Friday, February 05, 2010

Scholar-in-Residence:  Rabbi Menachem Schrader

February 5th-6th
Rabbi Menachem Schrader is the Founding Director of JLIC

TOPIC: Action, Thought and Feeling in Mitzvot: Rav Soloveitchik's Perspective

Rabbi Schrader studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion for two years. He returned to the States where he obtained his BA in Philosophy from Yeshiva University and an MA in History at NYU. Rabbi Schrader also studied in the RIETS Kollel and received his smichah there in 1978. Before becoming the head of the Alisa Flatow Program at Nishmat, Rabbi Schrader was one of the prominent teachers at Yeshivat Hamivtar in Jerusalem and Efrat for twenty-five years. He has taught Talmud, Bible, and Halachah in all of these yeshivot. Rabbi Schrader was the Founding Director of the Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus, and is still involved in this organization. He is also a consultant to the Jewish Chaplaincy of the United Kingdom. For the last ten years he has been the Rav of the Congregation Tiferet Avot in Efrat.

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Shabbat Schedule for Johns Hopkins

Friday Night:
Orthodox Services: 5:00 (MPR)
Israel Discussion: 5:00 (Upstairs Classroom)
Dinner: 6:00 p.m (Hillel Commons)

Saturday:
Orthodox Services: 9:30 (MPR)
Lunch: 12:00 (Hillel Commons)

Smokler Center for Jewish Life: 3109 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Shabbat at Rutgers

Friday night:
Candle lighting is at 5:02
Kabalat Shabbat is at 5:30 followed by Maariv
Dinner is at 6:30 at Brower
After dinner come to the Poraths' (39 Central) for a very special Tisch from 9-11pm

Shabbos day:
Shacharit is at 9:30 followed by Kiddush and a shiur with Rabbi Porath
Mincha is at 4:55 followed by Maariv and Havdalah (Shabbos ends at 6:05pm)

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Shabbat Schedule for Penn

Friday:

5:06pm - Candlelighting

5:10pm - Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat (2nd Floor Hillel)



Shabbat:
9:00am - Shacharit

4:55pm - Mincha followed by Seudah Shlishit
6:08pm - Maariv followed by Havdallah
8:00pm - Pennoply (Shotel Dubin Auditorium)

Challah for Hunger
Don't forget to pick up a delicious, freshly-baked challah for Shabbat! We will be selling challah on Locust Walk from 11:00AM - 2:00PM and in the Hillel Lobby from 12:00 - 1:30 PM. For more information, email upenn@challahforhunger.org.

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Shabbat Schedule for Princeton

CANDLE LIGHTING
Candle lighting time is 5:04, and sunset: is 5:22.

MINYAN TIMES
Friday Mincha: 5:10
Shabbat Shacharit: 9:15
Shabbat Mincha: 4:55
Shabbat Maariv: 6:13

PARSHA CLASS - Rabbi Wolkenfeld will be teaching a parsha class after Maariv. Presumably it's about this week's parsha.

KIDDUSH - Kiddush this week is sponsored by Yair Furstenburg in honor of his children's birthdays.

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Shabbat at Brandeis

Friday Night
4:45 PM- BOO Mincha in International Lounge
4:46 PM- Candle lighting
5:04 PM- Shekia
5:48 PM- Tzeis
6:15 PM- Hillel Dinner in Upper Sherman Functional Hall
9:30 PM- BOO Tisch hosted by Lev HaTorah and Yachad

Shabbat Day
9:00 AM- BOO Shacharit in International Lounge
9:26 AM- Sof zman krias shema
10:17 AM- Sof zman tefillah
11:59 AM- Chatzos
1:30 PM- Shiur by Rabbi Kwalwasser in the Beit Midrash
4:25 PM- BOO Mincha International Lounge
5:05 PM- Shekia
5:49 PM- Shabbat ends

This Week
Mincha/Maariv is at 4:50 PM in Berlin Chapel
Late Maariv is at 10:00 PM in the Beit Midrash

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Friday, February 05, 2010

BOO Tisch hosted by Lev HaTorah and Yachad

9:30 PM in the Lurias
Come join Lev HaTorah and Yachad for cholent, Torah, singing, and schmoozing with our guests! Come to the Lurias (Upper Sherman) at 9:30 PM!

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Shabbat at Cornell

Friday Night, February 5:
Meet and Greet: 5:15--ATH Lobby
Orthodox: 5:07--ATH Edwards Room
Reform: 5:25--ATH Founders' Room
Conservative: 5:25--ATH Moosewood Cafe
Table Minyan: 5:30--314 Anabel Taylor
Friday Night Parsha Club: After Orthodox Services (around 5:55)--CJL Piano Room
Candle Lighting: 5:07 PM

Dinner Check-in: 6:30 at 104West!
Dinner Starts: 7:00 at 104West!

Saturday, February 6:
Shacharit: 9:15 AM--ATH Edwards Room
Shiur by Rabbi Jason Leib: Inter-Bibal Commentary: 11:45 AM--CJL Piano Room
Lunch: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM--104West!
Mincha: 4:55 PM--CJL Shul
Seudat Shelishit at 104West! to follow Mincha.
Arvit: 6:05 PM--CJL Shul
Shabbat Ends: 6:10 PM

Times for this week:
Shacharit, Sunday: 8:30 AM--CJL Shul
Shacharit, Monday/Thursday: 7:40 AM
Shacharit, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 7:45 AM
Mincha/Maariv: 5:15 PM--CJL Shul

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Friday Night Parsha Club

When: After Friday night services--around 5:55 PM
Where: CJL Piano room

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Friday, February 05, 2010

ONEG @ the KOHL’S!

Come for homemade desserts, (rice krispie treats, chulent and more) singing, friends, in a great atmosphere, we look forward to welcoming you to our home after dinner!
7510 Hopkins ave, apt #3
(from route 1, walk down college and make a left on Hopkins, last building on the left)

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Baltimore Jewish Times: A College Park Shabbat

February 5, 2010
Naomi Kohl
Special to the Jewish Times

A major feature of the Orthodox Union’s Heshe and Harriet Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus program—which is found on 15 major campuses in the United States and Canada, including the University of Maryland in College Park—is Friday night Shabbos dinner, in which the young rabbi and his wife who run the program (the Torah Educators, as they are known), invite students to share their table and Shabbat joy with them. This happens week after week, throughout the academic year. At Maryland, Rabbi Eli and Naomi Kohl open their doors to their students. In the following report, Naomi explains how it is done – and what the benefits are, to the students and to the Kohl family.

To make a great Shabbos meal you need three cups of energy, a spoonful of spirit, and a teaspoon of love. Monday morning in the Hillel dining hall is when we begin our weekly preparations. Between a chavrusa (a one-on-one student session) and a casual shmooze with a student, I keep a watchful eye as I mentally prepare an invitation list. If I don’t strike quickly an upperclassmen may extend an invitation and it may be months before that particular student may grace our Shabbat table. The University of Maryland is home to more than 400 Orthodox students and we try to have them all over for a meal, at some point during their college experience.

Friday is when the games begin. I hustle twenty minutes to Silver Spring, drop my two-year-old son, Yisrael, off at school and then proceed to the kosher establishments in town, to procure my ingredients. After purchasing these goodies I hurry back to College Park to begin cooking. My husband watches our six-month-old baby girl, Shira, while I slice, dice and mash the ingredients, occasionally with the assistance of a helpful student. Many Fridays it seems like I won’t beat the clock, but I always end up finishing just before the buzzer sounds. I breathe a sigh a of relief when I light the Shabbos candles, as my husband goes off to shul for four hours for davening, learning and the famed Hillel social hour.

The Magic Number:
Eli returns home with 12-15 students, the magic number. This ensures that our group is small enough to fit around our table and that we can all participate in one conversation. There are always one or two more students than originally expected, due to my husband’s over-inviting disorder, which Hakodosh Baruch Hu (the Holy One, Blessed Be He) matched nicely, with my over-cooking disorder. The avirah (atmosphere) is a very homey experience—that is what the students smell, taste and feel when they come over.

They are greeted from outside by our son, who is patiently waiting by the window for his “friends” to come over. Many students are looking for a home away from home and we feel privileged to help provide that during their college years. During these years students are making many crucial life decisions. They are asking themselves, “Who will I marry and how will that shape my future; what will my home look like; what will my Shabbat and religious experiences be when I am an adult?” Perhaps this is why we view the Shabbat experience with students as the most important interaction we will have with them.

By modeling a Jewish home that has a mezuzah, Shabbos candles and Jewish books, filling our Shabbos table with song, soup, and spirituality, we hope to inspire students to continue to strive towards a lifestyle infused with Torah values and meanings. We feel responsible to model a Jewish family for students, as we may be a reference point for future relationships they may have. To foster a sense of family we invite groups of students who are friendly with each other. If they are comfortable with each other, they will feel more at ease in our home. As friends they may already know each other well, yet we feel it is important to have our trademark parsha-themed ice breakers. They serve as a way of infusing the table with Torah, in a non- threatening way, and give the students an opportunity to say what’s on their minds.

Students are always afraid that when they go to their “rabbi’s house” they will be grilled on the parsha and their lives. Our approach is a way to break down those barriers and to connect the Torah to their lives. For example: on Parshat Miketz with Yosef’s dreams, we would ask, what’s a crazy dream you once had, or what are your dreams and aspirations; on Lech Lecha, their trials and tribulations.

While fish, soup and salad satiate some, there is not a hungry soul at the table when the meat, chicken and deli roll are done. The conversations vary as do the crowds—some want to talk about pop culture, social networks, high school stories or Israel adventures; others like to hear the rabbi’s philosophical views on a slew of geopolitical issues and old war stories from his childhood in Brooklyn; while others like to read our children their favorite stories on the couch. Many students offer their help to serve the food; what I most enjoy is the opportunity it provides to have one-on-one conversations with students I rarely have the time for during the week.

It’s Oneg Time!
As the meal seems to be winding down, we hear a knock at the door and are greeted with a burst of energy. Once a month, 60 or more additional students battle the elements to get a taste of our Friday night cholent and desserts as well as an unbeatable dose of spirituality which carries into the week. Students come from all across the country to be a part of the incredible community that exists at Maryland. Many are from Baltimore and Silver Spring but just as many come from New York, New Jersey, Florida, Chicago, California, Atlanta and more. Our onegs often begin as hip hop music is blaring from the fraternity house next door. As many as 100 Jewish souls may combat those tunes with niggunim of our own, and the fragrant scent of Oneg Shabbos suppresses the aromatic fragrances that are often found on a college campus.

For many students, we are able to provide this oasis that they crave and reawaken a slumbering spirit that may have become stagnant from the mounds of school work. Our onegs are sprinkled with inspiring stories and thoughts as many of our students are eager to share their thoughts with each other, and to encourage their peers to continue striving towards goals they may have set for themselves as they were leaving for their year in Israel. We try to pause these moments to remind ourselves why exactly we moved to the middle of a college campus, but as we embrace the last of our students close to 1:00 am and receive our final thank you, we are sure there is no place we would rather be than at the University of Maryland!

Naomi Kohl, and her husband, Rabbi Eli Kohl, run the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus program at the University of Maryland-College Park.

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Murder Mystery Shabbaton

Check out the advertisement here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqnUBeMlsvg

Not more of "the same old Shabbaton." Join us for a spine tingling murder, deception and hopefully catching the bad guy, all in one Shabbos.

Register at ocshabbaton.com or on the BChillel website, bchillel.org
Mincha - 5PM Followed by Ma'ariv
Dinner - 6PM
Shachris - 9:30 W/ Sushi Kiddush @ Rabbi's House - 3202 Avenue M
Lunch - 12:30 @ Hillel - 2901 Campus Road
Special Guest Speaker
Sedua Shlishit - 4:45 @ Rabbi's House - 3202 Avenue M

Prices:
Dinner: $12
Lunch: $12
Both Meals: $20

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Yachad Shabbaton

Host a Yachad member during the Shabbaton

The annual Yachad Shabbaton is coming up! Adults with disabilities from the Jewish community will be joining us for Shabbat. Hosts, advisors, and meals needed! If you are interested in hosting/advising a Yachad member, donating meals, or helping out with the Shabbaton, please contact Alyssa Moore at amoore@brandeis.edu.

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Friday, February 05, 2010

OU representative on campus this Shabbat

This week, Scott Shulman, an OU representative will be on campus. He is the associate director of alumni connections and connects NCSY and JSU alums to college programming on campus. He also runs Israel Free Spirit, the OU's Birthright trip. Contact him this weekend at Brandeis for any questions about either program!

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Lev HaTorah Shabbaton at Brandeis!

On Shabbat, Rabbi Kwalwasser of Yeshivat Lev HaTorah will be visiting Brandeis. The Yeshivas Alumni will be flowing into Brandeis for this Shabbat and Rav Kwalwasser will be hosting the BOO Tisch Friday night and be giving a shiur Shabbat day. Look our for the Shabbaton this weekend!

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