TO THE HILLEL BOARD

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all well.  Frank and Dennis are in Israel as of this
writing, and at the end of my note - I am copying the message Dennis sent
before Shabbat.

I will send out a list-serve e-mail tomorrow letting everyone know about
the food we are having this week at Hillel.

Each of you should make sure and be around consistently Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday.  If you have not printed out your new schedule, please do so
and put it on the desk.  Look for any new Jewish students and be prepared
to have a lot of students visiting Hillel.  This always happens at the
beginning of the semester.

Please put on your personal calendars the two big programs we have
scheduled for the second week of school.

Tuesday, January 24 the Vice-Counsel of the Israel Embassy, Andy David, is
coming to speak about "Israel: What the Media Doesn't Tell You."  This is
a major Israel program for us, the first time a Consulate representative
has spoken at Loyola in many years.  Kevin, Anna and Ilya Zharov heard
Andy David at the Israel Advocacy Conference and felt he would be great at
Loyola.  We are sending notice of this throughout campus.

The program is at 4:30 PM in the Hayes Room with an Israeli dinner at 4
PM.

You should know that starting the following week, Kevin and Alex Resnikov
have taken the responsibility to lead informal discussions about Israel
and current events Monday and Tuesday afternoons.


Thursday, January 26 is our first "Wanna" of the semester.  "Wanna Hold
'Em?" will take place starting at 6 PM in the room downstairs by the
elevator - officially called the Mundelein Student Lounge.  This will be
an evening of Texas Hold 'Em, Doorak, board games, etc.  There will be a
$5/person charge for the poker, with the money going to the JUF Campaign,
and there will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes.

OK - that's enough for now.  I hope you had a good break.  Last Sunday,
Allen and I were in Memphis for a wedding and, as some of you know, before
the wedding about 100 of us were at Graceland - and it was Elvis'
birthday!  I was a child of the 60's - and had a great time there.

Here is Dennis lovely note:


Subject: Dennis from Israel

Hey Everyone,

I'm writing from Israel!  I just wanted to let you
know that I'm doing well here and that I really miss
everybody.  I've visited dozens of amazing places. I
scuba dived in the red sea, ate tasty meat baguettes
in Jaffa, and floated effortlessly over the dead sea.
I miss all of you terribly!  I just hope to see
everyone soon.  I love you guys and I wish you all a
happy shabbat!

Sincerely,
Dennis J Parad