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2004-05 / 5765 events	2003-04 / 5764 events	2002-03 / 5763 events	2001-02 / 5762 events
2000-01 / 5761 events	1999-00 / 5760 events	1998-99 / 5759 events	1997-98 / 5758 events

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November 2005
	Minyan Netivot meets at a member's house
Thurs, Nov 3	Middle East Center Movie & Discussion: The Sephardic Legacy of Segovia Spain, Pentimento of the Past. A documentary movie by Spanish professor Kate Regan about the recovery and restoration of the medieval Jewish quarter in Segovia, Spain. Followed by discussion with the filmmaker. 4:15 PM at the OSH Theater.
Sat Nov 5	JCC movie & discussion: The Sephardic Legacy of Segovia Spain, Pentimento of the Past. A documentary movie by Spanish professor Kate Regan about the recovery and restoration of the medieval Jewish quarter in Segovia, Spain. Followed by discussion with the filmmaker. 7PM at the JCC.
	Plan an event for Hillel!

 

October 2005
	Minyan Netivot meets at a member's house.
Monday Oct 3	Erev Rosh HaShana, New Year 5766. Utah Hillel services at First Unitarian Church
Tues Oct 4	Rosh HaShana, First Day. Utah Hillel services at First Unitarian Church
Wed, Oct 5	Rosh HaShana, Second Day. Utah Hillel services at First Unitarian Church
Wed, Oct 12	Erev Yom Kippur (Kol Nidre). Utah Hillel services at First Unitarian Church
Thurs, Oct 13	Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement. Utah Hillel services at First Unitarian Church
Mon, Oct 17	Erev Succoth, the Festival of Booths (Tabernacles... but they aren't like that one downtown)
Tues, Oct 18- Mon, Oct 24	Sukkot, the Festival of Booths
Mon, Oct 24	Hoshana Rabbah, the great waving
Tue, Oct 25	Shmini Atzeret, a solemn assembly
Wed, Oct 26	Simhat Torah -- dance in the streets to celebrate the Torah cycle
	Plan an event for Hillel!

August 2005

Tues, August 16 7PM City Library, 210 E 400 South

SLC Film Center Series: Diverse Voices: HIDING AND SEEKING - Directed by Menachem Daum and Orin Rudavsky Presented with KUED and the City Library Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and produced in association with the Independent Television Service. Free film viewing will be followed by a Panel Discussion with RABBI ROSEN. Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky’s provocative and moving and deeply personal documentary HIDING AND SEEKING: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust won the Grand Prix at the Warsaw Intl. Jewish Film Festival in 2004 and the First Prize for best documentary and Best Interfaith Film of 2004 at the North American Interfaith Network Film Festival. For over twenty-five years Menachem Daum has been interviewing holocaust survivors like his parents, in an attempt to understand their crisis of faith. The first result of this dedication was A LIFE APART: Hasidism in America. This is the second of an intended trilogy which explores Jewish responses to the Holocaust. The third film will focus on the State of Israel. HIDING AND SEEKING tells the story of a father who tries to alert his adult Orthodox Jewish sons to the dangers posed by defenders of the faith who preach intolerance of the "other", by those who feel compelled to create impenetrable barriers between "us" and "them." To broaden their narrow and insular views he takes them on a highly charged emotional journey to Poland. To his sons, like many offspring of Polish Holocaust survivors, this is a country whose people are incurably anti-Semitic and beyond redemption. It is precisely here that he introduces his sons to Poles who personify the highest levels of exemplary behavior. The highlight of their journey comes when they manage to track down the Polish farm family who risked their lives to hide the sons' grandfather for more than two years during the Holocaust. This encounter and its tumultuous aftermath lead the sons to at least consider their father’s viewpoint more seriously. In the course of telling its compelling and dramatic story, HIDING AND SEEKING explores the Holocaust’s effect on faith in God as well as its impact on faith in our fellow human beings. It embeds these issues in a deeply personal inter-generational saga of survivors, their children, and their children’s children. Filmed in Jerusalem, Brooklyn and Poland, the film focuses on the filmmaker’s attempt to heal the wounds of the past by stopping the transmission of hatred from generation to generation. Unfortunately, we are witness to a resurgence of fundamentalism and religious hatred throughout the world. The greatest danger humankind now faces comes from people who claim to be religious and yet are blind to the divinity within each and every one of us. Hiding and Seeking tries to present an example of how it is possible to be true to one’s deepest religious convictions and yet feel a profound sense of connectedness to every single human being. For more program information: www.slcfilmcenter.org

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2004-2005 / 5765

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June 2005
Sat., June 4	Minyan Netivot meets at a member's house.
Sun Evening June 12-June 14	Shavuot (Shavuos, Feast of Weeks)
Sat Jun 25	Minyan Netivot meets at a member's house.

 

May 2005
Sat., May 7	Minyan Netivot CHANGED TO APRIL 30!
Thurs, May 12	Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day)
Thurs evening May 26-May 27	Lag B'Omer

 

April 2005
Sat., April 2	Minyan Netivot meets at a member's house.
Tues., April 5	Middle East Center Lecture Series 2005 US Public Diplomacy in the Middle East: Edward P. Djerejian, the founding Director of the James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice Univesity. 3:00-4:30 p.m., the Dumke Auditorium, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. For more information, see the MEC Lecture Series Website.
Wed., April 11	Middle East Center Lecture Series 2005 US Public Diplomacy in the Middle East: Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, Honorary Chair of the James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice University, Secretary of State 1989-1992, Secretary of the Treaury 1985-1988, and former White House Chief of Staff 1981-1985. This lecture will be held at 2 pm in Kingsbury Hall. For more information, see the MEC Lecture Series Website.
Sat April 23	First Seder of Pesah (Passover)
Sun April 24 - Sun May 1	Pesah (Passover)
Sat., April 30	Minyan Netivot meets at a member's house.

 

March 2005
Tues., March 1	Eileen Hallet Stone: A Homeland in the West, Utah Jews Remember. Exhibit at the grand opening of the Museum of Utah Art & History - MUAH - at 125 South Main Street, from 5 until 7 p.m. There will be music and light food and wine.
Wed., March 2	Middle East Center Lecture Series 2005 US Public Diplomacy in the Middle East: Hisham Melhem, the Bureau Chief in Washington of the leading newspaper in Lebanon, al-Safir, a highly regarded Arab newspaper. 3:00-4:30 p.m., the Dumke Auditorium, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. For more information, see the MEC Lecture Series Website.
Friday, March 4	Shabbat Across America. Kol Ami will be hosting "Shabbat Across America" -- a national program designed to encourage/facilitate the joyous celebration of Shabbat. Please join Hillel at a lively Shabbat service and then stay to enjoy a delicious catered dinner with other Jewish folks. You need not be a member of Kol Ami to participate, nor is this a fundraising event -- it is just about Shabbat! For reservations and to prepay ($15 for students) call 484-1501 x 21
March 2-6 and 9-12	Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches, by Tony Kushner, at the U's Babcock Theater, featuring Hillel president Nick Bayne. Free Hillel tickets available for performance and panel discussion Saturday Matinee, March 5.
Wed., March 9	Middle East Center Lecture Series 2005 US Public Diplomacy in the Middle East: Ambassador Dennis Ross. 3:00-4:30 p.m., the Dumke Auditorium, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. For more information, see the MEC Lecture Series Website. An Evening with Dennis Ross. Ambassador Ross will give a brief introduction to the state of matters today and enter an open discussion with the audience. 8:00pm at the I.J. and Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center. Refreshments & book signing following. Ambassador Dennis Ross is the Presidential Peace Envoy to the Middle East and the Washington Institute's counselor and Ziegler distinguished fellow. For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together. The Missing Peace, Ross’s current book, is far and away the most candid inside account of the Middle East peace process ever published. The maneuverings of both sides, and of the United States as well, are described. For the first time, the backroom negotiations, the dramatic and often secretive nature of the process, and the reasons for its faltering are on display for all to see. The issues Ross explains with unmatched clarity--negotiations over borders, Israeli security, the Palestinian "right of return"--are the issues behind today's headlines. The Missing Peace explains, as no other book has, why Middle East peace is so difficult to achieve.
Sat., March 12	Minyan Netivot meets at a member's house.
Wed., March 23	Middle East Center Lecture Series 2005 US Public Diplomacy in the Middle East: Judith Kipper, the Director of the Mideast Forum at the Council on Foreign Relations. 3:00-4:30 p.m., the Dumke Auditorium, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. For more information, see the MEC Lecture Series Website.
Thurs Evening, March 24-Fri Mar 25	Purim

 

February 2005
Thurs, Feb 3	The Sterling McMurrin Lectures on Religion and Culture: Prof./Rabbi Reuven Firestone: "The Problem of 'Chosenness' in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam." 7:00pm in the New Salt Lake City Library Auditorium, 210 E 400 S. Reuven Firestone is Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, where he directs the Edgar F. Magnin School for Graduate Studies. He is founding director of the Institute for the Study of Jewish-Muslim Interrelations. Dr. Firestone will discuss the idea of "chosenness" and the problems it creates for believers in religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Dr. Firestone has authored the books Journey in the Holy Lands: The Evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael Legends in Islamic Exegenis, Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam and Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Judaism for Muslims. He has also written dozens of articles on Judaism, Islam, and comparative studies between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Having traveled extensively in the Middle East, Reuven Firestone served on the international "Voice of Peace" radio project. He has been involved in a variety of committees and commissions exploring Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Arab relations in the United States. In the Middle East he lived on a Israeli kibbutz for two years where he worked in a dairy.
Fri Feb 4	Tanner Humanities Center Seminar with Professor Firestone: How Religion Negotiates the Problematic of War. By prior arrangement only; contact Hillel.
Thurs Feb 23	The Middle East Through its Films: Wedding in Galilee Dumke Auditorium, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 6:00-9:00 p.m. These selected films will be shown and their social context discussed by Professor Laurence Loeb, U of U Department of Anthropology. For more information and descriptions of the films, visit the Middle East Center's Web site at: http://www.mec.utah.edu/Outreach/course1schedule.html. Free and open to the public! FOR INFO CALL: 581-5003
Sat., Feb 26	Minyan Netivot meets at a member's house.

 

January 2005
Thurs, Jan 20- Sun Jan 30	Sundance Film Festival
Fri-Sat, Jan 21-22	SchmoozeDance Jewish Film Festival at Temple Har Shalom (Park City).
Sat, Jan 22	Minyan Netivot meets at a member's house.
Mon eve-Tues, Jan 24-25	Tu B'Shvat, the New Year of the Trees
Thurs Jan 26	The Middle East Through its Films: Late Marriage (Hatuna Meuheret) Dumke Auditorium, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 6:00-9:00 p.m. These selected films will be shown and their social context discussed by Professor Laurence Loeb, U of U Department of Anthropology. For more information and descriptions of the films, visit the Middle East Center's Web site at: http://www.mec.utah.edu/Outreach/course1schedule.html. Free and open to the public! FOR INFO CALL: 581-5003

 

December 2004
Tues, Dec 7	Hanukah, First candle
Sat, 25	Jewish Community staffs Christmas Dinner at the Homeless Shelter

 

October 2004
Sept 29 - Oct7	Succot. Join us in the Campus Succah for lunch.
6, Wed	Hoshana Rabba evening services in town
7, Thurs	Simhat Torah evening services in town

 

September 2004
Fri. 10 - Sun. 26	A Letter To Harvey Milk, presented by the Plan B Theater Company, at the Studio Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. A Letter To Harvey Milk is a touching one-man show in which an elderly Holocaust survivor recalls his friendship with Harvey Milk--the first openly gay official in U.S. history--causing him to examine the origin of the pink triangle and befriend a lesbian teacher in this touching one-man show. A world premiere intersection of gay and Jewish history by Leslea Newman.
Sun, 12	Selichot Services with Minyan Netivot. Call for location. Study and discussion 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM, Service at 10:00 PM (tentative)
Wed 15	Erev Rosh HaShana. Campus evening services begin at 8:00 PM at the Commander's House, Ft. Douglas Circle.
Thurs, 16	Campus Rosh HaShana morning services begin at 9:00 AM at the Commander's House, Ft. Douglas Circle.
Fri., 17	Campus Rosh HaShana Second Day morning services begin at 9:00 AM at the Commander's House, Ft. Douglas Circle.
Fri, 24	Campus Yom Kippor Kol Nidre Services 7:00 PM at Commander's House, Ft. Douglas Circle (tentative location)
Sat., 25	Campus Yom Kippur Morning Services & Yizkor, 9:00 AM at the Commander's House, Ft. Douglas Circle Jonah, Mincha and Ne'ila Services 5:30 PM Potluck Break-fast 8:05 PM (RSVP REQUIRED)
Sun, 26	Campus Succah Building (run by "Student Hillel of Utah" this year) 3 PM outside Olpin Union
Sept 29 - Oct 7	Succot. Join us in the Campus Succah for lunch.

2003-2004 / 5764

(more or less reverse chronological order)

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June 2004
5, Sat	Minyan Netivot meets for participatory/learning morning services at a member's house near campus.

 

May 2004
8, Sat eve.	Erev Lag B'omer.
15, Sat	Opening night, SLC JCC Film Festival. Advice and Dissent & Nina's Tragedies at Brewvies, 7PM. All Brewvies events open to 21 years and older only, $6.50.
16, Sun	SLC JCC Film Festival. Timbrels and Torah & All I've Got at Brewvies, 4:30 PM. God@Heaven & Miss Entebbe at Brewvies, 7PM. All Brewvies events open to 21 years and older only, $6.50.
17, Mon	SLC JCC Film Festival. Shmelvis & Kinky Friedman at Brewvies, 7PM. All Brewvies events open to 21 years and older only, $6.50.
18, Tues	SLC JCC Film Festival. Strange Fruit & Kedma at Brewvies, 7PM. All Brewvies events open to 21 years and older only, $6.50. Allred Fishbein's in Love & Miss Entebbe at the JCC, 7 PM. JCC events open to teens and up. $6.50.
19, Wed	Beer Tasting night, SLC JCC Film Festival. Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song & The Hebrew Hammer at Brewvies, 7PM
20, Thurs	Beer Tasting night, SLC JCC Film Festival. Fiddler on the Roof Sing-a-long at Brewvies, 7PM. All Brewvies events open to 21 years and older only, $6.50
25, Tues eve.	Erev Shavuot. Teaching at Kol Ami by Rabbinical students Prof. Miriyam Glazer ("Our Bodies, Our Souls: Nature and the Spirit in Jewish Thought" ) and Anthony Elman ("Kavannah (Intentionality) and Prayer: The Spiritual Side of Maimonidies"); Rabbi Tracee Rosen ("A New Look at the Ten Commandments as a Spiritual System") and Prof. Dan Greenwood ("Universalism, Particularlism , and The Problem of Membership: Giving the Torah to One People Only"). 8:30 PM
26-27, Wed-Thu	Shavuot.

 

April 2004
5, Mon eve.	First Seder of Passover.
6, Tues - 13, Tues	Passover.
12, Mon - 16, Fri	Days of Remembrance, commemorating victims of the Holocaust. Events includ Films (Judgment at Nuremberg; Divided We Fall; The Pawnbroker; Europa, Europa); Lecture and Reading by Prof. Ruth Kluger, "Jewish Ghosts in Postwar Germany"; "Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered"); Holocaust Workshop course by Prof. Ron Smelser; Keynote Address by Charles Sydnor, "Managing Genocide: Reinhard Heydrich & the SS culture of Murder"; "Nazi Perpetrators, American Courts & the Legacy of the Holocaust." For a full schedule, see http://www.diversity.utah.edu/dor2004.html. All events (except for the workshop taken for credit) are free and open to the public.
12, Mon	Remembrance Films: “Judgment at Nuremburg,” 3 p.m.; “Divided We Fall,” 7 p.m. Olpin Union Theatre.
13, Tues	Lecture: Ruth Kluger 7 p.m., Panorama East, Olpin Union. “Jewish Ghosts in Postwar Germany” . Holocaust survivor Ruth Kluger is professor emerita of German literature at UC-Irvine.
14, Wed	Workshop: History 3910/5910. 1–5 p.m., Greene Hall, FAMB. The University of Utah offers a workshop with lecture, discussion, and film clips on the Holocaust by Ronald M. Smelser, professor of history. The workshop may be taken for one credit by registering through Academic Outreach and Continuing Education, 801-581-8969.
14, Wed	Remembrance Films: “The Pawnbroker,” 2 p.m., “Europa Europa,” 4:30 p.m. Olpin Union Theatre.
14, Wed	Reading: Ruth Kluger. 7:30 p.m., I.J. and Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center. Holocaust survivor Ruth Kluger will read from her book, “Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered”
15, Thurs	Keynote Address: Charles Sydnor. 7 p.m., Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library. “Managing Genocide: Reinhard Heydrich & the SS Culture of Murder”. Currently president and CEO of the Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation in Virginia, Sydnor is historian, writer, documentary filmmaker, and expert witness in several Nazi trials.
16, Friday	Holocaust Remembrance Day, Noon, Utah State Capitol Rotunda. Holocaust Remembrance Day will be marked by the governor’s proclamation. For more information, call Teresa Bruce at the Jewish Federation of Utah at 801-581-0102.
16, Friday	Special Address: Charles Sydnor. 3 p.m., Lowell Durham Room, Carlson Hall. “Nazi Perpetrators: American Courts, and the Legacy of the Holocaust: The View from the Witness Stand”
17, Sat	Minyan Netivot meets for participatory/learning morning services at a member's house near campus.

 

March 2004
2, Tues	The Middle East Lecture Series: Learning from Past Failures Pathways to Peace in the Middle East. Shlomo Ben-Ami, Former Israeli Foreign Minister and member of the Foreign Affairs and & Defense Committee in the Knesset, The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Process. 3:00-4:30pm Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke Auditorium. Free & open to the public. Shomo Ben-Ami was Israel's first Ambassador to Spain, the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Council for Social Planning, and the Chairman of the National Convention of the Israeli Federation of Labor. He was a member of the Israeli Delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference and the Head of the Israeli team for the Multilateral Peace Talks on Middle Eastern Refugees. He has conducted secret talks with Abu al-'Alaa (the current Palestinian Prime Minister) in Stockholm (The Swedish Channel). Dr. Ben-Ami was the Co-Chair of the Committee of the Labor Party on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Knesset's Committee for Defense and Foreign Affairs as well as member of the Ministerial Cabinet on Defense and Foreign Affairs. He received his D. Phil. from St. Anthony's College at Oxford University, and was the Chairman of the History Department at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of many books including the Origins of the Second Republic in Spain (Oxford, 1978), and Fascism From Above (Oxford, 1983). His book on the Middle East Peace Process will shortly be published in Israel.
6, Sat eve	Erev Purim.
7, Sunday	Purim.
10, Wed	The Middle East Lecture Series: Learning from Past Failures Pathways to Peace in the Middle East: Joseph Saba, Director, the World Bank’s Middle and North Africa Region, The Economic Dimensions of Peacemaking in the Middle East. 3:00-4:30pm 255 ORSON SPENCER HALL, HINCKLEY CAUCUS ROOM. Free & open to the public. Dr. Saba is the Director of the World Bank's programs in the Middle East Region which includes Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Iran. Residing in Jerusalem, he was Director for the Bank's West Bank and Gaza program from 1997 to 2001, after which he took up his present position, based in Washington DC and Beirut. He began his professional career as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service, serving in Kuwait from 1972 to 1973. From 1976 to 1991 he practiced private international corporate and finance law as a partner in a large international law firm. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he worked in many countries, notably in Central Asia and the Middle East. He has had extensive experience in developing and managing many international reconstruction programs, particularly in difficult political and post conflict situations. He received his MA in Middle East Affairs from Harvard and his JD from Yale Law School.
10, Wed	On (My) Being A Jew, Prof. James Kugel (Harvard, Bar Ilan U.). 7:30 PM, Kol Ami. Prof. Kugel's critically acclaimed books include God of Old: Inside The Lost World Of The Bible, On Being A Jew, Great Poems of the Bible, and The Bible As It Was.
11, Thurs	God Of Old, Prof. James Kugel (Harvard, Bar Ilan U.). 3:30 PM, Union Parlor A. (Prof. Kugel will also speak at Harris Lenowitz's class, 11:50 AM-1:45 PM, in the Middle East Library, Marriott) Prof. Kugel's critically acclaimed books include God of Old: Inside The Lost World Of The Bible, On Being A Jew, Great Poems of the Bible, and The Bible As It Was.
24, Wed	The Middle East Lecture Series: Learning from Past Failures Pathways to Peace in the Middle East: Rosemary Hollis, Head of the Middle East Program at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London. 3:00-4:30pm Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke Auditorium. Free & open to the public.
27, Sat	Minyan Netivot meets for participatory/learning morning services at a member's house near campus.
31, Wed	The Middle East Lecture Series: Learning from Past Failures Pathways to Peace in the Middle East: Edmund Ghareeb, Professor of International Affairs at the School of International Service in the American University in Washington, DC. 3:00-4:30pm Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke Auditorium. Free & open to the public.

 

February 2004
2, Mon	The Middle East Lecture Series: Learning from Past Failures Pathways to Peace in the Middle East: Dr. Khalil Shikaki, Palestinian Responses to the "Road Map" to Peace. 3:00-4:30pm Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke Auditorium. Free & open to the public. Dr. Shikaki is Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah. He conducted more than 100 polls among Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since 1993. He holds a doctorate in political science from Columbia University. He is a co-author of Strengthening Palestinian Public Institutions (Council on Foreign Relations, 1999). His most recent publications include Building a State, Building a Peace (Brookings, 2003), and The Israeli- Palestinian Peace Process (Sussex Academic Press, 2002) and he is a co-editor of "Self-Serving Perception of Terrorism Among Israelis and Palestinians," Political Psychology (September 2002); "Determinants of Reconciliation and Compromise Among Israelis and Palestinians," Journal of Peace Research (March 2002) and "Palestinians Divided," Foreign Affairs (January-February 2002). His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and The Financial Times of London.
3, Tues	Prof Harris Lenowitz, four illustrated lectures on The Image of the Jew in Art and Christian Antisemitism. 7 P.M. at the I.J. & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center (JCC).
6, Fri eve	Erev Tu B'Shvat.
7, Sat	Tu B'Shvat.
10, Tues	Prof Harris Lenowitz, four illustrated lectures on The Image of the Jew in Art and Christian Antisemitism. 7 P.M. at the I.J. & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center (JCC).
11, Wed	The Middle East Lecture Series: Learning from Past Failures Pathways to Peace in the Middle East: Can Peace be Reached Between Israel and Syria? The Lessons of Trial and Error, Moshe Ma’oz, Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 3:00-4:30pm Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke Auditorium. Free & open to the public. Dr. Ma'oz has been, since 1982, Professor of Middle East History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He served at that University as Chair of the Institute of Asian and African Studies, 1971-75; Director, Harry Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, 1975-78 and 1992-98; and Chair of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, 1983-86. He received his D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1966 and was a visiting professor/scholar at prominent institutions such as Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, Georgetown, Brookings, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He served as an Adviser to the Knesset Committee for Foreign Affairs and Defense, 1977-79; Adviser to Defense Minister Weizman, 1979-80; Member of Advisory Committees on Arab-Israeli Relations to Prime Minister Peres, 1985-86; and to Prime Minister Rabin, 1992-94. In 2003 he was a Co-Chair of the Jewish-Islamic Dialogue at Israel's President's Forum. He is the author of Ottoman Reform in Syria and Palestine (Oxford: 1968), Asad: The Sphinx of Damascus (Weidenfeld: 1986) Syria and Israel (Oxford: 1998) and Middle Eastern Minorities (WINEP: 1999) and co-editor of Syria Under Asad (1986), The PLO and Israel (1997) and Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process (2002).
19, Thurs	The Middle East Lecture Series: Learning from Past Failures Pathways to Peace in the Middle East: Does Democratization Matter for Achieving Peace in the Middle East?, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo and a prominent human rights advocate. 3:00-4:30pm Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke Auditorium. Free & open to the public. Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim is one of the world's most prominent experts and advocates of human rights and democratization. He is the Chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Developmental Studies and Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is a recipient of the prestigious Sakharov Prize as an international figure who has made outstanding contributions in the area of human rights. He is also the recipient of the Middle East Studies Association Academic Freedom Award. Dr. Ibrahim is the author of over 30 books in both English and Arabic analyzing democratic reform, civil society, minority rights, and Middle East peace. He served as Secretary General of the Arab Organization for Human Rights (Cairo), the Secretary General of the Arab Thought Forum (Amman) and as an advisor to the UN Secretary General Kofi Anan. He taught at UCLA, Columbia University, New York University, and the American University in Beirut. His views have been widely and frequently covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Times of London, and Le Monde.
22, Sun	Prof. Jeff Halper, Ben Gurion University, Israel, Between Two Impossibilities: Ending the Occupation and a Democratic State in Israel/Palestine. A Presentation for Members of the Jewish Community. 4:30-6:00 J.C.C. Jeff Halper (57) is an Israeli Professor of Anthropology and the Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Raised in Minnesota, Jeff has lived in Israel since 1973. He has researched and written extensively on Israeli society and is the author of the book Between Redemption and Revival: the Jewish Yishuv in Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century. As a community worker for the Jerusalem municipality, Jeff has worked for many years among Jews from Middle Eastern countries living in the poorer quarters of Jerusalem. He has served as the Chairman of the Israeli Association for Ethiopian Jews, and has played a key role in the immigration and integration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Jeff performed reserve duty in the Israeli army for more than twenty years. Jeff has also been active in the Israeli peace movement for many years. As the Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, he opposes the Occupation through civil disobedience and non-violent direct action. He believes that Israel’s future will be ensured only if a just peace is achieved with the Palestinians and Israel finds its place in a peaceful Middle East.
24, Tues	The Middle East Lecture Series: Learning from Past Failures Pathways to Peace in the Middle East: William Quandt, Edward R. Stettinius Professor of Politics, University of Virginia and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC. 3:00-4:30pm Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke Auditorium. Free & open to the public. Dr. Quandt is the Edward Stettinius Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He holds a doctorate in Political Science from the MIT and taught at the University of Pennsylvania and UCLA. He is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution, a former President of the Middle East Studies Association, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served in the White House as a National Security Council Staff member for the Middle East (1972-74, 1977-79) and was involved in the negotiations that led to the Camp David Accords and the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. He is the author of many books, including: Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967 (Brookings, 2001), Between Ballots and Bullets: Algeria's Transition From authoritarianism (Brookings, 1998), The United States and Egypt (Brookings, 1990), The Middle East: Ten Years After Camp David, ed. (1988), Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics (1986), Decade of Decisions: American Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict (University of California Press, 1977) and Revolution and Political Leadership: Algeria, 1954-1968 (MIT Press, 1969).
28, Sat	Minyan Netivot meets for participatory/learning morning services at Kol Ami.

 

January 2004
15-25	Sundance Film Festival. Also, Schmoozedance shows and lists Jewish films at and around the Sundance Festival. Contact Hillel if you are interested in organizing a group to attend a film.
20, Tues	Prof Harris Lenowitz, four illustrated lectures on The Image of the Jew in Art and Christian Antisemitism. 7 P.M. at the I.J. & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center (JCC). This evening will introduce the topic (and take up the antisemitism of the New Testament and the early Church Fathers) and focus mostly on art related to the depiction of the Jews and their roles in the Passion of Jesus/Christ.
27, Tues	Prof Harris Lenowitz, four illustrated lectures on The Image of the Jew in Art and Christian Antisemitism. 7 P.M. at the I.J. & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center (JCC).
28, Wed	The Mormon Studies Brown Bag Series at the University of Utah presents: Laurence Loeb (Anthropology), "Jewish-Mormon Relations in Utah." 12:15 - 1:15, 411 Olpin Union.
29, Thurs	The Middle East Through Its Films will focus on feature films produced in the Middle East and North Africa and will include films from Egypt, Iran, Israel, Turkey, and North Africa. Opening remarks will be made by a Middle East Center faculty member with expertise in the region the film is from. The film will then be shown, followed by discussion conducted by the faculty member. The discussion will focus on socio-cultural values, women and family issues, religion, and the varied populations and communities of the Middle East. U of U students who want to take the course for credit are encouraged to contact Professor Loeb at 581-8535. Women (Nashim). (Israel) A film by Moshé Mizrahi in Hebrew with English subtitles. Discussion conducted by Professor Laurence Loeb. 6-9 PM, Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Free and open to the public. Set in late 19th-century Jerusalem, director Moshe Mizrahi's unusual romantic drama stars Michal Bat-Adam as a woman who, after 15 years in a childless marriage, convinces her husband to take a younger woman as his second wife so that his family line might continue.
31, Sat	Minyan Netivot meets for participatory/learning morning services at a member's house near campus.

November 2003
8, Sat	Movie & Discussion: The Holy Land, showing at Trolley Square/Madstone Theatres at 7:15 PM, followed by a discussion at Salt Lake Coffee Break afterwards. The movie, which won a prize at Slamdance last year, centers around a prostitute and her relationship with a young man separating from his religious background, amid a background of drugs, politics and post-modern, post-Zionist identity fracture. For more info visit the film website.
22, Sat	Minyan Netivot meets for participatory/learning morning services at Kol Ami.

 

October 2003
5, Sun	Erev Yom Kippor. Campus Kol Nidre services begin at 7 PM at the Commander's House, Ft. Douglas Circle, led by Rabbis Sohn and Firestone. --CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS -- call for more info, last minute changes or possible informal lay-led services
6, Mon	Yom Kippur. Campus morning services & Yizkor: 9 AM; Yonah, Mincha, Neila: 5:30PM followed by potluck break - fast at 8:30. All services at the Commander's House, Ft. Douglas Circle. --CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS -- call for more info, last minute changes or possible informal lay-led services
8, Wed	Tentative Hillel Succah building party by the Union.
8, Wed	Final Deadline for students to apply for scholarship & travel subsidy to attend the 2003 United Jewish Communities General Assembly in Jerusalem, Israel, Nov 12-20. Contact Utah Hillel immediately.
10, Fri	Succot begins at sundown.
11-18, Sat-Sat	Succot.
18, Sat	Minyan Netivot meets for participatory/learning morning services near campus.
18, Sat	Simkhat Torah evening services at most SLC & Utah congregations.

 

September 2003
22, Mon	Anniversary of creation of the world
26, Fri	Erev Rosh HaShana. There will NOT be campus Rosh HaShana services this year. High Holidays services begin at 8 PM at synagogues in town. Contact Hillel for information on free or reduced price student tickets.
27, Sat	First Day Rosh HaShana. There will NOT be campus Rosh HaShana services this year. Rosh HaShana services begin at 9 AM at synagogues in town. Contact Hillel for information on free or reduced price student tickets.
28, Sun	Second Day Rosh HaShana. Hillel may offer lay-led services from 9 AM if additional volunteers appear. Please contact Hillel if you wish to help, lead or for information on locations.

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2002-2003 / 5763

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August 2003
7, Thurs	Tisha b'Av.

June 2003
4, Wed	Meetings with Shawn Laing, director of Soref Campuses, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life International Center. 3-5 P.M.: Students ONLY meeting. 5:30 - ??: Open meeting to discuss the future of Utah Hillel
5, Thurs	Erev Shavuot. Tikkun Leil Shabbat at Minyan Netivot (study session with special guest HUC Prof. Rachel Adler, Rabbi Treseder & Profs Greenwood & Shreiber; call for location) 8:30 PM to Midnight. Dairy potluck (blintzes, etc).
6, Fri	Shavuot. Tikkun Leil Shabbat at the JCC Singles Program (all night at the J).
27, Fri	Young Adult Shabbat Club, 6-10pm at JCC (RSVP required; cost $8; childcare provided by BBYO). Learn about Shabbat.

May 2003
2, Fri	Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day) Memorial Commemoration at the Capitol Rotunda, noon.
3, Sat	Hillel's Minyan Netivot meets to daven and discuss Parashat K'doshim. 9:30 AM. call for location. More on Shabbat
4, Sun	Israel Independence Day celebration at the JCC, noon.
7, Wed	Yom HaAtzmaut-Israel Independence Day
19, Mon	Lag B'Omer begins at sundown.
30, Fri	Yom Yerushalyim
31, Sat	Seeds of Peace Benefit Concert. Gerald Elias, violin & Marjorie Janove, piano. 7 P.M. concert with reception following, Cathedral Church of St. Mark, 231 E. 300 S. Call 328-5043 or email lbarlow@saltlakechamber.org for reservations and more information. "Empowering children of war to break the cycle of violence."

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April 2003
2, Wed	Tanner Humanities Center Lecture, Professor Vince Cheng, "The Inauthentic Jew: Jewishness and Its Discontents". 3:30 p.m., 115 Carlson Hall, Durham Seminar Room In Professor Cheng's current book project, he has been writing a chapter investigating the shifting meanings, in different registers, of the notions of Jewishness and Jewish identity terms which keep sliding unevenly between the registers and paradigms of religion, ethnicity, race, culture, and nation. In the resultant and heightened anxiety over who and what is authentically Jewish, twentieth-century and contemporary Jewish history (including the Holocaust and the Palestinian intifadas) have become important touchstones in shaping the identity awareness and identity construction of diasporic Jews. Dr. Vincent Cheng is the Shirley Sutton Thomas Professor of English at the University of Utah. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships from the NEH, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and the Tanner Humanities Center. Professor Cheng is the author of several books and many scholarly articles; his latest book, Joyce, Race, and Empire (Cambridge UP, 1995), won a Phi Kappa Phi Book Award in 1996. He is currently writing a book on the topic of "Authenticity and Identity."
3, Thurs	Grace Paley, Jewish poet and short story writer, reading at Art Space Forum Gallery, 7PM. 511 West 200 South.
8, Tues	MEC Iraq Crisis Lecture series: Dr. Geoffrey Kemp on "Powderkeg: Weapon's Proliferation and Conflict in the Greater Middle East" 2:00-3:30 p.m. Dumke Auditorium, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Dr. Geoffrey Kemp is the Director of the Regional Strategic Programs, The Nixon Center in Washington, D.C. and Visiting Professor at SAIS of John Hopkins University. Between 1971-1981 he was a Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Tufts University. He has served as consultant to the Foreign Affairs Committee at the US Senate, a member of the Harvard-MIT Arms Control Seminar, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and at Georgetown University. Between 1986-1995 he was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security at the White House, and as Director for Near East Affairs, National Security Council, 1986-1985. His articles were published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, and the Christian Science Monitor. He is a regular political commentator on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, BBC, and ITV.
10 & 11, Thurs & Fri	"Sharing Women's Wisdom Across the Generations", a Conference sponsored by the Rosh Chodesh group of SLC, the Episcopal Diocese and the College of Social Work, with speakers including "hidden child" Noemi Mattis, Joyce Kelen, Deanna Rosen, Demaris Methner and other members of our community, and including a photo exhibit created by the Center for Documentary Arts with portraits by Kent Miles and stories. At the College of Social Work; call 537-7523 for more information.
12, Sat	Hillel's Minyan Netivot meets to daven and discuss Parashat Mtzorah and the readings for Shabbat ha Gadol. 9:30 AM. call for location. Learn about Shabbat.
	JCC Hollywood Havdalah:  JCC at 7 PM.
16, Wed	First Seder of Pesah/Passover. Contact Hillel if you need an invitation.
16, Thurs	Second Seder of Pesah/Passover. Community seders at JCC, Kol Ami, Chavura B'Yachad and elsewhere.
24, Thurs	Pesah/Passover ends at sundown
25, Fri	JCC Young Adult Shabbat Club, 6-10pm at JCC (RSVP required; childcare provided by BBYO; free to Hillel students). Learn about Shabbat.

 

March 2003
1, Sat	Guy will give a short Israel Education Month presentation at Kol Ami.
	JCC Singles Bowling and Dinner at Olympus Hills Bowl.  6-10 PM
2, Sun	Interfaith program at the SLC Main Library from 1-5 PM: "Prophet Abraham alai salam (Peace Unto Him): The Celebration of a common legacy". Sponsored by the Muslim Forum of Salt Lake. Includes exhibits focusing on the Islamic, Christian, and Jewish perspective of Prophet Abraham, a movie on the Hajj, and talks by three experts on the subject of Prophet Abraham: Dr. Alice Boyack (Christian perspective), Dr. Harris Lenowitz (Jewish perspective), and Dr. Jerald Dirks (Islamic perspective).
	Snowshoeing and Tfillah Photoshoot, with Guy. Call for details. [Postponed]
4, Tues	MEC Iraq Crisis Lecture series: Dr. Nasser Hadian on "Iranian Perceptions of the Iraqi-American Confrontation." 2:00-3:30 p.m. Dumke Auditorium, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Dr. Nasser Hadian, is a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, NYC. Professor Hadian has been Director of the Political Development Program in the Center for Strategic Research in Tehran. He is widely recognized as a leading scholar on contemporary Iranian politics and foreign policy. He is also a frequent lecturer in prestigious think tanks such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Middle East Institute, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS. Dr. Hadian is a frequent political commentator on CBS, ABC, BBC, CNN, and NPR.
5, Wed	Kol Ami Adult Education: Jewish Law with Prof. Greenwood: " Impurity: Birth, "the blood which is the life", Death, Mikvah" 7:30-8:30 PM at Kol Ami.
9, Sun	Hillel Student Board Meeting, 1:00 PM at Alumni House
	Action Israel X Summit in LA -- attend for free
10, Mon	Prof. Timothy Lytton, Albany Law School, will present a lecture, "Shall Not the Judge of the Earth Deal Justly?": Accountability, Compassion, and Judicial Authority in the Biblical Story of Sodom and Gomorrah"  4:15 PM 255 OSH (Hinckley Caucus Room).
11, Tues	Purim Lunch & Learn with Drora Oren, Ph.D. "Queen Esther's Search for Identity" 12 - 1:30pm JCC.
	MEC Iraq Crisis Lecture series: Dr. Justin Vaisse on “Paris and the Middle East: Making Sense of French Policies.” 2:00-3:30 p.m. Dumke Auditorium, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Dr. Justin Vaisse is a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. His current research focuses on American foreign policy, transatlantic relations, as well as French and European foreign policies. He was a lecturer at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris from 1999 to 2002, and a consultant to the French Foreign Ministry Policy Planning Staff from 1997 to 2002. From September 1998 to July 1999, he was the speechwriter of Defense Minister Alain Richard. In 1996-1997 he was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. Dr. Vaisse studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1993-1998) and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He published many books including one he has co-authored with Pierre Hassner, Visions d'empire: anthologie du débat américain de politique étrangère Autrement (Paris 2003); L'Empire du milieu: les Etats-Unis et le monde après la guerre froide, co-authored with Pierre Melandri (Paris 2001) and Le Modèle Américain (Paris 1998). His articles have appeared in Politique Internationale, Critique Internationale, and Alternatives Internationales. He is a regular contributor to leading French and American newspapers and television stations.
12, Wed	Kol Ami Adult Education: Prof. Greenwood. "Was Pharoh human? A Passover midrash" 7:30-8:30 PM at Kol Ami.
15, Sat	Politics meeting led by Adam Walton. Discuss the pending War and the Arab-Israeli conflict and materials being distributed on campus. 8:00 PM at the Salt Lake Roasting Company, 400 S. 400 East.
16, Sun	JCC Purim Carnival, including a Purim Spiel by Vlad.  12:30-3:30 at the JCC. Rides, games, climbing rock, costume contest.
17, Mon	Purim begins at sundown. Megillah readings at all local congregations. Kol Ami - Family dinner & religious school drama elective Purim Spiel 5:30, followed by Megillah reading at 7:15.
	Interfaith Council Service Project. We are delivering cookies to a handful of our elderly population we’ll begin working with for our Faith in Action program. 6:00pm - 8:00pm. We’ll be meeting in front of the Park Building on President’s Circle. Bring yourself and a car if you have one.
18, Tues	Purim. Megillah readings at all local congregations. Kol Ami services begin at 7:15 AM 5:30: Chabad's Chinese Purimania at the JCC. Megillah Reading with Slide Show; Chinese Dinner; Jewish Puppet Theatre Show; The Talmud Torah Rapsters! RSVP required to Chabad.
22, Sat	Hillel's Minyan Netivot meets Shabbat AM to daven and discuss Parashot Tzav and Parah. 9:30 AM. call for location. Learn about Shabbat.
	JCC Hollywood Havdalah:   JCC at 7 PM
24, Mon	Vanessa Ochs, Director of Jewish Studies, Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, will give a lecture at the Tanner Humanities Center on "The Art of Jewish Dream Interpretation:  From the Talmud to Freud".  4PM Ashton Room, Tanner Humanities Center, Ground floor, Carlson Hall.  Reception to follow.  Talk sponsored by the Religion, Culture, and Society Research Interest Group. Free.
25, Tues	Vanessa Ochs: The Way of the Jewish Dreamer: Jewish Dreams and Their Interpretation. 7 PM at the JCC. Admission $2 for students, $5 for adults. Cosponsored by the I.J. and Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center; The Religion, Culture, and Society Research Interest Group; the IMPACT-Jewish Studies program of the Middle East Center; the Lamed chapter of Eta Beta Rho, and the University of Utah. The Jewish Dream Book, to be published by Jewish Lights summer-fall 2003) by Vanessa Ochs, is an accessible feast of the wise Jewish teachings on dreams and dream interpretations. It includes a compendium of Jewish practices related to dreams that integrate Jewish spiritual practices from the Bible and Talmud which have been updated for modern times in light of our contemporary understandings of dreams. Vanessa L. Ochs is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She specializes in Jewish studies, women in religion, and anthropology of religion. She received her B.A. from Tufts University, M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and Ph. D. in Anthropology of Religion from Drew University.
	Legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, at a private reception Tuesday, March 25, 2003 from 5-7 p.m. Tucci's Restaurant, Trolley Corners, 515 South 700 East. (Hillel affiliates (students, faculty and community) invited, but only persons over 21, due to liquor regulations. RSVP REQUIRED (801) 581-7989). Followed by the Utah Premiere Screening of "The Last Letter" at Trolley Corners Theatre. (Open to everyone). This is Frederick Wiseman's first feature film, which achieved special commendation at the Cannes Film Festival. THE LAST LETTER is a searing, elegant monologue starring Catherine Samie, one of France's most admired stage actresses. The film began as a chapter of Vasily Grossman's powerful and once banned Russian novel, LIFE AND FATE. In the book the writer gives voice to a Jewish woman addressing her faraway son as she awaits a certain death in a Jewish ghetto in German occupied Ukraine. The beauty of the film is in its ordinariness. She speaks honestly of her life, her relationship to her son, her love for him, her failed marriage, her student life in Paris and the lessons she learned as a doctor and the slow recognition that her Jewish heritage is more important than her Russian nationality or Communist ideology. As she reveals the details of her ghetto life, interspersed by memories and universal longings, the audience is able to experience the courage, frailty, fear and compassion of a mother as she reviews her life and faces her death. Wiseman approached Samie to first read the monologue as a play which he directed with critical acclaim in the United States, Canada and Europe. Two years ago Wiseman adapted the stage version to the screen. It has premiered at Cannes Film Festival and The New York Film Forum. The 61 minute film is in French with English subtitles and has received glowing press. There will be Q&A immediately following. Coffee and dessert will be served. Hosted by The Salt Lake City Film Center * College of Humanities, University of Utah
26, Wed	MEC Iraq Crisis Lecture series: Dr. Henri J. Barkey on “Flirting with Disaster: Turkey, Iraq, and the U.S.” 2:00-3:30 p.m. Dumke Auditorium, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Dr. Barkey is the foremost scholar on Turkish Politics in the United States. He is the Chair of the Department of International Relations and The Bernard and Bertha Cohen Chair at Lehigh University. Between 1998-2000, he was a Member of the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department. He taught at Princeton, Columbia, the State University of New York, and at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-author of Turkey's Kurdish Question (1998); editor of Reluctant Neighbor: Turkey's Role in the Middle East (1996); The Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East (1992); and author of The State and the Industrialization Crisis in Turkey (1990). His articles appeared in the Brookings Policy Briefs, Journal of International Affairs, Middle East Policy, Middle East Journal, World Policy Journal, Journal of Democracy, Comparative Political Studies, Survival, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Armed Forces and Society. His op-ed pieces have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He has been a political commentator on the News Hour, CNBC, ABC News and NPR.
27, Thurs	MEC Iraq Crisis Lecture series: Dr. Juan R. I. Cole on “The Iraq War and Shi’ite Islam” 3:00-4:30 p.m. Walter P. Read Auditorium, in Orson Spencer Hall (note change in venue). Dr. Juan Cole is the editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (published by Cambridge University Press) and Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests cover many parts of the Muslim world, with emphasis on the social and cultural history of Iran, Egypt, and South Asia. He is the author of Sacred Space and Holy War (2002); Modernity and the Millennium (1998); Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East (1993); Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq (1989); coeditor of Shi'ism and Social Protest (1986); and he is editor of Comparing Muslim Societies (1992). In addition to numerous chapters in edited volumes published over the last two decades, his articles have appeared in the Journal of the British Institute for Persian Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Iranian Studies, and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. He is fluent in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. He has lectured at Oxford, UCLA, the University of Utah, Yale University, University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and University of California at Berkeley.
30 Mar- 1 Apr	AIPAC National Conference in D.C. Two Hillel students attending. Scholarships available.

February 2003
1, Sat	Yehuda will give a short Israel Education Month presentation at  Kol Ami
	7:00 PM United Jewish Federation Community Dinner, JCC
4, Tues	3:00 PM. Dr. Adeed Dawisha, professor of Political Science at Miami University and a native of Iraq, will talk on “The Use of Force Against Iraq: Risks and Opportunities” at Dumke Auditorium, Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
6, Thurs	Prof. Gideon Doron, Tel Aviv University, will present a lecture, "Interpreting the Israeli Elections Process and Its Results:  Implications for Arab/Israeli Confrontation and Cooperation".  Noon, Hinckley Caucus Room, 255 Orson Spencer Hall.  Prof. Doron also speaks on the same topic at Kol Ami at 7:30 PM.
8, Sat	Joel will give a short Israel Education Month presentation at Kol Ami.
	JCC Young Adults at the Hypnotist Show, 8 PM JCC.
9, Sun	Purim Spiel meeting with Vlad.
15, Sat	Dr Ronald Brauner (Wexner Foundation) at Kol Ami services in connection with the Ski-nus.
19, Wed	Former Israeli Cabinet Minister Ephraim Sneh, "The Iraqi-American Confrontation: An Israeli Perspective" 2:00-3:30 PM Dumke Auditorium, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (next to The David Eccles School of Business). " Dr. Sneh is a leading figure in the Labor Party in Israel. He served as the Minister of Health under Prime Minister Rabin, 1994-1996, a Deputy Minister of Defense under Prime Minister Barak, 1999-2001, and the Minister of Transportation in the national unity government that followed, 2001-2002. For the last twelve years, he has been a member of the Knesset and a ranking member in its Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Minister Sneh is an MD by training. He commanded the Israeli medical team in the Entebbe rescue operation in 1976. In 1987 he retired from the Israel Defense Force at the rank of Brigadier General. Between 1988 and 1993, he conducted secret negotiations with Palestinian leaders in pursuit of a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His most recent book: Navigating Perilous Waters has been published in Hebrew in 2002, and an updated English edition will be published in 2003."
	Kol Ami Adult Education: Jewish Law with Prof. Greenwood: "'It is not in Heaven':  The Oven of Akhnai and the Expulsion of God from Jewish Law" 7:30-8:30 PM at Kol Ami.
22, Sat	Hillel's Minyan Netivot meets to daven and discuss Parashat Ki Tisa. 9:30 AM. call for location.
	Shira will give a short Israel Education Month presentation at Kol Ami. 7:30-8:30 PM at Kol Ami.
	JCC Hollywood Havdalah: "The Producers".  JCC at 7 PM.
23-25	Hillel's Spitzer Forum on Public Policy. Scholarships available.
25, Tues	Tom Farer, Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, on "The United Nations and the Iraqi-American Confrontation." 3:00-4:30 p.m., Dumke Auditorium, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Dean Farer will also give an informal talk on "Just and Unjust Wars" in the Tanner Library (334 Orson Spencer Hall)) from 9:30-10:30 AM. Tom Farer is the Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and a prominent expert on international law, international organization and conflict resolution. Dean Farer has taught at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and Cambridge Universities. His books include: Toward a Humanitarian Foreign Policy: A Primer for Policy (New York University Press) and Beyond Sovereignty (Johns Hopkins University Press). His articles appeared in Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Yale Review, World Politics, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy International Organization, and Human Rights Quarterly.
26, Wed	Deadline to register for FREE Action Israel X Summit in LA (March 9)
	Kol Ami Adult Education: Jewish Law with Prof. Greenwood on "What Was The Sin of Sodom? The Problem of Excessive Law " 7:30-8:30 PM at Kol Ami
28, Fri	JCC Young Adult Shabbat Club, 6-10pm at JCC (RSVP required; childcare provided by BBYO)

• Jan 10, Fri:  JCC Young Adult Shabbat Club, 6-10 pm at JCC (RSVP required; cost $8 -- free to Hillel members, childcare provided by BBYO)
• Jan 12, Sun:  Sam Glazer concert at the JCC.
• Jan 12, Sun:  Hillel Student Board business meeting, 3 P.M. at the JCC.
• Jan 16, Thurs:  Rabbi Reuven Firestone, Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, will present a talk on "Divine Authority and Mass Violence: Holy War in Judaism and Islam."   4:15 p.m., in the Hinckley Caucus Room, 255 Orson Spencer Hall (OSH).
• Jan 16-26:  Sundance Film Festival
• Jan 17, Fri at sundown: Tu B'Shvat, the New Year of the trees, begins.
• Jan 17, Fri:  SchmoozeDance.  7:30 PM Oneg Shabbat and kiddush reception followed at 8:15 PM by film screenings, including "Kosher"; The Collector of Bedford Street;  Wontons and Hamantaschen; A Home on The Range: Jewish Chicken Farmers of Petaluma; The Nose Job Jew; and The (Billy) Joel Files.  At Temple Har Shalom, 1922 Prospector Avenue in Park City. 
• Jan 21, Tues:  Screening and Panel Discussion of "Palestine", Eccles Broadcast Center, 101 Wasatch Drive, 7:00 P.M.  
• Jan 25, Sat: Hillel's Minyan Netivot meets to daven and discuss Parashat Yitro. 9:30 AM. call for location.  
• Jan 25, Sat: Hillel students will make a short Israel Education Month presentation at Kol Ami.  This week:  Student President Sara Nosanchuk on Herzl.  
• Jan 25, Sat:  JCC Hollywood Havdalah Night.  Screening of "Au Revoir Les Enfants", followed by a discussion led by Prof. Ron Smelser (History).  7:00 PM, Free.  
• Jan 26, Sun: Israel Trade Fair at the Wagner J.C.C.  Israeli vendors are bringing Judaica, art, jewelry, and clothing, etc.  10:00 - 6:00 P.M. 
• Jan 26, Sun:  Hillel Superbowl Party.  Contact Sara for details, or just meet her at the Israel Trade Fair.  4:00 PM, RSVP required.  
• Jan 28, Tues:  Israeli Election Day.
• Jan 30, Thurs:  Meir Litvak, Sr. Research Fellow, Dayan Center for Mid Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University, will present a lecture on "The Islamization of the Arab/Israeli Conflict".  Noon, Hinckley Caucus Room, 255 Orson Spencer Hall. 
• Jan 30, Thurs:  Meir Litvak, Sr. Research Fellow, Dayan Center for Mid Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University,will present a lecture, "Islamic Debates on Shura and Democracy."   4:15 p.m. 255 OSH (The Hinckley Caucus Room).
• Jan 31, Fri:  Slide Lecture with Scenes from Ground Zero by Joel Meyerowitz (the only photographer granted access to the clean-up).  MFA Auditorium.  
  

• Dec 5, Thurs:  Paul Berrin, Political Advisor to Israeli Consulate General (L.A.)Yuval Rotem, speaks at the Hinckley Center. Noon. Also on KUER.
• Breakfast meeting with Paul Berrin, by special arrangement.  Contact Hillel or AIPAC for details. 
• Dec 7, Sat:  Hillel movie night.  
• Dec 14, Sat: Hillel's Minyan Netivot meets to daven and discuss Parashat Vayigash. 9:30 AM. call for location.
• Dec 25,  Help at Xmas Dinner for the Homeless.  Contact Eileen to volunteer.

• Nov 6, Wed: UofU Hebrew Club Opening Social. 6:30 - 7:30 pm. West Village Kitchen (Sunnyside & Foothill). Authentic FOOD, Hebrew cartoons & other revelry! Everyone is welcome. FREE
• Nov 10, Sun: Hillel Student Board Planning Meeting. Contact Sara for time and place.
• Nov 12: Jewish Arts Festival at the JCC. Join Hillel's booth!
• Nov 13-17: Jewish Book Fair at the JCC
• Nov 15, Fri: Neil Lazarus, "an internationally acclaimed expert in the field of Middle East, Israel Advocacy and effective communication training." On campus. Contact Sara for time and place. Sponsored by the Israel Consulate General and United Jewish Federation.
• Nov 21, Thurs: Interfaith Thanksgiving Service. 6 PM at the Post Chapel. To join Hillel's delegation, contact Sara.
• Nov 23, Sat: Hillel's Minyan Netivot meets to daven and discuss Parashat Vayishlach. 9:30 AM. call for location.
• Nov 29, Fri: First candle of Chanukah.
• Nov 30, Sat:  Chanukah party at Daphna's house: Hillel students invited.

• Oct 3, Thurs: Dinner and "Proof" at the Pioneer Theatre Co. Meet at 6 at Alumni Hs.
• Oct 4, Fri: Dinner with the Israeli visiting students at Kol Ami. RSVP required.
• Oct 7, Mon: 3 Israeli students speak at the Hinkley Inst., at 10:45 AM. Click for pix.
• Oct 10: Mandy Patinkin in Concert at Abravanel Hall
• Oct 16: Hillel Student Board Planning Meeting, 6:00 p.m.
• Oct 18-20: Israel Advocacy Training, Ojai, California
• Oct 25, Fri: Young Adult Shabbat Club, 6-10pm at JCC (RSVP required; cost $8; childcare provided by BBYO)
• Oct 26, Sat: Hillel's Minyan Netivot meets to daven and discuss Parashat Vayera. 9:30 AM. call for location.
• Oct 27, Sun: Community wide Mitzvah Day. Meet at Kol Ami at 9:00 A.M.

• Sept 1: Slichot with Hillel's Minyan Netivot, 8:30 p.m.
• Sept 5: Hillel Student Board Planning Meeting, 6:00 p.m.
• Sept 6, 7, 8 Hillel Rosh HaShana Services, Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday morning
• Sept 11: NCCJ Community Memorial for 9-11
• Sept 15-16: Hillel Yom Kippor Services, Kol Nidre Sunday evening at 7:00 p.m.; Morning services begin at 9:00 a.m. Monday
• Sept 19: Succah Building and Pizza Party, Thurs. Sept 19. 4 PM (tentative time) outside Olpin Union
• Sept 21-28 Succot: join us for lunch in the campus succah
• Sept 27, Friday: Israel Consulate Presents King David's Peace Drummers Army, Union outdoor foyer, 11:45 AM. Click for poster
• Sept 28, Saturday: Hillel's Minyan Netivot meets to daven Shmini Atzeret and discuss Parashat Breishit. 9:30 AM. call for location.
• Sept 28, Saturday: After shul, meet at Rabbi Wenger's succah for food and song.
• Sept 28: Chava Alberstein is performing at the Peery's Egyptian theatre in Ogden. Tickets: 801-395-3227
• Sept 28-29: Simhat Torah at all local congregations: Everyone gets an aliyah and to dance with the Torah

August 2002

• 18: Timpanogos Cave Hike, 9:00am (cost $8)
• 23: Joint Congregational Shabbat, 6:00pm at Trailside Park in Park City
• 24: PlazaFest at University of Utah, outside foyer
• 30: Young Adult Shabbat Club, 6pm at JCC

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2001-2002 / 5762

(more or less reverse chronological order)

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• Tues. evening-Wed. April 16-17: Israeli Independence Day (Yom HaAtzmaut).

• Sunday, April 21. 2002: Seeds of Peace Benefit Reception and Concert. 7:00 PM. Gardner Hall Ballroom, 1375 E. President's Circle, U of Utah. Seeds of Peace brings together youngsters from areas of conflict (Middle East; Balkans; Greece & Turkey) for a conflict resolution camp and workshops in Maine and Jerusalem. The Benefit Concert will be performed by Gerald Elias, Associate Concertmaster of the Utah Symphony (Violin) and Marjorie Janove (Piano) and guest violinist Sarah Moensch, and includes pieces by Beriot, Gershwin, Chopin, Richard Strauss and Elgar. John Wallach, the founder of Seeds for Peace, will speak. Admission is $20 for the concert or $40 for concert and reception.

• April 14-22: jUdance-Utah Jewish Film Festival. For a complete list of all 25 films and theatre locations, click here. The Salt Lake City Jewish Film Festival - jUdance - will open this year on April 14, 2002 with the new hit film by Israeli director Amos Gitay, "Kippur.” The film will be shown at the I.J. and Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center and at the University. It deals with the opening days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. For more details about the film series or the one semester credit hour course (MidE 4880-3/Hebrew 4900/Film Studies 3790) contact Harris Lenowitz at 581-5291. For more information about Jewish film in Utah, visit Utah Hillel's Jewish Film page.

• April 20, 2002: Shabbat morning service, Utah Hillel's Minyan Netivot at a member's home. Shabbat Acharei Mot & Kdoshim, (Omer 23). Torah portion: annual (studied): Lev. (Vayikra) 16:1-20:27; Triennial (chanted): Lev. 16:1-16:34.

• Evening of April 29-April 30: Lag B'Omer.

• Evening of May 16, 2002-May 17: Shavuot.

• May 16, 2002: Minyan Netivot Tikun Leyl Shavuot: evening Torah discussion and study session in honor of Shavuot, with guest teacher Dr. Miriyam Glazer (Department of English and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism).

• May 18, 2000: Shabbat morning service, Utah Hillel's Minyan Netivot at a member's home. Shabbat Shavuot (the second day of Shavuot). Book of Ruth; Ex. (Shmot) chs 19-20. Extra Shavuot Torah reading: Deut. 14:22-16:17, Numbers (Bamidbar) 28:26-28:31

• Sunday, March 17, 9-11 AM: Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services (NYC) and the National Center for Jewish Healing. Seminar on Jewish Healing: Integrating Jewish Spiritual Resources into Counseling/Psychotherapy" and "Give Me Your Hand: Traditional Jewish Approaches to Healing". Children's Sanctuary, Kol Ami. Contact JFS (581-1330 x155) for more info.

• Sat., March 16, 2002: Minyan Netivot discussion, 4-6 P.M. at a member's home: What Do (Should) We Pray For in the Prayer for the State of Israel Today?. Followed by Havdalah.

• Tuesday, March 19, 2002: Architecture Lecture In a New Spirit: Synagogues of Germany. Utah Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium 5:30 PM. Call 581-8254 for details.

• Thurs. March 21, 2002: Advanced Hebrew Class. Read and discuss a short story and poem together (in Hebrew). 10:15-12:15 AM Moyle Conference Room - Quinney Law Library Room 213. Contact Drora Oren for the reading.

• Sat., March 23, 2002 Minyan Netivot: Shabbat Tzav, Shabbat Ha-Gadol, at a member's home: Torah portion: annual (studied):Lev. (Vayikra) 6:1-8:36; Triennial (chanted): Lev. 6:1-7:10.

• March: a Hillel Ski Trip?? Call Moshe if you are interested.

• Wednesday, March 27, 2002: First Seder of Pesach (Passover). Passover continues through Thursday, April 4. Second seder Mar 28 at Minyan Netivot - all students invited. Please contact us if you need assistance in finding a first seder to attend or if you want to help organize the Minyan Netivot seder or a student seder. Visit our Pesach Page for recipes, food sources, books, music and more.

• February: The Olympics.

• Monday evening-Tuesday, Feb. 25-26, 2002: Purim. Read the Book of Esther and celebrate victory over injustice and oppression, survival against the odds. It's carnival time: celebrate overturnings by dressing up and partying. Kol Ami, Chabad, the JCC and all the Hebrew Schools organize Purim parties. Kol Ami's Grand Purim Masquerade is on March 2. All the local congregations have megillah (Esther) readings, mostly designed to be kid friendly (kids and grownups invited to come in costume). Brumby's sells hamentashen (Hamen's hat cookies; Hamen's ears to the Sephardim) or make your own. For more information, read Hillel International's Guide to Purim or its Talmudic text study: When The Book of Esther Was Not Yet Part of the Bible (require Adobe Acrobat Reader).

• Thurs. Feb. 28, Advanced Hebrew Class. 10:15-12:15 AM Moyle Conference Room - Quinney Law Library Room 213. Contact Drora Oren for the reading.

• Thurs., February 28, 2002, 7:30 PM: Cantor Joseph Levine "Grandees and the Rest of Us." Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewish folk ballads about biblical heroes, exemplify through music and text, beautiful, but distinctive ways of appreciating the Jewish diaspora experience. 7:30 P.M. in the Dumke Recital Hall, Gardner Hall, University of Utah. Cosponsored by Hillel, IMPACT and others.

• March 1-3: Cantor Joseph Levine, Scholar in Residence at Kol Ami (cosponsored by Hillel). Friday services: "The American Century of Synagogue Song;" Saturday services: "The Paradox of Jewish Worship." Cantor Levine will address both the Friday and Saturday services at Kol Ami. Click for more information.

• February 1, Shabbat dinner at Chabad. Dinner with Rabbi Zippel for Hillel students, after Chabad services. Reservations required; contact Moshe.

• Hillel New Year's Eve Party: 9:00 PM at Jason and Leah's. Call for directions. BYOB.

• Fri., January 4. First Parashat HaShavua class, with Rabbi Yossi Mandel, OSH 155, 4 PM.

• Fri. January 11, 6:00 PM: Hillel goes to Sundance. Join David K for a showing of "The Inner Tour," an Israeli film about the conflict. For more info go to www.sundance.org. This is free event for Hillel members; you must contact David to get your ticket. Hillel has 20 tickets and that is it. At the Sugarhouse 10 @ 6:00 on the 11th.

• Wed. Jan. 16, Parashat HaShavuah class. 4-5PM OSH 155.

• CANCELLED Thurs. January 17, Noon: Prof/Rabbi Reuven Firestone speaking downtown on "Islamic Law and Suicide Bombings: How the Forbidden Became Acceptable". J. Reuben Clark Law Society, SL Marriott City Center Capital A room. Open to all for $20 (includes lunch and CLE credit). RSVP required by 5PM Monday January 14 to Jrcls@mindspring.com. Click for flyer.

• CANCELLED Thurs. January 17, 4:15 PM: Prof/Rabbi Reuven Firestone speaking at the MEC on "Holy War in the Middle East: Traditions of Islam and Judaism". Free. 255 OSH. Click for flyer.

• Thurs., January 17, 6-7 PM: Prayerbook Hebrew. First class. Meets at Bais Menachem, taught by Rabbi Zippel.

• Thurs., January 17, 7:30-10:00 PM: Jewish Cultural Festival in connection with the publication of Homeland in the West: Utah Jews Remember in the Gould Auditorium (Marriot Library, 1st Floor). Stories and photographs of Utah Jewish life, music by Klezbros, Jewish pastries and Israeli dancing and more! Free admission. Should be a lot of fun!!!

• See the Hanukah Party pictures - 35 people at Sara's house!.

• Sat. January 19: Minyan Netivot Special Service to Welcome the Hillel Torah, at a member's home. (Click for a picture of Sofer Shel examining the Torah.) Call for when and where. Everyone who is willing will have a chance to read from the Torah - contact Maeera for details.

• Wed. Jan. 23: Ambassador Martin Indyk, "Confronting International Terrorism and Breaking the Middle East Stalemate" 3:30-5:00 p.m. Fine Arts Auditorium. Details.

• Wed. Jan. 23, Parashat HaShavuah class. 4-5PM OSH 155.

• Thurs. Jan. 24, Advanced Hebrew Class. 10:15-12:15 AM Moyle Conference Room - Quinney Law Library Room 213. Contact Drora Oren for the reading.

• Thurs. Jan 24, Prayerbook Hebrew 6-7 PM at Bais Menachem (1433 S. 1100 East).

• Sat., Jan 26, 7:00 PM. Let's go to the Dead Goat Saloon (165 South West Temple). Along with the JCC's new young adult Group we will go to the Dead Goat Saloon. Music, beer, and friends. Contact Moshe or Debbie to rsvp - call 581-0098 ext 118.

• Sun. January 27, 10:00 AM: Hillel membership meeting. At Einstein's Bagels for all who are interested in contributing to programming, etc. Another great way to have fun with Hillel members.)

• Sun. January 27, 12 Noon: Hillel will be checking out the BERLIN NAZI OLYMPICS exhibit. We will meet at the main entrance to the exhibit (Marriot Library, 3rd Floor) at 12 noon. Exclusive to the month of January will be a smaller exhibit in conjunction with this one entitled "A Homeland in the West: Utah Jews Remember." Both are free. Both should be very interesting -- so please plan to attend!!!

• Wed. Jan. 30, Parashat HaShavuah class. 4-5PM OSH 155.

• Thurs. Jan 31, Prayerbook Hebrew 6-7 PM at Bais Menachem (1433 S. 1100 East).

• Hillel New Year's Eve Party: 9:00 PM at Jason and Leah's. Call for directions. BYOB.

• January classes.
  • Advanced Hebrew: Israeli short stories. Meets biweekly,usually Monday evenings, to read and discuss a short story or poem (in Hebrew). Contact Drora Oren, PhD for details. A USJS course.
  • USJS Jewish short story (in English) class, meeting monthly (Prof. Jacqueline Osherow).
  • Parashat HaShavua (Weekly Torah Portion): Wednesdays, 4:00-5:30 PM OSH 155. Led by Rabbi Zippel and others.
  • Ongoing training and classes at Minyan Netivot, including leyning (Torah reading), davenning (leading prayer) and Torah portion discussion.
  • "Prayerbook" Hebrew: learn your prayers. On campus, time TBA beginning in February, with Rabbi Zippel. Free. Contact Moshe if you are interested. Kol Ami offers a similar class on Sundays at Kol Ami. The JCC offers a beginning Hebrew class that also teaches some spoken and written language.
  • JCC classes, mostly at the IJ & Jeanne Wagner Center: Beginning Hebrew, Israeli Dance, Mid-Eastern Dance, Judaism: All you wanted to know but were afraid to ask, Jewish Genealogy.

• Sat. December 1: Minyan Netivot at the Kol Ami Youth Lounge, 9:30 AM.

• Sun. December 2: Hillel Student Membership meeting, 3:00 PM at the Olpin Union Underground.

• Wed. December 5: Egyptian Ambassador Nabil Fahmy:"Confronting International Terrorism and Breaking the Middle East Stalemate." Fine Arts Auditorium, 3:30-5:30 PM.

• Thurs. December 6: Promises: a new documentary film about Israeli and Palestinian children dealing with the present situation, followed by a panel discussion with Harris Lenowitz, Professor of Hebrew, U of U; Laurence Loeb, Professor Anthropology, U of U and Bernard Weiss, Professor of Arabic, U of U. 4 pm, Hinckley Caucus Room, 255 Orson Spencer Hall.

• Sun. December 9: JCC Chanukah Concert with Moshe Yess, at the IJ & Jeanne Wagner Center 5-7 PM.

• Mon. December 10: Hillel Hanukah candle lighting at the Olpin Union, 6:00 PM. Thanks to the University for purchasing a large and expensive menorah!

• Sat. December 15: Minyan Netivot at a member's home, 9:30 AM.

• Sat. December 15: Hillel Hanukah Party. Contact Sara N. for details. Make latkes, play dreidel, sing songs and party. At Sara's house. 35 people joined - see the Pictures!!.

• Tues. December 25: Christmas Dinner at the Shelter. Christmas isn't a Jewish holiday, but it is a holiday for almost everyone else around here. So for many years, the SLC Jewish community has staffed Christmas Dinner at the Homeless Shelter. Hillel will join Kol Ami and other Jewish community organizations - contact Sara N. or Eileen Stone for details.

• Hillel New Year's Eve Party: 9:00 PM at Jason and Leah's. Call for directions. BYOB.

• November 18: Hillel Movie Trip. We will be going to see the Harry Potter movie. We will meet at Century 16 at 6:30 P.M. for a 7:00 PM movie. This is a free event for all Hillel members who contact Moshe in advance. If you are coming from the JCC Hanuakah Fair, join Sara there.

• November 10: Minyan Netivot. Special guest speaker: Torah Discussion to be led by Professor Rachel Adler ( Hebrew Union College )
  National Jewish Book Award Winner and Author of Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics
• Hillel Bowling Night, Oct 21, 2001. Free to Hillel members. Contact Moshe for details.
• Campus Succah. Join us for lunch in Oct 2-9. Outside the Olpin Union.
  NEW! See the pictures of the fun at our Succah Building Party.

• Poet Chana Bloch will give a reading entitled "The Legacy of Yehuda Amichai" on Thurs, Oct 11, 2001 at noon in the Norma B. Ashton Room, Carlson Hall, S. Campus Drive & University St., University of Utah.

  "Chana Bloch is a poet, translator, scholar and teacher. She and her writing have been the recipients of numerous grants and awards (NEA, NEH, Writer's Exchange). She has translated two collections of the poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Chana Bloch lives in Berkeley, California and is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Mills College where she has taught for many years. Yehuda Amichai, Israel's best known and best loved poet, was born in 1924 in Germany and emigrated to Palestine in 1936. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the nation's highest honor, the Israel Prize. Amichai, an advocate of peace, died in Jerusalem in September last year."

  Poem: Ein Yahav
  A night drive to Ein Yahav in the Arava Desert,
  a drive in the rain. Yes, in the rain.
  There I met people who grew date palms,
  there I saw tamarisk trees and risk trees,
  there I saw hope barbed as barbed wire.
  And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be
  like barbed wire to keep out despair,
  hope must be a mine field.

  The program honors the memory of Amichai, his work and that of Chana Bloch who brings it to us.
  SPONSORED BY: University of Utah Department of English, Middle East Center-IMPACT, Utah Hillel, Tanner Humanities Center, with thanks to the Ann Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series. For more information, contact Professor Harris Lenowitz, at 581-5291.

• High Holidays services: Egalitarian traditional services at the JCC Wagner Center, just off campus, with Rabbis Ruth Sohn and Reuven Firestone.
  Students specially invited to Yom Kippur Jonah reading, Closing Services and Break-fast!
• Rosh HaShana evening services, Mon. Sept. 17, 2001, 8:00 PM at the JCC Wagner Center
• Rosh HaShana morning services, Tues. Sept. 18, 2001, 9:00 AM at the JCC Wagner Center
  Dairy Potluck following approx. 1:00 PM (RSVP REQUIRED - 359-1453)
  Tashlich near Red Butte Garden approx. 3:30
• Rosh HaShana morning services, Wed. Sept. 18, 2001, 9:00 AM at the JCC Wagner Center
• Yom Kippor Kol Nidre, Wed. Sept. 26, 2001, 7:00 PM at the JCC Wagner Center
• Yom Kippur Morning Services & Yizkor, Tues. Sept 27, 9:00 AM at the JCC Wagner Center
  Jonah, Mincha and Ne'ila Services 5:30 PM
  Potluck Break-fast 8:05 PM (RSVP REQUIRED - 359-1453)
• Shabbat Haazinu, September 29, 2001 at a member's home: Torah portion: annual (studied):Deut.(Dvarim) 32:1-32:52; Triennial (chanted): same.

• Tshuva workshop/study session and Selichot service, Saturday night September 15, 2001.
• Thursday August 23, 2001, 3:30 PM
  Polygamy in Post-Biblical Jewish Law: The Rise of Different Traditions, a lecture by Rabbi Elimelech Westreich, Associate Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University, Visiting Professor University of Chicago Law School.
  Borchard Conference Room, 2d Floor, University of Utah College of Law (332 South 1400 East). Light refreshments. Open to all. Prof. Westreich is the 2001 Howard H. Rolapp Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the College of Law. His lecture is co-sponsored by IMPACT.

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• Mid-East Center talks (co-sponsored by MEC & IMPACT)

• Thursday, December 7, 4:15 pm, LNCO 1945
  MENUHA'S DYBBUK: A FEMALE COMMUNICATIVE EVENT
  Dr. Tamar Alexander, Department of Hebrew Literature (Chair of Folklore and Ladino Studies), Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Visiting - Department of Comparative Literature/Judaic Studies Program, Yale University.
  "Menuhas Dybbuk: A Female Communicative Event is the second talk she'll give on DYBBUKS! It will also include a brief film excerpt and an audio tape. Tamar actually participated in this exorcism. She was present at the ceremony itself and interviewed all those involved (a young daughter of Russian immigrants to Israel, her sister and mother and father, a rabbi -- who ultimately missed the exorcism -- and his wife). In her talk Tamar also raises the question of her own double role in this uniquely total female occurrence of a spirit-possession and exorcism. Even the dybbuk was female! Tamar will give this talk on Thursday, December 7 at 4.15 pm in the Languages and Communications Building, Room 1945 on the University of Utah campus.

  "Tamar is a folklorist and specializes in Sephardic culture. She normally teaches at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba (where she heads the Folklore program and holds the Estelle Frankfurter Chair in Sephardic Studies) but has been in the United States this fall in the Judaic Studies program at Yale as a Blaustein Visiting Professor. Tamars latest book, "The tale of the beloved-and-a-half," won the prestigious Toledano Prize this year for research in Sefardic Studies. She will be coming to Utah as a guest of the Impact program of the Middle East Center and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah, the Utah School of Jewish Studies and Congregation Kol Ami. All events are free and open to the public. "Tamar's latest work has focused on spirit possession present day in Israel. Two DYBBUK-EVENTS, especially the EXORCISMS, will be at the center of two of her talks [the Tuesday one listed here below and the MEC Discussion Group above].

  • Tuesday, Dec 5, 12:30 pm Life Sciences Building 101 (in Anthropology class on "Traditional Jewish Communities") "Ethics and Fieldwork in the Documentation of Exorcism." will include excerpts from a video made during an exorcism in Dimona about a year ago. In this talk Tamar will touch on the way in which the information about the event was distributed and controlled by the people involved in it and by others who studied it an reported on it.
  • Wednesday, Dec 6, 7 pm, 569 S 1300 E (First Unitarian Church)

    Special Program for Families at the Utah School of Jewish Studies Tamar will play some Sephardic songs and tell stories of a Cinderella-like princess then explore what they mean to our culture in a performance called "The Tale of the Princess in Her Three Gowns."

  • Saturday, December 9 "The holiday cycle in Sephardic proverbs" might be a good name for Tamar's fourth presentation, which might center on how we remember our traditions. Tamar will be at Congregation Kol Ami on Shabbat, December 9 to share some Sephardic proverbs and dig into their significance in a conversation with us. She will introduce the topic during services and extend her remarks afterwards at the Rabbi's Discussion Group.

  • Thursday November 2, 4:15 p.m., OSH 255
    DIS-COVERING AGGADAH: ROBERT COVER AND THE NARRATIVE CONTEXT OF TALMUDIC LAW
    Dr. Aryeh Cohen, Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Chair of Rabbinic Studies Ziegler School of Rabbinical Studies, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA

    "Robert Cover has argued that all law is embedded in narrative, that all prescriptions have an epic which gives them meaning. In this lecture I will take the Talmudic law of divorce and ask: "What is the narrative which gives these laws meaning?" "What is the narrative that makes these particulars of Talmudic divorce law meaningful for the community represented by Rabbinic literature?" I will argue that the laws of divorce are embedded in the narrative Exile, and that the narrative of Exile is told by way of the categories of Talmudic divorce law."

• Utah Hillel High Holiday, Selichot and Succot Schedule
  (Learn the tunes in advance: Contact us for tapes)

• High Holidays at Utah Hillel (click here for schedule) and elsewhere in Utah.

• Sukkot, Oct 13 (evening)-Oct 20, 2000: ?? Lunch in the Campus succah??
• Kohelet/Ecclesiastes: To Everything There is a Season... A Time to Eat, A Time To Study
  Please join Minyan Netivot for a potluck lunch (dairy/vegetarian) and a discussion of Kohelet (The Book of Ecclesiastes).
  • When: Saturday, October 21 (after morning services- aprox. 12:30 p.m)
  • Where: Contact Hillel for details.
  • Bring: a potluck contribution and your copy of Kohelet.
• Simhat Torah, Oct 21, 2000 (evening): Join us at Kol Ami.

• JNF Birthright Israel - Almost Free Trip to Israel this winter for 18-26 year old Jews - click here for JNF letter. Deadline for JNF Birthright Israel applications is September 25, 2000. Also has information on EcoShabbat, EcoZionism, etc.

  For information on additional Birthright Israel sponsors with different trips and dates (most are free or almost free for 18-26 year old Jews), go directly to www.birthrightisrael.com. Winter registration ends October 5, 2000 and participants will be chosen by lottery.

• Slichot, Saturday Sept. 23, 2000, 9:30 PM at a minyan member's home. "Please join Minyan Netivot for a special Slichot service as we prepare to enter the Days of Awe. Selichot --Traditionally, modern Jews asemble on the Saturday night one week before Rosh Ha-shanah. The service is held at night when the outer world is dark and quiet, and our internal preoccupations with daily life are muted. We ask ourselves: 'Where have I been this year? Where am I going? What is meaningful in my life?' "
• Erev Rosh HaShana 5761, Sept 29, 2000: Traditional Services at the Panorama Room WEST, University Union, led by guest Rabbi Rachel Shere (U.J.).
• Rosh HaShana, Sept 30-Oct 1, 2000: Traditional Services at the Panorama Room EAST, University Union, led by Rabbi Rachel Shere. Potluck lunch on Sept 30. Tashlich at Red Butte on Oct. 1.
• Kol Nidre/Erev Yom Kippor, Oct 8, 2000: Traditional Services at the Panorama Room EAST, University Union, led by Rabbi Rachel Shere.
• Yom Kippur, Oct 9, 2000: Traditional Services at the Panorama Room EAST, University Union, led by Rabbi Rachel Shere, followed by Potluck Break-fast.
• Succah Building and Pizza Party. Thursday Oct. 12, 6:00 PM. Outside the Union. We'll provide building materials and pizza. You bring enthusiasm and, if you wish, pot-luck vegetarian dinner.

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• 20th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Salt Lake City on July 9 - 14, 2000. (For more information on Jewish genealogical research, visit JewishGen.)

  Tikkun Leil Shavuot -- June 8, 2000

  A Night of Torah Study in Honor of Shavuot Minyan Netivot (a joint Hillel/Kol Ami project) is pleased to host a cross-community night of Torah study, discussion and lots of blintz - eating in honor of Shavuot.
  • 8:00 p.m.: "Family Friendly Torah Study" - facilitated by Carol Salem (Children Welcome)
  • 8:30 p.m.: "Corners of the Beard and Corners of the Field: Social Justice in a Jewish State" -- facilitated by Daniel Greenwood (Professor of Law, University of Utah) * Blintz Break *
  • 9:30 p.m.: "Reading Ruth as a Tikkun -- An Act of Textual Reparation" -- facilitated by Drora Oren (Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Utah) * Blintz Break *
  • 10:30 p.m.: "The Cry of the Dove: Some Talmudic Texts on Prayer" -- facilitated by Maeera Shreiber (Asst. Professor, English Literature, University of Utah)
  For location and directions, contact Utah Hillel.

• Days of Remembrance: Holocaust Memorial Events, including lectures, workshops, films, poetry reading, recitals, etc., with U and visiting faculty and performers. Extensive events from March 30 - May 5, 2000. Click for details.

• Passover at Utah Hillel. First Seder is April 19, 2000. Hillel needs a leader for this year's student Seder. Click for information on local seders, Passover foods, recipes, selling your hametz, bibliography and more.

• Days of Remembrance: Holocaust Memorial Events, including lectures, workshops, films, poetry reading, recitals, etc., with U and visiting faculty and performers. Extensive events from March 30 - May 5, 2000. Click for details.

• Middle East Center Lectures and Events (partial listing-more events and details at the MEC website)
  • Thurs April 13: Negotiating Identity in an Israeli Arab Village: A View From the Field, Yally Livnat, UofU (4:15 PM 208 OSH)

• Ulpan Akiva in SLC

  "Congregation Kol Ami is pleased to announce that Orit Bar Aki-An, a very creative, positive, and highly motivated master teacher, will be in residence for most of April to lead a series of three special workshops for teachers in all our Utah Jewish schools. The focus will be on alternative pedagogic techniques." These programs are funded by United Jewish Federation of Utah and are open to the entire Jewish community.
  "Orit teaches Hebrew at Ulpan Akiva (www.ulpan-akiva.org.il), the foremost language and culture center in Israel.  She also conducts special training for other Ulpan (intensive Hebrew learning program) teachers in Israel and St. Petersburg, Russia.

  • Teaching Workshops will be held on Sunday afternoons, April 2, 9, & 16 from 1:00 - 3:00 at Congregation Kol Ami.  Lunch will be served at 12:30.  Please make your reservations with the Kol Ami Religious School Office (801-484-1501, ext. 28) by March 28.

  • Mini Ulpan -- Beginning (and advanced?) Hebrew. The Adult Education Department of Congregation Kol Ami is offering a special "Mini-Ulpan" on two consecutive weekends.  Orit will be teaching these on Shabbat and Sunday afternoons, April 8-9, 15-6, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.  Advanced classes will be offered if there is a demand for them.  Advance registration must be arranged through the Kol Ami office (801-484-1501, ext. 21) by March 28.  The cost is $25 for Kol Ami members, $40 for non-members.  All materials will be included.

  • Women's Middle Eastern Dancing   Women of all ages are invited to two special evenings of exotic Middle Eastern dancing.  Come and enjoy together with Orit on Tuesdays, April 4th & 11th, at 7:30 p.m., at Kol Ami.  The cost is $5 per evening.  Bring a soft shawl or scarf, and be ready to have fun!
    
        For additional information, please contact Rochelle Wenger, 801-583-2819, <rwenger@conkolami.org>."

• Chavurah B'Yachad Tu B'Shvat Tree Planting with Tree Utah, Sunday, March 26: "Dear Friends, Thank you to everyone who contributed to Tree Utah by donating money for trees in honor of Tu B'Shevat. Now we need to plant the trees. We will be planting 25 tall (20-25 foot) trees." To join the project, make a donation or for more information, contact Chavurah B'Yachad.

• Dr. Steven M. Wasserstrom, Reed College, will speak at the Middle East Center Discussion Group on Thursday, March 23, on Islam and Judaism in the 2nd half of the 20th century, and the figures who have revolutionized scholarly thinking on monotheism during this period: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin. He will speak on "Kabbalah today" at Kol Ami on Saturday, March 25.

  Thursday, March 23, 2000: THE PARADOX OF MONOTHEISM IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS: THE CASE OF ERANOS, 4:15 pm, 208 Orson Spencer Hall

  "By the end of World War II, religion appeared to be on the decline throughout the United States and Europe. Recent world events had cast doubt on the relevance of religious belief, and modernizing trends made religious rituals look out of place. It was in this atmosphere that the careers of Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin--the twentieth century's legendary scholars in the respective fields of Judaism, History of Religions, and Islam--converged and ultimately revolutionized how people thought about religion. Between 1949 and 1978, all three lectured to Carl Jung's famous Eranos circle in Ascona, Switzerland, where each in his own way came to identify the symbolism of mystical experience as a central element of his monotheistic tradition." -- back cover of Wasserstrom's recent book "Religion after Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos" (Princeton, 1999)

  Focusing on Corbin's approach to Sufism (Islamic mysticism) and Scholem's approach to Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), Wasserstrom will discuss how these theories see monotheistic religion as a set of symbols rather than as a set of obligatory beliefs and practices. The conflict between these two approaches to monotheism is the"paradox of monotheism" that Wasserstrom refers to. By comparing and contrasting Corbin's Sufism and Scholem's Kabbalah, and by placing them in historical and intellectual contexts, Wasserstrom will draw conclusions about their emphasis on the role of myth and mysticism while neglecting social history, law and ritual.

  Steven M. Wasserstrom is the Moe and Izetta Tonkon Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and the Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he has taught since 1987. His first book, Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam (Princeton, 1995), received the Award for Excellence in Historical Studies from the American Academy of Religion (AAR). AAR's annual meeting in 1999 devoted a session to discussion of his second book, Religion after Religion. Wasserstrom received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto (1985).

  ***Wasserstrom will also speak on WHAT HAPPENED TO KABBALAH? during Saturday morning services at Congregation Kol Ami, 2425 E 2760 S (services begin at 9-9:30 am). You are welcome to attend services AND/OR an open discussion and reception, which will take place at around noon in the Kol Ami library. Call 484-1501 for directions and details.

  Steve Wasserstrom's visit is sponsored by the Middle East Center, IMPACT/Jewish Studies, and Congregation Kol Ami.

• Jewish Superwoman: Living in Two Realms Harvard University Hillel March 10-12, 2000 (register by Feb 15). Subsidies may be available; contact Utah Hillel.

• Claire Salomon Master's Recital, Sunday March 5, 2000. 7:30 pm, David Gardner Hall, rm. 400. "The recital will feature a version of the Chatzi Kaddish by Maurice Ravel, as well as a setting of psalm 126 in Latin by Antonio Vivaldi. I promise that everyone will find at least one song to his or her liking! The music is beautiful and the admission is free. What could be better? Please come!"

• Special Guest Rabbis Ruth Sohn and Reuven Firestone will join the Hillel Minyan at its Sat. March 4th Meeting.

• Hillel Spitzer Public Policy Forum. National Hillel writes: "we want to remind each of you that the Charlotte and Jack J. Spitzer B'nai B'rith Hillel Forum on Public Policy is taking place February 27-29 in Baltimore, Maryland.
  "In its eleventh year, the Spitzer Forum is held in conjunction with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) Plenum. JCPA is a multi-issue umbrella organization, which acts as American Jewry's national coordinating body in the public affairs arena.
  "We have confirmed Professor Arnold Eisen as the Scholar in Residence, Israeli journalist Yaron Svoray, and the JCPA has confirmed Kweisi Mfume, President of the NAACP. Invitations have also been extended to Prime Minister Ehud Barak and members of our political administration. In addition, we have confirmed Adam Werbach, youngest national president of the Sierra Club, as our Glenn and Darcy Weiner Lecturer on Public Policy.
  "The Spitzer Forum encourages students to become activists in pursuing social justice on campus, public service advocates in the community, and participants in the political process.

  "Dear Student Activist: Register now for the Charlotte and Jack J. Spitzer B'nai B'rith Hillel Forum on Public Policy! The Spitzer Forum will be held February 27-29 in Baltimore, Maryland.
  "The Spitzer Forum encourages students to become activists in pursuing social justice on campus, public service advocates in the community, and participants in the political process. In its eleventh year, the Spitzer Forum is held in conjunction with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) Plenum. JCPA is a multi-issue umbrella organization that coordinates American Jewry in the public affairs arena.
  "At the Spitzer Forum you will Make the CASE: Community Partnerships: Learn how to build your campus community. Come to the Partner Agency Fair and Mentoring Dinner. Bring your resume. Discover opportunities for internships, careers, study abroad and volunteer experiences. Advocacy: Lobby Members of Congress on the issues that are important to you and your Jewish community. Service: Bring a new children's book to promote literacy. Education: Learn from powerful figures in the Israeli and American governments, leading intellectuals, activists, and religious leaders. Participate in interactive skills sessions.
  " Download a conference application and scholarship form at http://www.hillel.org." Heavy travel subsidies and full scholarships are available -- contact Utah Hillel!

• UJA-Federation Phonathon - Volunteers Needed. The Phoneathon will be Feb 8, 9, 10 beginning with dinner at 5:30 and ending by 8:30. Anyone interested in helping, please contact Hillel, or call directly to Theresa Bruce at UJA, 581-0102. If you call directly, please mention that you are volunteering on behalf of Hillel!

• Ski Hillel! Alta Ski Resort, Sunday, Feb. 13th, 2000. All Hillel members invited regardless of ski level. Reduced cost for Hillel student members: $23 for a full day of skiing, $15 for a half-day - pick morning or afternoon. For more information or to reserve a spot, contact Ed at 359-7678.

• Prof. Moshe Shokeid, Tel Aviv University
  • November 12, 1999:
    Gender Relationships at a Gay Synagogue in New York, Congregation Kol Ami, 7:30 p.m. (Call 484-1501 for details)
  • November 14, 1999:
    Moroccan Jews And Their Saints: A View From a Long-term Ethnographic Study, Middle East Center Discussion Group, 2:15 p.m. 208 OSH.

  Professor Shokeid is currently a Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Social Science. He has written six books (three in collaboration with Shlomo Deshen), mostly on North African immigrants in Israel, as well as on Israeli emigrants in New York, and his "A Gay Synagogue in New York" (1995). He has provided the following descriptions of his talks:

  Professor Shokeid's Friday talk will concern his anthropological study of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in New York City, which is the synagogue attended by gay men and lesbians: "The integration of women as equal partners in mainstream Jewish religious life has been an issue that for decades has engaged the more liberal Jewish denominations. To what extent, therefore, does a 'gay synagogue' reflect, or alternatively, stand removed from, the major patterns of gender-hierarchy relationships in mainstream synagogues?"

  His Monday talk for the Middle East Center Discussion Group concerns the recent resurrection of North African Jewish religious culture in Israel: "The leading rabbis who had seemed invisible and the saints whose graves remained in Morocco have now reappeared in the periphery of Israeli geography (the 'development towns'). They have gained national public attention, in particular, during the annual celebrations that commemorate venerated rabbis and saints. My research, which has taken place over a period of nearly thirty years, of one community of immigrants from the Atlas Mountains follows the ongoing and changing ties of young and old individuals to the representatives of the sacred attribute of 'zekhut avot' (merit of the fathers)."

• University Minyan. "Announcing...
  An egalitarian minyan devoted to prayer, Torah study, and the joyous celebration of Shabbat.

  "Here's the initial plan: to meet one Shabbat morning a month in someone's home. We will begin by davening Shacharit together, primarily in Hebrew. Then we'll have a study session (about an hour) focusing, usually, on the week's Torah portion. Participants in the minyan will facilitate both the davening and learning. We will conclude with a potluck dairy lunch.

  9:30-11:00 Shabbat morning prayer
  11:00-12:00 Torah study
  12:00 Potluck lunch (come for any or all parts)

  "We are planning to meet typically on the last Shabbat of the month, though there will necessarily be changes throughout the year. All are invited, whatever your institutional or communal affiliations. We see this minyan as an effort to add to the strength and diversity of Jewish life in Salt Lake, and as supplemental to, not a substitute for, existing affiliations. We especially welcome those who are interested in acquiring prayer skills, exploring Hebrew liturgy, learning to chant Torah, or facilitating Torah study sessions."

  Please join us for our first gathering on November 13. For location, contact Hillel.

  This is a learner's minyan: we intend to teach each other the skills necessary to lead prayer and Torah learning. If you are interested in joining for traditional/egalitarian prayer, study and/or discussion, please contact us at Hillel@lists.utah.edu.

• Streaked with Light and Shadow: Portraits of Former Soviet Jews.
  A travelling exhibit that contains documentary photographs by Kent Miles and Stacie Smith, artifacts and oral history interviews with members of SLC's Soviet Jewish community describing the major causes of their emigration. The exhibit will be on display at the JCC/Fort November 13-17 and the main Public Library atrium gallery November 20-December 27. In conjunction with the exhibit there will a series of films and lectures on the history, culture, emigration and acculturation of SLC's Soviet Jewish community. Produced by the Utah Oral History Institute. Call the OHI at 355-3903 for more details. Films (at the JCC/Fort)
  • The Commissar. October 18, 1999. Russian with English subtitles. Dialogue following the film facilitated by Prof. Tom Sobchack, Film Historian at Univ. of Utah.
  • Stolen Years. Nov 15, 1999. First public showing in Utah of a made for PBS film; the first major documentary made in this country on the impact of the Gulag, featuring interviews with 11 survivors. Introduced by historian Robert Conquest.
  Lectures at 7:00 PM, Main Library Lecture hall, 3d floor
  • The Migration of Jews from the FSU: An Historical Retrospective. Nov 20. Norman Levine, Director of Community Services, HIAS.
  • The Holocaust and the Soviet Union. Nov 22. Dr. Ronald Smelser, Prof. of History Univ. of Utah.
  • The Clash of Two Cultures: The Utah Experience of Jewish Emigres from the FSU. Dec 6. Community Panel and Dr. Gene D. Fitzgerald, Prof. of Lang. and Lit., Univ. of Utah.
  • Soviet Jewish Artists: Official and Unofficial. Dec 13. Dr Vern G. Swanson, Director Springville Art Museum.

• The Jews of Yemen, Prof. Yosef Tobi, University of Haifa
  • Thurs, October 21, 4:15 PM, 208 OSH: The Attitude of The Muslim Rule in Yemen to Jewish Messianic Movements
  • Saturday, October 23, (during services), Kol Ami (484-1501): The Yemeni Jewish Interpretations of the Weekly Torah Portion

    The earliest Jewish messiah in Yemen that we know about is referred to in Maimonides' letters in the 12th century CE. Others continued to appear through the 19th century. Many Jews of Yemen were also included among the followers of Shabtai Zvi. Professor Tobi will discuss how the Muslim government of Yemen dealt with the messianic movements of its Jewish minority population. His talk will rely on original Arabic sources, many of them previously unpublished, as well as Hebrew and European sources.

    Yosef Tobi, the preeminent scholar on the history of the Jews of Yemen, is Professor of Hebrew Literature at the University of Haifa. He received his PhD in Hebrew literature in 1980. In addition to continuing his work on medieval Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic literature, he has become a leading expert on the Jews of Yemen. Beginning with an interest in the Hebrew poetry of Yemen, Professor Tobi became involved with historical research on the legal status of the Jews of Yemen. His research is based primarily on fiqh literature, biography, and Arabic chronicles from Yemen. In addition to numerous books and chapters in edited volumes published in Hebrew, Professor Tobi is also author of the recent "The Jews of Yemen: Studies in Their History and Culture" (Leiden, 1999). Professor Tobi is currently a Visiting Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

• Shirley Kaufman Poetry Readings, Wednesday and Thursday, October 13-14, 1999. Shirley Kaufman, prize-winning American-Israeli poet and translator, will visit SLC next Wednesday and Thursday to give two poetry readings. You are invited to attend!

  On Wednesday, October 13:
  Shirley Kaufman will read from a brand-new anthology of poems, which she co-edited with Galit Hasan-Rokem and Tamar Hess: "THE DEFIANT MUSE: HEBREW FEMINIST POEMS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT". 7:30 pm, JCC at the Fort

  On Thursday, October 14:
  Shirley Kaufman will read her own work in the GUEST WRITERS SERIES, 7:30 p.m., Art Barn (1325 E 100 S, in Reservoir Park)

  The Defiant Muse, which presents the poems in their original Hebrew alongside English translations, contains poetry from biblical times to the present; "the collection illuminates the tremendous breadth and diversity of a Hebrew women's poetic tradition."

  Shirley Kaufman lives in Israel and is the author of 7 books of poetry, all published in the US. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the American Poetry Review, Lilith, the Atlantic Monthly, the Nation, and many other publications. She has received the United States Award of the International Poetry Forum and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation.

  Kaufman's visit is sponsored by the U's English Department and Creative Writing Program, Utah Hillel, Impact/Jewish Studies, the Middle East Center, the Utah Humanities Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Jewish Community Center and the Utah School of Jewish Studies. Call 581-7947 for more information

• Read Hebrew America Week. Student coordinator needed for National Center for Jewish Outreach's intensive Hebrew teaching program. Contact Rachel Goldberg at 1-800- 448-6724 (N.C.J.O.) for more information.

• Succah in the Garden/Harvest Celebration: Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Saturday, October 9, 1999, 10 AM to 4 PM. A special event for children exploring the ways that different cultures celebrate the harvest season, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Red Butte and the Children's Museum. The UMFA activities include building a succah and making pre-Columbian fertility figures. At Red Butte, there will be a harvest dance by the Children's dance company and other interactive activities; the Children's Museum will explore Native American and Polynesian customs. Click for more information.

• Simchat Torah with Hillel. October 2, 1999. "In awe of Simchat Torah which begins Saturday night, I'd like to invite everyone to participate in the Kol Ami celebration. The jubilation begins at 7:30 p.m. at the synagogue. This will be our first cultural, educational event of the year, so I want to see you there. It will be a lot of fun as well!

  "Afterwards, (at about 8:30 pm) we will get together for more fun, so bring some munchies. We will have drinks and games. (Maybe we can combine both for a change...). Anyway, I hope to see you on Saturday. For more info or a ride, call Alex at 539-0949"

• Succot at Hillel. Please call or email if you would like an invitation to a succah or if you can offer one.

• Succoth in Salt Lake City. Succot, Hoshana Rabbah, Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah services at Kol Ami, Chavura B'Yachad and Chabad. Come dance!

  • Special post-Succot service on Friday Oct. 8, 6:30 PM: "rescheduled Simchat Torah and Shabbat service at the JCC led by Rabbi Shefa Gold. Vegetarian potluck at 630. Jewish community has been invited. Please be on time and bring generous quantities of mostly non-dessert items." from Chavura B'Yachad.

• High Holidays.

  Utah Hillel will again sponsor a full set of participatory, traditional High Holiday services. Services are free and open to the whole Salt Lake City Jewish community, although RSVP is required for babysitting, pot-luck dinners and break-fast.

  Services will again be led by Rabbis Ruth Sohn (Milken School, L.A.) and Reuven Firestone (Prof. Hebrew Union College, LA), who led last year's services.

  Special kids' services each morning. Pot luck lunches on Rosh HaShana and dinner after the fast.

  Click here for a full schedule or call Hillel.

  Join the planning team for Utah Hillel High Holidays . Lead davening, read Torah or give a drash. Learn to lead traditional services or create your own innovative ones. Fill out Hillel's membership form, or contact us by email or phone (585-5201) to join.

• Barbeque in the Canyons -- THIS Sunday August 29: From Alex: "Hello everybody!! Welcome back to school! The routine is back...yes! But that does not mean that we cannot have fun! I'd like to invite everyone (students and professors) to the first Hillel event of the year. It's going to be a blast!!! Bring your camera and your smile to the Hillel Barbeque in the Canyons! We will meet at the Dan's Grocery store (on 3900 S and Wasatch Boulevard, right off I-215) at 11:30 am this Sunday!!! From there we will carpool up Millcreek Canyon for a beautiful barbeque. Meat and Vegetarian meals will be available. So come out and have fun!!!"

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• 1999 Schusterman Hillel International Student Leaders Assembly, August 24-29, Honesdale, PA

  Become a student leader! Experience the energy and excitement of this unique six-day leadership development program.

  Scholarship opportunities: Up to $350 is available per student from Hillel International [and an additional travel subsidy from Utah Hillel]. The cost of the program is $275 until July 1st and $295 after July 1st. Registrations will not be accepted after August 6th.

• Marjorie Janove in two free concerts:
  • Sunday Eve. May 2: Lyric Trio, All Brahms Evening. Cathedral of the Madeline.
  • Tues, May 11: Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto, with the Youth Orchestra, Symphony Hall.

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• Reform Movement Statement on Kosovo:
  April 20, 1999
  4 Iyar 5759
  From: Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie
  To: Reform Movement Congregations

  The tragedy of Kosovo continues to unfold, and to raise for all of us the most disturbing echoes. Whatever differences there may be among us regarding the NATO intervention or the prospect of ground troops, there is, obviously, one aspect of the tragedy about which we are in complete agreement. That, of course, is the matter of the refugees.

  These are not "merely" people who have been driven from their homes. Often, they have seen their homes aflame. Often, the able-bodied men have been "selected" from among all the others and murdered. So the hundreds of thousands of them gathered now in Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, suffer both hunger and homelessness, and also the brutal separation to which they have been subjected.

  Early on in the bombing, we advised our congregations to encourage contributions to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. In light of the gravity and scope of what has transpired, we have decided to issue a new call.

  In just a few weeks -- in may, with the exact dates still being settled -- two or three leaders of the Reform Jewish movement will travel to Macedonia and Kosovo together with the leadership of the International Rescue Committee. On their return, they will report back to all elements of our movement. We want them to be able to bring with them to the refugee centers a sum of not less than $250,000-we believe our potential is at least twice that-for distribution to the most effective relief project(s) they there identify.

  Accordingly, we now turn to you and ask-b'chol lashon shel bakasha-that in every congregation, funds be raised for the UAHC Kosovo Relief project. In Canada, funds should be sent to the CCRJ office, 36 Atkinson Avenue, Thornhill, ONT L4J 8C9. For all other locations, funds should be sent to the UAHC Kosovo Relief Project, 633 Third Avenue, 7th floor, New York, NY 10017-6778. We needn't tell you how desperately the money is needed, and we strongly believe that our members will be proud to participate in this effort.

  As soon as time permits, we will be sending you some background materials on the Balkan tragedy. In the meantime, please act on this notification. Lives are truly at stake.

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• Salt Lake Israeli Folk Dance Group presents a special workshop with Loui Tucker. Wed. May 5, 1999, 7-10 PM. At the JCC/17th South.

• Chairs, an extraordinary dance by Israeli choreographer Zvi Gotheimer for ten dancers and ten chairs, performed by Repertory Dance Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. Broadway, 534-1000, April 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 & May 1, at 8:00 P.M. and April 25, Sunday matinee at 2:00. $14/$10 for students/$8 for groups. Last year it sold out. Anyone interested in forming a Hillel group to attend, please contact us.

• "Ursula Hegi, the acclaimed author of Stones from the River, will make two appearances in Ogden on Thursday, April 29th. The first of these, a lecture in Weber State University's Honors Issues Forum, will be held in the ballroom of the Shepard Student Union at 10:00 a.m. and will focus on the writing of the novel, including the research undertaken by the author, who was born in Germany after the second World War and emigrated to the United States at the age of 18.

  "In Stones from the River, Hegi writes about the citizens of a small German town from the perspective of Trudi Montag, a Zwerg (dwarf) born shortly after the end of WWI. Trudi possesses an uncanny ability to "read" people and to draw them out, so she is a fascinating lens through which the reader views the political and social climate of Germany before, during, and after WWII. The author of the novel has written extensively about the legacy of guilt and shame borne by Germans, both those who lived through this era and also many who, like herself, only learned about the Holocaust through determined efforts to break through the duplicitous silence that shrouded Germany long after the war. An outspoken critic of bigotry in all its forms, Hegi presents in her writings a brave personal expos‚ of the struggle to make sense of the unspeakable things ordinary people can do to one another. Her lecture promises insights into the Holocaust, as well as other movements based on hatred of the "other," ranging from the KKK and neoNazism in America to Rwanda to Kosovo.

  "Following the Honors Issues Forum, there will be a "March for Tolerance" from Weber State to Ogden High School, which will be the site of Hegi's second appearance. In this program, which is scheduled to begin at 1:15 p.m., the author will read from Stones from the River. The program will also feature excerpts from "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" (a play adapted from a book about the children sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp) performed by students from Ogden High School's drama program.

  "We'd be very grateful if you would share this message with people in the Salt Lake City area who might be interested in these events. They should be moving and illuminating, an opportunity to honor the victims of the Holocaust and, perhaps, better understand how to prevent such a thing ever happening again. Please feel free to call me at (801) 476-3037 if you have any questions, and thank you for your support! Sincerely,

  Judi Amsel
  Member, WSU Holocaust Remembrance Committee and Member, Board of Trustees, Congregation Brith Sholem"

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• The last MEC Discussion Group talk this spring will be given by Kenneth W. Stein of Emory University, whose visit is sponsored by IMPACT/Jewish Studies, the Middle East Center, and the Department of History. Note that this talk will be on MONDAY, at 2 pm! Monday, April 26, 1999
  THE LAND QUESTION IN PALESTINE
  2 pm, 208 OSH

  The issue of land control is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Roots of the competing struggle for land in Palestine or Eretz Yisrael go back to late Ottoman times. There, and in the subsequent British Mandate for Palestine, the Zionist effort to create a national territory and Arab opposition to that objective set the stage for what has become a century long confrontation. How did the early immigrating Zionists forge a national territory? What were the social conditions, politics, and economic realities that contributed to Arab inability to thwart the establishment of the Jewish national home in Palestine?

  These and other topics pertaining to the land issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict will be discussed by Emory University Professor Kenneth W. Stein, the author of the authoritative monograph, The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939, ( University of North Carolina Press, 1984) in his presentation, "The Land Question in Palestine."

  Professor Stein is the William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies at Emory University and the author of Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin and the Quest for Arab Israeli Peace." It will be published by Routledge in June 1999.

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• Tanner Lecture and Holocaust Week, 1999

  • Professor Geoffrey Hartman (Yale University), the 1999 Tanner Lecturer:
    
    
    • Tuesday April 13, 1999, 3:30 - 5:00 P.M.: Public Seminar on the Holocaust, "Holocaust Testimony, Videography, and Education,"
    • Wednesday April 14, 1999, 8 P.M. The Tanner Lecture: "Text and Spirit," (Gould Auditorium).
    • Thursday April 15, 1999, 12 - 2 P.M. The Tanner Panel: Aharon Appelfeld, Mieke Bal, Akeel Bilgrami, Geoffrey Hartman (Gould Auditorium)

    Aharon Appelfeld has canceled his visit for health reasons.

  • Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld
    
    
    • Tuesday April 13, 1999, 7 P.M. Tanner Lecture: "The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Writer,"
    • Aharon Appelfeld will also participate in the Tanner panel on Thursday April 16, 1999.

  • Prof. Ron Smelser's annual workshop on the Holocaust will be Wednesday, April 14, 1-5 p.m., at the JCC / Fort. This is a 1-credit, 1-afternoon Special Studies class, History 3910R.

  • Peter Black, Chief Historian of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, will be the keynote speaker for the Days of Remembrance memorial, Thursday, April 15, 7 P.M. (Gould Auditorium).

  • Governor's Address (with Peter Black), Days of Remembrance memorial, Friday April 16, 1999 at Noon (Capitol Rotunda).

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• April 11: Deadline to sign up for the next round of JTS Adult Education Talmud course. http://learn.jtsa.edu/. Contact Utah Hillel if you'd like a local discussion group.

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• The First Utah Hillel Jewish Film Festival: 10 Jewish Films on the U Campus Sat. Evening - Mon., April 10-12, 1999.
  Click for Jewish Film Festival details, including tentative listing of films and descriptions. All new films from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival or the National Center for Jewish Film.
  Volunteers and organizers still needed! Contact Karl or Hillel.

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Passover

First Seder: March 31, 1999

• Hillel Passover Student Seder on the second night (Thursday April 1) at Yuri's house. 7:30 PM. To RSVP or cook, please call 359-9456 or 585-3322 or email Alex or Jeremy.
• Passover: Renewing An Ancient Conversation by David Arnow: an interesting set of suggestions for fulfilling the mitzvah of introducing some change into the seder.
• Jewish Singles Potluck Passover Seder, Tuesday, March 30th, 6:00 p.m., JCC at the Fort. "Please come and celebrate Passover with the Jewish Singles. This fun filled evening will include a seder, delicious potluck dinner and wonderful company. Please call Erin at 583-4000 for reservations and potluck contribution by Friday, March 26th."
• Passover Seder Match-up Program: Do you need a first Seder to attend, or can you offer a student a place at your Seder? Please call or e-mail Hillel and we will try to match up student guests with hosts. Please specify which night and the level of kashrut sought or offered.
  
  • Non-students: Kol Ami offers a similar match-up service for the first night, and a Community Seder for the second night (using the Baskin Haggadah). Call Kol Ami at 484-1501.
• Passover Shopping. Kol Ami offers shopping for members and non-members. Hours vary; call Kol Ami for details. This is a major Kol Ami fund raiser. Dan's, Smiths, Wild Oats and some of the other local supermarkets also carry Passover items. Dates and fresh horseradish tend to disappear at the last minute; try Liberty Heights Fresh.
• Sell your hametz on line, through Koach, the Conservative movement's student wing. Visit the Koach web site for details. Kol Ami and Beis Menachem will also do it, if you prefer human contact.
• Matzah Brei.
• Passover potato latkes. Submit your favorite Passover recipes and we'll post them.
• Kosher4Passover.Com: on- line Passover store. Tara Jewish Music:CDs and sheet music. Animated Email Passover Cards. Passover on the Net. Passover University.

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• This Friday March 26: Shabbat in the Canyons. 6 P.M., Millcreek Canyon. Look for the blue and white balloons marking the site. For more info., call Leah or Jason at 582-5412.

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• Friday, March 26, 1999: MIDDLE EASTERN FESTIVAL with live Middle Eastern music, baklava, and poetry in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish (dancing is encouraged!). 6:30 p.m., Panorama East, 3rd Floor, Olpin Union. Sponsored by Mid-East Week.

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• Thursday, March 25, 1999: Israeli Film (in Hebrew, with English subtitles) UNDER THE DOMIM TREE. 2:00 p.m., Olpin Union Theatre. Sponsored by Mid-East Week.

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• March 21, 1999 Utah School for Jewish Studies Lecture: Prof. Joseph Ginot, Polygamy in the Bible, the Qur'an and early Mormonism vs. in contemporary Jewish, Muslim and Mormon societies 7:00 p.m. at the JCC at the Fort. This talk will be hosted by the Utah School of Jewish Studies. (Suggested donation $5.00)
  
  Dr. Ginat has been on the faculty at the University of Haifa since 1976. He received his PhD in 1975 from the University of Utah's Department of Psychology. His scholarly work includes numerous books, articles and papers concerning Middle Eastern Societies. He is currently the Visiting Fullbright Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Ginat's visit to Salt Lake City is supported by the Fulbright's occasional Lecturer program, as well as the University's Middle East Center and IMPACT/Jewish Studies.

• March 22, 1999: Hinkley Institute of Politics Lecture: Prof. Joseph Ginat, Israeli Arabs and the Peace Process, 10:45am, 255 Orson Spencer Hall, University of Utah campus.

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• Purim, March 2, 1999. Megillah readings at Kol Ami (7:30 PM, Monday March 1) and Bais Menachem. Chabad Purim Family dinner at the JCC/Fort, Tuesday Mar. 2. Purim Pot-luck, Chavura B'Yachad, 8:30 PM Friday Mar. 5 at the Old JCC.

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• Salt Lake City Israeli Folk Dance Group One Day Workshop with Guest Teacher Israel Siegler, Sunday February 28, 1998 2-9 PM at the JCC/17th South. Israel Siegler is a leader of one of the most popular folk dance sessions in Philadelphia. For more info, visit the SLC Israeli Folk Dance Group web site, or call Mitch at 569-3744.

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• Plan B Theatre Company presents Masada. Free to students on Preview Night (Feb 17) and Opening Night (Feb 18). $9 ($7 for students) on Th, Fri & Sat.s from Feb 18-Mar 6, 7:30 PM at the New Hope Center, 1102 W. 400 N. Call 487-8291 for reservations. From the theatre company: "Masada, written by Canadian playwright Arthur Milner, is a one-person show concerning the history of the Jewish people in Israel, from the Exodus to the settling of the West Bank. The single character, a historian, speaks to the audience about her paper, The Miracle of Zionism, in a 'lecture hall' setting. According to director Tobin Atkinson, the play contains stories 'about God, about Palestinians, about zealots and Zionists, battles against great odds, banishment and liberation, crimes, redemption and peace. This collage of images and concepts woven into the tapestry of world events, will not only keep an audience captivated during the performance, but keep them thinking long after they've gone home.'"

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• MEC Discussion Group: Norman Stillman, U. of OK, The Judeo-Islamic Encounter: Visions and Revisions, 208 OSH 4:15 PM Thurs. Feb. 18

• Kol Ami Lecture: Norman Stillman, U of OK, The Majesty of the Ordinary: The Impact of the Cairo Geniza on the Study of Jewish History, Kol Ami, Friday Reform services 7:30 PM Feb 19.

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• MEC Discussion Group: Yally Livnat, UofU, Making Their Escape Through Education: Arab Girls in Israeli Arabic Schools. 208 OSH 4:15 PM Thursday Feb. 11
  Why are Arab high school girls in the Western Galilee (Israel) such good students? This is the first generation in which more than half of the girls in the village are completing high school, and many continue on to college and university. Yet, these girls still emphasize the importance of finding a husband. Moreover, rather than regarding it as a threat, Arab men seem to be wholeheartedly in favor of women's education. Yally will examine the possible reasons for this phenomenon and speculate on how it will ultimately affect the Arab family and Arab society in the Galilee.

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• Special Shabbat Services with Rabbi Ruth Sohn and Rabbi Reuven Firestone.
  We are delighted that Rabbi Sohn and Prof. Firestone, who ran Hillel's High Holiday services and last year's Hillel Shabbaton, will again join us for a special Shabbat, Friday evening, February 5, 1999.
  Rabbi Sohn will join us for Kol Ami's Friday evening traditional services, 5:30 in the Pepper Chapel. Her talk is entitled You Shall Not Covet: Our Thoughts As Sin.
  Rabbi Firestone will speak at Kol Ami's Friday evening Reform services, 7:30 in the main sanctuary. His talk is entitled: Jethro and Moses: The First Encounter Between Arab and Jew.
  Our thanks to the Rabbis and to Kol Ami for co-sponsoring this special event.

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• Ice Skating, Cocoa & a Video: February 2, 1999. Contact Alex or Jeremy for details.

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• Sundance Film Festival, January 21- 31, 1999.

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• Tu B'Shvat, the New Year of the Trees, February 1, 1999. Have a Tu B'Shvat seder. Eat the 7 species: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates. Organize an ecology/environmental preservation project.

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• Charlotte and Jack J. Spitzer B'nai B'rith Hillel Forum On Public Policy, February 21 - 23, 1999 in Washington, D.C. Final registration deadline, January 22. Senator Charles Schumer Confirmed as Spitzer Forum Speaker Scholarships and travel subsidies still available. For more details, see our Conferences Page.

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• Chappy Chanukah!
  Make some potato latkes. Here's our easy latkes recipe.

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• Hanukkah Computer Game Special. Utah School of Jewish Studies is selling copies of Who Stole Hanukkah, a terrific CD-ROM computer game from JeMM with more information than you knew there was about Hanukkah mixed with a mystery story suitable for kids from 4 to 80. Great reviews from the Jerusalem Report and SLC kids, 5 and 8 years old. List price $19.95; available from USJS for only $15! Contact Hillel or USJS. Only a few left.

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• "The Jewish Community Center (JCC) Singles Group will have its yearly Hanukkah party on Tuesday, December 15, 1998, 6:30 PM at the "old" JCC building (2416 East 1700 South). It will be a Potluck dinner with an optional gift exchange. This event is usually one of the Singles Group's biggest draw events of the year; we expect 20-30 people in ages ranging from 17 - 70. Please RSVP to Susan Way (278-0170), Jennifer Feldman (322-3989), or Jerome Soller (work: 322-0101, home: 521-0923)."

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• Hillel Pre-Hanukkah Party -- THIS Saturday evening, December 5, 1998 at 6:30 PM.
  Dreidels, latkes, falafel, card games, prizes for the winners and a door prize, fun. At the JCC / 17th South (2416 East 1700 South). Call Alex or Jeremy at 359-9456 to join the fun or to arrange a ride.

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• Professor Michael Walzer's lecture was written up in the Salt Lake Tribune.

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  November 16-17, Monday- Tuesday Hillel Talk "THE POLITICS OF EXILE IN THE HEBREW BIBLE" Monday, Nov. 16, 3 PM, Tanner Humanities Center College of Law--Leary Lecture "RELIGION AND POLITICS: DRAWING THE LINE" Tuesday, Nov. 17, 7 PM, College of Law Moot Court Room MICHAEL WALZER Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton

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• Michael Walzer. On November 16th and 17th 1998, Professor Michael Walzer (Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton), two time Tanner Lecturer, author of Just and Unjust Wars (1977), Spheres of Justice (1983), Exodus and Revolution (1985), a forthcoming collection of sources in Jewish political theory and many other books and articles, will be giving two lectures, funded by a generous contribution from Joseph Rosenblatt:
  • a talk for Utah Hillel entitled "The Politics of Exile in the Hebrew Bible," (Mon. Nov. 16, 3:00 P.M., Tanner Humanities Center) and
  • the College of Law's Leary Lecture, entitled "Religion and Politics: Drawing the Line," (Tues. Nov. 17, 7:00 P.M., College of Law Moot Court Room).

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• Hanukah Boutique at the JCC/Fort, Sunday November 15, 1998. Guity Bar-Lev will be representing a number of Israeli artists and artisans selling dreidels, hanukayot/menorahs, mezuzahs, jewelry, etc. If you would be willing to help hand out literature from the Israel Ministry of Tourism, please contact Ms. Bar Lev at 310-478-6714.

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• Student Shabbat Dinner, Friday November 13, 1998, 6:00 PM. At Alex and Jeremy's house. Call 359-9456 for details. Following Israeli minhag, following Shabbat dinner play pool! Then join together again on Monday for the Michael Walzer talk.

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• Movie Night.
  This Sunday Nov 1, 6:00 P.M. Pizza and Jewish movies at the Schallheims. Call 582-5412 to RSVP and for directions.

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  October 29, Thursday MEC Discussion Group HIS WAR - HER FIGHTER: GENDER CONFIGURATIONS IN ISRAELI LITERATURE AND CULTURE Esther Fuchs University of Arizona 4:15 p.m.   208 OSH 

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  October 29, Thursday Community Lecture WOMEN AND THE HOLOCAUST IN FILM Esther Fuchs University of Arizona 8 p.m.   JCC at the Fort, 2 N Medical Dr. 

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  From IMPACT:
  "Esther Fuchs of the University of Arizona will visit Salt Lake on Thursday, October 29 to give two lectures, sponsored by the U's IMPACT/Jewish Studies and the Middle East Center and the Salt Lake Jewish Community Center. We hope you will attend!

  WOMEN AND THE HOLOCAUST IN FILM (see description below)
  This evening lecture for the community will be at the JCC at the Fort, 2 N Medical Drive, at 8 pm

  HIS WAR - HER FIGHTER: GENDER CONFIGURATIONS IN ISRAELI LITERATURE AND CULTURE (see description below)
  4:15 pm, 208 Orson Spencer Hall, U campus

  "According to Dr. Fuchs, Jewish women are often portrayed as victims of Nazi atrocity in a particular way that is gender specific. In her evening lecture, she will discuss five American and European films that present Jewish women during the Holocaust as "innocent to the point of obliviousness to the present danger of the Nazi threat." The women seem to be completely unaware of the political and social events surrounding them, which threaten to cause their death. Furthermore, these women seem to be innocent sexually as well, "as if sexual knowledge may somehow detract from their status as victims of the Holocaust." The women all have lively imaginative lives and are die-hard optimists who believe in human kindness and ethical principles. Dr. Fuchs will explore why Jewish women are portrayed in this manner, and what the implications of this portrayal are.

  "In Dr. Fuchs' afternoon talk, she will explore the different ways women and men are portrayed in the first decade of Israeli literature (1948-58), known as the Generation of the Palmah. While men are fighters who defend the national cause, women often appear passive and indifferent to the national struggle, or even as insidious, subversive agents who undermine the male fighter and Israeli society at large. Dr. Fuchs relates this portrayal to the fact that in this era, Jewish women began fighting alongside men for the first time, first in the voluntary units of the Palmah, and later in the Israel Defense Forces.

  "Professor Esther Fuchs has been a member of the Department of Near Eastern Studies/Committee on Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona since 1985. She received her MA and PhD from Brandeis University after getting her BA at the Hebrew U in Jerusalem. She has published six books and over 50 articles on the subject of Jewish & Israeli literature from the Bible to today, in her early career focusing particularly on Agnon, currently on gender issues within this literature. She has three more books underway."

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• From the Babcock:

  "We'd like to extend a special invitation for you to attend the two Babcock Theatre productions, OLEANNA and ANOTHER ANTIGONE which open Tuesday, Oct 6th.
  "Both are riveting, award-winning plays- but of particular interest might be ANOTHER ANTIGONE, which we definitely encourage you to come to on any performance date but especially to the Saturday matinee, October 17th where there will be a panel discussion with audience participation. Given the theme of anti-Semitism, we would very much like to have you as part of the audience. If you have any questions, call Elise Lazar at 581-5404. Tickets are $5 for students and $8/$9 -General Admission. For individual performance times, dates and for tickets call 581-6961. Hope to see you there, Elise Lazar"

  OLEANNA and ANOTHER ANTIGONE at the Babcock
  "Two powerful contemporary dramas are being presented in repertory at the Babcock Theatre. Oleanna by David Mamet and Another Antigone by A.R Gurney will play at the University of Utah's Babcock Theatre beginning Thursday, October 6th and running alternately until Sunday, October 18th. The Babcock is on the lower level of Pioneer Memorial Theatre. For times and tickets call the PTC box office at 581-6961.
  "These two dramas are not strange bedfellows. Both are powerful, unrelenting portrayals of a relationship which inherently has the potential for inequalities and tensions- that of the professor, steeped in his world, and a female student, seeking her voice. There are certainly some stress points which can spark creative energy, but in both Gurney's and Mamet's treatment of this context, with accusations of anti-semitism in Another Antigone and sexual harassment in Oleanna, it is academia gone explosively awry. These plays are both tragedies where, once the ball starts rolling, it builds up a momentum and speed that no one can stop. The name of this course is destruction and no one remains unscathed."

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  Mid East Peace Talks. From the Middle East Center:

  At 9 am this Wednesday, October 21, James Foley, who is currently involved in the Middle East Peace Talks, will be on the University of Utah campus to meet with students and faculty and anyone else interested and answer your questions about this topic.
  The meeting will take place 10/21, 9-10 am in the Hinckley Caucus Room, 255 Orson Spencer Hall, U campus.
  This opportunity to meet and discuss the peace process informally with Mr. Foley has been set up by the U's Middle East Center, courtesy of Westminster College, and everyone is welcome to attend!! (See below for info on a Town Meeting at Westminster later the same day.) We hope you will be able to come and ask questions about the current Arafat-Netanyahu talks in Washington, DC, etc.
  Mr. Foley, as well as Julia Taft, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration (works with Kosovo refugees); Robert Seiple, Special Representative for Religious Freedom; and John Riddle, Senior Advisor for Department Resources, Plans and Policy (works on anti-crime and terrorism and on Russian and independent states economies) will participate in a Town Meeting, held at Westminster College (1840 S 1300 E), from 1-4 pm in the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business auditorium. They will speak briefly and then allow questions and answers.
  James B. Foley has been Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the US State Department since June, 1997. From 1993 to 1996, he was Deputy Director of the Private Office of the NATO Secretary General in Brussels. He had responsibility for defense/military issues, including all aspects of NATO operations in Bosnia, and served as a liaison between the Secretary General and the NATO military authorities.
  From 1989-1991, Mr. Foley served as Deputy Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger's Special Assistant and had oversight responsibility over the Middle East, Central America, the Caribbean, eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union. From 1986-1988, Mr. Foley was in Algiers as a Political Officer. He later wrote a comprehensive article on the Algerian political scene while he was an International Affairs Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York (1988-1989). 

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• Campus Succah. Join us for lunch in our First Campus Succah, on the Union Plaza. For more information or to borrow the lulav and etrog, call Alex or Jeremy at 359-9456. Succot is from October 5-13.

• Campus Succah. To help build, decorate, celebrate and eat in our First Campus Succah, call Alex or Jeremy at 359-9456. Succot is from October 5-13. We plan to build and decorate the Succah on Sunday Oct 4. Lulavs and etrogs may still be available from Kol Ami, Bais Menachem or by mail order, but hurry!

• Here is our follow-up Report on the Succah building.

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• Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger At The High Holidays. Make this a fast Isaiah might not have denounced quite so harshly. Bring a bag of food to donate to Salt Lake's Crossroads Center. Collection at all High Holiday services.

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• Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur High Holiday Services at Utah Hillel:

  Hillel's participatory, egalitarian, traditional High Holiday services for students, faculty, alumni and friends will be held on September 20-22, 1998 (Rosh HaShana) and September 29-30, 1998 (Yom Kippur). Services are open to the whole Salt Lake City Jewish community; there are no tickets or admission fee, although RSVP is required for babysitting, pot-luck dinners and break-fast. (Click for full schedule.)

  Services will be led by Rabbis Reuven Firestone and Ruth Sohn, who led Hillel's first Shabbaton. Rabbi Sohn was one of the first women to receive ordination from Hebrew Union College (NY) and has been Hillel rabbi at Columbia and Boston University; she is now a teacher at the Milken Community High School (a day school serving the entire L.A. Jewish community) of Stephen Wise Temple (Reform) Los Angeles and a pulpit Rabbi at a small Conservative congregation outside Los Angeles. Rabbi Firestone, her husband, is one of the nation's leading Jewish educators. Professor of Medieval Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, Prof. Firestone is a regular guest lecturer at the Wexner Foundation and congregations nationally. Longtime participants in the Chavurah movement, Rabbis Firestone and Sohn will lead a non-denominational, participatory and egalitarian traditional service, with help from Torah readers Jacqueline Osherow, Deborah Feder and Marjorie Janove, and discussion leaders including Prof. Osherow and others. Volunteers still needed.

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• 1998 / 5759 High Holiday Services: Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur services will be held on September 20-22, 1998 (Rosh HaShana) and September 29-30, 1998 (Yom Kippur), led by Rabbis Reuven Firestone and Ruth Sohn, who led our Shabbaton. (Click for a full High Holiday schedule.)

  Rabbi Sohn was one of the first women to receive ordination from Hebrew Union College (NY) and has been Hillel rabbi at Columbia and Boston University; she is now a teacher at the Milken Community High School of Stephen Wise Reform Temple and a pulpit Rabbi for a Conservative congregation outside Los Angeles. Rabbi Firestone, her husband, is Professor of Medieval Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. Longtime participants in the Chavurah movement, Rabbis Firestone and Sohn will lead a participatory, egalitarian traditional service, with help from Torah readers Jacqueline Osherow, Deborah Feder and Marjorie Janove, and discussion leaders including Prof. Osherow and others.

  Our Children's Service Committee has produced a fun and ambitious program, led by Janine Parker, Prof. Janet Kaufman, Deborah Feder, Carol Salem and Rabbi Sohn. Join us!

  We gratefully acknowledge a very generous contribution from Jathan Janove, Esq. and Marjorie Janove (Westminster College, Adjunct Faculty) that has put us well on the way towards raising the necessary funds for the 1998 / 5759 High Holidays. Additional contributions, volunteers and fund-raisers are gratefully appreciated -- please call!

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• English Language High Holiday Services at Utah Hillel. For 5759 / 1998 Hillel would like to sponsor an additional set of participatory services, these in English. Would you like to organize them? Contact us at Hillel@lists.utah.edu. Meanwhile, see below for other liberal services in SLC.

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• Chavurah B'Yachad, Kol Ami, Bais Menachem and Park City High Holiday Services. See High Holidays below.

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• Chavurah B'Yachad sends the following:

  "Chavurah B'Yachad, Salt Lake's Reconstructionist affiliated congregation invites all members of the University of Utah Jewish community to our High Holy Day Services. Rachel Gartner, a rabbinical student from Reconstructionist Rabbinical College will lead our services, combining song and dance with worship. Erev Rosh HaShana, the Chavurah will welcome a new Torah into our community.
  
  "Students are welcome to our services free of charge. I encourage everyone to attend both the Hillel services and whichever services at the Chavurah they would like. Our services are held at the JCC on 17th South unless otherwise noted. Reservations are requested. Please contact Menasheh Fogel for information regarding High Holy Days or the Chavurah at 581-9780."

  Click for a schedule of the Chavura's High Holy Days services.

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• Kol Ami Singles and Newcomers Rosh HaShana Meeting Monday Sept 21, 1998, 8 PM. Discussion topic: "Being Jewish Here". No tickets or membership required. See Rosh HaShana below for other Kol Ami services.

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• Vegetarian Barbeque & Party, Erev Rosh HaSh

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  ana Sunday September 20, 1998 at 1:00 PM. At Yury's house. To RSVP or for more info, please call Alex or Jeremy at 359-9456

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• We are now working on the 1998 / 5759 High Holiday services; if you'd like to join the committee -- or if you have comments on last year's services or suggestions for next year's -- please call or email us at Hillel@lists.utah.edu.

  Plans include forming a study group to learn songs and parts of the service, in order to increase lay participation in next year's service. A committee is now planning a children's service and a youth service.

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1997-98 / 5758

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Hillel High Holiday Services 1997 / 5758

This year (5758/1997), over 100 people attended services in the beautiful Nunemaker Chapel at Westminster College, led by Michelle Levin, a Rabbinical student at the University of Judaism-Los Angeles, with Torah discussions led by members of the community, University of Utah faculty and others. For a program, click here.

We finished with a break-fast in a faculty home following Yom Kippur Ne'ila services.

For Sukkot, we had informal get-togethers in several faculty succot.

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Shimon Peres at the University

Follow-Up to Shimon Peres at the U. On October 29, 1997, former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres spoke at the Union Ballroom. Prior to Peres' speech, the Hinkley Institute sponsored two forums, one with former Congressman Wayne Owens and the other a roundtable discussion with U. faculty Lee Been (Sociology), Daniel Greenwood (Law) and Hanna Freij (Poli.Sci.). Since the speech, Hillel members and friends, including some local Israelis and Palestinians, met at a faculty home for coffee and dessert to discuss the Peres talk and the peace process generally, and in the wake of that highly successful evening are planning further meetings. To join this group or be notified of future meetings, contact Hillel.

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Pot Luck Dinner and Hillel Planning Meeting this Saturday November 15 Students (undergrad and graduate) only! Bring your ideas for student-planned and run activities! Call 582-5945 for details!

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Steve Reich at Abravanel Hall Monday November 17. Grammy-award winning composer Steve Reich will be on campus November 17-19 through the Abravanel Visiting Composers Series. A concert of his works will be given on Monday, November 17 at Abravanel Hall. Steve Reich will speak and perform. One of the works being performed is Different Trains, which addresses a particular aspect of the Holocaust. Tickets are available through ArtTix: $10, $5 for students and seniors. They are also available at the Abravanel Box Office the day of the concert.

The Humanities Center is hosting a talk to be given Wednesday, Nov. 19 at the Social Work Auditorium at 3:30; this is free and open to the public.

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Urgent

Pizza, Movie and Planning meeting for grad and undergrad students -- this Saturday December 6 at 7 pm.

Call for details!

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December Holiday Service Project. Now being organized by our students. Call Hillel, 585-5201, or watch the email list for details (or join Kol Ami's food bank project on December 18 or the Jewish community's Christmas support for the St. Vincent's Homeless Shelter);

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Students on Vacation Party. Kol Ami's annual party for returning & local college students is on December 24. All Hillel students invited. Call Kol Ami, 484-1501, for details.

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Public Menorah Lighting and Hanukah Party. December 28. Call Chabad Lubavitch of Utah, 467-7777, for details.

Hanukah Party. We will make latkes, dance and have fun. Contact us for details or to volunteer.

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Judith Cohen: Performance Sunday, January 11, 7 p.m., JCC Fort: An Evening of Sephardic Song and Judeo-Spanish Ballad.
Lecture Monday, January 12, 1:15 p.m., Stewart 208, U of U Campus: Women and Music in the Sephardic Community.

Dr. Judith Cohen, a current recipient of the Canada Council Artists Grant and adjunct instructor in the Music Department of York University, Toronto, has performed her distinctive repertoire of Sephardic, Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish songs all over the world. Her performance in Salt Lake City, Sunday evening, January 11, 7 p.m. at the JCC Fort will include Sephardic songs from the Balkans, Turkey, Morocco and Medieval Spain and Portugal; Judeo-Spanish ballads; and Sephardic and Yiddish songs of the Holocaust. She will present the songs in the old style, a capella or with appropriate instruments - Middle Eastern lute (oud), medieval troubadour fiddle (vielle), Middle East percussion.

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Human Rights Shabbat January 16. This is an event sponsored by Kol Ami. It seems to be a very interesting service. There will be speakers from different religions, and I believe there will be a short discussion on human rights after the service. It starts at 7:00 pm. It will take place at the Kol Ami synagogue. If you have any questions, please contact Alex at 582-5945, or Kol Ami. After the service, we can all go out for a Zuka Juice and Bowling. We can go Bowling to the Freemont Lanes at Sugarhouse.

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Snow hike/cross-country/snow-shoe January 18th: Snow hike/cross-country/snow-shoe to the Cottonwood canyon (Big or Little) or Millcreek Canyon, depending on the weather and how many people come. We can rent skis at the U for very inexpensive prices ($4-6 for a full rental for a day for skis/snow shoes per person). The trails are relatively easy to do, specially Millcreek. R.S.V.P to Alex, 582-5945, by Friday so we can rent the skis on Saturday.

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Human Rights Day, January 19. See the U's website for details of local activities.

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Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life Leadership Training Institute (Jan 9-12);

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"Harry S. Truman and Founding of Israel," Books 'n Banter Hinckley Institute discussion by Michael Benson, (Jan 22 11 AM 255 OSH);

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New Mail: Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists and Our Friends announces two special issues: "Sephardi and Mizrahi Women Write About Their Lives" (Winter 97-98) & "Young Jewish Women ages 13 to 30" (Spring 97).

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Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 16-24. Among the many extraordinary films, note A Price Beyond Rubies, about a Hassidic woman leaving the fold, playing again in Ogden on Saturday evening Jan 24, and A Letter Without Words, a documentary by a woman raised as an Episcopal based on homemovies of her Jewish grandmother in interwar Germany.

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Slamdance, January 24 at the JCC/Fort. A special showing of new films. Advance reservations required from the JCC.

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UJA-Federation Community Dinner Feb 8 at the JCC.

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Tu B'Shvat, the New Year of the Trees -- Wed. Feb 11. Eat the fruits of the land of Israel. Have a Tu B'Shvat seder. Organize a study session (tikkun). Attend one of the community's seders or organize one on campus (call us for details). Plant a tree in Israel. Read about the holiday.

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Ninth Annual International Conference on Jewish Medical Ethics, Feb 13-16 in San Francisco.

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Russell Berman, (Chair, German Studies, Stanford Univ.) "Culture and Culpability: Goldhagen's Germany." (Feb 12 3:30 PM, LNCO 1100). Panel discussion and Reception at the JCC/Fort 7:30 PM.

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Day of Remembrance, Feb. 19, 1942: On Feb. 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which led to the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps, including the Topaz camp in Utah. Program keynote speaker is Bill Lann Lee, Temporary US Attorney General for Civil Rights. February 19, 1998. 2:30 PM, College of Law and 7:30 PM, Cottonwood High School, 5715 S. 1300 E.

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First Hillel Shabbaton February 20-21, 1998.

Rabbis Ruth Sohn and Reuven Firestone will lead us in a day of study, spiritual exploration and fun, including services, Shabbat meals, lectures, torah discussion and meditation. Topics include the Jewish law of abortion (Sat AM), Jewish spirituality and meditation (Sat PM) and Jihad/Holy War in Jewish and Islamic tradition (Sun. PM).
Rabbi Sohn was one of the first women to receive ordination from HUC and has been Hillel rabbi at Columbia and Boston University; she is now a teacher and pulpit Rabbi in Los Angeles. Rabbi Firestone, her husband, is a Professor of Medieval Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.
This special program is supported by a large private donation and generous grants from Hillel's Jacob Burns Endowment and the Soref Initiative for Emerging Hillel Campuses. Click for poster or details, program and sign-up or call 322-3836.

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Buster Keaton in The Cameraman, The Organ Loft, 3331 Edison St., SLC (485-9265), Feb 19-20 at 7:30 PM. I don't think he is Jewish, but he is funny.

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Rabbi Ruth Sohn, "Abortion in the Jewish Sources", Saturday Feb. 21 at the First Hillel Shabbaton.

Prof. Rabbi Reuven Firestone, (Medieval Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College-L.A.) "Holy War! Islamic and Jewish concepts and their effect on Arab-Israeli relations." This Hillel event will be at Kol Ami, Sunday February 22, at 7:00 P.M. as the culmination of the Hillel Shabbaton. Free and open to the public, with the help of generous grants from Hillel's Jacob Burns Endowment and the Soref Initiative for Emerging Hillel Campuses. Please call if you need transportation or directions.

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Matthew Goldish, (History, U. of Arizona), "The Former Conversos of Amsterdam and The Dawn of Modernity" (March 1 Utah School of Jewish Studies, (at the Unitarian Church) $5 suggested donation); "Nathan Of Gaza's Early Prophecies and the Influence of Sufism on the Sabbatean Movement" (March 2, 12:05 PM, 104 BEH S)

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Ella Shohat, (Israeli anthropology/film studies, CUNY), "Taboo Memories, Diasporic Visions: Columbus, Palestine, and Arab Jews" (Mar 10, 4:15 PM, 1110 LNCO).

Ella Shohat, a renowned scholar in her field (which encompasses gender studies/cultural studies/postcolonial studies/ and film studies) will reflect on the relationship between the Americas and the Middle East, exploring issues of Jewish diasporan identity, gender, and nationalism across regional borders and historical eras.

A Professor in the Dept. of Performing & Creative Arts and affiliated with the Programs of Theater/Film, Women's Studies and Cultural Studies at the City University of New York, Shohat's published works include: Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (with Robert Stam, 1994), which received the Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Film Book Award for 1994; Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (1989); Scars of Partition: Colonialism and Culture (1998), and The Travelling Gaze: Of the Exotic and the Erotic (forthcoming). She is the editor of Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (forthcoming, March 1998) and Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives (co-edited with Anne McClintock, 1997). She is a frequent consultant, co-curator, and commentator at film festivals dealing with issues of gender, multiculturalism and postcolonialism and with the Middle East ("Minorities in Arab Cinema," NYU, 1996; "Crossroads: The North Africa and Middle East Film Festival," Public Theater, NYC, 1995; "Cultural Identities in Transition," Film Society of Lincoln Center, 1995; UN Environmental Film Festival, 1994; "The Cinema of Displacement: Middle Eastern Cultures and the West," NYU, 1994; and many more).

Dr. Shohat's lecture is part of the 1998 Women's Week events of the Women's Studies Program. Sponsored by Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, Dept. of Film, Dept. of Languages, Dept. of English, and IMPACT/Jewish Studies of the U of U.

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Purim -- sundown March 11 to sundown March 12

Megillah Readings: At Kol Ami and Bais Menachem at Wednesday evening and Thursday morning services. Call them for details.

Purim Family Dinner at Kol Ami, Wednesday evening. Sponsored by Youth Division and Sisterhood. Call Rafi Schwartz at Kol Ami for details. RESERVATIONS REQUESTED BY MARCH 3.

Purimania, a project of Chabad Lubavitch of Utah, including Megillah Reading, Magic Show, live music by Klezbros, Dancing, Hamentashen, Groggers and Scrumptious Purim Dinner, all at the JCC/Fort on Purim day, Thursday March 12, 1998, starting at 5:30 PM. Admission $13 ($10 for students). RESERVATIONS REQUESTED BY MARCH 3. For more information, call Bais Menachem at 582-0220.

Utah School of Jewish Studies Purim Party and Art Day, Tuesday, March 10, 4:00-6:00.

Chavurah B'Yachad is having a Purim/Shabbat service on Friday March 13 at 6:30 p.m. with hamentashen baking with an expert (Doris Krensky) starting at 4:00 at the JCC - 1700 South.

Purim Festival at the JCC, Sunday March 15.

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• Hillel National Lay Leadership Conference (Baltimore, March 28-30). National Hillel is bringing our faculty advisor to this conference for special sessions on strategy and planning for small Hillels. If you have suggestions, concerns or ideas that should be discussed at the conference, please be sure to pass them on.

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• Havdalah at the top of the mountain, Saturday April 4. Bring some warm clothes to go hiking during sundown. Also bring a camera if possible; there is an amazing view from up there. We will meet at 6:30 pm at the parking lot of the Huntsman Center (U of U). To RSVP or if you need a ride please call Alex at either 582-5945 or 582-6710.

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• Middle East Week events (on the U of U campus). All events are free and open to the public:

  Middle Eastern food (not free, but not expensive) in the Union Cafe and the Panorama Room, lunchtime, April 6-10!

  MONDAY, APRIL 6,
  

  2pm, Union Theater: Israeli Film: Anou Banou: Daughters of Utopia (Hebrew, w/ English subtitles)

  4pm, Union Theater: Panel Discussion: The Kibbutz at 50 (see below for description of these two events)

  TUESDAY, APRIL 7
  

  1:30pm, Union Theater: "Dead Sea Peace": Jenni Kolsky will give a talk about her photographs, now on display in the Union Gallery.

  3pm, Union Theater: Arabic Film: Bab El-Oued City (Arabic & French, w/ English subtitles)

  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8
  

  11am, 255 OSH: U.S.-Iranian Relations: Prospects for Change, by Richard K. Herrmann, Mershon Center, The Ohio State University

  3pm, 1100 LNCO: Iranian Film: The Runner (Persian, w/ English subtitles)

  THURSDAY, APRIL 9
  

  4:15pm, 208 OSH: Mapping Causal Belief Systems about Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations, by Richard K. Herrmann

  7pm, Union Ballroom: Culture Night, w/ live Middle Eastern music, dance & poetry

  FRIDAY, APRIL 10
  

  11am, 255 OSH: Egypt Today: Politics, Economics and Foreign Policy, by H.E. Ambassador Hagar Islambouly, Consul General of Egypt in San Francisco

  4pm, Union Theater: Turkish Film: Journey of Hope (Turkish, German, & Italian, w/ English subtitles)

  Following is an announcement about Monday's events from Elaine Clark, Middle East Studies Student Advisory Committee President. If you want more information about any of the events listed here, feel free to ask me by email or call the Middle East Center at 581-6181. Events are also listed at http://www.utah.edu/mec/falllect.html

  As part of Middle East Week, there will be a film and panel discussion on Monday dealing with life on the Kibbutz. This is a great opportunity to find out more about the sociology of kibbutz life. In addition to academic speakers, an individual who was raised on a kibbutz will give a firsthand account of kibbutz life.

  Before the panel, the film Anou Banou will be shown. In it, six women speak of their hopes and dreams as socialists, Zionists, and feminists arriving in Palestine in the 1920s, and talk of their lives sixty years later. Anou Banou is intercut with archival music and footage of these women and their remarkable past--an excellent, inspiring historical document about a place and time when real social change seemed possible.

  The film will be at 2:00 p.m. in the Union Theater on the U of U campus, followed at 4:00 p.m. by the panel discussion in the same location. The event is free and open to the public. In between the film and the discussion, there will be a short documentary on the kibbutz for anyone interested.

  All Middle East Week events are posted on the Middle East Center bulletin board and at http://www.utah.edu/mec/falllect.html. You will also be receiving announcements throughout the week. Please make every effort to attend these events and support Middle East Studies at the University of Utah!

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  Middle Eastern food (not free, but not expensive) in the Union Cafe and the Panorama Room, lunchtime, April 6-10!

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• Separate Journeys Dance Drama. Repertory Dance Theater and the Oral History Institute present this award winning multimedia dance drama focusing on the Utah Native American, Hispanic, Jewish, Japanese and Greek communities. Choreography by Lynne Wimmer; based on interviews by the Oral History Institute. Capitol Theater. Special Passover Performance By Reservation ONLY, $6 Thursday April 9, 1998 at 11:00 AM. Regular performances Fri & Sat. April 10 and 11 at 7:30 PM Call us for matinee, ArtTix for evening.

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• Passover Student Seder on the second night (April 11) at a student's home.
  If you want to join or cook, please call Alex at 582-5945 or 582-6710 or email Jeremy.

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• Passover Seder Match-up Program: Do you need a first Seder to attend, or can you offer a student a place at your Seder? Please call or e-mail Hillel and we will try to match up student guests with hosts. Please specify which night and the level of kashrut sought or offered.
  
  Non-students: Kol Ami offers a similar service for the first night, and a Community Seder for the second night (using the Baskin Haggadah). Call Kol Ami at 484-1501.
  
  The Jewish Singles Network (JSN) Annual Potluck Passover Seder will be held Monday, April 13th, 7 PM at the old Jewish Community Center, 2416 East 1700 South. Call Jennifer Feldman at 322-3989 to RSVP.

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• Passover Shopping. Kol Ami offers shopping for members and non-members on Sundays and Wednesdays March 22, 25 and 29 and April 1, 5 and 8. Hours vary; call Kol Ami for details. Bais Menachem has arranged for Dan's Supermarket to stock Passover items.

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• Jenni Kolsky Photography Exhibit, Union Gallery, April 1-10. We have been given the opportunity to show an exhibit of photographs of scenes from the Dead Sea. Take a few minutes to check these photos out; they are really pretty cool. Here is a description in the words of the artist:
  "I offer an alternative to the violent images of intifada, terrorism and the struggle that is so often the media's sole focus. there is healing to be found even in a region of ancient hostilities. The waters of the Dead Sea absorb the spiritual differences of the Middle East to create an atmosphere of universal coexistence. I have observed people coming together from different countries, cultures, religions, languages, and ideologies."

  This exhibit is sponsored by Utah Hillel, with support from Hillel's Grinspoon Student Initiative Grant, Utah Federation (we hope) and the Israeli Embassy. Thanks to all those who made it possible, especially our student volunteers. For more information or an invitation to the artist's reception, contact Jeremy.

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  Holocaust Week and Spring Quarter speakers include:

  
  

  Prof. Pnina Lahav, (Law, BU and Tel Aviv U.), "The Judenrat on Trial -- Defamation, Assassination and Israeli Reaction to the Holocaust in the 1950s." (April 20th, 7:00 P.M. at the College of Law, Borchard Conference Room).
  

  Prof. Lahav's most recent book, Shimon Agranat and the Zionist Century (on which this talk is based) was reviewed in the 11 Dec 97 issue of the Jerusalem Report and at greater length in the Law and Politics Book Review.

  Yezid Sayigh, (Assistant Director, Center for International Security, Cambridge University), MEC Discussion Group: State-Building Without a State: The Palestinian Case. (April 20th , 3:15 p.m. 208 OSH).

  Yezid Sayigh, (Assistant Director, Center for International Security, Cambridge University), Hinckley Institute of Politics Lecture: Problems And Prospects of Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations. (April 21st , 11:00 a.m. Hinckley Caucus Room 255 OSH).

  East of War: Former German soldiers confront war and Holocaust. Video Presentation and Discussion. (April 21 7:00 P.M., Rm. 158, Mark Green Hall, Art and Architecture).

  Prof. Ron Smelser, (History, Utah), Seminar on the Holocaust, (April 22nd, 1-5 PM, JCC/Fort).

  Prof. Steven T. Katz, (Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University), The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: Holocaust Week keynote address, (April 23rd 7 PM, Social Work Auditorium).

  Days of Remembrance - Holocaust Memorial Ceremony (April 24th, 12 noon - 1 PM, Capitol Rotunda)

  Special Shabbat Service with Prof. Katz (April 24th, 7:30 PM, Kol Ami).

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• Sheila Katz, (History, Berklee College of Music, Boston), "Women and Gender in Arab-Jewish Relations During the Yishuv," (MEC Discussion Group lecture on Gender in Israel and Palestine, Monday May 18 3:15 PM, 208 OSH).

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• National Conferences. There are several national policy and study conferences coming up, including The Schusterman Hillel International Student Leaders Assembly, Reform and Conservative college students conferences, AIPAC, environmental policy and so on. We are sending a delegation to the Schusterman Hillel Student Leaders Assembly and have nearly complete subsidies available -- please contact us if you are interested. National Hillel also has scholarships and subsidies available for most of the other conferences as well. If you are interested in national leadership activities, contact us! Click for selected current listings.

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• Friday Evening Services. See listings below.
  

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• Towards the Eternal Center: Israel, Jerusalem and the Temple. This exhibition, on loan from the Jewish Theological Society (JTS), features rare library materials from the 13th to 20th centuries, including maps, travel literature, rabbinic texts, books, prints, liturgy and postcards. At the Museum of Church History and Art, 45 N. W. Temple St., through June 29.

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• Bialys Needed. Anyone know a mail order source or recipe for bialys?

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