NSO/NGSO 2021

Join Us This For Welcome Events for New Frosh, Transfers, and Graduate Students!

Tuesday 9.14.21 ORSL Community Welcome

Join us for this hybrid event hosted on zoom and outside 564 O'Connor Lane to celebrate the beginning of your Stanford experience. Come meet ORSL student leaders, chaplains, and staff and learn how we can support you this year!

1-4 pm
In person (545 O’Conner Lane)
On Zoom:
- Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/91715855629?pwd=Z25wRGY5VHZhV0xFc0Zwb2JmSFR0UT09
- Passcode: 807738

Friday 9.17.21 NGSO Mindfulness Workshop

10-11:30 am
In person (Outside Windhover)
RSVP HERE

Sunday 9.19.21 Multi Faith Welcome In-Gathering

11-noon
Memorial Church

Sunday 9.19 NSO Mindfulness Workshop

2-3 pm
Outside Windhover
RSVP HERE

Religious Services offered during NSO/NGSO 2021

Wednesday September 15

Yom Kippur Events: We will host outdoor services on campus in two locations, one featuring gender-egalitarian leadership and amplified musicians (likely most comfortable for folks from Reform, Conservative, and unaffiliated backgrounds) and one featuring full traditional liturgy, no musicians or instruments, and a mechitza (likely most comfortable for folks from traditional/Orthodox backgrounds); both will be beautiful and spiritual opportunities to connect with your deepest self and the Holy One. For time and location please fill out this service interest form.
- Pre-Yom Kippur Meal
- Kol Nidrei Services: Reform/Conservative: 6:30 pm, Frost Amphitheater

Thursday September 16

Yom Kippur Events: We will host outdoor services on campus in two locations, one featuring gender-egalitarian leadership and amplified musicians (likely most comfortable for folks from Reform, Conservative, and unaffiliated backgrounds) and one featuring full traditional liturgy, no musicians or instruments, and a mechitza (likely most comfortable for folks from traditional/Orthodox backgrounds); both will be beautiful and spiritual opportunities to connect with your deepest self and the Holy One. For time and location please fill out this service interest form.
- Yom Kippur morning service, Reform/Conservative: 9:30 am, Frost Amphitheater
- Yom Kippur morning service, Traditional/Orthodox: 10:30 am, Chabad at Stanford - 1289 College Avenue
- Yom Kippur Discussions
- Yizkor, Mincha, Meilah services, Reform/Conservative: 5 pm, Frost Amphitheater
- Yom Kippur Break-Fast evening meal 8 pm
- Yom Kippur evening services with Break-Fast to follow, Traditional/Orthodox - 6:30 pm Chabad at Stanford - 1289 College Avenue
Lutheran Eucharist / Holy Communion, 12:10 pm, Memorial Church Side Chapel.

Friday September 17

Jumu'ah (Friday) Prayer, 1:30 pm, Mem Chu Green (the grassy area behind Mem Chu)
Zen Buddhist Meditation, Outside Windhover Contemplative Center, 3 pm.
NSO Shabbat Service and Dinner, 6 pm, Hillel (585 Mayfield Ave)
Welcome Shabbat Service and Dinner Traditional/Orthodox 7 pm, Chabad at Stanford - 1289 College Avenue
Evangelical & Nondenominational Worship & Prayer Gathering, 6:30 pm, Memorial Church
Christian Adventist Friday Night Vespers, 7:00 pm, "For Zoom link please email Jonathan Wheeler ( jamwheel@stanford.edu)

Saturday September 18

Queer Spiritual Gathering, 1 pm, QSpot.

Sunday September 19

Roman Catholic Mass, 9 am, 4:30 pm, 9 pm, Memorial Church
University Public Worship Multifaith Welcome, 11:00 am, Memorial Church
reFARMation - An Evangelical Worship Service, 10:30 am, Koret Pavilion (564 O’Connor Lane)
Latter-day Saint Sunday Worship Service, 12:30 pm, 865 Stanford Ave.

A Message to incoming Jewish Students:

Sign up for High Holiday updates!

Welcome to the Stanford Jewish community! We are so excited that you are almost here. Once you arrive on campus (and even before if you need us), Hillel at Stanford, Chabad at Stanford, and the Taube Center for Jewish Studies are HERE FOR YOU to support your Jewish exploration, Shabbat and ritual needs, to be your Jewish home(s), help you make friends, and build community to learn, travel, and grow together.

We are a diverse Jewish community, and honor all of the different backgrounds, perspectives, and identities that each individual brings. Don’t assume you need to be any particular “kind” of Jewish person to belong here—YOU belong, just by showing up and being you. But also, no one is a mind-reader; if you need something or have an idea, say something! This community, and your experience, will be what you make of it.

It is very exciting to be starting your Stanford career in the fall of 2021; also, a very exciting (and busy!) time in the Jewish calendar. Connecting with the Jewish community early, whether through a holiday meal, at a service, or on a hike or other program, is a great way to start to find your place at Stanford. Holiday plans for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot are still in formation, but will include free community meals together on Erev Rosh Hashanah, before and after the Yom Kippur fast, and on the Festival Days of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah; all great opportunities to meet new people.

We will also have outdoor services on campus in two locations, one featuring gender-egalitarian leadership and amplified musicians (likely most comfortable for folks from Reform, Conservative, and unaffiliated backgrounds) and one featuring full traditional liturgy, no musicians or instruments, and a mechitza (likely most comfortable for folks from traditional/Orthodox backgrounds); both will be beautiful and spiritual opportunities to connect with your deepest self and the Holy One.

Services not your thing? No problem! There will be other programs and learning opportunities, centered around the themes of the holidays and designed to help you meet new people and connect on a deeper level. Sign up here to receive updates with specifics. You can also keep checking the Hillel website for new information. Shana tova! We are wishing you an early sweet new year.