Jewish High Holiday Services and Meals, Fall 2019 – 5780
We look forward to celebrating the Jewish High Holidays with you on campus! Students, faculty, and staff and their family members are welcome to all meals. Beth Israel Congregation members are welcome for Erev Rosh Hashanah dinner with RSVP.
**RSVP required for all meals during the Jewish High Holidays. Students should RSVP to bowdoinhillelrsvp@gmail.com. Faculty, staff, and congregants should RSVP to Rabbi Vinikoor at lvinikoo@bowdoin.edu.
Rosh Hashanah
Sunday, September 29, 2019
- 5:00pm: Services in Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall
- 6:30pm: Dinner in Main Lounge and Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union, for Bowdoin students, faculty, staff families, and Beth Israel Congregation members
Monday, September 30, 2019
- 10:30am: Morning Services in Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall
- 12:30pm: Lunch in Main Lounge, Moulton Union, for Bowdoin students, faculty and staff families
Yom Kippur
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
- 6:00pm: Dinner in Main Lounge, Moulton Union for Bowdoin students, faculty, staff and family members
- 7:30pm: Kol Nidre Services in Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall
Wednesday, October 10, 2019
- 10:30am-1:15pm: Morning Services in Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall
- 5:00-6:45pm: Afternoon Services and Neila in Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall
- 6:45pm: Break-Fast snack directly outside of Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall
- 7:00pm: Dinner in Main Lounge in Moulton Union for Bowdoin students, faculty, staff and family members
Please reach out to Annie (acrose@bowdoin.edu), Sam (shedward@bowdoin.edu), or Rabbi Vinikoor (lvinikoo@bowdoin.edu) with any questions!
L’shana tova u’metukah – For a good and sweet new year!
Previous Hillel Events
Sukkah Decorating
Sunday, October 16th
12:45pm
at 30 College Street
Rabbi Asch will be there with an etrog and lulav.
Crafts, food and fun!
2014 Spindel Lecture
Recovering Nazi Art Loot — Unfinished Business
April 1, 2014
David D’Arcy.
David D’Arcy is a film producer, journalist and critic who is a correspondent for The Art Newspaper of London. D’Arcy, a frequent commentator on the BBC, has been writing about cultural property disputes for more than 25 years for many publications, including The Economist, Vanity Fair, Art + Auction, and Art & Antiques. He is the co-producer and co-writer of “Portrait of Wally,” a documentary film about a Nazi-looted painting that turned up on loan at the Museum of Modern Art.
2013 Spindel Lecture
April 11, 2013
Becoming a Jewish Writer
Allegra Goodman, author.
Allegra Goodman is the author of Intuition, Paradise Park, Kaaterskill Falls, The Family Markowitz, and Total Immersion. The Other Side of the Island is her first book for younger readers . Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares, Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories . Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, and The American Scholar.
Raised in Honolulu, Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard and received a PhD in English literature from Stanford. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Salon Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study.
7:30 p.m. Lecture: Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
2012 Spindel Lecture
April 17, 2012
The Poetry of Kabbalah, The Kabbalah of Poetry: Ruminations and a Reading
Peter Cole, visiting fellow at Yale University, Judaic Studies Program.
Peter Cole is a poet and translator of poetry and prose from Hebrew and Arabic whose work has received much recognition, including a MacArthur Fellowship. His familiarity with the contemporary Middle East and intimacy with medieval Hebrew come together in his recent book (co-authored with Adina Hoffman): Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza.
7:30 p.m. Lecture: Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Professor Jonathan Sarna to Deliver 2011 Spindel Lecture
March 29, 2011
That Obnoxious Order: Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews
Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University, and chief historian, the new National Museum of American Jewish History
7:30 p.m. Lecture: Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
DJ Kosha Dillz
Saturday February 5th
Mac House presents
DJ Kosha Dillz sponsored by Bowdoin Hillel.
Don’t miss the opportunity to hear this one of kind musical sensation. Kosha Dilz has toured with Snoop Dogg and opened for Matisyahu and Wu Tang.
Door Open 9:30pm
Bowdoin ID required
ps. can’t wait…check out some of his hits
http://www.vh1.com/video/kosha-dillz/485876/cellular-phone.jhtml
http://www.myspace.com/koshadillz
HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE, FALL 2010
All services will be held in Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall
Meals are open to members of the Bowdoin community and their guests
Rosh Hashanah: Holiday starts at sundown, Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
• Service at 6:30 p.m., Daggett Lounge
• Dinner at 8:00 p.m., Main Lounge
Thursday, September 9, 2010
• Service at 10:30 a.m., Daggett Lounge
• Luncheon at 12:30 p.m., Main Lounge
Yom Kippur: Holiday starts at sundown, Friday, September 17, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
• Service at 7:00 p.m., Daggett Lounge
• Erev Yom Kippur dinner at 5:15 p.m., Main Lounge (before the 7:00 p.m. service)
Saturday, September 18, 2010
• Morning service 10:30 a.m. – 1:15 pm., Daggett Lounge
• Study service 4:00 p.m.
• Afternoon and Ne’ila services 5:00 – 6:45 p.m.
• Break the Fast snack at 6:45 p.m., outside Daggett Lounge (after the 5:00 p.m. service)
• Dinner at 7:00 p.m., Main Lounge (after the 5:00 p.m. service)
March 2010 |
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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Candlelighting & Shabbat Dinner 5:15 | 6 | 7 | |
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9Spindel Lecture byRuth W. Messinger“Jews as Global Citizens”7:30 in Kresge Auditorium | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13Spring Break Begins | 14 | |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28Spring Break Ends | |
| 29 First Night of Pesach – Small Seder | 30 Second Night of Pesach – Big Seder | 31 | |||||
April 2010 |
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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
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6 | 7Praying in Her Own Voice film showing | 8Film TBA, 7:00 | 9 | 10 | 11Yom Ha’Shoah | |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | Israeli Theme Dinner at ThorneFilm TBA, 7:00 | 16Biannual China Rose Restaurant Trip | 17 | 18Bagel Brunch | |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22Film TBA, 7:00 | 23 | 24 | 25 | |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |||
Shabbat Candlelighting: Every Friday, 30 College St. Times TBA
Welcome in the Sabbath with an intimate, informal student-lead service. All are welcome. Shabbat Dinners, home cooked in our new Kosher kitchen will follow roughly every other week.
Latkes @ Ladd
A Bowdoin Hillel Favorite! When was the last time you saw 100 pounds of Latkes? Come celebrate the start of Channukah with a Latke Blowout with all the fixins!
Interfaith Dinner
Friday, 12/4
Come to 30 College St. for a potluck interfaith dinner, following candlelighting.
China Rose Extravaganza!
Friday, 11/20
Join Hillel for our time-honored semesterly tradition of a feast at Brunswick’s top-rated Chinese All-You-Can-Eat Buffet! Mmmm
Bagel Brunch
Sunday, 11/15
Bagels, Shmear, Lox, OJ & Shmooze: 10:30-11:30, 30 College St.
Succot
Friday October 2, 2009
4:30 to 30 College St to help construct and decorate the Sukkah (which will be an adventure) or if not, at least come at 5:30 for a special sukkot edition of candlelighitng, featuring chillin in the Sukkah, donuts, other snacks, lulav shakin’ and much more!
Bagels on the Quad
Meet with First Year students
Tuesday, September 1st from 9:00-10:30 AM in front of the Chapel
HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE, FALL 2009
All services will be held in Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall
Meals are open only to members of the Bowdoin community
Rosh Hashanah: Holiday starts at sundown, Friday, September 18, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
• Service at 6:30 p.m., Daggett Lounge
• Dinner at 8:00 p.m., Main Lounge
Saturday, September 19, 2009
• Service at 10:30 a.m., Daggett Lounge
• Luncheon at 12:30 p.m., Main Lounge
Yom Kippur: Holiday starts at sundown, Sunday, September 27, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
• Service at 7:30 p.m., Daggett Lounge
• Erev Yom Kippur dinner at 5:30 p.m., Main Lounge (before the 7:30 p.m. service)
Monday, September 28, 2009
• Morning service 10:30 a.m. – 1:15 pm., Daggett Lounge
• Study service 4:00 p.m.
• Afternoon and Ne’ila services 5:00 – 6:45 p.m.
• Break the Fast snack at 6:45 p.m., outside Daggett Lounge (after the 5:00 p.m. service)
• Dinner at 7:00 p.m., Main Lounge (after the 5:00 p.m. service)