Jewish Reconstructionist Federation

Yom Tov Greetings, Congregants and Friends of BAS!

Once again, Ilene Semiatin is organizing College Connect, our program that keeps in touch with those college students we raised. Plans this year include emails, dinners with the rabbi over the winter break and the summer, and holiday goodies mailed to the campus. This is how you can make it happen:

Contact Ilene (ilene@cloud9.net) IMMEDIATELY if you have a college student to enroll in the program for this year.

Columbia AbuzzWhen I heard that Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs had invited President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—a notoriously anti-Semitic and anti-Israel figurehead—to speak on campus, my first instinct was to oppose the event vehemently.

I reasoned that, if Columbia hosted an anti-Semitic figure on campus, Ahmadinjead’s could attempt legitimize his terrifying and historically incorrect viewpoints. Why should one of the most prestigious universities in the nation provide a platform from which a dangerous leader such as Ahmadinejad could deny the Holocaust and spew his advocacy for the destruction of Israel?

Camp JRF is looking for creative, energetic, talented, upbeat, responsible, and excited Jewish college students to be on our staff for Summer 2007. We are currently looking to fill a number of positions - each of which are open to college students (or graduating high school seniors). Staff members are chosen for their maturity, commitment to Judaism, special skills, camping and youth experience, and genuine care for children. Our salaries are competitive, but the experience of spending a summer in a 24-7 Reconstructionist community is truly priceless!

Job descriptions for the positions we are currently looking to fill are as follows: