Due to last year’s success, the Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life will be having another “Jewish Life Photography Contest"!!! This year we will be looking for photos involving students at Dickinson tied to a Jewish theme. Once again, the photography contest will be open to all students and will be judged based on technical quality, subject matter, content, composition, and originality. There will be prizes awarded to the top three photographs selected to be displayed in the Student Lounge at the Asbell Center. The three prizes awarded will be brand new cameras!! Submissions should be sent to jewishlife@dickinson.edu along with a description of the picture, names of people in the picture, and your contact information. You may submit no more than 3 pictures. All submissions must be received by April 1, 2011. 

A meeting was held at the Asbell Center for the six students who are preparing for the Birthright Taglit Trip to Israel in January 2011.  Rabbi Cytryn, from Beth El Temple in Harrisburg, PA, graciously visited and spoke to them about what they might expect to see and answered their questions. 

The Students selected for this trip are:  Rachel Weber, David Lifschitz, Bradford Meisel, Joshua Eisen, Melanie Levine, and Taylor Kobran.

Pictured above:  Rabbi Cytryn

Pictured above:  David Lifschitz, Bradford Meisel, Joshua Eisen, Melanie Levine,

                        Taylor Kobran, Avi Fishelov, Lori Loudon, and Ted Merwin

Michael Ableman (author, educator, photographer and urban agriculturalist) 

Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Dickinson CollegeAnita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m. 

Food may be the dominant issue of our time. The industrial system that brings it to us is unraveling, and the cost of that system, ecologically, socially, and personally is enormous. 

But there is hope, individuals and communities are gathering together to rethink our food system, bringing honor and respect and craftsmanship back into farming, and recreating our farms as places that nourish and nurture and teach and inspire. 

Join Michael Ableman for an evening of inspiring stories and photographic imagery from around the world as he provides us with a sense of how we can participate in the solutions; on our farms and in our gardens, in our kitchens and at the dining room table, and in the communities where we live. 

For more information visit http://clarke.dickinson.edu/michael-ableman/ or call 717-245-1875