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Welcome to the Gainesville USY website. This is where you can stay up to date with all GUSY chapter events and HaNegev regional events (specifically Mercaz). Also, you can use this site to contact our chapter board. Leave a comment, have fun looking at the pics and events, and even check in on Goliath!
Our USY Shabbat (Saturday, March 3rd) is our next program. If you are doing something for this event thank you very much! The synangogue greatly appreciates it and so do we!
Purim is next month!! The synagogue is doing a Dinner Theatre Purim Shpiel on Wednesday, March 7th and need volunteers to help serve the food! For every volunteer we have come out there, our chapter will receive $25 for our chapter Tikun Olam!! You would start at 5:30 and would get to eat the food as well, sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me!
Spring Subregional Convention is the weekend of March 16-18 in Orlando! Applications are due to Erin by Friday, March 2nd at 3pm. It will be a super fun convention and our lovely Chapter President, Ilyssa Schatz, will be running for a Subregional Board Position, so come to support her as well!
Who can take David and Goliath next???
UPCOMING EVENTS
On wednesday, March 7th, There is going to be a Tikun Olam event at the shul for the dinner theatre known as the Purim Shpiel. This event is going to be tons of fun and a great way to help out our community.
On Saturday, March 3rd, there is going to be USY shabbat. We would love for all of you to be involved in one way or another. If you want to voulenteer for part of te service, you can contact any of the chapter board or our youth advisor, Amanda. We look forward to hearing from you!
PAST EVENTS
On November 5th, come out and enjoy a USY style Havdalah followed by fun ice cream sculptures ans snacks.
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Stay Posted! This is a fun even that will be on Sunday, Januart 22nd at amanda's house. We will be making our own personalzed Gusy buliten boards with our calendar for the upcoming events of the year. We would love to see you there at 4:00 to 5:30.
Are you ready to have a great time!?! On September 18th, we're kicking off the year with a Jewau! Basically, it's a pool party with a bunch of Jews and fun things to do. So, form 4:00 to 6:00, be at Ilyssa's house and we promise you'll have a great time.
On Thursday, October 20th, at 5:30, there is going to be a huge fundraiser at the Simchat Torah Dinner. Come on out and help us raise some money as well as have a great time.
On Wednesday, October 19th, from 4:45 to 6:30, any USYers are welcomed to join us in preping for Thursday's event.
There will be a donut sale every other Sunday starting at 9:00am at Chavayah, begining on September 11th. Stop by and have a taste. We would love to see you there!
August 26-28, 2011
August 28, 2011
November 11-13, 2011
November 18-20, 2011
December 22-25, 2011
December 25-30, 2011
January 13-15, 2012
February 20, 2012
March 16-18, 2012
April 20-22, 2012
Mercaz Chapter President's Weekend
Mercaz Chapter Board Day
Mercaz Fall Subs
Mercaz Kadima Convention
Pre-Convention
International Convention
RGBW/Young Leaders
Yom Disney
Mercaz Spring Subs
Regional Convention
Rodeph Sholom, Tampa
JJC
HaGalil Region
Philadelphia, PA
Camp Ramah Darom
Magic Kingdom
TBA
Orlando, FL
You can also visit HaNegevusy.org, the official HaNegev USY website, if you would like to see more HaNegev events, learn the regional or sub-regional songs, or even just look at pictures.
If you would like to put pictures up on this site (which would be great if you guys could do), please just email them to me at Dassidoll4usy_aol.com. I will do my best to get them up as soon as possible. I look forward to seeing them!
If you need to reach any of the 2011-2012 board members or need more information about events, please feel free to email us:
Goliath (and David):
Mascott
use the box to contact me
Dassi Lipnick:
Secretary
Communications Dassidoll4usy_aol.com
Ilyssa Schatz:
Chapter President
Membership/Kadima
ilyssa.schatz_gmail.com
Ashley Baros-Kabler:
Vice President
Social Action/Tikun Olam
abk17_cox.net
Kayla Greenberg:
Israeli Affairs/Religious Education
kmgreen352_bellsouth.net
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You can also contact out advisor if you have any other questions:
Amanda Solomon
mandashanda006_gmail.com
If you'd like to make a donation to the chapter, you can contact our rabbi:
Rabbi Kaiman
rabbi_bnaigainesville.com
Some of you might be wondering what the handy dandy little box above does. All you have to do is type in your name (so I know who you are), type in your email address (so I can reply to your message), type up a message, and hit send. This sends a message directly to me, Dassi Lipnick. You will have to respond from your normal email, but when you use this box, you don't even have to sign in to send me a message. If you would like to contact any of the other board members, all of our emails are on the list to the left of the screen.
David and I (Goliath) have been hearing all about Yom Disney and we are so jealous that we couldn't come! It makes me wish I had legs. But we've decided that we're glad you all had a good time.
On a different note, we've also decided that we actually want to meet you guys. So, we're looking for a new home. We love you, Dassi, we just want to broaden our horizons a bit and get to know and love other members of our amazing chapter as well. So, we need someone who wants to give us a home and take care of us. Talk to our current guardian, Dassi Lipnick, to volunteer. See you soon!
David here, reporting from the fish tank at Dassi's house. Goliath and I are doing great... except he has a plant and i don't. Anyways, we're so excited for USY Shabbat. It sounds like it's going to be a great time. We're so disappointed that we cant come :( I hope you all have an amazing Shabbat. We can't wait to hear all about it.
Hi, my name is Goliath. I just got to Dassi's house and she's been telling me all about GUSY and how amazing it is. I'm so psyched to be your mascot! I hope you guys don't mind, but i brought a friend home with me too. His name is David.
Dassi told us that this is our page on the website and David and I can write whatever we want on it. So, we've decided to make it sort of a blog where you can keep up with how we're doing.
Oh, and one more thing... Sorry to disappoint, but we're not goldfish (but i do have a gold color about me). Well, i'll be checking in with you guys as i settle in and I can't wait to meet you all!!! =D
Dassi's House
and awaiting a kind new home
