This Week at Hillel

In this issue... Visit Us on Campus Columbia College Meeting DePaul Back to School Bagels IIT Hillel Meeting Heeb Storytelling Chicago DePaul Hillel Grand Opening Time to PARTY! Save the Dates Get Paid to Learn Interfaith Youth Core Project Check These Out... DePaul Hillel High Holiday Services Rosh Hashanah Sept. 22nd&23rd Yom Kippur Oct. 1st&2nd. 2250 N. Sheffield Ave Room 120B (Kol Nidre will be held at 800 W. Belden Ave. at 6:30p.m. on Oct. 1st) Evening Services: 6:30p.m. Morning Services: 10:00a.m. Services are free and open to the public RSVP to Emily FREE TRIP TO ISRAEL Taglit birthright-israel Registration Opens September 12th Pre-Register This Week at Hillel Check it Out... August 2006 Shalom! Welcome to Hillels Around Chicago's E-Newsletter. We'll have all the information you need for upcoming events and exciting things happening on campus and off. We're looking forward to an exciting year ahead with many great adventures planned! See you on campus. HAC has a new staff member! David Chack will be working with our downtown schools: Roosevelt, the Art Institute and Columbia to bring exciting arts based programming to campus. Please feel free to e- mail David at DavidChack@juf.org or call him at 312- 673-2350 and say SHALOM! David Y. Chack has been doing Jewish culture and creating performing arts for over twenty years. His passion is in exploring culture and how it impacts/intersects with all the arts � film, writing, performance, graphic and fine arts, virtual, and more. Recently he has been with the Melton Schools of North America - project of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival; and the JCC of Louisville. Along with doing Special Projects for Hillels Around Chicago with arts colleges in the Loop, he is doing Project Development for the Israeli based global website All About Jewish Theatre www.jewish- theatre.com He studied at the University of Maryland, New York University, Circle-in-the-Square Theatre on Broadway, Tufts University, and Boston University and continues to see his mentor, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. His many teaching credits in Jewish Culture and Performing Arts include: Emerson College, Tufts University, Boston University, The University of Virginia, Louisville Melton School, and the Morasha Program in Northbrook, IL. -Emily Visit Us on Campus Student Organization Fairs Stop by and see Emily, Misha or David at the organization fairs. Oakton: (DP) Aug. 29th (Skokie) Aug. 30th IIT: Aug. 30th & Sept. 6th Columbia: August 31st SAIC: Sept. 5th DePaul:(LPC) Sept. 10th (Loop) Sept. 13th Roosevelt: Sept. 20th Check your student activities websites for times and locations. For more info on NEIU, Oakton, or DePaul contact Emily at ebriskma@depaul. edu or 773-325-8650. For more info on Columbia, SAIC or Roosevelt please contact David at davidchack@juf.org or 312-673-2350. For more information on IIT or Russian Hillel please contact Misha at mishazilbermint @juf.org or 312-673-2359. Columbia College Meeting What's Happening? We'll be meeting right before Convocation to talk about our awesome year we have coming up. Come by to say hello and give us any brilliant ideas you had over the summer! Thursday Aug. 31st 10:30a.m. Contact Debbie for location E-mail Debbie DePaul Back to School Bagels COME SEE OUR NEW SPACE There's nothing like a bagel to cure the back to school blues. Stop by Hillel to grab a bagel and schmooze with new friends and old. Tell us all about your summer and we'll hook you up with some awesome shmear! Wednesday Sept. 6th DePaul Hillel: Student Center Room 340 (2250 N. Sheffield) 11-3 Contact Emily for more info IIT Hillel Meeting Come hang out Stop by, say hello, and hang out while we discuss the upcoming year and plan some awesome events. Never been to Hillel before? Just come check us out and see what it's all about. Thursday Sept. 7th 12:40p.m. Blue Room in MCC E-mail Misha for more info Heeb Storytelling Chicago Heeb's traveling road show hits Chicago, featuring Ray Hanania (journalist, humorist), Kevin Coval (author, Slingshots: A Hip Hop Poetica), Triplette (sketch group, triplette.net), Idris Goodwin (MC, playwright), Amy Krouse Rosenthal (author, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life), Rebecca Wiener (editor, Heeb Magazine) and Aaron Freeman (humorist, NPR, HuffingtonPost, 52sabbaths.blospot.org). Wednesday Sept. 13th 8:00p.m. The Second City etc Theatre 1608 N. Wells St. (Pipers Alley) $5 Suggested Donation RSVP to David DePaul Hillel Grand Opening Celebrate DePaul Hillel is celebrating the opening of our beautiful space for this academic year. Please commemorate this occasion with us, Father Holtschneider (DePaul's President),University administration, and members of the Jewish community. Wednesday Sept. 13th 4-6p.m. Student Lounge Room 120 (next to Brownstones) 2250 N. Sheffield Ave. RSVP to Emily Time to PARTY! Welcome Back HAC Got the back to school blues? We can solve that! It's time to break out those bowling shoes and take them for a spin at Seven Ten with HAC. Over 21? We've got unlimited wells and beer for just the cost of entry. Thursday Sept. 14th Seven Ten Lounge 2747 N. Lincoln Ave. 6:30-9:30p.m. Under 21-$12 Over 21- $15 RSVP to Emily Save the Dates Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema: Sept. 7- 17th www.ChicagoFestivalofIsraeliCinema.org DePaul Hillel Welcome Back Picnic: Sept. 18th NEIU Open House Meeting: Sept. 19th Dishing: Sept. 20th Get Paid to Learn Mini-Maimonides at DePaul The goal of the Maimonides Leaders Fellowship is to empower Jewish university students with the wisdom, knowledge and understanding of their rich heritage, establishing well educated leaders on campus and in their future communities. Participants will enjoy entriguing discussion led by Rabbi Zev Kahn, presentations by knowledgeable communal leaders, as well as exciting field trips exploring the highlights of the Chicago Jewish community. Beginning Mondays Sept. 18th DePaul Hillel Room 340 Contact Rabbi Zev Kahn at zevkhan@jeteam. com for more information. Click Here to Apply Interfaith Youth Core Project plan interfaith service projects The Interfaith Youth Core runs a Chicago-based program called the Chicago Youth Council. This is a small group of high school students and college student mentors who spend the school year planning interfaith service projects for the common good in the city of Chicago. This is the first year we are opening this program to university students outside DePaul University (where the program participants meet on a weekly basis). We have chosen to do this because of the nature of the Chicago Youth Council in the 2006-2007 school year. Each year the CYC designs and plans its own service experience and creates a highly innovative piece of media around this project (i.e children�s book, CD, DVD, Art on film, etc.) But this coming year we have added a twist . . . This coming year the CYC is Going Global! We have partnered with a group of students in Amman, Jordan and will be using all the fabulous technology we have at our finger tips to build a relationship with them as we both run interfaith projects in our respective cities. The hope is to travel to each others� countries next summer to see the results of our projects. Also, the IFYC will be making a feature length documentary about the CYC and their project! So, if you are interested in being a part of this group and can make the commitment I urge you to apply. I have attached the application to this email and we will be accepting them until the end of August. The program begins in September. This is a competitive application process as we are only taking 10 students this year so please take care in filling out your application. I look forward to hearing from you all soon. Contact Mariah Neuroth, IFYC Senior Program Director at mariah@ifyc.org for more info. 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