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NUJLS Annual Conference 2008!

2007-11-19T20:40:20Z

Calling all trans, bisexual, lesbian, gay, intersex, queer, questioning, dyke, fag, genderqeeer, heteroflexible, homoflexible, boi, girrl, pansexual, _____ (fill in your own) Jewish students!

Registration for the National Union of Jewish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Intersex, Students 2008 conference is open!

Where: New York City!
When: Friday February 8th- Sunday February 10th 2008
What: A weekend leadership to support and empower LGBTQQI Jewish students organized by Jewish LBTQQI students!
Who: Anyone who self-identifies as Jewish and LGBTQQI (and more!)
Hosts: Columbia/Barnard Hillel’s Gayava will host NUJLS 2008 at Columbia University and her affiliate campuses: Barnard College and The Jewish Theological Seminary.

The world around us is changing and its effects on LGBTQQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Intersex) Jews in our political, religious, and personal lives are far-reaching. This year's NUJLS conference seeks to explore the changes in our world- both globally and within ourselves.

~The political climate in North America and in Israel has changed. Some changes are glorious others are volatile. LGBTQQI people and issues are front and center in a way we never have been before.

~The way in which LGBTQQI people are viewed and treated within a spectrum of religious communities has changed. Of particular note is the recent shift in policy of the Conservative Movement of Judaism but it is not this alone. Many Christian denominations, alongside Orthodox and Reform Jewish leaders, are also actively re-examining the role of LGBTQQI people in their communities.

~ The way in which young LGBTQQI people live in the world has changed. We are coming out younger, louder, and in greater numbers. The world around us has changed. Thank goodness.

This year, more than any in recent memory, serves as an opportunity to confront what these changes mean to each one of us no matter how we identify in either the LGBTQQI or the Jewish community. NUJLS 2008: A Time of Change, seeks to put forth a relevant, vibrant, and contemporary conference in which participants will embrace and explore, personally and communally, the changes our world has presented us and the changes we choose to present to our world.

To register for the conference go to http://www.nujlsonline.org/conference.php and click register now!

The registration fee will be announced shortly, but will be under $80. This amount includes food, housing, workshops, etc. (Everything but travel). Travel and registration subsides are available (to start the process, request them during registration).

Also, we invite you to lead a workshop or service or ask your local shul/Temple/Synagogue to sponsor.

If you have any questions email me (Vinny) at info(at)nujlsonline(dot)org.

:)

X-Posted to ftmstudents, nujls, one_in_a_minyan, transyouth, genderqueer. Please distribute freely :)

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

2007-10-10T14:41:18Z

I am working on an art project about the book "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" by Judy Blume. This book had a huge impact on my growing up Jewish, suburban and female. Did it change growing up for you? If so, please fill out this short questionnaire. If you have any questions or comments, or, if you would like a collection of excerpts to jog your memory, feel free to e-mail me at pocketsbuttons@gmail.com . thanks! -lauren

1. Your first name:
2. How old you were when you first read this book:
3. Do you remember any passages specifically?
4. Do you remember any of the places where you read this book?
5. Do you remember anything you learned from this book?
6. Please describe the front cover of the copy you read, if you can remember.
7. How does thinking about this book make you feel now that you're a little bit older?

birthright question

2007-03-07T22:54:15Z

I recently registered for birthright through hillel for the summer. paid my deposit, all that jazz.

When will I find out if I'm on the trip or not? I'm trying to apply for summer jobs but I need to let them know when I'll be available.

thanks!

hillel @ 2006-12-15T01:56:00

2006-12-15T05:56:58Z

hello shalom!

i have a sort of strange question for this community. a friend of mine (goyim) and i (german jewish descent) were talking, and i noticed that he had some semblance of payos (hasidic curls) in development under his short hair. i was always under the assumption that payos were a 'jewish thing', like in a bloodline or something. have i been completely wrong my whole life?

cheers, and thanks for listening to (reading?) my strange question.

Jewish Women's Torah learning online!!

2006-12-14T17:58:37Z

WOMEN LEARNING TORAH!!!

LIVE INTERACTIVE ONLINE COURSES WITH WORLD RENOWNED TEACHERS!!!

REBBETZIN TZIPORA HELLER
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RABBI HANOCH TELLER
RABBI AVISHAI DAVID

DIRECT FROM ISRAEL!!!!!

CHECK IT OUT!!!!!

www.naaleh.com

Help for a Grad Student?

2006-06-11T22:08:46Z

Hello, Hillel Livejournallers! My name is Kris and am currently a graduate student at Northwestern University, where I research student digital culture. I am running a research project now that surveys college students about their use of social networking software - Facebook, MySpace, Livejournal, etc, - and am looking for students to participate.

Do you have 10 minutes and a keen desire to have your (anonymous) opinion count? Or, do you have 10 minutes and a little sympathy for a broke grad. student whose completed thesis is apparently due in less than two months? The survey can be found here and I would really appreciate it if you would click through and complete it.

Thank you so much for your time!

Hillel Schusterman International Center Fellows?

2006-05-01T03:34:28Z

Is anyone on this community by chance one of the 2006-2007 SIC Hillel Fellows?

I was just hired to be a Communications Associate at the SIC once I graduate and just wanted "meet" the new fellows before I start.

2006-2007 JCSC Fellows

2006-04-15T08:46:18Z

Hillelers-
this is just a simple role call for all you new jcsc fellows out there in the lj world.
-a

ps: this is the very proud new ucsd jcsc, btw

hillel @ 2006-03-07T18:32:00

2006-03-08T02:34:33Z

this is for all the other prospective jcscs out there...

is anyone else a little disapointed in the list of hillels offering the fellowship for next year? i mean, c'mon! where is berkeley, UT-Austin, UWashington, Michigan, UNLV, etc.

discuss...

Israeli-Palestinian issues at Goucher

2006-03-07T22:20:45Z

Hi everyone, this is my first time posting here, though I've been following the community for awhile, now.
My name is Abby, I'm a senior at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD, and I am Vice President of my school's Hillel. There's an issue on my campus right now and I thought I'd seek out some opinions from you guys.

Right now, the very first thing you see at www.goucher.edu is publicity for a talk tomorrow, entitled, "Life in Occupied Palestine," and includes one of the many images being shown on campus to illustrate an oppressed people. Given that this is known to be a controversial, political issue, and that for this very reason Goucher's largest student organization - Hillel, that is - has turned down a co sponsership offer, is it out of line for me to believe that putting this on Goucher's homepage is a tad inappropriate? It is true that people have the right to hold such programming, and to publicize it as they wish on their own. However, anything on a college or university's website is supposed to reflect the school as a whole, and today my friend/fellow Hillel board member heard from a Jewish prospective student who said that the current webpage was actually enough to turn her away from Goucher. I don't blame her. Why would anyone whose views are not in line with what is to be presented tomorrow afternoon be compelled to attend a school where there is pressue to accept the said views? I thought that this campus was about diversity, because Goucher's (Jewish) president makes a huge deal about it.

Just last week, Hillel hosted a widely cosponsered talk/event entitled "Unspoken Voices," which dealt with non-political Israeli issues. It was an Arab, Muslim Bedouin who came to our campus to speak about his status as a minority in Israel, and ended up answering questions pertaining to what it is like to live in a violent climate, and how life goes on, etc. etc. Not only did the academic departments and peace organizations who cosponsered us not show up, but now one of them has an Israel-related issue which is NOT cultural, but rather political, has their one-sided and controversial event publicized on Goucher's homepage. And I say that it is not cultural because 1. they don't advertise it as so, and 2. unlike our recent speaker, the woman coming to speak is an American who happened to live in Gaza for a year. So what irritates me especially is this: Why did all of the publicity responsibility fall on Hillel's shoulders when meanwhile, another organization's partially-related program is given so much more publicity and academic influence? why did our cosponsers not encourage their members to attend "Unspoken Voices," why did no one from the said cosponsers show up, and why is it that only the far-left opinion is represented on Goucher's homepage, when it wouldn't be inappropriate for Goucher to advocate any political opinion/agenda at all?

Just some thoughts. My friend who I mentioned earlier writing a letter to several people at our school, now that she's heard from that prospective. Good for her... I don't know if I could do it though. I'm just not aggressive enough.

Birthright trip

2006-02-21T18:52:38Z

So has anyone else either gone on the birthright trip, or gone on one very recently? I need some advice about it... because I'm very very highly considering going (i've turned in my application... gotten the interview) but i can't seem to convince my parents to let me go (it's not like i need their permission, I'm 22, but i'd like them to accept the fact that i'm going, etc.) any good advice on how to win my parents over? am i nuts to want to go over there this coming May?

x-posted

PiFest 2006

2006-02-15T18:58:55Z

spitzer

2006-02-13T19:34:56Z

who here is excited for Spitzer?
i know i am!

-a

hillel @ 2006-01-17T01:28:00

2006-01-17T06:28:14Z

A website just has been set up for the Jews at Georgetown, the place of the conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement.

http://jewsforgeorgetown.com/

Those who want to show support should sign the guest book.

The Palestian Solidarity Movement

2006-01-15T10:25:02Z

The Palestinian Solidarity Movement is planning their annual conference for this February to be held at Georgetown University. (If you want to know more you can google georgetwon psm). My question is, is anybody organizing anything? I want to try to organize something to bring people down there from CT, but I would like to find out if anybody is already on the case?

For those unfamiliar: The PSM is an umbrella organization that connects various U.S. and Canadian groups; its yearly gathering offers an opportunity for the constituent elements to establish a visible presence on a prestigious university campus and plan strategy and tactics for a movement dedicated to delegitimizing the state of Israel. Over the past several years, the convocation has been held at Ohio State, the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley. In October, it was the turn of Duke University.

And:
At the last conference held at Duke University in 2004, Huwaida Arraf, one of the PSM's main organizers, admitted that the Palestine Solidarity Movement works with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Please, if anybody knows of anybody who is organizing something let me know. Thanks.

Temple Hillel

2005-12-24T00:23:56Z

Is anyone here a member of Hillel at Temple University in Philadelphia?

I have started a Hillel club at Jewish Connection for all Jewish college students in the Philly/Jesey/Delaware area. This is really helpful, especially if you are looking for a job upon graduation because there is a classifieds page on Jewish Connection you can look through for jobs or internships.

http://www.JewishConnection.com

Jewish Composers' Concert

2005-12-10T23:22:21Z

Wednesday, December 14, 6pm, @ Boston University's College of Fine Arts.
Tickets are $5 for students, $15 for adults.
It's going to be one hour packed with really good, diverse music all composed by Jews! The musical styles range from Musical Theatre (West Side Story) to poetry by Petrarca set to contemporary classical music.
Please let me know in advance if you'd like a ticket (or more) reserved for you.

A D'var Torah for this week

2005-11-24T05:33:02Z

I wrote the following D'var Torah for my school's weekly D'var Torah email. I figure I might as well share it here too:

B'H

What is Love? - Chayei Sarah 5766 - Chaim Reuven Peck

This week's Torah Portion contains the second mention of love in the Torah (the first being the love between Avraham and his son Yitzchak [1]).

First, a quick overview of what is happening here: The Torah Portion begins with Avraham securing a burial plot for his wife, Sarah. After this, Avraham goes on to finding a wife for his son Yitzchak. He sends his servant, Eliezer to his (Avraham's) land. Eliezer takes an oath and goes. When he arrives, he stands by a well and prays for a sign that the next woman to walk by will be the one designated for Yitzchak. Before he finishes praying, Rivkah walks to the well. Eliezer asks her for a sip of water and she gives water not only to him, but to his camels - the very sign that Eliezer prayed for, and a demonstration of Rivkah's innate kindness. After a long dialogue, Rivkah goes back with Eliezer to Yizchak. And now we are up to speed...

The verse with the first mention of love between a man and woman, so far in the Torah, is "And Yitzchak brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother; he married Rivkah, she became his wife, and he loved her; and Yitzchak was consoled after his mother." [2] This is the first time the Torah is using this word "love" - "Ahavah" in regard to a man and woman, as well as the second time, total in the Torah. There must be something important that we can learn from this about the nature of love. Our question is: What does the Torah mean when it says "Ahavah" - "love"?

While this question may be enough, we will add a second question to help us understand the concept of "love" even further. In order to ask our second question, we need to look at a comment made by the Torah commentator, Rabbi Ya'akov Ba'al HaTurim. The Ba'al HaTurim notes that the specific form of the word "love" used in the verse in this week's Torah Portion is only used in one other place in the entire Tanach [ibid.]. It says elsewhere "And Amnon loved her" [3] referring to Amnon's feelings for his sister Tamar, before he tricked and then raped her - a stark contrast to the love between Yitzchak and Rivkah. After the rape incident is described, it says that Amnon hated his sister more than he had originally loved her [4]. The Ba'al HaTurim writes: "There, the love was dependent on an external factor; therefore it ceased. Here, however, [Yitzchak's] love for [Rivkah] was not dependant on an external factor; therefore it never ceased." In other words, the exact same form of the word "love" found in both places is to allude to this contrast between the two distinct and diametrically opposite forms of Ahavah - love. So, if the Torah speaks of "Ahava" in two very different contexts, what makes them both "love" (as opposed to calling one "lust" or "infatuation" and the other "love")?

To start to understand this, we can look more closely at the order of events in the verse from this week's Torah Portion: "she became his wife, and he loved her" [2]. First she became his wife, and then he loved her. This might seem to be out of order. It may even seem foolish to marry somebody without having feelings of "love" for them. I think that this idea is almost universally accepted in American society - "first comes love, then comes marriage" - right? For Jews, however we don't believe this is necessarily the case. Often Jewish couples will meet and decide after a few weeks of dating that they are compatible, and only start to develop a deep everlasting love for each-other during their marriage. This does not have to be the case always, but as we will soon see what it means to truly love, it is likely that true love comes after marriage more often than it may seem.

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan writes [5]:
Of course, just because love is powerful, it does not mean that it is supposed to be blind. Marriage is the most important decision that a person will make in his or her life, and it is a decision that must be made with open eyes. One must know whom one is marrying, and be certain that there are no faults that will doom the marriage to failure. Advice must be sought and heeded. But then, once the open-eyed commitment for marriage has been made, love gives it a powerful foundation. A couple who are in love when they marry are building their marriage on the same foundation on which the entire Jewish nation was built.

But sometimes a marriage feels "right" even when there is no strong love. A couple may still feel that they should get married. In such a case, love can also grow after marriage. Even when the couple is in love before marriage, the love that develops after marriage is much deeper. It becomes a love where two people are totally sensitive to each other, and where neither can imagine life without the other. It is a love that comes from building a family - and a life - together.

So, in the case of Yitzchak and Rivkah, the Torah first mentions that they were married and then love entered the picture, in support of this idea that love is something that is to be developed. We know from the long description of Eliezer going to find Rivkah after taking an oath from Avraham to find a specific woman and his praying for a sign, as well as the long dialogue with Rivkah's brother that they did not go into this marriage blindly. Rather, a great deal of reason went into it. They were able to first get married and understand that together they would be able to develop love, which is precisely what happened.

True love takes time to develop. This idea is supported even further by the verse "When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out to the army, nor shall he be given any responsibility; he shall remain free for his house for one year, and he shall gladden the woman he married." [6] It is so important to spend this first year of marriage developing this love that even when Israel maintained armies to defend it's borders, the process of developing this love came first [5]. Now, we can look more deeply at what this "love" that Yitzchak and Rivkah developed after their marriage and how it relates to our own relationships.

Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ulman writes the following [7]:
The Hebrew word for love is Ahava, the root of which is Hav, which means to give. Only through mutual giving can a couple achieve true love. Furthermore, the gematria (numerical equivalent) of Ahava is 13, and so is that of Echad (one). From here we see that a couple achieves unity only through love and giving; if each only takes from the other, they will never unite but always remain separate. In fact, the commandment "Love your fellow as you love yourself" also applies to husband-wife relationships. The Talmudic rabbis taught: "One must love his wife like himself, and honor and respect her more than himself." Once Rabbi Aryeh Levin’s wife felt pain in her foot. They went to the doctor together whereupon the doctor asked, "What can I do for you?" Rabbi Levin answered in all sincerity, "Doctor my wife’s leg is hurting us.

So, love is an extreme expression of giving. We see this expressed in the love of a parent to a child. When a parent loves a child, there is nothing expected in return. The love is an act of giving entirely for it's own sake. We find stories of people who lift cars to save their children trapped underneath. True Ahavah is powerful. It says in Song of Songs "Love is a as strong as death... many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." [8]

If this is the case - that true Ahava is this powerful expression of giving - then what are we to make of the extreme opposite case of Amnon raping his sister Tamar, not only using the same word "Ahavah", but using the exact same form of the word (V'Ye'ehaveha)? How can this word that expresses an extreme form of giving and unity and so many good things, also be used to express the feeling of Amnon that led him to rape his sister Tamar?

Our answer can be found in the Ba'al HaTurim's comment. He writes regarding the incident of Amnon and Tamar that "there the love was dependent on an external factor". The Ba'al HaTurim is referring to a mishnah in Pirke Avos that says "Any love that is dependent on an external factor, if that factor is nullified, the love is nullified." [9] Amnon's love was in fact a genuine form of "love" and it was very strong. The single monumental difference that it had with the case of Yitzchak and Rivkah was that it was based on an external factor.

So, what was this factor? On what did Amnon base his love of Tamar?

Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld writes [10]:
The object of Amnon's love was not Tamar; it was himself. He wanted to satisfy his own physical urges. And, as the commentator Rabbeinu Yonah points out, once that was taken care of, his attraction instantly evaporated - into hatred and disgust, revealing itself as the nothingness it has always been. Love based upon external factors, whether lust, money or prestige, is ultimately selfish rather than selfless.

Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian points out an even more common example of this type of selfish love [11]. If somebody says "I love fish", does that mean that he really loves fish? If so, why does he catch the fish with a sharp painful hook, cut it up, cook it, and eat it. Obvious he don't really love the fish, but rather loves himself. He loves the way the fish makes me feel (i.e. he enjoys the taste of the fish), and therefore says that he loves the fish. We are assured by our Sages that this type of love will not last.

The Torah is coming to teach us a huge idea from Yitzchak and Rivkah. We find that there exists such a form of love that can exist between a man and woman that is based on nothing external - that is boundless and will last forever. This is not necessarily something obvious. We may have had limited access to experiencing this type of love in our family life, but here in college we may become lost in hearing stories of various relationships, or from our own dating experiences. The concept of everlasting love can be very distant to us. We may even become frustrated and think that love has only one dimension. When this happens, we can look to our Torah Portion - to our foremother and forefather, Yitzchak and Rivkah - Isaac and Rebecca, and find that love can truly be everlasting.

We are still be left with a question about this true everlasting love, however. Where does it come from? How does it develop? It's good to know that it exists, but it is still distant from us, unless we have some idea how we can achieve it.

Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld continues [11]:
My teacher Rabbi Yochanan Zweig asked a very simple question: How could a love not depend upon anything, as our mishna states? If so, why do these two people love each other? What caused or brought about their attachment in the first place? Is the ideal somehow that we love others for no reason? What kind of love is that?
Rabbi Zweig explained that to be sure, initially people form a bond because of some attraction. Love at first is always dependent upon something - whether common experiences, common interests, or even physical attraction. But true love transcends this. True love occurs - again in the Jewish sense albeit wholly at odds with the secular, sensational image - when the two parties have grown so close to one another, have shared so much together, that their love no longer needs external prodding or stimulation. In fact it may become strongest when the physical urges are less dominant in their feelings for one another - when their feelings for each other become entirely selfless. By sharing their lives and experiences with each other, by giving to each other and growing together, a couple merges into a single entity, caring more about the other - and about the whole - than the individual.

So, now we see how everlasting love is attainable. From this, we can note something fascinating. We see that dependent love is actually necessary in developing this true everlasting love. Now we can explain why the Torah specifically uses the same form of the word "love" in describing these two distinctly different cases of love. We can the define the complete "love package", containing this self-love that is necessary be overcome, in order that we achieve the everlasting love that we see in the case of Yitzchak and Rivkah. The dependent love is an essential stepping stone in finding everlasting love. May we all be successful in finding and personally understanding this everlasting love.

I wish you all a restful Shabbos to end off the Thanksgiving break.

Sources:

1: Bereishis 22:2
2: Bereishis 24:67
3: Shmuel II 13:1
4: Shmuel II 13:14
5: Aryeh Kaplan - Made in Heaven, pp. 14-15
6: Devarim 24:5
7: Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman - Ohr Somayach, Ask the Rabbi, Love, http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/1118
8: Shir HaShirim 8:6,7
9: Avos 5:19
10: Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld - Torah.org, Pirke Avos: http://www.torah.org/learning/pirkei-avos/chapter5-19.html
11: Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian - Lev Eliyahu, vol.1, pp. 254-5; Rabbi Pliskin's "Consulting the Wise"

January KOACH Birthright Trip

2005-11-17T01:23:03Z

Is anyone else going on the Birthright trip with KOACH in January? I'm going on this trip and I know one other person on LJ that's going but I'd love to connect with anyone else! :) This will be my first trip to Israel and I'm so excited!!

(x-posted to birthright_)

hillel @ 2005-11-07T22:31:00

2005-11-08T06:31:56Z

I found this and I'm trying to spread it around. Please read and I hope you'll sign the petition. All that's required is your name and e-mail.

A CALL TO ACTION: URGE UN TO ACT AGAINST TYRANNICAL TEHRAN REGIME

History has taught us the bitter lesson to never again be silent when tyrants threaten genocide against the Jewish people.

Last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, (pictured left), reiterated his call that "Israel must be wiped off the map." In response, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and many world leaders condemned these threats. We must now ensure that those denouncements are backed up by action.

Next week, Secretary-General Annan travels to Iran to meet with the government’s top leadership, including President Ahmadinejad. Mr. Annan’s goals of defusing Mideast tensions and persuading Iran not to go nuclear will be hurt, not helped, if he fails to directly confront Iranian leaders for threatening Israel’s existence.

For decades, the United Nations has always rushed to condemn Israel with resolution after resolution, but it has yet to take specific action against Tehran on its threat of genocide. Why is there no action against Iran?

On the eve on of Mr. Annan’s departure to Tehran, we therefore ask you to join with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, by clicking here, and demanding that the Security Council, General Assembly, Human Rights Commission, and other UN bodies take action against Iran for threatening the Jewish State.

These threats mock the founding principles of the United Nations, created to defeat the genocidal Nazi Third Reich, and to ensure that no nation, ever again, would be threatened by annihilation.

In the coming weeks and months, Wiesenthal Center officials will meet with political and religious leaders in world capitals to pressure Iran to cancel its war against the Jewish people, but that effort will be for naught, unless there is international action. It is up to the United Nations to lead the way.

The link for the petition http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/ka/ct/contactus.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=1151801&en=epJEKMMqE9LFKROxH5ICIPOwHlLOKRMxHiLRJYPEJpK1E

Also about Elie Wiesel

2005-10-19T18:16:08Z

On October 31 at 7:00pm in Metcalf Hall of Boston University's George Sherman Union, Elie Wiesel will be giving a free lecture on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The auditorium fills up quickly, so I recommend getting there 1/2 hour to an hour early. This is an amazing opportunity to hear the Nobel Prize winner speak on a fascinating and very scary topic (just in time for Halloween).
I urge you all to go.

Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest

2005-10-19T14:18:46Z

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to let you all know about an amazing opportunity for college students-- the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest. The competition was founded by Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, and it is a great way to make your voice heard about issues of religion, ethics, and justice. Here's some information about the Contest:

Now entering its 17th year, the Prize in Ethics Essay Contest is an annual competition designed to challenge college students to analyze the urgent ethical issues confronting them in today's complex world.
Full-time juniors and seniors at accredited four-year colleges and universities in the US are welcome to enter the Essay Contest and compete for $10,000 in prizes and the opportunity to meet Elie Wiesel in New York City.
The postmark deadline is Friday, December 9, 2005.

You can find additional information at www.eliewieselfoundation.org, and you can leave me a comment if you have any questions!

hillel @ 2005-10-10T20:26:00

2005-10-11T03:26:13Z

The National Union of Jewish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered,
Intersex, Queer, and Questioning Students (NUJLS) is proud to announce
the date and location of our ninth annual conference! The NUJLS
conference is scheduled for March 31st to April 2nd of 2006 at the
Wesleyan University campus in Middletown, Connecticut. To increase accessibility, NUJLS is
pleased to offer travel subsidies and housing for conference
participants. For information about applying, presenting, donating,
or further details (to come), visit the NUJLS website at www.nujlsonline.org.
For questions or to join our email list, please email
NUJLSInfo-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

hillel @ 2005-10-05T14:42:00

2005-10-05T21:42:16Z

hillel @ 2005-10-04T01:23:00

2005-10-04T08:24:08Z

Shanah Tovah, everyone!