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AAUSY

The AAUSY ‘Roo

October 2009 Edition

Edited By: The 2009-2010 AAUSY Communications VP Drew Lieberman

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The AAUSY ‘Roo

September 2009
Table of Contents:
Welcome to USY!...............................................................3
Upcoming Events……………………………………………..4
Advisory………………………………………………………..5
A Word from the President ………………………………….5
REC Rules ………………………………………..…………..6
Kadima Krazed…...............................................................6
Israel Update………………………………………………….7
That’s So SATO………………………………………………8
Legend vs. Life…………………………………………....….8
AAUSY word search…………………………………….…...9
Pictures……………………………………………………..10
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Welcome to USY!
What is USY?
USY stands for United Synagogue Youth. It is the official youth branch of the
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. The Agudas Achim Synagogue chapter,
AAUSY, belongs to the Southwest USY Region known as SWUSY, which
encompasses all USY chapters in Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana.

What do we do in AAUSY?

Our local Austin chapter of USY, AAUSY, usually has events twice a month.
Programming ranges anywhere from fun social events, like a Chinese New Year
Party or broomball, to religious events, like a Sukkot gathering or USY Shabbat
services, to community service projects and exciting Israel programs. In addition,
the SWUSY Region hosts 3 regional conventions throughout the school year that
bring together Jewish teenagers from all over the Southwestern United States
for several days of fun-filled activities, making new friends, and of course,
davening (that means praying) SWUSY-style!

How can I stay informed about AAUSY?

There are several ways to ensure that you are up-to-date on all things USY!
Firstly, make sure that both your personal e-mail address and one of your parents’
e-mail addresses are part of the listserve! Listserve is a helpful tool that we use
to send e-mails to everyone in AAUSY at once. To have your e-mail added to the
listserve, send an e-mail to Sarah Laves at sarah_laves@yahoo.com.

Is AAUSY on Facebook?

Absolutely! In fact, one of the very best ways to stay up-to-date on AAUSY
is to join both the AAUSY facebook group, and the SWUSY facebook group.
Joining both will ensure that you receive online invitations (and can RSVP online) to
all chapter and regional events. We also recently have added a facebook page so
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you can become a fan of AAUSY and hear about upcoming events. And AAUSY is on
twitter as well.

Who is in charge of AAUSY?

AAUSY is led by our two advisors, Samantha Tugentman and Maury Jacobs,
who are both former students at the University of Texas at Austin. AAUSY is also
run by a seven member chapter executive board, which is elected in May of each
year. The board positions are President, Religious Education and Culture VP, Israel
Affairs VP, Membership/Kadima VP, Social Action/Tikkun Olam VP, Communications
VP, and Outreach VP. There is also a chapter general board, which is chosen at the
beginning of each school year by the chapter executive board.

Upcoming Events

“AAUSY goes Wild” Overnight- On November 14th, AAUSY will have its
first overnight. We Will be playing blazer tag, having a monster scavenger hunt as
hang with friends from across the region. In December we will also be having a
channukah bash ( December 12th) and AAUSY services ( December 5th)

Kadima Movie night- On November 7th 2009 AAUSY will have a kadima movie
night. It is open to all kids in 6th to 8th grade, it is going to be a blast.
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A word from the president Advisory

We want to take this opportunity to
express how thrilled we are about the
start of AAUSY's year! We are so proud
Shalom! of the executive board for putting such
AAUSY this month has had some dedication and hard work into making
crazy times! We baked and decorated
some of the best events AAUSY has
cupcakes for the homeless while
watching Willy Wonka and the ever seen. The Freshman Kidnap was
Chocolate Factory and having a an unbelievable success with 14
sweets party in general! We were able freshmen participating, Iron Chef was a
to help the homeless, even if only a blast making our own gourmet pizzas,
little, and have fun with each other at and the movie night was a relaxing night
the same time. Finding out who the in while baking for the hungry.
master bakers were in AAUSY was
also fun, as each person got to help in
some way, be it cracking the eggs or We also want to thank the rest of the
pouring the batter. Our next event AAUSY chapter for being so active this
was in Ft. Worth with the rest of year. We have had about 30+ kids at
SWUSY. We tied dyed t-shirts, each event, and we hope to get even
dressed up as hippies, and got to hang more at our overnight on Nov. 14! It is
out with friends from around Texas because of each member of AAUSY for
and Oklahoma. It was a blast! I'm so spreading the word and participating that
excited for AAUSY's next overnight, we have had so much success this year.
AAUSY Gone Wild, on November Looking forward to the rest of the
14th. The theme is "Where the Wild semester and some more AAwesome
Things Are," so we're going to be events!
making s'mores out by a bonfire and
playing laser tag! I hope to see Best,
everyone there! Samantha and Maury
B'ahava,
Sarah Laves
AAUSY President '09-'10

Rec Rules!!!!
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Parsha of the month

Hey you guys, the Torah reading for this week are Noach Genesis 6:19-11:32. “G-d
instructs Noah -- the only righteous man in a world consumed by violence and
corruption -- to build a large wooden teivah ("ark"), coated within and without with
pitch. A great deluge, says G-d, will wipe out all life from the face of the earth; but
the ark will float upon the water, sheltering Noah and his family, and two members
(male and female) of each animal species.” This is probably one of my favorite
torah portions for several reasons, one is that I think that the story is great and you
can learn a lot from its meaning.

Here are the times for the next three weeks to light candles on Shabbat (In Austin
Texas)

10/28/09 6:28 PM

11/6/09 5:22 PM

11/13/09 5:18 PM

Sincerely,

Ari Dimston 2009-2010 AAUSY Religious Education Culture VP

Kadima Krazed
So last month we had our first social action/tikkun olam event!
People talked and mad cupcakes for the homeless while watching willie
wonka and the chocolate factory. It was a blast!We Will be having our
AAUSY Overnight on November 14th! We will be playing Lazer tag, and few
other surprises. Also, November 7th, we will have our kadima movie
night event Over the weekend of October 23-25 we had Kamp Kadima as a
part of Fall Kallah! I co-chaired (helped plan) Kamp Kadima and new
first hand that all of the kadimaniks had a blast as we had some
awesome super swusytastical ruach sessions and went mud sliding!
All my love,

Elijah Price
2009-2010 AAUSY MEM/KAD V.P.

Israel Update
Last weekend we had SWUSY’s Fall Kallah. And at most conventions there is
usually a late night program for one or all of the three clubs USY has to offer. The
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three clubs are 613 (the Social Action and Tikun Olam club), Heschel Honor Society
(the Religious Education club) and finally, my favorite, HeChalutzim (the Israel club).

This convention was no different, and on Friday night, put on by the regional
IA, Jonathan Lipton, we had a
program that made Israel even
sweeter than it already is. Attendees
were split into two teams and were
given a map of Israel, various
delectable candies and other sweet
treats to illustrate the map even
further. My team put green M&M’s and
Heresy’s Bars in the north to show the
green eucalyptus trees and other
greenery in the Golan Heights. We put
large stacks of candy on Tel Aviv to
represent the city skyscrapers and walls around Jerusalem depicting The Old City. In
the Negev we put desert colored candies and then enjoyed our dessert after
explaining our recreation of the map of Israel. It was a delicious way to enjoy Israel.

B’shalom

Aimée Rochelle Kanter AAUSY Israel Affair and Programming Vice President
2009-2010

Want to experience Israel

for yourself?
2010 USY Summer Programs Early Bird Registration is now open! Sign up
now to go on Pilgrimage as well as other great Summer Programs that USY
has to offer and save money. The sooner you sign up, the more you will
save!

Contact me or the advisors through email, facebook or phone if you have

any questions! I’ve had the summers of my life since spending my last 2
That’s So SATO
summers
Shalom!
October was a great time for AAUSY to help give back to our community and make
sure people have extra help in the colder weather! AAUSY's October event, Charlie
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and the Chocolate Factory Palooza, was centered around baking cupcakes for
homeless people. We made over 60 cupcakes that we were able to donate to the
University Baptist Church on the UT Campus. Every Thursday they host a "Gods
Dinner" for homeless people, and that's when our cupcakes were able to be
distributed to people in need. It was also a lot of fun making the cupcakes with a
bunch of friends! Then at Fall Kallah, we had toy donations that would be given to
children in the Ft. Worth area with cancer. We were also able to raise over $1,000
that will be saved until the end of the year where we decide which donation to
allocate the money to. It's been a great month, and our next event will be the
AAUSY overnight on November 14th. Hope to see everyone there!

Nathan Sorkin
AAUSY SA/TO VP '09-'10

Legend vs. Life

The One-on-One Clashing of Creatures from Myth and Reality

By Louis Lutes, Outreach VP

Series Record Legend : 0 Life :0 Tie:1

This Month’s Matchup:

DRAGON VS. DINOSAUR

Good day, and welcome to our second issue of Legend VS Life. This month’s
matchup is sure to be a great success. From the land of Legend we have the drastically
dangerous Dragon! And from real life, straight from prehistory, we have the ferocious
Tyrannosaurus Rex, the mighty Dinosaur! Both need no formalities said about them.
The battlefield: A small island of land surrounded by a massive river of lava! Here’s how
I think it would happen:
T. Rex lets off a roar, as does the dragon. The dragon, a natural flyer, lifts itself
up to the sky and circles around the T. Rex. The T. Rex would follow after its prey with
its eyes, waiting anxiously. Then, whoosh! The dragon dives down and breathes fire at
its foe! The T. Rex might take a few small burns, though it wouldn’t be out for the count.
However, the T. Rex would take a good bite at the dragon, clipping its wing and bringing
it down to the same level.
Both sides stuck to the ground and with minor injuries, the T. Rex would charge.
The dragon would flap its good wing to pull itself over to the side and dodge. The T.
Rex’s momentum would be too much, sending it straight into the river of lava! So ends
the dinosaur, leaving the DRAGON AS OUR WINNER!
Now, some of you may say that if the battlefield had been different, the dinosaur
would’ve won, to which I must disagree. Dragons have a sizeable intellect, whereas the
T. Rex had a very, very small brain. I’m sure the dragon would’ve found a way.
AAUSY Word Search
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