodox participants of Cholent, the
Amazing Amy Yoga Yenta, Kal Holczler founder of Voices of Dignity, and
African American Hassidic hip hop sensation Y-Love.
A Few More Spots Left in Uri L'Tzedek Summer Fellowship!
The Uri L’Tzedek Summer Fellowship is a transformative leadership program
that combines innovative social activism with leadership development and
Torah. This full-time, 6-week program, from June 22nd -August 3rd, is an
opportunity to work alongside Uri L'Tzedek's staff and board, experiencing
first-hand the many mechanisms that come together to create an effective
non-profit organization, gaining exposure to communal Jewish life, effecting
change, and learning Torah, social justice philosophy, and community
organizing models. This full-time, 6-week program runs from June 22nd-
August 3rd and includes two weekend experiences. You can fill out the
application HERE. For more information please contact David Bookbinder.
WATCH Out 5k Run and Walk
The WATCH Out 5k Run and Walk is coming up on Sunday, April 29th starting
at 10 AM! Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the Brandeis Box Office in
the SCC or AT THE RACE! The race will be raising money for WATCH'S EFAP
(Emergency Funds Assistance Program). The Waltham Alliance To Create
Housing (WATCH) is a tenant advocacy organization located in Waltham that
serves the low-income community in the greater Boston area. Hundreds of
Brandeis students have volunteered and interned at WATCH over the years in
the Housing Advocacy Clinic, offering support and connecting tenants to the
resources they lack. Many clients come to the clinic in need of emergency
housing assistance. We usually refer them to outside organizations, such as
the Lend a Hand Society, for emergency grants, but these organizations do
not always have funds available. In response to this funding problem, WATCH
has recently developed the EFAP (Emergency Funds Assistance Program) to
help provide emergency grants to those in desperate need. The demand for
this money is great and our funds are depleted. The residents of Waltham
have faced great hardships, and their stories are heartbreaking. We want to
provide this assistance to them because we want our community to know that
we are an organization that is there for them when they have nowhere else to
turn. This fundraiser is a great way for the Brandeis community to give back
to our neighbors in the Waltham community. Get involved!
Shlomo Chevra! A Taste of "The Soul Doctor" Coming to Campus!
Hear ye! Hear ye! Come one! Come all! On Monday, April 30th at 7 PM, be
sure to enthusiastically and promptly arrive at the Laurie Theater in Spingold
with a spring in your step, a smile from ear to ear, and ready to be
entertained at the Theater Department's Undergraduate Singing Party!
Excitingly, you will hear a sneak preview of some of the most inspiring music
from the next biggest Jewish Musical to come to Broadway since Fiddler on
the Roof -- "The Soul Doctor"! "The Soul Doctor" narrates the life of Shlomo
Carlebach, the most influential Jewish Singer of the 20th century, and features
all of his most famous melodies sung to new and inspiring English Words!
Don't miss your only chance to hear a taste of the music before "The Soul
Doctor" hits Broadway! Soloists of the Singing Party include: Dan Ding,
Géraldine Rothschild, Jade Sank, Hillary Schulman, Daniel Shimansky, Alli
Cohen, Lisa Berger, Katherine Peña, Jordan Brown, David Bernstein, Naomi
Bloch, and Kat Teeter!
Do You Like Pickles?
How 'bout organic farming and Jewish outdoor education? Do you know what
you are doing this summer? How about after you graduate? This week, your
friend and mine David Azer (`11) will be available to shmooze about being an
environmental educator with the Teva Learning Center, tilling the soil the
Torah way in the Adamah Fellowship, and other exciting opportunities within
the Jewish environmental movement. Come join us Monday at 9 PM in the
SCC (on the couches -- look for the people singing) or on Thursday at 9 PM in
the Beit Midrash (basement of Shapiro Dorm, Massel). For more information,
click here.
Learners wanted for Shas Initiative
Come and join the inter-collegiate Shas Initiative! Learn one Daf and join the
siyum and the wonders of learning Talmud!
Rachel's Rides
Going home for the summer? Don't pay the crazy fees for a taxi to the airport
or train station. Use Rachel's Rides instead! Rachel's Rides, run by Brandeis
student Rachel Karpoff, provides affordable transportation around the Boston
area. Click here to book a ride.
Drivers Wanted:
Rachel's Rides is looking for students with cars to take over the business next
year. Email info@rachelsrides.com for more information on how to join the
Rachel's Rides team. Rachel's Rides: The affordable way to travel.
Need A Study Break?
-Chessed of the Week: (provided by Rone) Donate to the Chessed Kiddush
this week!
-Question of the Week: What is your favorite time of the day?
- Check out the Member of the Week!
Want to make one of your friends MOTW? Send a blurb to Gali Gordon!
Meet the BOO Board of 2012:
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President- Kimmie Kfare 203-461-2811
Vice President- Dana Kandel 561-376-8070
Treasurer- Micah Lehmann 410-978-8855
Secretary-Gali Gordon 508-654-4010
Publicity Coordinator- Sarah Eagle 914-393-0432
Social Events Coordinator- Ilana Rosenbaum 914-874-3195
Education Coordinator- Aaron Wengrofsky 516-776-8437
Chesed Coordinator- Rone Ohayon 330-730-0922
Beit Midrash Coordinator- Nathan Young 860-422-3382
Gabbai- Rafi Abramowitz 973-803-6559
First-Year Representatives- Yael Annis 781-530-8886 and Perri Lurie
310-592-2854
Learn how to get involved in BOO here! For all other important BOO
information check us out at www.booweb.org.
Please send blurbs in for midweek announcements by Monday at 4 PM, and
for Shabbat announcements by Thursday at 4 PM to Sarah Eagle. Thanks!