Center for Jewish Living

To all my new readers, allow me to introduce myself.  My name is Dr. Loovenmacher.  I received my PhD in pschology from an accredited university in Canada named—well you probably wouldn’t respect it, so I’ll spare you the details.  The point is that the Cornell Jewish community was recently ranked as the second-most love frustrated community closely after Brandies.  Therefore the board has asked me to help you all with my insightful insights (note to editor: find synonym. Use book that’s like a dictionary but not a dictionary) into the human heart and grant you all free relationship advice.

I have named my column “Cream Cheese in the Bagel Hole: Relationship Advice for Desperate Jews.” Now supposedly some have detected a certain sexual innuendo with this title.  I would like to say foremost that I am not a sex columnist, and therefore I certainly did not intend for any lewd double entendres.

The reason for the title is as follows.  Nobody intends to have his or her cream cheese in the bagel hole.  It simply happens, sometimes completely by accident.  Just like love. No one tries to find love, but when it happens it can be a magical thing, just like that perfect amount of cream cheese in the bagel hole.  Or sometimes love/cream cheese can simply be too much.  It can be smothering, sickening, and go sour after a while.

So allow me to help you, or as much as any Canadian can (truthfully, that’s not much).

Sincerely,

Dr. Loovenmacher PhD

This weeks shout-out goes to Lazar Polevoy for renovating the CJL shul into a brand new pool!

Shabbat Dinner at 104 West!

Come be a part of our warm, friendly community at 104 West!, this and every Friday Night!
Reserve now at https://edining.campuslife.cornell.edu/kosher30/ and pay only one meal swipe!

Check-in 6:15PM   Dinner 6:45 PM

After dinner come over to the CJL to have a few L’Chaims, see your old friends, and meet some new ones.

IMPORTANT: Please do not go into the room behind the washing sinks in 104 West!. Construction is being done on that part of the building and it is not safe to be in there.

Rabbi Shrader visiting Cornell

Rabbi Menachem Shrader, founding director of JLIC, will be visiting Cornell!
Rav Schrader is currently a teacher in Nishmat, an advanced program for women’s Torah study in Israel. He is also the Rav of the Tiferet Avot shul in Efrat and co-founder and posek of JLIC.
Rabbi Schrader will be giving a Shiur on Sunday, January 25th  at 5:30 on the topic of “How can one attach himself to God?” @ 104 West!
Students and community members are welcome!
Rabbi Schrader is available to meet students who might be interested in the learning programs in Nishmat (check them out here).
To coordinate a meeting, please call Chana Leib at 847-347-7081.

CJL Composites

The photography session for this year’s CJL composite will be this coming Thursday 1/29 from 4:00-5:30 PM in the CJL Piano Room. If you would like to be in the composite, you must pay membership for this semester by Thursday. Please sign up for a time slot on the signup sheet next to the stairs in the CJL. For more information please see the email sent out earlier this week or contact Aaron Sarna (ays26).

Superbowl Party

Blue 42, Blue 42 hut hut hike. Yeah that’s right. Its that time of year again. Men knocking each other around to get a leather ball into an end zone. What could be better? So whether you’re rooting for Warner’s Cardinals, are a loyal Steelers fan, or just watch for the commercials and half time show come scarf down some food, pull up a seat, huddle around a big screen TV, and be ready to scream when Roethlisberger throws an interception.

Sunday 2/1 in 104 West!
Pregame starts @ 5pm Kickoff @ 6
TV: 52″ inch big screen TV
Food: Chicken Wings, Onion Rings, Chili, Subs, Chips and Salsa, and dip.
Drinks: Of course
Cost: 1 meal swipe if you eat, free if you don’t

New Website

Over break some new features were added to the CJL website (www.cornellcjl.com). Now, after you’ve accidentally deleted the CJL announcements, you can still see them on the website and know exactly where you need to be when in order to live a happy life. Also, davening times are on the site for the entire semester!. There is a photo album that we are just starting to populate, so if you have photos from CJL events that you want to put up, please send them to webmaster@cornellcjl.com. We’ve also started putting up old CJL composites in the photo album so that you alumni who still read these announcements in order to live vicariously through us can see how silly you looked as college students. We have all of the composites since 1987 (although not all of them are online yet) but only a few earlier ones, so if you have a copy of your composite from before 1987, please be in touch and we’ll figure out how to get it on the site.

Shabbat Times

Friday, January 23:
Candle Lighting - 4:50 PM
Kabbalat Shabbat -
Orthodox - 4:50 PM (ATH Edwards Room)
Conservative - 5:15 PM (ATH Chapel)
Reform - 5:15 PM (ATH Founders Room)
Shiur - Rabbi Leib:
“The Source of Belief: Natural Order or the Miraculous” - 5:45 PM (CJL Piano Room)
Dinner (Check-in) - 6:15 PM (104 West!)

Saturday, January 24:
Shacharit - 9:15 AM (ATH Edwards Room)
Zman Kriat Shema - 9:52 AM
Shiur - Chana Leib:
“Exodus: Cherchez la femme” - 11:45 AM (CJL Piano Room)
Lunch - 12:30 PM (104 West!)
Mincha - 4:35 PM (104 West!)
Maariv - 5:48 PM (104 West!)
Shabbat Ends - 5:55 PM

Mincha/Maariv next week: 5:00 PM (CJL Piano Room)