Evergreen Hillel

• Bike Riders: Join Hazon for their 1st Annual Ride through California & enjoy delicious kosher food! http://bit.ly/4EDzYv #
• Are there any Greeners, Hillel members, Olympians who want to volunteer at the Sacred Music Festival this year? http://bit.ly/cdoaN5 #
• Hillel is going to the #Holocaust Conference at #Pacific Lutheran University. It starts TONIGHT! We are very excited. Any one else going? #
• Religious Action Center – Social Justice Haggadot and Seder Supplements: http://bit.ly/cNfzdD via @addthis #
• Pesach: A Season for Social Justice – Reform Judaism: http://bit.ly/bi9yQB via @addthis #

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• The #SeattleJewishFilmFestival started yesterday! Check it out @ http://www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org/ #
• #SJFF Seattle Jewish Film Fest on now! RSVP for TBH's Community Seder! Info for both at http://evergreenhillel.org/ #Pesach is coming! #
• Remember, folks: 5:54pm is today's #CandlelightingTime for #Shabbat #
• #ShabbatShalom Tweeps! Happy weekends to all of you, traveling or not. #

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Shalom y’all,

Going on RIGHT NOW in Seattle, with one event in Tacoma, is the 15th Annual Jewish Film Festival! Check out the website for it @ http://www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org/ To see the entire film program, click here. Get your tickets fast, some films are selling out! The Film Fest runs through March 21st.

“AJC Seattle Jewish Film Festival:
“The World Through a Vibrant Lens”

The annual AJC Seattle Jewish Film Festival (SJFF) is an 10-day international cinematic exploration and celebration of Jewish life, culture, identity and history. Jewish film festivals are one of the most popular expressions of Jewish culture today, providing unparalleled opportunities for moviegoers to plumb every aspect of the Jewish psyche and experience.

SJFF uses the magical medium of film to both entertain and educate the Jewish and general communities about complex issues facing Jewish people and world communities alike, while challenging conventional perspectives. SJFF also strives to build bridges of mutual understanding between diverse groups by creating forums for engaging in respectful dialogue about timely subjects and concerns. By viewing “The World Through a Vibrant Lens,” SJFF audiences also gain profound insight into the universal human experience.

Founded in 1995, SJFF has grown dramatically in size and reputation into the largest and most highly anticipated Jewish cultural and arts event in the Pacific Northwest. From humble beginnings in Seattle’s 100-seat Grand Illusion Theatre to the 800-seat Cinerama Theatre today,SJFF welcomes some 8,000 attendees from across the Greater Seattle area. The Seattle Weekly praises SJFF as the best ethnic film festival in our region, with a breadth and quality second only to the Seattle International Film Festival. Screenings are supplemented by guest speakers, providing a dynamic forum for dialogue with actors, filmmakers, academics and expert panelists from near and far. In recent years, SJFF offerings have included musical and comedy performances, curated exhibits and thematic educational opportunities and special events.

Moviegoers cast their ballots for Best Feature, Best Documentary and Best Short Film, with winners receiving the SJFF Audience Choice Award on Closing Night.”

In Pesach news, Temple Beth Hatfiloh has graciously invited us to their Community Seder on the 2nd Night of Passover, Tuesday March 30th. For Non-Members of the congregation, tickets are $25/adult, $15/child, with additional children being $10 each. A portion of the proceeds will benefit MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger. This is a potluck, so please bring a dish per guidelines below.  If you would like to sit with Hillel at the Seder, please RSVP to Anneke no later than Noon on March 17th (next Wednesday) to ensure a space.  She will be in the Hillel office from 11 AM to 1 PM on Wednesday.

TBH Seder Info and RSVP Form

TBH Community Seder Guidelines

We are  currently meeting on Monday afternoon, 5:30 at the Sem 2 Cafe.

Hope you can join us.

Welcome back to 2009/2010 (or 5770).

Hillel meetings this quarter will be on Wednesday in Sem 1 on the second floor in the S and A activities room.

We will have a sukkah on Red Square (pending approval) from the 3rd to the 10th of October.

We will have a Yarzeit service, date and time TBA.

Sherri Shulman is hosting a Shabbat dinner (around 7:30 pm) in their family Sukkah on Friday October 9. Please rsvp to Sherri at sherri@evergreen.edu. Space is somewhat limited so please rsvp early.

Join us Sunday June 10th at 3pm for Hillel’s final event of the quarter. We will be screening two films a short West Bank Story which won an oscar this year, as well as Wet Hot American Summer, a hysterical comedy about the last day at summer camp.

This afternoon May 30th, at 3pm in Sem II A3107, we (Evergreen Hillel) have a meeting with Les Purce the President of Evergreen. All are invited to attend.

We want to thank all of you that helped to make Camp Darfur a great success. The response on campus was extremely positive and we can’t wait to work on similar events. For those of you wondering what is the next step, well there are plenty of ways to get involved and help out. You can refer to our Darfur Resources page, and contact us with any questions.

As the academic year comes to a close we would like to try and put together one last Hillel Shabbat. June 1st 2007, in Mod 303 B, we are thinking around 7:30pm…as usual it will be a potluck and Hillel will supply Challah and Kiddush . I hope to see you all there.

I would like to thank David Lynn for coming to Evergreen and showing his documentary and helping us to understand the Genocide in Darfur. I also want to thank SESAME for co-sponsoring this event with us, I hope that this is the beginning of a long and prosperous alliance.

Here is some more information about our events this week.

• David Lynn will be speaking at 7pm in Lecture Hall 2 on May 16th. BIO: David Lynn is an Evergreen graduate who just returned from Darfur’s refugee camps within Eastern Chad’s war zone. Prior assignments with the Humanitarian Law Project and as an independent journalist have taken David to Iraq, El Salvador, Nicaragua, South Africa and Northern Ireland. His website has a great deal of information about his past and present work.
• Friday May 18th Hillel will be sponsoring a Potluck Shabbat it will be in Mod 303 B. Homemade Challah will be provided. This will be a vegetarian meal, if you have any questions concerning the food feel free to contact us and/or check out this website.

We hope to see you all there. Have a great week.