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This Week in WFU Jewish Life. March 7 - 15, 2020 
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This Week in WFU Jewish Life
AT A GLANCE

Spring Break is March 7 -15. Enjoy! 
Next weekly e-mail will be on March 16th. (Yes, this one is early!) 


NOTE: This Weekly Newsletter is a clearinghouse of
ALL Jewish Life events on WFU campus, not just Hillel.
As our community grows, so does this newsletter.   

Each section highlights which organization
is hosting or sponsoring that particular event.

There is also a "Community" section towards the end of the newsletter
(with interesting non-Jewish WFU and Triad Jewish & Interfaith Triad
events). At the very end is the Global Food section, with info about Global Food Tabling events in the PIT, and a new recipe each week.  
 


Just a reminder to "Spring Forward" an hour on Sunday morning.

PURIM: The Jewish holiday of Purim runs from sunset on Monday, March 9 until sunset of Tuesday, March 10. Info about PURIM.  Three options for local celebrations are highlighted below.

There is NO Judaism & Islam Lunch & Learn session this week.

Friday, March 13. Shabbat dinner options:
1) Chabad: Check with Shaina about Chabad Shabbat dinner options. RSVP
2) Bretan Home: Feel free to join the Bretans at their home in Greensboro for a casual and joyful Shabbat celebration dinner. 6:30 pm. RSVP.
3) There is NO Hillel Shabbat Dinner this week. 

The Hillel Lounge, like all student lounges, is closed for Spring Break. The Chaplain's Lounge, in Reynolda 10, is open and has snacks & coffee available.

 
Additional info below - Keep Scrolling....
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Limited WFU Campus Dining Options during Spring Break.

Dining & food options during the week of Spring Break:
  • DAVIS HALL. Subway & P.O.D. March 9 -13. 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
  • Z. SMITH REYNOLDA LIBRARY. Starbucks. March 9 -13. 8:00 am - 2:00 pm
  • BENSON CENTER. Chick-Fil-A. March 9 -13. 7:30 am - 3:00 pm
Less options during the weekends. Check this link for up-to-date info.  https://dining.wfu.edu/
 
Happy PURIM!!!

Three options of places & times to celebrate in our Triad communtiy.

1) WF Chabad (Orthdox/ Chabad). Tuesday at 5:15 for Megillah Readings and 5:45 for Celebration. Open to the entire community. Website
2) Temple Emanuel, Winston-Salem (Reform). Community celebration. Sunday, March 8 from 9:30 am - 1 pm. Open to the entire community. Website

3) Beth David Synagogue (Conservative - in Greensboro). Monday at 5 pm. Tuesday in am. Website
Sunday, March 8. Purim at Temple Emanuel, Winston-Salem
Click here to buy your tickets, or call the temple office 336-722-6640
Flyer below. (Sponsored by Temple Emanuel. Winston-Salem)
Join WF Chabad for a grand
Purim celebration
on Tuesday, March 10.
Megilla reading is  at 5:15 PM &
Purim celebration is at 5:45 PM

Come and enjoy a delicious dinner, hear the Megilla, take part in the mitzvot connected to Purim and have a great time! There will be hamantaschen for all! Join in the spirit of Purim and come dressed in your favorite costume. We look forward to seeing you there.
Please RSVP - wchabad.org/purim


*** Open to the Winston Salem and Wake Forest communities***

(Sponsored by WFU Chabad)
Friday, March 13. Shabbat dinners.  1) At Gail's home. 
2) NO Hillel Shabbat dinner this week (because of Spring Break)
Contact Jessie. 818-398-3878
(Sponsored by WFU Hillel)
3) Check with Shaina about Chabad Shabbat dinner during the spring break.  
shaina@wchabad.org, 336.692.8405
(Sponsored by WFU Chabad)


ATTENTION JEWISH STUDENTS! 

Gail is on campus during Spring Break week
and if you are on campus
she would love to take you out for coffee or lunch. 
Or feel free to stop by her office in Benson 321 to chat!

Contact Gail at bretangh@wfu.edu or 336.758.4056

(Sponsored by WFU Jewish Life Office)
 
CALENDARS

          *  WFU Jewish Life & Hillel Events Calendar here.
          *  Jewish Holiday Calendar here.
          *  Interfaith Calendar for 2020 here.
          *  Un
ique & Special March 2020 Holidays here
 
COVID-19 (a.k.a. the Corona Virus) update.
WFU Jewish Life has been monitoring info from WFU, Hillel International, North Carolina Dept of HHS, CDC, and WHO, to name a few.  There are no known cases at WFU.
This is what we recommend:
  • Stay informed. Monitor information posted by reputable sources, such as WFU, State of NC, the CDC and WHO.
  • Use personal hygiene best practices. And wash your hands! 
  • Limit travel and attendance at big gatherings.
  • Contact Gail, or the Chaplain's Office, for pastoral care. 
(Photo from last year's earth celebration. Hillel & AEPi students help attendees make herb gardens)
 
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) 
Sunday, March 29. L'Dor V'Dor Kugel Cook off!   
11 am. Hillel Lounge. The Temple Emanuel Mavens will bring their recipes and ingredients to show students how to put together yummy kugels. We'll put everything in the oven by 11:30 am, and then play games while waiting for the kugels to cook. Then at noon we'll eat and schmooze.
Contact Georgia for more info. 

(Sponsored by WFU Hillel, Jewish Life, and Temple Emanuel Mavens) 
 
Wednesday, April 8. Annual WFU Passover Seder! 7:30 pm. Mag Room. More info to follow.
(Co-sponsored by Jewish Life, Hillel, and Chabad)
 

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)
On February 28, Director of Jewish Studies Barry Trachtenberg delivered a talk "On Speaking For and Against Jewish Self-Interests” at the symposium "Becoming Allies: Muslim-Jewish Solidarity in the Face of Islamophobia and Antisemitism” at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. 
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)
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. Discussion to follow with the KAVITAR Group, who composed the music for the documentary. 
56 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/236884895.

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.
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Friday April 3.
Kativar Concert. Davis Chapel. 7:30 pm. 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 Office)
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/
Saturday, April 25. Temple Emanuel Wants TALENT!!!!
Bring your talent and show off! Individuals and groups!
Contact Dave
(Sponsored by Temple Emanuel, Winston-Salem)
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 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
 

March 9 is PURIM! Hamantaschen, of course! 

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