hillel at mit at goldsweig dot com

I am currently the President of MIT Hillel. I oversee all Hillel functions and report directly to the Hillel Council of New England. Religous, Social, and Philanthropic activities fall under my jursidiction via officers appointed to these specific areas.

I was the Vice President of MIT Hillel. My responsibilities included organizing the calendar, supervising all of the committees, filling in when any other officer was incapacitated, and seeing to the organization of Hillel's Rush and Orientation activities. I prepared for the Presidency early by going to all 4 regional presidents' meetings and all 4 MIT Hillel Board of Directors meetings.

As a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, I am one of the founding members of the Greek Jewish Council. I have played host to three Greek Shabbat Banquets, and have worked hard to involve my own fraternity brothers in Hillel through our group zetapsi-jews@mit.edu.

During my term as Vice President, I completely overhauled the MIT Hillel Constitution and saw the new version approved at a general meeting. The revisions clarified the language, removed ambiguities, and accounted for the changes at Hillel in the 13 years since previous ammendments. When not playing with English, however, I am a leader of the Hebrew Table, a lunch group of Hebrew speakers. Having taken four semesters of Hebrew at Harvard (e-mail list hebrew@mit.edu courtesy of me), I have become quite fluent.

Not only did I help to build the MIT Hillel Sukkah, but was also Hillel's Booth Chair. In this glamorous position, I organized all publicity and sales booths for Hillel and recruited volunteers to run them. I further helped to build Hillel through my three years of participation in the Hillel fundraising phonathon.

With the help of the Hillel-related MIT Israel program, I spent the summer of 2001 working at the Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory at Tel Aviv University. I've put some of my TAU trip photos on this website. In the USA, I helped to plan Hillel's 2001 Yom haAtzmaut barbeque, and pulled together Israel programs relevant to the current situation including a memorial service.

In 2000 and 2001 (and soon 2002), I served on the MIT Hillel Rush and Orientation Committee. In 2001, as Hillel Vice President, I assembled the Committee. Events I've run include Sunday MegaBrunches for parents and students and Hillel's booth for the MIT Activities Midway. In 2001 and 2002, I also helped organize similar events for Campus Preview Weekend.

In 1999, I blew the Shofar at both the Reform and Conservative services on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. In 2000, I served as gabbai of the Conservative minyan for these holidays. In other musical positions, I started out at Hillel playing piano in the Sukkah for some elderly Russians as part of the Generations program and am currently organizing a performance of the Wholesale Klezmer Band.

In 2000, 2001, and 2002, I served on the Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Rememberance) Day Committee. In all three years, I organized a day-long reading of names of victims from lists I obtained from Yad Vashem and from the National Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C. The readings were followed by memorial services. Subsequently, in 2000, we had a Sephardic musical performance by a Yugoslavian survivor, and in 2001, we had a video documentary by and talk with a Polish survivor.

I am a member of MITSI, the MIT Students for Israel. I also helped run the Israeli smoothies booth at the 2001 MIT International Fair. This was such a success that I recreated it as a student board fundraiser. And although I like my smoothies, I cook (and buy in Brookline) a lot more as I help each week to assemble the Kosher Koop Shabbat lunch.

I am an active member of the MIT Hillel Orthodox Minyan. Although we are a small group, we are extremely committed. Furthermore, we welcome guests, and look forward to your visiting us. Outside of Hillel, I serve as the minyan L'Chiam chair, and organize almost weekly Shabbat tisches in my room complete with song (I know a lot of them!), ruach, and eh...l'chiam.

In both 2001 and 2002, I helped to organize "Jews on Ice," MIT Hillel's annual skating party. Although Michael Weiss wasn't there, there were students from MIT, Tufts, Harvard, BU, and Wellesley. My skating isn't great, but I am the captain of the Hillel ultimate frisbee team and a member of the volleyball team (and despite my skating, I did also play Hillel hockey). Furthermore, I am quite active at some of those schools as a member of BU Hillel (where I frequently lead services), Harvard Hillel (where I serve on the Carlebach Minyan Board), and Temple Beth Shalom of Cambridge.

In 1999, I organized 6 Hanukkah parties, one for each non-Shabbat night of Hanukkah. They occurred in 6 different dormitories. In honor of my work, I got to light a tube of MIT Hillel's Test Tube Menorah. Since then, I've been involved in the organization of each year's Hanukkah and Purim celebrations. In 2002, I designed and built a booth for our Purim carnival, Fill the 'Taschen.

As booth chair, I've run booths selling hametaschen and mishloach manot, selling kosher-for-Passover snacks, promoting High Holiday services sign-up, promoting Passover Seder sign-up, and many others. More recently, I've taken on some virtual booths, writing a few Hillel web pages and a large number of Hillel Athena commands. MIT computer users can locate Jewish friends, check the Hillel computer, and find the tenth minyan member from any campus terminal using my scripts.

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	I am currently the President of MIT Hillel. I oversee all Hillel functions and report directly to the Hillel Council of New England. Religous, Social, and Philanthropic activities fall under my jursidiction via officers appointed to these specific areas.
	I was the Vice President of MIT Hillel. My responsibilities included organizing the calendar, supervising all of the committees, filling in when any other officer was incapacitated, and seeing to the organization of Hillel's Rush and Orientation activities. I prepared for the Presidency early by going to all 4 regional presidents' meetings and all 4 MIT Hillel Board of Directors meetings.
	As a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, I am one of the founding members of the Greek Jewish Council. I have played host to three Greek Shabbat Banquets, and have worked hard to involve my own fraternity brothers in Hillel through our group zetapsi-jews@mit.edu.
	During my term as Vice President, I completely overhauled the MIT Hillel Constitution and saw the new version approved at a general meeting. The revisions clarified the language, removed ambiguities, and accounted for the changes at Hillel in the 13 years since previous ammendments. When not playing with English, however, I am a leader of the Hebrew Table, a lunch group of Hebrew speakers. Having taken four semesters of Hebrew at Harvard (e-mail list hebrew@mit.edu courtesy of me), I have become quite fluent.
	Not only did I help to build the MIT Hillel Sukkah, but was also Hillel's Booth Chair. In this glamorous position, I organized all publicity and sales booths for Hillel and recruited volunteers to run them. I further helped to build Hillel through my three years of participation in the Hillel fundraising phonathon.
	With the help of the Hillel-related MIT Israel program, I spent the summer of 2001 working at the Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory at Tel Aviv University. I've put some of my TAU trip photos on this website. In the USA, I helped to plan Hillel's 2001 Yom haAtzmaut barbeque, and pulled together Israel programs relevant to the current situation including a memorial service.
	In 2000 and 2001 (and soon 2002), I served on the MIT Hillel Rush and Orientation Committee. In 2001, as Hillel Vice President, I assembled the Committee. Events I've run include Sunday MegaBrunches for parents and students and Hillel's booth for the MIT Activities Midway. In 2001 and 2002, I also helped organize similar events for Campus Preview Weekend.
	In 1999, I blew the Shofar at both the Reform and Conservative services on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. In 2000, I served as gabbai of the Conservative minyan for these holidays. In other musical positions, I started out at Hillel playing piano in the Sukkah for some elderly Russians as part of the Generations program and am currently organizing a performance of the Wholesale Klezmer Band.
	In 2000, 2001, and 2002, I served on the Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Rememberance) Day Committee. In all three years, I organized a day-long reading of names of victims from lists I obtained from Yad Vashem and from the National Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C. The readings were followed by memorial services. Subsequently, in 2000, we had a Sephardic musical performance by a Yugoslavian survivor, and in 2001, we had a video documentary by and talk with a Polish survivor.
	I am a member of MITSI, the MIT Students for Israel. I also helped run the Israeli smoothies booth at the 2001 MIT International Fair. This was such a success that I recreated it as a student board fundraiser. And although I like my smoothies, I cook (and buy in Brookline) a lot more as I help each week to assemble the Kosher Koop Shabbat lunch.
	I am an active member of the MIT Hillel Orthodox Minyan. Although we are a small group, we are extremely committed. Furthermore, we welcome guests, and look forward to your visiting us. Outside of Hillel, I serve as the minyan L'Chiam chair, and organize almost weekly Shabbat tisches in my room complete with song (I know a lot of them!), ruach, and eh...l'chiam.
	In both 2001 and 2002, I helped to organize "Jews on Ice," MIT Hillel's annual skating party. Although Michael Weiss wasn't there, there were students from MIT, Tufts, Harvard, BU, and Wellesley. My skating isn't great, but I am the captain of the Hillel ultimate frisbee team and a member of the volleyball team (and despite my skating, I did also play Hillel hockey). Furthermore, I am quite active at some of those schools as a member of BU Hillel (where I frequently lead services), Harvard Hillel (where I serve on the Carlebach Minyan Board), and Temple Beth Shalom of Cambridge.
	In 1999, I organized 6 Hanukkah parties, one for each non-Shabbat night of Hanukkah. They occurred in 6 different dormitories. In honor of my work, I got to light a tube of MIT Hillel's Test Tube Menorah. Since then, I've been involved in the organization of each year's Hanukkah and Purim celebrations. In 2002, I designed and built a booth for our Purim carnival, Fill the 'Taschen.
	As booth chair, I've run booths selling hametaschen and mishloach manot, selling kosher-for-Passover snacks, promoting High Holiday services sign-up, promoting Passover Seder sign-up, and many others. More recently, I've taken on some virtual booths, writing a few Hillel web pages and a large number of Hillel Athena commands. MIT computer users can locate Jewish friends, check the Hillel computer, and find the tenth minyan member from any campus terminal using my scripts.