AUJS Wellington was approved $500 from the Student Services Levy for Yamim Tovim Season 2021-22. The application was made in the August 2021 funding round as a Club – General applicant, against a stated activity cost of 1700 NZD.
Grant record
| Club | AUJS Wellington |
|---|---|
| Event or activity | Yamim Tovim Season 2021-22 |
| Grant date | 4 August 2021 |
| Application round | August 2021 |
| Applicant type | Club – General |
| Amount requested / activity cost | 1700 NZD |
| Other sources of income | |
| Recommendation | Approve |
| Recommended funding | |
| Amount approved | $500 |
Event details
At the the end of the Gregorian year, many Jewish communities enjoy accompanying their diasporic surrounds by celebrating the series of Jewish holidays that coincide with the Christian holiday season. These are Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, in early-mid September, Sukkot, the Tabernacle festival in late September, and Hannukah, the Jewish festival of lights in late November/early December. To celebrate our culture in amongst our surrounds, we wish to host a series of events throughout the remainder of the year through which we can showcase and celebrate our culture both within and outside of our community. Yamim Tovim (holidays) are a huge aspect of Jewish culture. It is common in diaspora communities for Jews of all kinds, and their surrounding communities, to come together in mutual celebration and remembrance. We believe a celebration for Rosh Hashana can help bridge AUJS even closer to neighboring Jewish communities, such as the WJCC and the Temple Sinai community, as well as bring in cross-cultural and inter-faith perspectives from other VUW communities. Our proposal entails a celebration of Rosh Hashana in a local venue that can incorporate Jewish whakapapa and heritage, as well as a progressive and forward-looking vision of what it means to be young, diasporic Jews in the present era of turbulence and change, to celebrate our own culture whilst welcoming, educating, and acknowledging others. This could be our best opportunity to make our mark on the community and ensure our continuity in the student body. Every year, the Embassy of Israel, in conjunction with the Wellington Jewish Community Centre, hosts Hannukah in the Park, a large cultural celebration gathering all manner of community members involved with the Jewish diaspora and others. The organizers of this event open up stalls to participants in the community who represent a diverse range of voices; student groups, labor groups, religious groups, cultural groups and others are all represented in the festival. We wish AUJS to be part of this in 2021, as perhaps the most important event in the Jewish calendar for Diasporic communities in Christian nations. Finally, we wish to endow a deserving student with a small tutoring costs supplement, who has shown a commitment to furthering the virtues of the Jewish people and culture, and working towards the benefit of the community, either through service or through their academic activity (e.g. volunteering at the Holocaust Centre or writing a thesis on Jewish history). This student will be chosen by the AUJS Wellington Committee on the basis of academic merit and an appropriate letter of application. The grant will be approximately $250.00 NZD, subject to funding availability. This awarding process will be wholly transparent and subject to funding approval. We believe the establishment of this grant will not only benefit the recipient, but encourage and incentivize other members of the community to engage with Jewish advocacy and community activity, which is highly necessary in this trying time. We believe that such an award epitomizes the Jewish cultural tenet of חינוך (Chinocch) – ‘education’ – as well as כל ישראל ערבים זה לזה (Kol Yisrael Areivim Zeh Lazeh) – ‘All Jews are responsible for one another’. It creates real, tangible benefit and incentive for improving the prospects of the diaspora in Wellington. We will promote the event/s enthusiastically by advertising to our communities; our own membership, the memberships of the WJCC and the Temple Sinai, the Holocaust Centre of NZ, the Embassy of Israel, through interfaith dialogues, through university channels, and through social media.
About this record
Reproduced by Save Our Clubs from club funding information released by Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. Not an official University publication. “Recommendation” and “Recommended funding” reflect pre-panel recommendations, and the amount approved may differ from them. The amount requested may reflect only the club’s initial figure, with the final decision also considering documents supplied later. If this entry looks wrong, get in touch and we will check it against the source document.