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Upcoming Schedule of Events
Events This Friday
Curious about Reconstructionism? Want to experience an engaging and different type of Shabbat?


Join us for an amazing Shabbat with student Rabbi Lori Feldstein-Gardner from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She'll be visiting us with her wife and very cute baby daughter this weekend!

 

Friday, March 1

 

5:00 PM - Lori will lead Reconstructionist-style Services - Welsh Piano Room

 

6:00 PM - Shabbat Dinner in Hillel, with Lori's D'var Torah (insights on the Torah portion, Ki Tissa) - Hillel

 

7:00 PM - Songs, games, and a little learning - Hillel

 

Saturday Services and Learning
Saturday, March 2, 11:00 AM
Kraushaar Auditorium

 

11 AM - Short morning services led by Lori - Welsh Piano Room

 

12:30 PM - Lunch n'Learn - Contemporary Approaches to Interdating and Intermarriage

 

2 PM - Jewish Meditation - Welsh Piano Room

 


Disabilities Dinner At Goucher College!
Wednesday, March 13, 5:30 PM
Buchner Hall  

Try to place yourself in another person's shoes. On March 13, 2013, Goucher Hillel will be hosting a Disabilities Dinner in
Buchner Hall. Everyone who's participating will be assigned a physical disability, and will eat dinner as if they had the disability. A discussion about physical disabilities will be held after the dinner.
We ask that all participants treat the dinner seriously and participate in the discussion.
 
Join the Baltimore Hillels in Poland this June!


Please register here before March 15, 2013! Space is limited. 
 
Brandeis Collegiate Institute
The Marilyn and Sigi Ziering Brandeis Collegiate Institute (BCI) offers young adults between the ages of 18 and 26 an intensive 3-week exploration of self, Judaism, community, culture, and nature in a pluralistic, international environment in Southern California. This summer's institute will take place from June 18 to July 14, 2013. There are full scholarships, including travel, available to students in the Baltimore area. For more details about the scholarship opportunity, contact Yona. Apply by March 13 at http://bci.ajula.edu.
Learning with Avital
Wednesday Afternoons, 5:30-6:30
JLIC Educator Avital Nyer-Levin
will be at Goucher on Wednesdays
 this semester from 2:30-6:30 p.m. Join her for a group text study from 5:30-6:30 in the Hillel space over dinner.   
Contact:avitalnyer@gmail.com.
What's Going On This Week
Friday, Mar 1: Reconstructionist Services
Saturday, Mar 2: Saturday Services
Wednesday Mar 6: ICJS 25th Anniversary Speakers
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ICJS 25th Anniversary Speakers
Wednesday, March 6 2013; Wednesday, June 5 2013

Come listen to a Muslim perspective on religious pluralism in the modern world. At
7:30 PM, March 6th, Imam Feisal Rauf will come speak at Goucher College, in the Kraushaar Auditorium. On June 5th at 7:30 PM, Rabbi David Rosen will come speak to the Beth El Congregation.
 
More information can be found here.

 

Hebrew 101
Mondays at 6 in Hillel

Learn some conversational Hebrew in a low-pressure environment during dinner on Mondays.  Contact Ellie Davidson-Wolf for more info.  Not for credit.
Do-It-Yourself Passover Seder: Funding & Food Available!
Sign up here by Wednesday, March 6!

Purim's arrival means the holiday of Passover is just around the corner! Passover this year begins on Monday evening, March 25, the day after spring break. Rabbi Josh and Yona will lead a seder on campus that evening. If you wish to host a do-it-yourself seder, Goucher Hillel will provide you with a fully stocked seder plate, copies of a haggadah (the seder playbook) for you and your guests, and either dinner for your and your guests or funding for you to cook the seder meal. Details are here; please sign up by March 6.
J Street U Student Summit
March 16-18, 2013

Event Day - Event Na
 
Please register here before March 1st, 2013!
J Street U Student Summit
March 16-18, 2013

Join 250 other students in Washington D.C for three days of discussion, learning, and strategizing about the Middle East. This pro-Israel event will culminate in a lobby day on Capital Hill to advance concerns over a two-state solution.


 More information can be found here.

 

NUJLS National
Leadership Conference
The National Union of Jewish LGBTQ Students 17th Annual National Leadership Conference will be hosted at Rutgers University, co-sponsored by Rutgers Hillel and the Center for Social Justice Education & LGBT Communities. The conference is April 19-21, 2013. Pre-Registration is now open!