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This Week in WFU Jewish Life. Feb 24- March 1, 2020 
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This Week in WFU Jewish Life
AT A GLANCE


Thurs, Feb 27. Judaism & Islam Lunch & Learn. Sacred Texts.
      Benson 301. Noon. RSVP

Friday, Feb 28. WFU Hillel Shabbat Dinner. Hillel @ 6 pm. RSVP 
      Special L'Dor V'Dor Shabbat - the mavens are bringing side dishes,
      including kugels!

Friday, Feb 28. Chabad Shabbat dinner @ 7:30 pm. RSVP

Saturday, Feb 29. Happy Leap Year!  Info. 
 
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Thursday, Feb 27, 12 - 1 pm. Benson 301

Judaism & Islam Lunch & Learn!

Open to the entire WFU & W-S Community.
No previous knowledge needed. 

Topic: Sacred & Religious Texts: Qur'an, Hadith, Tanakh, Talmud 

Bring your lunch, your friends, and your questions.  We provide the dialogue and dessert!

For more info contact Gail or Naijla.

(Sponsored by WFU Jewish Life & Muslim Life, of the Office of the Chaplain)
 
Above: Some of our Mavens & Students for L'Dor V'Dor (from generation to generation)

Friday, Feb 28. L'Dor V'Dor Hillel-Mavens Shabbat. 6 pm. Hillel Lounge. RSVP

Special Shabbat dinner with the Temple Emanuel Mavens (Elders). We provide the kosher (orange glazed) chicken and challah and the Mavens (elders) bring their famous and delicious homemade sides (kugel) & desserts. 

After dinner, students are welcome to come to Shabbat services at Temple Emanuel, this week at 7:30 pm, led by Gail since the Rabbi is out of town. Everyone is welcome. 

Following services at Temple, there will be a a dessert oneg (reception).

Please RSVP and let us know if 1) you are joining us for Shabbat dinner, 2) are planning to come to Temple after dinner, and 3) if you need a ride to Temple, or can give one, etc.  

RSVP here.
(Co-sponsored by WFU Hillel, Jewish Life office of the Office of the Chaplain, and Temple Emauel Mavens)
To the person who "borrowed" the Hillel Lounge vacuum cleaner and never returned it, please send us $ for the new one we purchased. 

You can make an anonymous donation here and put "Vacuum" in the memo line!

Thank you!
Your Hillel Friends
 
Friday, February 28. Shabbat dinner. Join us for one or both!
1) Hillel Student Shabbat dinner. 6 pm. Hillel Lounge.

A time for good fellowship, good food, and blessings for the week.

This week: Special "Maven" Shabbat 

Contact Jessie. 818-398-3878
(Sponsored by WFU Hillel)
2) Chabad Shabbat dinner.  
       7:30 pm. Chabad House

Always a delicious five-course meal
in a family setting. 
 
RSVPs appreciated. 

Questions: shaina@wchabad.org, 
336.692.8405
(Sponsored by WFU Chabad)
VOTE x 3
1) NC Voting Primary Election. If you need a ride to early voting this week to cast your vote or during the Primary Election day on March 3, 2020, contact Gail or go to https://vt.ncsbe.gov/ for more info. 

2) 38th World Zionist Congress (since 1897) Election. Voting is every 4 years and is open now until March 11, 2020. This is the ONLY election where American Jews can formally voice their concerns and views.   https://azm.org/elections

3) American Presidential Election. Nov 2020. If you need help ordering your absentee ballot or need a ride to the local polls, let Gail know. Your vote matters! 
CALENDARS

          *  WFU Jewish Life & Hillel Events Calendar here.
 
          *  Jewish Holiday Calendar here.

          *  Interfaith Calendar for 2020 here.

          *  Unique & Special February 2020 Holidays here. 
 
(Photo from last year's earth celebration. Hillel & AEPi students help attendees make herb gardens) 

Save the Date. Sunday, March 22, Spring Equinox Celebration and Earth Month Kickoff. 4 - 6 pm. Campus Garden. 1141 Polo Rd. Info. Participants will get a full-sensory experience of a garden in springtime, with honey bees, baby chicks, local food and garden crafts. Hillel will help with making of personal herb gardens like last year. Join us!
Earth Month festivities are taking place March 22 – April 22, 2020

(Sponsored by Office of Sustainability, with Jewish Life, & Hillel and other groups) 
Save the date.  
Thursday, April 16. Voices of the Generations. 5:15 pm in  Autumn Room of Reynolda Hall. RSVP here.  Event open to all WFU and Triad community.
(Sponsored by WFU Hillel, Jewish Life Office, and Jewish Studies Program)
WFU Jewish Student Organizations
 
Our 2020 WFU Hillel Presidents: 
Jessie Birnbaum
About Hillel here.
Our 2020 AEPi President:
Max Album
Our 2020 SSI President: 
Eli Alison
  
Academic Spotlight 
 
"Academic Spotlight" highlights books, conferences, courses, articles, presentations, and other accomplishments of and by WFU Jewish faculty, students, and staff.  Submit your info to Gail. 
Jewish Studies
The Jewish Studies Program at Wake Forest University emphasizes Jewish history, religion, thought, texts, literature, the arts, traditions, and the ways that they have formed in the context of various civilizations from antiquity to the present. Website here or email here. 
(Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program)
RSVP here.
March 18. Forget Baghdad (Movie). 
7 pm. Z. Smith  Reynolds Library Auditorium (404). 

A reflection on stereotypes of “the Jew” and “the Arab” through 100 years of film, linked with the biographies of four extraordinary Iraqi-Jewish communists.

For more info.
(Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies Program & The Middle East and South Asia Studies Program)
Save the date. Wednesday, April 1. Wishes in Heaven (THE DOCUMENTARY). Movie screening. 4 pm. Hillel Lounge. The documentary is about the history of Spanish Jews in the Magreb.  

Rachel Muyal, born in Tangier, a descendant of the Spanish Sephardi expelled from Spain in 1492, decided at age 87 to write a letter to the Catholic Monarchs and take it in person to Granada, to place next to their tombs. Rachel's handwritten letter, in which she confesses to those responsible for the Expulsion that the Jews don’t hold a grudge against them, serves as an excuse to make a delightful historical journey through the 500 years of coexistence enjoyed by the Jews in the lands of the Maghreb (Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria). On occasion of the letter, and with the support of more than 40 interviews with Sephardim from the Maghreb around the world, Rachel Muyal describes a model of life that has ceased to exist today; a model of peaceful coexistence between Jews, Arabs, and Christians, especially in the north of Morocco, from which arose a dialectal language still spoken by the elderly and named "Haketia." She also tells how this coexistence disappears in the 1960s, after the creation of the State of Israel and the independence of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco from the two great powers that dominated their territories: France and Spain. Paradoxically, most of the Sephardim of the region fled the Maghreb in the 1960s-70s to Spain, the same homeland that had expelled them, and where, in 2015, King Felipe VI definitively restored their nationality, their mythical Sepharad. This documentary premiered in Spain on Spanish Public Television (TVE) last December 2, 2018. The English version was premier in March 2019, in the International Jewish Film Festival of New York.  Original title: Tu boca en los cielos. 56 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles). A trailer/teaser is available at https://vimeo.com/236884895.
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Friday April 3. Kativar Concert. Davis Chapel. In the evening, About Kativar, Ladino group.
Kativar will perform a concert of traditional Sephardic folk songs, They composed and performed the music for the documentary Your Wishes in Heaven. Roundtable discussion and/or a Q&A session afterwards. 

For more info, please contact Irma at alarcoi@wfu.edu, (336) 758-5194
 
(Sponsored by Spanish & Italian Department, Jewish Studies Program, and Jewish Life)
In Our Community 
 
WFU & Piedmont Triad,NC
Links to events on & off campus:

* Wake Forest University (WFU): http://events.wfu.edu/
* Triad: http://events.wfmynews2.com/
or http://www.wfdd.org/
February is Spiritual Wellbeing Month!

February 25, Enneagram. 5 - 6 pm. Benson 410

Our WFU Associate Chaplain for Catholic Life, Liz Orr, is an expert on the Enneagram, and now has over 90,000I Instagram followers.https://www.instagram.com/rudeassenneagram/

Join her for a fun, interactive session to learn about the Enneagram and how it may relate to your wellbeing and spiritual journey. SIGN UP here. 

For more events, go to https://thrive.wfu.edu/.
(Sponsored by Office of Wellbeing and other offices/ departments)
Feb 27 - March 8. Triad Jewish Film Festival. Greensboro, NC
More info at: https://www.mytjff.com/
WFU Global Food Committee (GFC)
 
1)  Global Food Committee (GFC)

We love to share our diverse cultural and religious holidays, celebrations, and heritages as expressed through food. 
https://wfu.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/gfc

(Sponsored in conjunction with 38 WFU offices, departments, and student organizations) 
2)  Upcoming Global Food Tabling Station (GFTS)
A different delicious and authentic cultural or religious food every other Wednesday in the PIT from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm in the Fresh Food Co (AKA "the PIT").  Info here.

Save these future dates - March 4, March 18, April 1, April 15, April 29. Contact Gail for more info. (Sponsored by the Global Food Committee of the Office of the Chaplain, and the Food Collaboration Committee student org, with in kind culinary donations from Harvest Table Culinary Group) 
 
3)  Global Recipe of the Week
 
February 26 is National Pistachio Day! 

Holiday Info here.  Recipes here. 
Sponsored by the Global Food Committee (GFC) & Food Collaboration Committee (FCC)
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