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Jewish Student Life Pre- O 2019

The purpose of this pre-orientation is to give first year students the opportunity to meet and socialize with other Jewish students in a fun non-academic, all inclusive environment.  We hope this will help ease your transition into your new Skidmore life, by maximizing on a familiar and supportive aspect of your lives.  We would like to foster a more inclusive Jewish community.

 

 

This is a tentative schedule and subject to change

 

Thursday:

• 1pm Meet your Peer Advisors on the 2^nd floor of Case Center:
  • Ice breakers
• Early evening meditation hike
• Footsteps pathway paint activity linked to Tree of Life
• Dinner
• How Will I Fit in? What if I’m not Jewish enough? Conversation
• Evening activity (one or more possibilities):
  • Havdallah candle making
  • Tallit Making Prep
  • Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and other Jewish comedies

 

Friday:

• Morning Mindfulness & Experiential Prayer
• Breakfast
• Options: Kayaking, tubing, state park trip, volleyball, barbeque
• Challah baking
• Cook Shabbat dinner together
• Shabbat services
• Shabbat dinner
• Evening Activity (one or more possibilities):
  • Vision board making
  • Song session, bonfire, and smores (and smOreos)
  • Games

 

Saturday:

• Morning Mindfulness
• Shabbat morning services
  • Art midrash and/or Torah drama
  • Kugel & Shakshukah brunch
• Tikkun Olam- Habitat for Humanity trail clearing, meditation sign making (to be finalized)
• Dinner
• Evening activity: (one or more possibilities)
  • Havdallah
  • Tallit making
  • College Questions Anonymous (Ask the PAs anything)

 

Sunday:

• Morning mindfulness
• Bagel breakfast
• Closing activities- T-shirt distribution

 

 

 

WELCOME TO SKIDMORE