The American Hebrew Academy is America’s premier Jewish pluralistic college prep boarding school located in Greensboro, NC. We serve students from 28 states and 13 countries. Each year we employ ten or more post-college graduates in our Fellowship program. Fellows gain valuable career advancing skills while working with our students academically, residentially, and Jewishly (formal and informal). For both students and residential staff, the Academy provides an environment that is nurturing to the mind, body, and soul.
The 2012-2013 Fellowship program begins August 2012. Fellow applicants need to have graduated from college in order to participate in this leadership opportunity (current seniors and recent graduates are ideal). In addition to the resume and career building skills that your students will gain from this experience, they will also get free housing (large 2 room apartment), free kosher meals, generous monthly salary ($1,000/month), health benefits, and access to campus amenities including our health center, athletic fields, pluralistic religious opportunities, and more.
I am personally a graduate of Binghamton University where I was a leader within Hillel at Binghamton. Upon graduation, I accepted the offer to be a Fellow here at the American Hebrew Academy. I came in to my position with the ability to work with others, plan successful programs, lead t’fillot and navigate difficult conversations concerning Jewish identity and pluralism. My success in the Fellowship program is largely due to the skills I learned from my time in Hillel.
Attached is a flyer that we have prepared to help your organization spread the word about the Academy Fellowship. We are asking Hillels across the country to print and post the attached flyer and information on their job boards, FaceBook pages, newsletters, or other print and social media outlets. We are confident that your students will benefit immensely from the opportunity for Jewish college graduates to move from college into a meaningful Jewish job opportunity.
We will begin our Skype interview process at the end of January, so the quicker you help us circulate the information the better. Fellow candidates who make the ‘interview cut’ will be invited to join us for our Prospective Fellow’s Institute from March 29-April 1, 2012. They will have a 4-day opportunity to experience the Fellowship first-hand. For more information about the Academy, please visit www.americanhebrewacademy.org.
If you still want to attend the Hannukkah Party on December 11th you need to RSVP by this Friday, December 2nd. The party is still on December 11, 2011 but the time has changed from the old time of 7 PM-11 PM to the new time of 6 PM-9 PM. Sorry for any inconveniences this may have caused but still hope to see you there.
Once again Congregation B’nai Tikvah Beth Israel has invited Rowan Students for the High Holidays.
If you aren’t going home for the High Holidays and would like to go to B’nai Tikvah Beth Israel which is 5 minutes from Rowan. If you need transportation please let us know.
If you are staying at Rowan for the High Holidays and would like to go to B’nai Tikvah Beth Israel, we need you to email us back with a list of the days and times you want to go with you cell phone number.
These are the dates and times:
High Holiday Services at Congregation B’nai Tikvah Beth Israel
115 East Holly Avenue Sewell NJ 08080
Rosh Hashannah:
Wednesday September 28th, 8:00 pm
Thursday September 29th, 9:30 am or Tashlich- 1:30 pm
Friday September 30th, 9:30 am
Shabbat Shuvah Service:
Friday September 30th, 8:00 pm
Saturday October 1st, 9:30 am
Yom Kippur Kol Nidre
Friday October 7th 6:00 pm-Yom Kippur morning
Saturday october 8th 9:00 am-Yiskor at 12:15 pm or Community Yiskor at 4:45 pm
Mincha/Neilah 5:15 pm
Shofar Blowing at 7:45 pm
Girls in Trouble
Sunday, May 15, 2011 • 7:30 p.m.
Reserve your spot today • www.nmajh.org • 215-923-3811
Inspired by storyteller-songwriters such as Leonard Cohen and Joanna Newsom, Alicia Jo Rabins’s Girls In Trouble creates first-person songs based on obscure stories of Biblical women, investigating the hidden places where their complicated lives overlap with hers.
On her new album, “Half You Half Me” (JDub Records), Rabins retains the emotional vulnerability and poetic focus of Girls in Trouble’s self-titled debut while broadening the band’s sound into eclectic, atmospheric landscapes.
Young Friends (ages 21-40) are invited to pre-concert reception with the band at 6:00 p.m.
At the Museum
101 S. Independence Mall East
(SE Corner of 5th & Market Streets)
Philadelphia, PA
Admission:
$8 NMAJH Members
$10 General Public
$10 Young Friends*
*Ages 21-40. Includes private, pre-concert
reception at 6:00 p.m. with the band.
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) is looking for CAMERA representatives on campuses across the nation and internationally. Each student will receive $1000 and a FREE trip to Israel in June 2012. The CAMERA rep will promote pro-Israeli coverage on his/her campus with speakers/events and by unique ideas of the individual representative. We are hoping that you could help us find applicants by either posting information/flyers on your Hillel website or throughout the Hillel. If you have any recommendations of whom you believe would be a good candidate please forward us their names and/or encourage them to apply. Please contact me if you would like to learn more information about the program. I have attached the link and application below. The application deadline is June 20th, 2011. Thank you for your help.
Best Wishes,
Aviva Slomich, Director of Student Programming
Samantha Mandeles, Campus Associate
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=1375
Join us Tuesday, January 25th for Board Game nights. The event will be held Education Hall 2095 starting at 7:15. We’ll have several games and prizes for the winners!! Feel free to bring you favorite board game with you and your friends.
South Jersey Region BBYO
Advisor Job Description & Expectations
- Promote leadership by inspiring and motivating the chapter to take an active role.
- Attend chapter functions, and, if unavailable, notify chapter parents or the BBYO office to find a replacement. All BBYO events must have an adult present.
- Engage in Advisor Enrichment and Professional Development so that you can stay up to date with developments in the organization, and receive valuable tools and resources.
- Develop meaningful relationships with the BBYO members, their parents, other advisors, staff, and other community members that support or work with teens.
- Help maintain positive AZA and BBG chapter traditions.
- Empower the teens. BBYO is a youth lead, staff-run organization – the teens should play a big role in decision making and developing, and advisors do the guiding.
- Assist with the implementation of chapter programs, meetings, training, and events. Help maintain the chapter checkbook while using it as a teaching tool for the kids to learn how to budget, pay bills, and write checks. Monitor your chapter using Dashboard (a BBYO website) and being in constant contact with your Godol/N’siah (male and female teen President).
- Partner with BBYO staff to help promote summer program opportunities to both the teens and their parents.
- Strengthen the organization’s and the teens’ Jewish identity as often as possible. We truly expect our staff to follow the guidelines of Shabbat, kosher laws and to assist the kids in learning about being Jewish. BBYO is an organization that is open to all sects of Judaism and want the youth to have the opportunity to explore and learn, as they define their own Jewish identity.
BBYO thanks all of the volunteers who are part of the advisor network. Our volunteers are part of an international community of nearly 700 advisors like yourself–volunteers who care about the future of BBYO and teens in general. Thanks for your interest.
Please contact Ira Dounn, Program Director of South Jersey Region BBYO, at idounn@bbyo.org or (856) 424-4444 ext. 1285 to learn more about how to get involved!
There will be a General Membership Meeting on Wednesday, October 20th at 7:00 in Room 128 of the Student Center. More details to follow.
We just wanted to let you know that Rowan is offering three classes next spring that may be of interest to you. All of these are for the Spring 2011 semester.
The classes are:
HIST 05404-1 Arab-Israeli Conflict Dr. Cory Blake W 12:15-3
HIST 04429-1 Proseminar: Women in Judaism Dr. Melissa Klapper M/W 9:25—10:40
REL 10301-1 Introduction to Judaism instructor TBA W 6:30—9
We received the following notice for an internship position at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City:
To Whom It May Concern,
My name is Jamie Kenney and I manage the Lipper Internship at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. I wanted to contact you to let you know about this opportunity for your students; I have included a description below my signature. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for materials. If you know of any students who may be interested in this program, do not hesitate to give them my contact information. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Jamie Ann Kenney
Museum Educator
Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Edmond J. Safra Plaza | 36 Battery Place | NY, NY | 10280
Tel: (646) 437-4273 | Fax: (646) 437-4311 | www.mjhnyc.org
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The Lipper Internship brings together graduate and undergraduate students from across the Northeast to train in New York City for a semester-long internship in museum education. Interns teach students about the Holocaust in local schools in their college communities and on visits to the Museum.
Prior to the beginning of the fall or spring semester Interns attend an intensive two-week training session at the Museum in New York City to learn how to teach public middle and high school students about the Holocaust. During training Interns meet with Museum staff, hear testimony from Holocaust survivors, and learn methods for teaching from artifacts in the Museum’s collection. Following training, Interns visit several middle and high schools in their college communities to give an introductory lesson in the classroom followed by a guided tour at the Museum. Interns then return to the classroom one last time to facilitate a discussion about the lessons learned during the course of the program.
Interns receive a stipend and are reimbursed for travel expenses. Lodging in New York City is provided during the training period, if necessary. Students of all backgrounds and academic interests are encouraged to apply.
Spring Semester applications due November 1; mandatory training in early January. The application is available online here: http://www.mjhnyc.org/documents/LipperApplication.pdf
Please send any inquiries directly to the Museum.
About Rowan Hillel
This is the official Web Site for Rowan University's Hillel Chapter. Please check back often for updates as we are currently planning for the upcoming 2010 school year.