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May 20, 2004
Dear JSA,
I hope that this e-mail finds the first years already sleeping before their LAST EXAM (!), and the second years done with day 4 of the first week of boards studying! This e-mail will be my last to you as JSA president, and I would like to thank all of you for a wonderful year. The experience was amazing, and I owe that to all of you.
One of the last things I have done before I hand everything over to Michelle is that I have added the audio of the Dr. Mitchell Bard talk (from May 6th) to the website. Whether you missed the event and want to hear what Dr. Bard had to say for the first time, or if you want to hear it again, you can find the file here. (I apologize for the empty space at the start of the file, but it is very easy to fast forward to the start of Dr. Bard’s speech).
And with that, I will close this last e-mail, and wish you all a Shabbat Shalom and best of luck in all the years to come. (Don’t worry – I will still be around to bother Michelle at as many events as possible!)
take care,
Adam Friedlander, MS II
Jewish Student Association, President
University of Maryland School of Medicine
May 7, 2004
Hello everyone! I hope that this e-mail finds you all anxiously awaiting a beautiful weekend. Mazal tov to the first years who have just finished their second to last exam on first year! To the second years, good luck this weekend as we prepare for our last classroom based exam, possibly of all time!!!
To everyone who was able to attend yesterday’s speaker, thank you and I hope you had a wonderful time. At the peak of attendance, we had approximately 80 people in FLH, and even at the end of the talk, after some had to leave for PD etc, we still had over 50 people in the room. Dr. Bard was impressed with our questions and interest, and hopes to speak on the UMB campus again.
As to upcoming events, there is one big one left – the Lag BaOmer BBQ at Hopkins this Sunday! We have been invited to join Baltimore Hillel along with all other Baltimore Area graduate and undergraduate students for a Lag Ba'Omer party and BBQ from 3pm-6pm at the Hopkins "Beach" on Charles Street. Click here for details.
We are also considering having one final JSA lunch to say goodbye this coming Thursday at noon, based on response to this e-mail. If you are interested, let me know, and I will see what I can scrounge up...
Either way, it has been a wonderful year, and thank you all so much. Michelle will do a wonderful job next year, and you will all certainly still see me at JSA events when I can get away from the depths of third year!
Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach,
Adam
Adam Friedlander, MS II
Jewish Student Association, President
University of Maryland School of Medicine
April 30, 2004
Hello everyone! I hope that you all had wonderful weeks, and I look forward to tonight’s pot-luck!
In case you missed the earlier e-mail, our year end speaker will be Dr. Mitchell Bard, and his talk will be about the “Myths and Facts of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.” Lunch will be served.
This event will be the culmination of my year as JSA president, and will also further one of our year long goals of supporting Israel’s right to exist on campus, while addressing anti-Israel media bias. To read more about Dr. Bard, click here.
I hope to see you all there, and please pass this information along to your various student groups!
Shabbat shalom,
Adam Friedlander, MS II
Jewish Student Association, President
University of Maryland School of Medicine
April 25, 2004
The Jewish Student Association invites all those interested to attend a film screening tomorrow (Monday) in FLH, at 3:30pm. The film to be screened is Late Summer Blues, or Blues LaChofesh HaGadol in poorly transliterated Hebrew. :)
We are showing this film in honor of Israeli Memorial Day and Independence Day, which are on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Discussion will follow the film, time allowing.
Late Summer Blues was released in 1987, and "chronicles the events in the lives of seven Israeli students during the summer following high school graduation - a summer clouded by their impending induction into the army. A universal story of life under war's shadow, Late Summer Blues celebrates the innocence and idealism of youth while offering a grim reminder of the tragedy of war."
I hope that all those interested will attend.
Sincerely,
Adam Friedlander, MS II
Jewish Student Association, President
University of Maryland School of Medicine
April 16, 2004
Hello everyone. This e-mail has two purposes. The first is to remind all of you that we have a great event coming up on Monday at noon in MSTF 264/266 - see the website for details (http://davidge2.umaryland.edu/~jsa) or e-mail me! Also, please note the other upcoming events listed there.
The second and main purpose of this e-mail is that I would like to nominate Michelle Cohen, MS I, to be the new JSA President for the coming year. Michelle has been extremely active over the past year, and has some wonderful ideas for the coming year. She is sensitive to the needs of our diverse Jewish community here at UMDSOM, and I am confident that she will do a wonderful job as JSA President.
Over the past few weeks I have had several conversations with active and interested students, and my nomination has been unanimously supported by those who have voiced an opinion. To keep this as democratic as possible, I would like to ask that anyone concerned with my nomination contact me by Monday evening, and we will take things from there.
Shabbat Shalom,
Adam
April 15, 2004
Hello everyone. On Monday, April 19th, after the Year 2 exam, we will be having an event called "Israel at Heart" in MSTF 264/266. We will have a free bagel lunch, and a discussion with three young Israeli adults about their views on life in Israel. This will be a great event, so please come out. If you can give me some advance notice (an RSVP :) ), that would be great, but feel free to come at the last minute as well. I hope to see everyone there!
Also, bikur cholim, same time, same place (noon, pods).
Shabbat Shalom,
Adam Friedlander
P.S. Enjoy the challah this week!
April 9, 2004
Hello everyone! This e-mail will include a list of the great events we have coming up for April and May! Get excited!
Most importantly, from now on, all JSA events can be viewed at our New Website!!!
http://davidge2.umaryland.edu/~jsa/
One quick mention must be made that both Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) and Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) fall on Sundays this year, and Yom HaShoah is the day before a Year II exam. For those reasons, we will not have any specifically UMDSOM events, BUT I will be attending some events on my own. If you would like more information about either of these days historically or culturally, or if you would like information on services or ceremonies taking place on either day, just let me know. We will talk about Yom HaZikaron at our Yom HaAtzmaut celebration (this juxtaposition is appropriate as I will explain).
Without further ado, here is the list of events! (first short and then long)
Shabbat shalom and chag sameach,
Adam Friedlander, MS II
Jewish Student Association, President
University of Maryland School of Medicine
April 19: Israel at Heart RSVP please!
April 30: Pot Luck Shabbat RSVP please! (note the date change)
April 26: Yom HaAtzmaut Celebration
May 6: Myths and Facts About Israel
May 9: Lag Ba'Omer Celebration
At 12:00pm on April 19th, right after the Year II exam, we will be having a wonderful event called "Israel at Heart." We will be joined by three Israeli young adults who will share with us their experiences growing up in Israel and serving in the Israeli Armed Forces. We will chat over a free lunch, and wind down after the Year II exam.
***This event is NOT a political one, and the only motivation for attendance should be the desire for good spirited conversation, and a desire to learn about these individuals' experiences***
Location: MSTF 264/266
You know the drill! RSVPs required!!! We will be having our monthly UMDSOM/Hopkins Med pot luck Shabbat dinner! They are always a ton of fun, so RSVP ASAP!
April 26: Yom Ha'Zikaron Commemoration and Yom Ha'Atzmaut Celebration
Israeli Memorial Day and Israeli Independence Day will be commemorated with a film screening and discussion in FLH at 3:30pm:
The Jewish Student Association invites all those interested to attend a film screening tomorrow (Monday) in FLH, at 3:30pm. The film to be screened is "Late Summer Blues", or "Blues LaChofesh HaGadol" in poorly transliterated Hebrew. :)
We are showing this film in honor of Israeli Memorial Day and Independence Day, which are on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Discussion will follow the film, time allowing.
"Late Summer Blues" was released in 1987, and "chronicles the events in the lives of seven Israeli students during the summer following high school graduation - a summer clouded by their impending induction into the army. A universal story of life under war's shadow, Late Summer Blues celebrates the innocence and idealism of youth while offering a grim reminder of the tragedy of war."
Location: FLH at 3:30pm
May 6: Myths and Facts About Israel - CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE AUDIO OF THIS EVENT
Do you wonder about what is going on in the Middle East? Do you want a more solid basis for media analysis? Do you wish you knew more? Do you have challenging questions for a world authority on the topic? Do you like lunch? Do you remember our awesome post-exam Hannukah party from earlier in the year? Then this event is for you!
The JSA invites all
members of the UMAB community to attend
our Year-End-Finale talk on:
The Myths and Facts of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
May 6th @ 12:15pm, in FLH
655 West Baltimore Street
Our speaker will be the world renowned Dr. Mitchell Bard, the author of 17 books, including Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. His impressive biography is below.
As I am sure that this event will be crowded, lunch will begin at 12:15pm, and our speaker will begin at 12:30pm - this should also allow first years to attend after their exam. If food runs out, we will have a backup plan of snacks at the very minimum, but my guess is more along the lines of Chinese food with a bagel and/or pizza backup...
Please feel free to pass on the word to your school or program!
BIOGRAPHY:
Mitchell G. Bard, PhD
Mitchell Bard is the Executive Director of the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) and a foreign policy analyst who lectures frequently on U.S.-Middle East policy. Dr. Bard is also the director of the Jewish Virtual Library, the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture.
For three years he was the editor of the Near East Report, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) weekly newsletter on U.S. Middle East policy.
Prior to working at AIPAC, Dr. Bard served as a senior analyst in the polling division of the 1988 Bush campaign.
Dr. Bard has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, CBC, the Jenny Jones Show, and other local and national television and radio outlets. His work has been published in academic journals, magazines and major newspapers. He is the author of 17 books:
The Water's Edge And Beyond: Defining the Limits to Domestic Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy
Partners for Change: How U.S.-Israel Cooperation Can Benefit America
U.S.-Israel Relations: Looking to the Year 2000
Building Bridges: Lessons For America From Novel Israeli Approaches To Promote Coexistence
Myths And Facts: A Concise Record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (coauthor)
Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps
The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict
The Complete History of the Holocaust
The Holocaust (Turning Points in World History)
Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Nuremberg Trials (At Issue in History)
The Nuremberg Trials (Eyewitness to History)
From Tragedy to Triumph: The Politics behind the Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding the Brain
On One Foot: A Middle East Guide for the Perplexed or How to Respond on Your Way to Class When Your Best Friend Joins an Anti-Israel Protest
The Founding of the State of Israel
Forthcoming books include:
1001 Facts Everyone Should Know About Israel
Dr. Bard is also the editor of four studies published by AICE:
Learning Together: Israeli Innovations in Education that Could Benefit Americans
Experience Counts: Innovative Programs For The Elderly In Israel That Can Benefit Americans
Good Medicine: Israeli Innovations In Health Care That Could Benefit Americans
Breakthrough Dividend: Israeli Innovations In Biotechnology That Could Benefit Americans.
Bard holds a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and a master’s degree in public policy from Berkeley. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
May 9: Lag Ba'Omer Celebration
Come out to the Baltimore Hillel Lag Ba'Omer party to end all parties!!! We have been invited to join Baltimore Hillel along with all other Baltimore Area graduate students for a Lag Ba'Omer party and BBQ! This will take place from 3pm-dark at the Hopkins "Beach" on Charles Street.