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SPRING & SUMMER 2007 Schedule
at Shabbos House & Jewish UAlbany

events by partner orgs (UAlbany Hillel, Hillel/JSC, L'chaim, Tagar, etc) are also listed here.
See also www.ualbanyhillel.org
 (Shabbos House isn't the sponsor/responsible for all events listed below).
SCROLL DOWN! continues to be updated, as events continue to be planned...
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yellow background = Shabbat/Holiday, gray background = weekday event, gray text = event has passed).

DAY DATE EVENT
    Here for Winter-Break? check back here to see when we'll be around and having cozy Shabbat weekends...
Fri-Sat Dec
29-30
We're home for Shabbat, anyone up here is welcome to join us.
Friday Night Dinner @ 5:30 - Shabbat Lunch 12pm
Fri-Sat Jan
5-6
This is an OFF Shabbos House Weekend. Up here and want a place for Shabbat? Please contact us to make you arrangements in the community.
Fri-Sat Jan
12-13
Small, Cozy, Winter-Break Shabbat
Friday Night Dinner @ 6pm - Shabbat Lunch @ 12pm
     - SPRING 2007 -
Thurs Jan 18 JERNY's Israel Resource Center presents an
Israel Programs Fair for Teens & College Students
Check out
the IRC page on the JERNY website for more information....
Fri Jan 19 First Friday Night Back - Spring 2007
Prayers 6pm @ Chapel House or Shabbos House
Shabbat Dinner 7pm at Shabbos House - All welcome!
Sat Jan 20 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House
11:30 Parsha & a Prayer for women at Shabbos House
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
Sun Jan 21 UAlbany Jewish Women's Connection co-sponsors the
SPA for Body and Soul at the Comfort Suites in Clifton Park 12-4pm
Sun Jan 21 Frozen BBQ - Hillel Welcome Back @ Chapel House 5pm
Mon Jan 22 Hillel JLL event - Hot Chocolate Social - Indian Quad 7pm
Tues Jan 23 Torah Tuesdays at Shabbos House, 5:30 & 7:30pm w/ dairy dinner
Halacha Trace: Torah > Talmud > Halacha texts
Wed Jan 24 Hillel FYSH event at Bombers - 6pm
Thurs Jan 25 Koach "Keeping up with the Steins" Movie Night CC 320 8pm
Fri Jan 26 First Hillel Dinner Back - Spring 2007
Prayers 6pm @ Campus Center 3rd Floor
Shabbat Dinner 7pm at Campus Center - All welcome!
Sat Jan 27 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House
11:30 Parsha & a Prayer for women at Shabbos House
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
Special Themed Lunch: CHOLENT BAR - Cholent Taster's Paradise
Sun Jan 28 Minyan Bagel Brunch: Prayers 11am, Brunch at 12pm @ SH
Sun Jan 28 Hillel Snow-Tubing to Jiminy Peak - 12:45pm @ Collins Circle
 Cost is $15 per person and includes bus RSVP to Craig at craigp010@verizon.net.
Sun Jan 28 Hamagshimim Welcome Back Event - evening
Mon Jan 29 Social Justice Movie Series CC 320 8pm
Tues Jan 30 Torah Tuesdays at Shabbos House, 5:30 & 7:30pm w/ dairy dinner
Basi L’Gani - Cliff-Notes of a Chassidic Discourse
Wed Jan 31 Tagar presents "The Silent Exodus" a important film on refugees in the Middle East. Humanities Building Room 116 7:30pm
Fri Feb 2 Tu Bishvat - Jewish New Year for Trees - Shabbat
special fruit-themed Shabbat Dinner
Prayers 6pm @ Chapel House or Shabbos House
Shabbat Dinner 7pm at Shabbos House - All welcome!
Special Singing Farbrengen/Oneg with Guest Mr. Mayer Rivkin
Sat Feb 3 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House
11:30 Parsha & a Prayer for women at Shabbos House
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
Sat Feb 3 Jewish Jammin' Night at Shabbos House 7:30pm
(only one planned this semester... unless u count the HD Havdalah 5/5)
Sun Feb 4 Tefillin and Touchdowns - see our YouTube video... 11am @ SH
Sun Feb 4 Hillel Superbowl Event Campus Center Commons
pre-game show 2pm, Kickoff 6pm
Mon Feb 5 Koach Tu Bishvat Seder CC 320 7pm
Mon Feb 5 Rochie Rubin's Womens Concert in Saratoga Springs
Tues Feb 6 Torah Tuesdays at Shabbos House, 5:30 & 7:30pm w/ dairy dinner
Seussian Talmud by Craig Messer ('09) and Justin Hirsch ('07)
mock-up Talmud page template based on Seuss to learn commentator styles
Wed Feb 7 Challah & Dessert Baking @ Shabbos House 7pm Guys and Girls Welcome!
Fri Feb 9 Hillel and Koach Shabbat Dinner
Prayers 6pm @ Campus Center 3rd Floor
Shabbat Dinner 7pm at Campus Center - All welcome!
Sat Feb 10 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House (we need all the help we can get..)
Note Change This Week: 1pm Shabbat Lunch at Chapel House
Sun Feb 11 United Jewish Federation of Northeastern NY Super Sunday Fundraiser
Mon Feb 12 Raizy's Birthday 8pm - Girls come over and celebrate...
Tues Feb 13 Torah Tuesdays at Shabbos House, 5:30 & 7:30pm w/ dairy dinner
Yours Truly Truth in Relationships (between us & G-d and between people).
Thurs Feb 15 Hillel Toolbox "Resume Writing" 7pm
Fri Feb 16 Small cozy, Pre-Presidents-Week-Break Shabbat
Prayers 6pm, Shabbat Dinner 6:30pm at Shabbos House - 
RSVP's appreciated.
Sun-Sun Feb
18-25
President's Week Break - UAlbany Closed
Have a great break!
Remember to bring back a Purim Costume!!
Fri Feb 23 Small cozy, Pre-Presidents-Week-Break - 2nd Shabbat
Prayers 6pm, Shabbat Dinner 6:30pm at Shabbos House - 
RSVP's appreciated.
Sat Feb 24 Special Shabbos Morning Minyan - on 2nd weekend of PrezWeek Break
with guests from Crown Heights' ALIYAH youth program
11am at Shabbos House (will feature Kiddush Break) followed by 1:30pm Lunch
Tues Feb 27 Torah Tuesdays at Shabbos House, 5:30 & 7:30pm w/ dairy dinner
Sleepless in Shushan - Insomnia & the Purim Story
Plus Purim Packet Packing for the Quad Dining Halls
Thurs Mar 1 Fast of Esther - Fast ends 6:18pm
(fast is moved-up, since Purim is Sat Night & Sunday)
Koach Movie Night CC 320 8pm
Hamagshimim Israeli Club Night
Fri Mar 2 Pre-Purim Italian-style Wine Dinner
Prayers 6pm @ Chapel House or Shabbos House
Shabbat Dinner 7pm at Shabbos House - All welcome!
Sat Mar 3 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House
Parshat Zachor Torah Reading approx 11:45am
one of the most important Torah Readings of the Jewish Year!
No Parsha & Prayer, we hope to walk over to Chapel House with Bassie...
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
Sat Mar 3 Purim Night!
Megillah, Masquerade and PURIM CARNIVAL! - in the Campus Center
Sun Mar 4 Purim Day!
Wings over Shushan
Purim Feast (and Megillah) at Shabbos House 4pm
Sun Mar 4 JLL "Family Guy" Program - Indian Quad 7pm
Mon-Thurs Mar 5-8 Hillel's Global Awareness Week
Hillel's Tzedek social-justice programs, opportunities and awareness
Monday - GAW Unity Event
Check out L'chaim's Doughnuts for Darfur Table
Tuesday - Poverty & Displacement, Keynote Speaker
Wednesday - Health and Sexual Wellbeing
Thursday - Politics & Corruption, Benefit Talent-Show and Hunger Banquet
Tues Mar 6 Informal Torah Tuesdays This Week, Torah Study & Dairy Dinner
5:30 and 7:30pm - Everyone is Purim'd and GAW'd out!
But people were still interested, so we're doing something light...
Fri Mar 9 Hillel Shabbat Dinner and GAW's Hunger Banquet
Prayers 6pm @ Campus Center 3rd Floor
Shabbat Dinner 7pm at Campus Center - All welcome!
Sat Mar 10 10am Shabbos Minyan at Shabbos House (note change this week!)
11:30 Parsha & a Prayer for women at Shabbos House
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
Sat Mar 10 Hillel's Annual Semi-Formal at the Appel Inn
Buses leave 8:30pm from Chapel House
Tickets go on sale at Copies Plus on Wed 2/14
Sun Mar 11 Daylight Savings Time - earlier this year!
Note:
Friday Night schedule now moves up one hour
7pm Prayer Services, 8pm Dinner
Mon Mar 12 Social Justice Movie Night Series 7pm CC 320
Tues Mar 13 Torah Tuesdays at Shabbos House, 5:30 & 7:30pm w/ dairy dinner
Moshe's 7th Birthday! Theme: "Special 7's" in Jewish Learning
Thurs Mar 14 Israel: Just The Basics - Part 1
(a new series coordinated by Wendy Miller, Hillel Israel Fellow)
5:30pm @ CC 367 led by Yoel Hirschfeld
Thurs Mar 14 Culinary Night preparing for Super-Shabbat and the S-Foods
7:30pm @ Shabbos House
Fri Mar 16 SUPER SHABBAT
super-charged Chazzan for Shabbat, Comic-Book Rabbi on Sunday
Rabbi Kaplan - Cantor/Scholar in Residence
Prayers 7pm @ Chapel House or Shabbos House
Shabbat Dinner 8pm at Shabbos House - All welcome!
Sat Mar 17 10am Shabbos Minyan at SHABBOS HOUSE (note change)
11:30 Parsha & a Prayer for women at Shabbos House
1pm Shabbat with Subs (Heros!) Lunch at Shabbos House
Sun Mar 18

Minyan Bagel Brunch - Tefillin & Prayers 11am, Brunch 12pm
Comic Book Rabbi, author of "Up, Up, Oy, Vey" to speak at Brunch

Mon Mar 19 UALBANY Jewish Womens Connection
celebrating Esther & Miriam in study and crafts
8pm at Shabbos House
Tues Mar 20 Torah Tuesdays at Shabbos House, 5:30 & 7:30pm w/ dairy dinner
 “Inside 1,000 Haggadahs” by Rabbi Israel Rubin, avid Haggadah collector, founder of Shabbos House, author of the scholarly “Albany Haggadah.”
Thurs Mar 22 Israel: Just the Basics Part II - Josh Sisskind on Israel's Geography
5:30-7pm CC 367, arranged by Hillel Israel Fellow
Fri Mar 23 Hillel welcomes West Point Shabbat Dinner
Prayers 7pm @ Campus Center 3rd Floor
Shabbat Dinner 8pm at Campus Center - All welcome!
Sat Mar 24 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House
11:30 Parsha & a Prayer for women at Shabbos House
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
Sat-Sun Mar
24-25
UAlbany Relay for Life in the RACC / SEFCU Arena
Join a Team! Sponsor Walkers.. come for an hour or for the night!
Join these RFL teams: 
UAlbany Hillel   AEPI  or others at Relay for Life!
Mon Mar 26 Social Justice Movie Night Series 6pm CC 320
Mon Mar 26 Hillel Student Board Elections
Tues Mar 27 Torah Tuesdays at Shabbos House, 5:30 & 7:30pm w/ dairy dinner
Seder Song Symbolism One Goat, Happened at Midnight etc...
Wed Mar 28 * L'chaim Pre-Passover Table in the Campus Center
* FYSH Program 7pm
Thurs Mar 29 Koach and JLL present on Indian Quad 7pm
"When do we eat?" and Chocolate pre-Passover Seder
Fri Mar 30 small, cozy pre-Passover Break Shabbat @ Shabbos House
7pm Prayers, 8pm Dinner
RSVP's appreciated.
Mon-Tues April
2-10
Passover Holiday - First Seder Monday Night 4/2
UALBANY closed nearly all of Passover - classes resume noon of 8th day.

Shabbos House is will be doing meals for the last two days of Passover (Sunday Night 4/8 thru Tuesday afternoon 4/10) since the dorms reopen on Sunday and some students say they will be up here. Please email us if you will be up here and are interested in these Kosher for Passover holiday meals.

* Sunday 4/8: 7th Night of Passover
Prayers 7:30 and Dinner 8pm
* Monday 4/9: 7th Day of Passover
Prayers 9:30 and Lunch 12:30 and on...
* Monday 4/9: 8th and Last Night of Passover
Prayers 7:30pm and Dinner 8pm
* Tuesday 4/10: 8th and Last Day of Passover
Prayers (Yizkor) 9:30 and Lunch 12:30 and on...

Wed April 11 JLL Israel Night 7pm Indian Quad - also sponsored by Res-Life Charge
"West Side Story" and "The Tribe"
Thurs April 12 Israel: Just the Basics with Professor Stanley Isser
"Religious and Secular Life in Israel" 5:30pm CC 367
Fri Apr 13 Hillel Shabbat Dinner
Prayers 7pm @ Campus Center 3rd Floor
Shabbat Dinner 8pm at Campus Center - All welcome!
Sat Apr 14 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House
11:30 Parsha & a Prayer for women at Shabbos House
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
also celebrating Mushky Rubin's 10th Birthday!!
Sat Apr 14 Koach presents Havdalah and The Last Butterfly
a Pre-Yom-HaShoah observance
8pm at CC 320 The Hillel Office
Sun-Mon Apr
15-16
Yom HoShoah - Holocaust Remembrance
Hillel 24-hour Vigil a the Campus Center Podium Small Fountain
begins Sunday Night 5pm through Monday 4pm
Opening Ceremony 5pm
Afternoon Prayers 5:30pm
Evening Prayers 9:30pm
Mon Apr 16 Yom HaShoah continued...
Morning Prayers 7am
12:30pm in Assembly Hall Jen Savronsky's grandmother will tell her story
Closing Ceremonies 4pm at the Campus Center Podium
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Social Justice Movie Night CC 320 7pm
Tues Apr 17 Torah Tuesdays at Shabbos House, 5:30 & 7:30pm w/ dairy dinner
Samson - presentation by Jon Dickens and dscussion by Rabbi Mendel
Thurs Apr 19 Hamag Israeli Games at Danes after Dark
outside the Terrace Lounge in the Campus Center
Fri Apr 20 Prayers 6pm @ Chapel House or Shabbos House
Shabbat Dinner 7pm at Shabbos House - All welcome!
Sat Apr 21 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House
11:30 Parsha & a Prayer for women at Shabbos House
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
Sun April 22 * Fountain Day! - UAlbany's Day in the Sun
* Yom HaZikaron - remembering Israel's Fallen Soldiers
Mon Apr 23 * Yom Ha'atzmaut Hamag Fair & BBQ
Mon Apr 23 Hillel's 3-course Dinner at Chapel House
by Elliot for the Lucky Raffle-Winners
(sign-up at the Facebook Group / see Elliot in CC 3rd Floor)
Tues Apr 24 Last* Torah Tuesday of the Spring 2007 semester
5:30 & 7:30pm along with delicious Dairy Dinner
"Building Momentum" in Life and re: 3rd generation Zionism
* by student request, we will be having one more next week!
Thurs Apr 26 FYSH/Hillel Laser-Tag
Meet 8pm in the Campus Center Lobby
Fri Apr 27 Hillel Shabbat Dinner
Prayers 7pm @ Campus Center 3rd Floor
Shabbat Dinner 8pm at Campus Center - All welcome!
Sat Apr 28 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House
11:30 Parsha & a Prayer for women at Shabbos House
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
Sun Apr 29 Tagar Israel Celebration - Dougie's BBQ from NY!
Dutch East Lawn (facing Science Library)
Sun Apr 29 Jewish Student Leader Workshop 10:30-1pm
Tues May 1 Last Torah Tuesday Learning Night of Spring 2007
5:30 and 7:30pm - along with Dairy Dinner

Special Memorial Talk on the Legacy of the late
Professor Liviu Librescu of Virginia Tech
sponsored by NCFJE and the Northstar Grant

Topic Requests for Torah Tuesdays Fall 2007 are most welcome!!

Thurs May 3 Last session of Israel: Just The Basics - CC 367 5:30pm
about Israeli Culture by Joy Newman

Koach Movie Night CC 320 at 8pm

Fri May 4 Last Hillel Shabbat Dinner of Spring 2007
- Awards Dinner -
Prayers 7pm @ Campus Center 3rd Floor
Shabbat Dinner 8pm at Campus Center - All welcome!
Sat May 5 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House
11:30 Parsha & a Prayer for women at Shabbos House
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
Sat May 5 HD High Definition Havdalah & Drum-Circle
desserts, music and a drum circle - celebrating Lag B'Omer @ SH
Sun May 6 * SA's Annual Parkfest Event
* Capital Region Communal Lag B'Omer Celebration at Hoffman's Playland
Mon May 7 FYSH/Hillel: Games, Pool, Snacks and Finals Season Relax Time
7-10pm at the Indian Quad @ The Wellness Center in Indian Quad Basement
Wed May 9 Seniors Brunch at Aviva's House - RSVP/Info email Aviva

Interfaith BBQ at Chapel House - Kosher Food by Hillel - All Welcome

Fri May 11 FINALS WEEK SHABBAT
Prayers 6pm @ Chapel House or Shabbos House
Shabbat Dinner 7pm at Shabbos House - All welcome!
Sat May 12 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House
11:30 Parsha & a Prayer for women at Shabbos House
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
Sun May 13 Annual Grad Party - Farewell to Class of 2007
hors d'ourves, hot buffet, powerpoint presentation, gifts, class picture etc...
5pm at Shabbos House
Fri May 18 GRADUATION WEEKEND SHABBAT
Prayers 7pm @ Shabbos House
Shabbat Dinner 8pm at Shabbos House
Family & Friends Welcome, RSVP's appreciated.
Sat May 19 10am Shabbos Minyan at Chapel House
1pm Shabbat Lunch at Shabbos House
Lunch lasts all afternoon for students and their families attending departmental graduation ceremonies.
7:30pm Seudah Shlishit, light meal and farewell to Shabbat
Shabbos ends at 9:00pm.
Sun May 20 Graduation Day BBQ and Farewells
following Main Commencement ceremony - beginning at 11am through the afternoon until about 5pm-ish.
Parents, Family, Friends are all welcome!!
Tues-Thurs May 22-24 Shavuot Holiday - Giving of the Torah
begins Tuesday Night at Sundown thru Thursday Night
  June
1-2,
8-9,
15-16
Shabbos House will be open for "Cozy Shabbat"
for the first 3 weekends (June 1, 8 &15) in June 2007.

Friday Night: Informal Prayers 7:30pm, Dinner at 8pm
Shabbat Morning: Informal Prayers 11am, Lunch 12:30pm and on..

Fri-Sat July 6-7 Friday Night Minyan 7:30pm
Shabbat Dinner and Sheva Brachot 8pm
celebrating the marriage of alumni Motti Wein and Ilana Nathan
Shabbat Day Prayers* 10am at Shabbos House
Lunch with Sheva Brachos 1pm at SH

* we can use help for Minyan - even 11:30 arrivals make a big difference.

Fri-Sat July
13-14
a very Cozy Shabbat!
Friday Night - Prayers 7:30pm / Dinner 8pm
Shabbat Lunch anytime after 12pm
Sun 7/15 5th Annual NYC Alumni Reunion click for more info...
Fri-Sat July
 20-21
Cozy Shabbat
Special Guests:
Raizy's sister Nechama Dina & Rabbi Sholom Ber Hendel
Friday Night: Prayers 7:30pm, Dinner 8pm
Shabbat Morning Minyan (hopefully possible..) 10am
Shabbat Lunch at 1pm
Fri-Sat July
27-28
Last Cozy Shabbat in July..
Friday Night Prayers 7:30pm, Dinner 8pm
Lunch 1pm
Fri-Sat Aug 4-5 First Cozy Shabbat in August
Friday Night Prayers 7:30pm, Dinner 8pm
Lunch 1pm
    Stay tuned for a possible final Cozy Shabbat on August 11th
before the new year begins with Freshmen Weekend on August 24th.
    New 07-08 Calendar/Schedule to be posted by the end of July.

 

* Remember: Sabbath and the Jewish Holidays begin the Night before at Sunset.

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