The Jewish Center—The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning www.jewishcenter.org 212-724-2700 The Jewish Center Erev Shabbat 5:35PM Candle lighting 5:40PM Minchah Young Leadership East Meets West Dinner Shabbat Morning 7:45AM Hashkama Minyan 8:30AM Rabbi Israel Silverstein Mishnayot Class 9:00AM Shacharit 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind 9:30AM Young Leadership Minyan (1st floor) 10:00AM Youth Groups, 2-year-olds: lower level; 3-5-year-olds: lower level; 1st-3rd grade: 7th floor; 4th-6th grade: 5th floor 10:03AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema With thanks to our Kiddush Sponsors: Please see page 2 for a complete list of our Shabbat Mevarchim Kiddush Sponsors Shabbat Afternoon Early Minchah begins next Shabbat 3:30PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home to Mt. Sinai Hospital and for home visits. Meet at the Westmont at 730 Columbus Ave. 4:20PM Parent & Child Learning with Rabbi Yosie Levine, Yigdal: What Does a Jew Believe? (Grades 1-4) 4:35PM Israel Friedman Daf Yomi 4:35PM 39 Melachot: Theory and Practice with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, Borer Part III: Peelers, Knives and Nutcrackers 5:20PM Minchah, afternoon youth groups Seudah Shlishit Speaker: Moshe Weinstock, Rebbi Nachman of Breslov Then and Now: The Reemergence and Transformation of His Philosophy Today With thanks to our Seudah Shlishit Sponsor: Hedda Rudoff in memory of her father, Max Elimelech Muller 6:34PM Shabbat concludes Change clocks: Please remember to turn back your clocks by one hour. November 2, 2013 PARSHAT TOLDOT/SHABBAT MEVARCHIM 29 Cheshvan 5774 Women's Tehillim - Monday, November 4 at 7:15PM. Contact Joyce Weitz for more info at 212-877-1176. SHABBAT, NOVEMBER 16 DAVID KAGAN MEMORIAL LECTURE BY GLENN COHEN A Time to Fight, a Time to Heal: Reflections of an Israeli Air Force Pilot, Healer and Hostage Negotiator TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 TH AT 8:00PM AN EVENING WITH SUSIE FISHBEIN Author of Kosher by Design THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ONLY 20 SEATS LEFT. VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO REGISTER. Sponsorship opportunities available. Thank you to our growing list of sponsors: Linda Isaacson, Rebecca & Emilio Krausz Co-sponsored by Camp Zeke with support from the UJA-Federation. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 TH RECEPTION AT 7:00PM, LECTURE AT 8:00PM COLUMBIA DEANS IN DIALOGUE The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: The Financial and Geopolitical Future of the United States An armchair conversation with Glenn Hubbard, Dean of the Columbia Business School and David Schizer, Dean of the Columbia Law School, moderated by Gary Belsky. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. SEATING IS LIMITED. VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO REGISTER. Sponsorship opportunities available. Please contact Rabbi Zirkind at [email protected]. If you are a Columbia alumnus, please email Eliane at [email protected]November is Membership Month at The JC Become a member by November 30 th and save 20% on the annual membership fee. Apply for membership online at www.jewishcenter.org or pick up an application in the lobby. Like our page on Facebook The Jewish Center Follow The JC on Twitter JewishCenterNY — DAILY SERVICES — Sun., November 3 Rosh Chodesh Daf Yomi 7:45AM Shach 8:30AM Minchah 4:35PM Mon., November 4 Rosh Chodesh Daf Yomi 7:45AM Shach 6:45/8AM Minchah 4:35PM Tues., November 5 –Thur., Nov. 7 Daf Yomi 7:45AM Shach 7/8AM Minchah 4:35PM Fri., November 8 Shach 7/8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Candle Lighting 4:27PM Minchah 4:30PM It gives us great pleasure to announce the engagement of our Resident Scholar, Rabbi Daniel Fridman to Dr. Chaya Gopin. We wish them Mazel Tov and look forward to welcoming Chaya to our community. Virginia Bayer Hirt Yosie Levine President Rabbi
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The Jewish Center—The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning www.jewishcenter.org 212-724-2700
The Jewish Center
Erev Shabbat 5:35PM Candle lighting 5:40PM Minchah Young Leadership East Meets West Dinner
Shabbat Morning 7:45AM Hashkama Minyan 8:30AM Rabbi Israel Silverstein Mishnayot Class 9:00AM Shacharit 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind 9:30AM Young Leadership Minyan (1st floor) 10:00AM Youth Groups, 2-year-olds: lower level; 3-5-year-olds: lower level; 1st-3rd grade: 7th floor; 4th-6th grade: 5th floor 10:03AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema
With thanks to our Kiddush Sponsors: Please see page 2 for a complete list of our Shabbat Mevarchim Kiddush Sponsors
Shabbat Afternoon Early Minchah begins next Shabbat 3:30PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home to Mt. Sinai Hospital and for home visits. Meet at the Westmont at 730 Columbus Ave. 4:20PM Parent & Child Learning with Rabbi Yosie Levine, Yigdal: What Does a Jew Believe? (Grades 1-4) 4:35PM Israel Friedman Daf Yomi 4:35PM 39 Melachot: Theory and Practice with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, Borer Part III: Peelers, Knives and Nutcrackers 5:20PM Minchah, afternoon youth groups Seudah Shlishit Speaker: Moshe Weinstock, Rebbi Nachman of Breslov Then and Now:
The Reemergence and Transformation of His Philosophy Today
With thanks to our Seudah Shlishit Sponsor: Hedda Rudoff in memory of her father, Max Elimelech Muller
6:34PM Shabbat concludes
Change clocks: Please remember to turn back your clocks by one hour.
November 2, 2013 PARSHAT TOLDOT/SHABBAT MEVARCHIM 29 Cheshvan 5774
Women's Tehillim - Monday, November 4 at 7:15PM. Contact Joyce Weitz for more info at 212-877-1176.
SHABBAT, NOVEMBER 16
DAVID KAGAN MEMORIAL LECTURE BY GLENN COHEN A Time to Fight, a Time to Heal: Reflections of an Israeli Air Force Pilot, Healer and Hostage Negotiator
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH AT 8:00PM
AN EVENING WITH SUSIE FISHBEIN Author of Kosher by Design
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ONLY 20 SEATS LEFT. VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO REGISTER.
Sponsorship opportunities available. Thank you to our growing list of sponsors: Linda Isaacson, Rebecca & Emilio Krausz
Co-sponsored by Camp Zeke with support from the UJA-Federation.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH
RECEPTION AT 7:00PM, LECTURE AT 8:00PM
COLUMBIA DEANS IN DIALOGUE The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: The Financial and Geopolitical Future of the United States An armchair conversation with Glenn Hubbard, Dean of the Columbia Business School and David Schizer, Dean of the Columbia Law School, moderated by Gary Belsky. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. SEATING IS LIMITED. VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO REGISTER.
Sponsorship opportunities available. Please contact Rabbi Zirkind at [email protected]. If you are a Columbia alumnus, please email Eliane at [email protected]
November is Membership Month at The JC
Become a member by November 30th and save 20% on the annual membership fee.
Apply for membership online at www.jewishcenter.org or
It gives us great pleasure to announce the engagement of our Resident Scholar, Rabbi Daniel Fridman to Dr. Chaya Gopin.
We wish them Mazel Tov and look forward to welcoming Chaya to our community.
Virginia Bayer Hirt Yosie Levine President Rabbi
SUNDAY
• Israel Friedman Daf Yomi, 7:45AM
MONDAY
• Israel Friedman Daf Yomi, 7:45AM
• 3D Tefillah: Davening, Distraction and Deveikut with
Dr. Adena Berkowitz, 8:00PM (November 11, 18, 25)
• (WILL RESUME ON NOVEMBER 11) Ancient Jewish History:
Judaism and the Origins of Christianity with Rabbi Ari
Lamm, 8:15PM
TUESDAY
• Israel Friedman Daf Yomi, 7:45AM
• Advanced Talmud with Rabbi Daniel
Fridman, 7:45AM
• Women’s Nosh and Drosh with Dr. Adena Berkowitz,
10:15AM
• (WILL RESUME ON NOVEMBER 12) The Sadye and Henry
Bayer Tanach Class: Mysteries of Elijah with Rabbi Yo-
sie Levine, 8:00PM
WEDNESDAY
• Israel Friedman Daf Yomi, 7:45AM
• Advanced Talmud with Rabbi Daniel
Fridman, 7:45AM
• Women of the Bible with Rabbi Yosie Levine, 11:00AM
• Studies in Weekly Haftarah, Rabbi Daniel Fridman,
8:00PM
• The Next Level with Rabbi Mark Wildes, 8:00PM
THURSDAY
• Israel Friedman Daf Yomi, 7:45AM
• Talmudic Text and Mental Illness with Rabbi Dovid
Zirkind, 8:00PM
FRIDAY
• Israel Friedman Daf Yomi, 7:45AM
• Shabbat4Tots with Cantor Chaim David Berson,
11:00AM
SHABBAT
• Mishnayot Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine, 8:30AM
• Hashkama Shiur with Rabbi Daniel Fridman, 9:15AM
• Israel Friedman Daf Yomi, 45 minutes before Minchah
• 39 Melachot: Theory and Practice with Rabbi Dovid
Zirkind, 45 minutes before Minchah
• Parent & Child Learning with Rabbi Daniel Fridman
Jewish Center University Fall Semester
JEWISH CENTER
MEMORIAL BOARD PLAQUES AVAILABLE
We recently installed a new Memorial Board on the west side of our main sanctuary. Purchasing an individual or family plaque is a wonderful way to memorialize a loved one. Please note that prices will increase on January 1, 2014. If you would like more in-formation, please contact our Executive Di-rector, Aaron Strum at 212-724-2700 x107 or at [email protected].
Susan & Arthur Degen in commemoraon of the
yahrtzeit of Susan's mother, Lea W. Gross
Rochelle Tarlowe & Seth Jonas in memory of
Seth's father, Eric Jonas and in honor of their new
Join Rabbi Fridman and The JC community for this wonderful chesed op-
portunity! As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, let us take a mo-ment to acknowledge that not all New Yorkers have plentiful tables. Join
us to prepare food packages and holiday cards for low-income seniors
and families.
REGISTRATION: For more information and to register, please visit our web-
site. Please register by November 16!
QUESTIONS? Email Rabbi Fridman at [email protected] This event is organized by UJA-Federation of New York along with Catholic Charities on Feeding Our Neighbors.
SHELDON RUDOFF MEMORIAL LECTURE BY RABBI DR. JACOB J. SCHACTER
Law and Narrative in the Torah and Gemara
Monday, November 25, 2013 • 8:00 pm
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter is a Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought at
Yeshiva University and a Senior Scholar at the Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jew-
ish Future. For more information, please contact the Beth Din of America at (212) 807-
November 3-11 YCF Chanukah Toy Drive to benefit those at Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services.
Whether for a baby loved by OHEL foster parents, an abused mother and her children in an
OHEL shelter, or a senior with a developmental disability cared for in an OHEL Bais Ezra resi-
dence, your gift most importantly says, “I care about you!” These wishes vary from board
games, electronics to gift cards. Stop by The JC lobby and drop off your gift.
ADVANCED LEADERSHIP PRIVATE TOUR OF THE CHAIM GROSS MUSEUM ART GALLERY
Thursday, November 7 at 11AM Join us for a private, docent-led visit to the Chaim Gross Museum in Greenwich Village. On
view are masterworks by Gross, as well as his extensive collection of modern American art,
featuring important paintings by de Kooning, Avery, Hartly and Burliuk, among many others.
Transportation will be provided. The trip costs $10/person plus the cost of transportation. Visit our website to register.
HOSPITALITY SHABBAT Shabbat lunch, November 9
Please join us for our Home Hospitality Shabbat Lunch which is hosted in conjunction with
the Hospitality Committee and the Membership Committee. If you are interested in joining
us, please visit our website. We look foward to spending Shabbat with you.
SAVE THE DATE: YOUNG COUPLES AND FAMILIES HOSPITALITY SHABBAT
Friday, November 15
TEEN VS. CLERGY BASKETBALL GAME Saturday night, December 7
Join us for a fun night of competition as our teens face off against the JC Rabbis. If you are
interested in playing, please contact [email protected]. Registration will open soon.
Mazal Tov Stephen Rutenberg on his recent engagement to Gérladine Tfelt.
Thank You to our Ushers Thank you to Miriam Gutwein, Avi
Jacobowitz, Red Katz and Adina
Wagman who are our ushers this Shabbat.
Our Lay Leaders Want to
Meet You! This week come meet Shira Oren-
stein, who will be joining the clergy on the receiving line immediately following services. We look forward to getting to know each of you, hear-ing your thoughts and ideas about The Center and discussing ways to become more involved.
Thank You CSS We would like to once again thank CSS and our dedicated CSS mem-bers for providing the security for our synagogue this week.
Best of luck to to Moshe Borg,
Hillary Gardenswartz, David
Rumschitzki, Judith Sambol,
Jonathan Schilowitz and all those who are running the NYC marathon on Sunday!
Leket Israel Fundraiser On Tuesday, November 19th at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC, Leket Israel will host a fine Whisky Tasting to benefit Leket Israel’s food rescue programs for the poor. The evening will feature rare and aged spirits, gourmet kosher catering, expert whisky sommeliers, a fine whisky and spirits auction and more. To become a sponsor or to purchase tickets, please contact American Friends of Leket Israel at 201-331-0070 or at [email protected].
Naftali Bennett in
Conversation with Dan Senor On Sunday, Nov. 17 at 8PM at the 92Y in Manhattan. Economy Minis-ter Naftali Bennett and Start-Up Nation co-author Dan Senor will join for a candid discussion. Tickets are $29 each and can be purchased at www.92y.org.
UPCOMING EVENTS
YOUTH DEPARMENT EVENTS
Children, join us for Adon Olam Children are encouraged to come up during
the Cantor’s recitation of Kiddush and then
to sing Adon Olam together.
SPECIAL Parent & Child Learning with
Rabbi Yosie Levine, Yigdal: What Does a
Jew Believe? (Grades 1-4) Shabbat, November 2
Chesed Opportunity:
Youth & Bikkur Cholim Visits Shabbat, November 2 at 3:30 Those in grades 5-8 are welcome. If you want
To advertise or list an announcement in The JC Shabbat Bulletin, please contact Eliane at [email protected]
Yitzchak as a Victim of Modern Journalism Rabbi Ari Lamm, William Fischman Rabbinic Intern
Join The JC Delegation at the 2014 AIPAC Policy Conference
March 2-4, 2014
Over three jam-packed days, Policy Conference participants choose from hundreds of informative sessions and participate in the pro-Israel community's largest and most important advocacy day.
Purchase your discounted ticket through The JC by Sunday, December 31st and take advantage of our rate: only $399 per person (standard registration fee is $599). Please visit our website to purchase your ticket.
It’s tempting to think of Yitzchak Avi-nu as a bridge between the more exciting and eventful careers of Avraham and Yaakov. In fact, many commentators have observed that Yitzchak spends his life simply repeating the exploits of his father. He experiences infertility that is miraculously cured (Gen 25); a famine
forces him to relocate to another locale where he resorts to a ruse designed to deflect the mal-ice of the local ruler who covets his wife (Gen 26); he digs wells and concludes a treaty with
the antagonists of the previous incident (Gen 26). Even the one event that should rightfully have distinguished Yitzchak from his peers among the Patriarchs – the Akedah – is tradi-tionally discussed in the context of Avraham’s righteousness. And although the subtle contrasts between the narrative iterations of events in Av-raham’s life and Yitzchak’s life are interesting, there is little, from a purely literary standpoint, to recommend the saga of Yitzchak. For person-al and cosmic drama, the critic would be far better off studying the life and times of Av-raham and Yaakov. How, then, is the believing Jew to con-ceptualize Yitzchak’s greatness? In one of his lesser-known fictional novels, The Ball and the Cross, G.K. Chesterton wrote, “It is the one great weakness of journal-ism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of excep-tions. We announce on flaring posters that a man has fallen off a scaffolding. We do not an-
nounce on flaring posters that a man has not
fallen off a scaffolding.” Indeed, the reading public gobbles up sensationalism, and worships at the altar of momentary heroism. The newspa-per that featured the headline, “Man Quietly Continues to Live His Life in Conformity to the Almighty’s Wishes,” would not long remain in business. Yet, perhaps this is precisely what makes Yitzchak an object of admiration. Yitzchak is the first person born into the Abra-hamic covenant. Given the great expectations attending his birth, and the monumental respon-sibilities imposed upon him merely by virtue of his genetics, it would have been eminently un-derstandable – if tragic – had Yitzchak rebelled against his upbringing. Even short of outright recalcitrance, one would expect at the very least that Yitzchak’s observance would be infused with a lesser passion than his father’s – after all, he hadn’t chosen this life! Instead, Yitzchak diligently and with calm dignity lives up to his father’s lofty stand-ards, retracing Avraham’s steps through the rough, often-lonely desert of faith. His father’s values were always his guiding principles – and in our day, where autonomy of the self is prized above all else, this is an exceedingly rare phe-nomenon indeed. Ultimately, then, Yitzchak’s profound greatness lay in his remarkable capacity to live unremarkably – a quiet life of spiritual growth unsullied by theological melodrama.
UPCOMING SEUDAH SHLISHIT SPEAKERS
For more information please visit www.jewishcenter.org
11.23 Nechama Goldman Barash When Memory Becomes Reality: What Happened When Honi Awoke
Nechama Goldman Barash is a graduate of Nishmat's Yoetzet Halakha program and is studying in Matan's new Hilkhata program.
11.09 Dr. Michael Makovsky
Israel in The Breach: US, Iran and The Middle East Michael Makovksy is a Chief Executive Officer of The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
11.16 Yossi Siegel From Scarcity to Abundance: Israel's Water Story
Yossi Siegel, a JC member, is an AIPAC National Board Member.
11.02 Moshe Weinstock Rebbi Nachman of Breslov Then and Now: The Reemergence and Transformation of His Philosophy Today
Moshe Weinstock is the author of Uman, the Israeli Journey to the Tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.
The Jewish Center •131 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 www.jewishcenter.org • 212-724-2700
PEACE OF MIND AT THE JC—NOVEMBER 3 THROUGH NOVEMBER 10
Peace of Mind (POM), developed by the Israel Center for Psychotrauma/Herzog Hospital, helps Israeli veterans who served in high risk combat units make a smooth transition back to civilian life. These veter-ans have served under extremely difficult circumstances.
This November 3rd thru November 10th The Jewish Center will be hosting Peace of Mind during their weeklong therapeutic workshop.
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
To support these soldiers and this
week-long project, please send a
check made out to American Friends
of Herzog Hospital/POM (please ear-
mark it for Jewish Center/POM in the
memo) to The JC office, Attention:
Eliane Glassman. If you would like to
sponsor online, please visit the Peace
of Mind event page on The JC web-
site.
POM EVENTS
Saturday Night, November 2nd at 7PM DESIGN A WELCOME BANNER AND BRACELETS FOR PEACE OF MIND
Come make a welcome sign and blue and white rainbow loom bracelets for our
Peace of Mind veterans! Those in grades 1st-8th are welcome to join. RSVP to