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Shabbat at the Hillel JUC
Date: Friday, October 23rd Time: Services - 6:30pm, Dinner 7:30pm Location: The Hillel JUC, Forbes & Craig, next to Starbucks, 4607 Forbes Ave.
All students welcome!
Shabbat Dinner Menu Moroccan Feast
Moroccan Chicken
Vegetables & Currants/Figs
Vegetarian Moroccan Tofu
Couscous
Cucumber Salad
Baklava
Cookies
Please click here to purchase your Shabbat dinner ticket...or you may stop by the Hillel JUC building any time to pay with Panther Funds, Plaid Cash, Cash or Check.
Friday, October 23rd, 5pm
Deadline for declaration to run
email hillelboardelections@gmail.com, see Guidelines above for instructions.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 8:45pm
Candidate Speeches
WPU - Room TBA
Wednesday, November 4th, 8am
Voting Opens
Thursday, November 5th, 6pm
Voting Closes Pitt Homecoming Queen & King Endorsements
VOTE FOR ASTER AND LANCE FOR PITT HOMECOMING QUEEN AND KING!
Pitt Hillel Endorses Aster Teclay for Homecoming Queen and Lance Bonner for Homecoming King. Aster is a senior who is involved with BAS, Academic Affairs, and her charity project involves building playgrounds for children. Lance is a senior who is involved with Student Government Board, Phi Delta Theta, and Pitt Pride organizations and his service project involves raising money for the American Cancer Society.
Voting begins online (in your Pitt Portral) at noon on Oct. 22 and ends at noon on October 23.
HAIL TO PITT!
Attention Babysitters...Want to make great $$$?...Need a job? Speed-Sitting is coming!
If you are interested in meeting and becoming paired with parents in the Pittsburgh area in need of babysitters, this event is for you! Click here to fill out this simple resume and email to Linda at lmyers@hilleljuc.org.
Can you Sing? We want to hear you!
Auditions:
Click here to be reminded about Audition dates, times & locations!
UJC General Assembly - Great opportunity, Apply now!
Are you a passionate leader in your campus’ Jewish community? Are you looking to advance that leadership to the next level? If so, Hillel has an amazing opportunity for you to join our delegation at this November’s United Jewish Communities General Assembly (GA) in Washington, D.C.
Hear… from the leadership of the United States and Israel. Connect… to the top policymakers of the North American Jewish community. Build… your future and the future of the Jewish people.
• The GA is November 8-10, 2009 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.
• UJC is offering a highly discounted undergraduate student registration fee of $150, which covers registration and accommodations. Travel and meals are not included.
**All hotel accommodations are based on two nights in a triple room and at the beautiful conference hotel – The Marriott Wardman Park.
• A commuter rate of $100 is available for students living in the Washington, D.C. Metro area.
• For more information about this incredible opportunity, as well as links to the complete program and event listing, visit www.ujc.org/ga. • Registration closes October 23, 2009 for non-commuters and October 29, 2009 for commuters at the latest. Space is limited so don’t delay – Registration could close early if spaces fill up!
We invite you to come Learn, Share, and Shmooze with us. Register today!
Questions? Contact Nathan Render at nrender@hillel.org or 202-449-6550
HOTIsraeli Band Coolooloosh Coming to the Hillel JUC!!!
When: October 24th, 8:30-10:00 pm
Where: Hillel JUC, corner of Forbes Avenue and Craig Street
Tickets available at Hillel for $7 and will be $10 at the door. Click here to check out Coolooloosh, and then come see them live!
Tartans For Israel Kick-off Event!
When: Wednesday, October 21st at 5:00 pm,
Where: CFA 211/212:
Join T4I to brainstorm activities for this year, including bringing speakers to campus, promoting dialogue and discussion, and
hosting events that bring together students interested in Israel. There will be a
lot of pizza and other snacks available.
Interested in doing a Mitzvah? Join our new Bikur Cholim group.
Bikur Cholim is the mitzvah of visitng the sick, and we will be having programs to visit the sick and elderly throughout the semester.
For more information, contact Rebecca Stern at rrs25@pitt.edu
Come Hear Speaker Yehuda Yaakov, Iran Expert in the Foreign Ministry of the Israel Government
When: October 28th, 5:00 pm
Where: AEΠ Hourse at CMU(corner of Morewood and Forbes)
Co-Sponsors: AEΠ, Israeli Consul General's Office, Iran Taskforce of the UJF & Hillel JUC
Yehuda Yaakov is currently responsible for special projects in the strategic affairs division of the foreign ministry. He served as department director for non-proliferation and counterterrorism in the strategic affairs division, after establishing and running the counterterrorism desk.
The Pittsburgh Conference on Soviet Jewry
presents “Refusenik” SouthSide Works Cinema, Tuesday, October 20 @ 7 p.m.
Doors open @ 6:30 p.m.
Tickets $5. Reception to follow. Dietary laws observed.
“Refusenik” is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year movement to free Soviet Jews. It shows how a small grassroots effort bold enough to take on a Cold War superpower blossomed into an international human rights campaign that engaged the disempowered and world leaders alike.
Seating is limited. Tickets can be purchased in advance by clicking here or by calling 412.992.5203 or at the theater the day of the event beginning at 6:30 p.m. if seats are still available.
Career Israel Internship Program
Career Israel Internship Programis a five-month professional internship open to college/university graduates from all over the world. The program provides internship placements in leading companies and organizations in the private and public sectors in Israel in every field including law, medicine, media, economics, politics, public relations, computer science, business and more. Career Israel in conjunction with Israel Experience provides accommodations, a Hebrew study program, tours and extracurricular enrichment activities. A short track is available too. Check www.careerisrael.com.
