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Volume 63 Issue 6 |
![]() ![]() Morg Mart: Chinese night every Wednesday! Open from 8pm-2am every Sunday through Wednesday in the corner of the Morg basement lounge. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY'S TORAH U-MADDA PROJECT invites all students to the Final Fall 1998 Evening Lecture "Issues of Hanukkah: What Makes a Philosopher Jewish? The Case of Rabbi Israel Salanter," with Professor Mark Steiner, Professor of Philosophy Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Monday, December 21, 1998, at 8:00 p.m. Main Campus-Rubin Shul. Co-sponsored by YCSC, SCWSC, SSBYC, SSSBSC, SOY, IBCSC, JSSSC, TAC, SBMPSC, and Hamevaser. For further information contact: Joshua Cypess at (212) 927-6692. YUDS: Hashem granted YUDS success. Congratulations to Uriel Cohen for taking home a second place Impromptu award, and congratulations to Steve Bernstein and Rebecca Eisenberg for winning third and second place speaker awards respectively. Course schedules for the Spring 1999 semester can be seen online at http://www.yucs.org/spring99/. Currently only YC and SSSB-Uptown are available, but the rest should be following shortly. Thanks to Mel Davis for his help in the early release! Israel Club: Thursday, December 17, 1998 during club hour (2:45 to 3:45 PM) there will be a speech in Rubin Shul given by Rabbi Alan Schwartz, on the topic of: The future of Yerushalayim based on Tanach. Fall's Final Colloquium: Wednesday, December 16 at Stern College. Bena Schwartz will be giving a talk on "Peek-a-boo: Studying working memory in 9-month-old infants" on Wednesday at 10:25-11:25am at Stern College (Room 715). You are cordially invited to attend. Graduating Seniors!!: If you are graduating this January and you have not had your yearbook portrait taken, you must contact Daniel Drabkin @543-9662, Mo 211, no later than December 31st. If you are graduating in May, the dates for the second and final portrait sitting will be announced soon. Leaving for Vacation? YCSC is arranging shuttle rides. Contact Howie Mazin @927-2715 with your flight information, or email mazin@ymail. Want to get involved? Students needed to serve on Food Services committee. If you think the Caf sucks, this is your chance to make your voice heard. Contact Dov Brandstatter@740-1413; Mo223. Aspiring Actors: YCDS is looking for talent for the Spring '99 production. Contact Aaron Zerykier @781-0364; Mo211. Mitzvah Men Wanted - The fort Tryon Nursing Home needs volunteers to help them work with patients during the week. This is a tremendous chesed opportunity. If anyone is willing to devote a few free moments of time, please contact Daniel Robbins @ 795-5771. Sponsored by Shabbat Bikur Cholim. SOY Seforim Sale needs people to assist in a variety of jobs, especially if you will be in the NY area during winter vacation. Please Contact Chaim Loikie @ 927-1436 Chabad Club: The 2nd Annual Yud Shvat Concert featuring the Diaspora yeshiva Band will take place on Thursday January 28, 1999 in the Weissberg Commons. Doors open: 7:30PM. Contact Tzvi Chefer @ 568-0060. Hamevaser Purim Issue Contest! Submissions Due by January 25, 1999. Funniest entry will receive $100. Please direct all submissions to: hamevaser@graphecs.com. What do you think? Click here to send a letter to the editors. All content is copyright © Yeshiva University Commentator. |