{"id":311,"date":"2009-10-06T09:44:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/2009\/10\/06\/welcome\/"},"modified":"2009-10-06T09:44:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T14:44:01","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/events\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back for the 2009-2010 school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWelcome back for the 2009-2010 school year. Check out our High Holiday schedule on the <a href=\"\/hillel\/calendar\/\">calendar<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Bowdoin Hillel is both a religious and social organization that serves as a source of Jewish life, community, culture, and tradition to students, faculty, staff, and members of the MidCoast Maine community.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28\" src=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2009\/10\/mills-sherman-bowdoin-hille.jpg\" alt=\"President Mills with Joel Sherman '61.\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2009\/10\/mills-sherman-bowdoin-hille.jpg 450w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2009\/10\/mills-sherman-bowdoin-hille-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Mills with Joel Sherman &#039;61 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Hillel offers a wide-ranging schedule of Jewish activities on an otherwise very hectic and secular campus. This includes an extensive <a href=\"\/hillel\/staff\/\">Rabbi<\/a>-led service schedule for the High Holidays on campus (Reform), Shabbat dinners, Sukkah building, club-wide Chinese-food buffet dinners, holiday parties, Jewish<br \/>\nmovie nights, speakers, and many other events. In affiliation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethisrael-maine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">local synagogue in Bath<\/a> (an unaffiliated, egalitarian and inclusive congregation), students teach Hebrew School, tutor B&#8217;nai Mitzvah candidates, and participate in community services within the Mid-Coast Maine and Greater Portland areas. The Hillel and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/academics\/faculty\/internal-funding\/endowed-lecture\/spindel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship<\/a> also bring a variety of speakers to Bowdoin each year on Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Check the <a href=\"\/hillel\/calendar\/\">calendar<\/a> to see what&#8217;s happening on campus this semester.  If you would like more information or would like to join our mailing list,<\/p>\n<h3>Prospective Students<\/h3>\n<p>We hope this website answers any questions you might have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2009\/10\/bowdoin-hillel-pamphlet-2009.pdf\">We also have a PDF of a pamphlet about Bowdoin College Hillel that might be of interest <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31\" src=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2009\/10\/pdf-icon-32-32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>The Bowdoin Minute: Latkes or Hamantachen?<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back for the 2009-2010 school year. Check out our High Holiday schedule on the calendar page. Bowdoin Hillel is both a religious and social organization that serves as a source of Jewish life, community, culture, and tradition to students, faculty, staff, and members of the MidCoast Maine community. The Hillel offers a wide-ranging schedule &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/events\/welcome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome back for the 2009-2010 school year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,16,17,21],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-bowdoin","tag-high-holidays","tag-hillel","tag-maine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/hillel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}