THE JEWISH CENTER

SPRING PROGRAM GUIDE 2016/5776

Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman Erica Brown Noted Speaker and Author, The Jewish Center Ruth Calderon Former Member of Former of The Jewish Center Community Scholar

Professor Samuel Rascoff Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman Layaliza Soloveichik Faculty Director, New York University Rosh , RIETS, Assistant United States Attorney Center on Law and Security at the U.S. Attorney’s Office

The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning

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Upcoming Events and Programs The Jewish Center 131 WeST 86th Street New York, NY 10024 Telephone: 212.724.2700 Fax: 212.724.5629 www.jewishcenter.org CLERGY AND STAFF Yosie Levine Rabbi The Jewish Center, a cornerstone ofModern Orthodox Jewish Dovid Zirkind A sSISTANT Rabbi Life on the Upper West Side, inspires its members and embraces Chaim Berson the broader Jewish community through vibrant prayer, serious Corant study, spiritual inquiry, charitable endeavors, appreciation of Daniel Fridman world culture and an abiding commitment to the State of . R esiDENT Scholar Ari Lamm R esiDENT Scholar In these pages, you will discover a Center that is the religious, Erica Brown intellectual and spiritual home for each of its members as well C oMMUNITY Scholar as a Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning that is Noach Goldstein welcoming to all. W iLLIAM Fischman Rabbinic Intern Strum We invite you to explore the full gamut of our fresh classes and new Executive Director programs and we look forward to seeing you at The Jewish Center. Eliane Dreyfuss Glassman Director of Programming & Communications Jenn and Gaby Minsky Y ouTH DirectorS X Inside these pages, you will find opportunities to: Ilana Gadish Yeto zet Halacha • Engage your children in enriching and meaningful Jewish activity • Thank our outgoing officers and welcome our new officers at our OFFICERS Annual Membership Meeting Avi Schwartz • Attend talks by top scholars and leading Jewish professionals President • Celebrate the State of Israel Andrew Borodach First Vice President Andrew Kaplan Table of contents: Vice President Tefillah at The JC ...... Page 3 Mark Segall Jewish Center University Course Listings and Descriptions Page 4 Vice President Afternoons at The JC ...... Page 6 Rose Lynn Sherr Vice President Youth Department ...... Page 7 Michael Jacobs Upcoming Events and Programs ...... Page 10 A ssisTANT Vice President Celebrate Israel with The JC ...... Page 12 Yaron Kinar The Hanno Mott Lecture ...... Page 13 T reASURER Spring Lecture Series ...... Page 14 Len Berman A sSISTANT Treasurer Keter Torah Awards ...... Page 16 Miri Lipsky at The Jewish Center ...... Page 17 Secretary Support The Jewish Center ...... Page 18 Tefillah at The JC 3 X Cantor Chaim David Berson leads the service the leads Berson David Chaim with melodies Cantor weekly Levine’s Rabbi Yosie inspire. fail to never that songs and the to speak and issues timeless timely and address sermons with with and one another relationships Hashem. congregants’ a 15 minute features this feel, a close-knit With following within conjunction a hot immediately davening. Committee’s Leadership Young of the nucleus is the This minyan young our by Led exclusively programming. religious social and Assistant and Rabbi,professionals Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, the relevant on beautifulconversation combines tefillahand minyan ideas. Jewish and issues followed a minyan community organizes the YCF a year Twice This a kiddushby family-friendly or a luncheon. environment is lead a wonderful to and opportunity couples, other meet to find out the next to when services. our website check Please willminyan be hosted. this Berson, service David Chaim the tunes uses Cantor Led by our Friday transform us and inspire to Carlebach of Shlomo experience. night service morning RabbiLed by is Wildes, this Saturday Mark Jewish about who little or nothing for people know designed Service and kiddush, by refreshments is followed prayer. with NJOP. Co-sponsored charge. socializing. No July. and June in meets This minyan 7:15PM SHABBAT SERVICES SERVICES SHABBAT Main Sanctuary 9:00AM Minyan Hashkama 7:45AM Leadership Young Minyan 9:30AM Couples & Young Minyan Families 9:30AM Night Friday Carlebach Minyan MJE Beginners Service 9:30AM Floor 10th Night Friday Late Minyan 8:00PM The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Program Spring | JewishCenter The Women’s Tehillim Tehillim Women’s who for those need of Tehillim Book the entire recite as we us every Monday other Join in Israel. sisters and our spiritual of our brothers support well-being for the safety and and information. visit for more Please our website Sunday and Weekday Services and Weekday Sunday 8:30AM. Auditorium at is in the Max held Stern Shacharit holidays, legal and On Sundays Max 7:00AM 8:00AMMarion is and in The at and Shacharit mornings, On weekday Chol days, fast Chodesh, Rosh Maariv, and Minchah For Grill (4th floor). Beit on our website). calendar (see adjusted the times are days, and Hamoed X Department of Tanach

Hashkama Shiur Women of the Bible Nosh and Drash Rotating JCU Faculty Rabbi Yosie Levine Dr. Adena Berkowitz Shabbat mornings at Wednesday at 11:00AM Tuesdays 10:15-11:30AM 9:15AM 4th floor 4th floor 5th floor dance studio Beginning with Eve, this series Join us for this weekly Parsha shiur Taught in conjunction with a hot explores the lives and legacies of the focusing on the intellectual and Kiddush every Shabbat morning, women of the Bible. Through close spiritual insights from the Torah. this highly participatory class uses textual readings and exploration of For women only. topics that relate to the weekly the classic Biblical commentaries, Parshah as well as pertinent this class for women will attempt to The Book of Ruth contemporary halachic issues. gain a deeper understanding of the Rabbi Daniel Fridman characters we know so well. Wednesdays at 6:45PM 8th floor

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Israel Friedman Daf Rabbi Israel Beit Hamikdash to Yomi Silverstein Mishnayot Barbecue: Exploring Rotating JCU Faculty Class the of

Jewish Center University Center Jewish Weekdays at 7:45AM, Rabbi Yosie Levine Shechita Shabbat afternoon 45 Shabbat Morning at Rabbi Noach Goldstein, minutes before Minchah 8:30AM William Fischman Rabbinic Intern 1st floor classroom 1st floor Tuesdays at 7:45AM A free-wheeling discussion of (beginning May 10) Jewish law and custom. 8th floor

4 The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Jewish Center University 5 X Like Father Like Son: Contemporary Like Father Like Avot of Pirkei Readings Rabbi Zirkind Dovid 9-23) May 7:00PM (from at Mondays 4th floor along Avot series This three-part will Pirkei study Shavuot. and cycle Pesach the traditional between the Mishnayot withBeginning Chapter, the second will week each studied discuss serve to as a platform and revolution, and tradition between the relationship with ethics of the changing confrontation Orthodox’s values. Western Department History of Department Thought of Jewish In the modern world, and Christianity are seen as two great, but sharply divergent religious traditions. traditions. religious but sharply divergent as two great, Christianity seen and are the modern Judaism world, In proudly actuallyChristians as adherents identified earliest hand, the on the one that, we forget often too Yet would that ideas espoused period later, and the same from , while many hand, on the other of the Torah, and students advanced for this - suitable course In with originating of as be thought Christianity. eventually to Christians, and and beginners alike will sharp - we dividing lines Jews there early were ask: extent what to Christianity and into transform - do Judaism how - and point what At blurred? lines those were extent what upon the lives impact questions should these how importance, And, of foremost religions? separate completely Hashem? of aspiring ‘ovedei Jewish History:Jewish Judaism in a Christian Empire Rabbi Ari Lamm 10) 7:00PM (beginning May at Tuesdays 4th floor With an eye toward contemporary applications, applications, contemporary toward eye an With willthis class special charged the most at anew look both Using king. in the life of Israel’s narratives this class commentaries, contemporary and classical to attempt in an questions timeless will re-engage the national beneath elements the human unpack story. David, King of Israel David, Class and HenrySadye Bayer Levine Rabbi Yosie 10- 24) May 8:15PM (from at Tuesdays 4th floor The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Program Spring | JewishCenter The X

Jewish History Series Shabbat afternoons: One hour before Minchah

May 7 at 6:15PM June 4 at 6:45PM Rabbi Noach Goldstein Talia Graff William Fischman Rabbinic Intern Between Two Worlds: Mendelssohn, Jews or Gentiles? Rabbinic and Wessely and the Move Toward Modernity Communal Responses to the Conversos of 1391 Talia Graff holds a BA and MA from Brandeis University in and their Descendants Near Eastern & Judaic Studies, as well as an MA in History from UCLA where she continues her studies toward a PhD in Jewish history. May 14th at 6:30PM Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman June 18 at 7:00PM Jews and Christians in the Medieval Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg Era and Today: A Thirteenth Century Femme Fatale: A Responsum on Isha Conversation of Enduring Significance Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman is a noted speaker and author and former Katlanit as a Window into Conceptions of Magic, Rabbi of The Jewish Center. He now serves as Rosh ha-Merkaz Medicine and Science in the Early Modern Period of Heichal Shlomo in . Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg is a PhD candidate at the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a Leo Baeck Fellow as well as a Scholar in Residence in the Gruss May 21 at 6:30PM Library of Talmudic Law at NYU Law. Tamara is working Rabbi Adam Mintz on a dissertation about the intellectual and cultural history of The History of Belief in God: What is Ashkenaz in the Early Modern period, focusing on halachic the Obligation? writings, primarily responsa literature (She’elot u Tshuvot). Rabbi Adam Mintz is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at City College, New York. He is the Rabbi and founder of Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim, a Modern Orthodox in Manhattan.

Seudah Shlishit Speakers Series: May 7: The Annual Yom Hashoah Seudah Shlishit A Personal Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Fran Maklin

Shabbat Afternoons at The JC The Afternoons at Shabbat May 14: Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman June 4: Rabbi Eric Grossman Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman is Rosh ha-Merkaz, Head of School at the Ramaz School Heichal Shlomo Israel

May 21: Elliot Zweig June 18: Shimon Mercer Wood Deputy Director of the Middle East Media Consul for Media Affairs at the Israeli Consulate Research Institute

6 The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Youth Department 7 X 2nd-3rd grade, with Molly Goldmeier 7th floor the Junior before play in free engage Children parsha play Our youth begins. davening Congregation play quizzes, during parsha themselves challenge games, story Before and time. guided play have breakers, ice delicious kiddush. and a lively has the group they leave, 5-6 year olds, 5-6 year with Karpf Center Youth Geller about time spend learning our children thisAt group, games. and holiday-related parsha play tefillahand in guided participate and stories also hear Children kiddush.go by Afterwards, the children followed play, sanctuary. in the main Adon Olam lead and upstairs YOUTH GROUPS YOUTH YOUTH DEPARTMENT YOUTH JEWISH CENTER The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Program Spring | JewishCenter The 3-4 year olds, 3-4 year with Ilana Shimunov Center Youth Geller sing and daven our children Ilana, Morah With Shabbat play the parsha, about learn songs, Shabbat The children stories. Torah-related to listen and games enjoy and hear to stories play, to also games choose Adon Olam lead and upstairs go they kiddush before sanctuary. in the main 2 year olds, 2 year with Isabel Tsesarsky Center Youth Geller for 2-year- runs a funprogram Isabel active and Morah engage and games play songs, sing olds, children where and Shabbat about conversations in age-appropriate ends The group the with kiddush, before holidays. in the main for Adon Olam join parents their children sanctuary. For more information about our Youth events, please contact our Youth Directors, please contact our Youth events, our Youth more information about For Minsky at [email protected]. Jenn and Gaby The Jewish Center Youth Department on programs is one of the most successfully-run youth Youth Center The Jewish With in our community. families young for Side, and remains a wonderful draw West the Upper and Marion Grill and The Max Center in The Geller Youth Shabbat programs professionally-run parents of children events, and educational year-round of exciting Beit Midrash, and a plethora services grade can participate 6th fully in synagogue and holiday while their in preschool through wonderful education, parsha study and some fun peer tefillah, introductory to children are exposed and teens. tots your including entire family, the for is the center Center The Jewish as well. 4th-6th grade, Spend Shabbat mornings with the with David Shimunov youngest members of our shul. X 7th floor Being a Youth Group Assistant entails playing This group aims to create a welcoming environment games, reading stories, davening and being a for tweens from a variety of schools. They spend Shabbat morning leading the Junior Congregation, role model to youth members. delve further into their study of the parsha, play games Email Gaby and Jenn for more information and do ice breakers. The visit this group and on becoming a Youth Group Assistant. engage in lively contemporary conversation about the parsha. Group games and sports build camaraderie and allow kids to make new friends.

SHABBAT AFTERNOONS

Shabbat Afternoon Park Meet-Up great time playing sports and games, munching on Families with children ages 8 and younger are invited snacks and discussing topics in Jewish life. Times vary to spend Shabbat afternoons socializing in the park. according to the Minchah schedule, so make sure to Once the weather warms up, you will find the location check the Shabbat Bulletin. and time in the weekly Shabbat Bulletin. Shabbat Afternoon Parent-Child Afternoon Groups Learning 5th floor This year long learning opportunity for parents and For boys and girls in 2nd-7th grade, there’s no better children is taught by our energetic and inquisitive way to spend Shabbat afternoons in NYC. With full clergy. We offer two different programs for children access to The JC gym and interactive games, your child of different ages. The programs are thematically will play with friends in a fun and safe environment. coordinated and touch upon Parshat HaShavuah and Led by our experienced teacher, Yael Kahn Pinto, upcoming Holidays. Please check the weekly Shabbat and her husband Tony Pinto, your child will have a Bulletin for more details.

Host your Birthday Party at The JC Host your child’s birthday party at The JC with Super Soccer Stars or Elliot’s Gymnastics. Jewish Center members receive a 10% discount on birthday parties and classes. Youth Department Youth

8 The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Youth Department 9 X Birthday Kiddush 4 June Shabbat, all March-June. birthdays from celebrate us and Join Graduation Kiddush 18 June Shabbat, of achievements the academic celebrate us as we Join PhD, to preschool From our community graduates. if or a friend a family you, tassel member a flipped at Eliane this spring, contacting by us know let please sponsor like would to you If [email protected]. Aaron Strum contact Kiddush, please the Graduation at Minsky & Gaby or Jenn [email protected] at [email protected]. Teen Girls Basketball Clinic Girls Basketball Teen 11:00AM 22 from 1:00PM to May Sunday, skills girls your a teen improve at to ready clinic! Alexis willbasketball Goldstein a clinic lead passing, like, of the game various aspects covering and zone and shooting, stance defensive transitions, we the clinic After with team. your communicating will a delicious lunch! have HaTorah and explicating Shabbat tefillah. The minyan tefillah. The minyan explicating Shabbat and HaTorah a wonderful by is followed kiddush the teens where Jenn contact or sponsor, participate To socialize. can [email protected]. at Minsky Gaby and Seudah Shlishit Family End-of-the-Year in Honor of Morah Judy 21 Shabbat, May Israeli her and Judy Morah us in celebrating Join during Shlishit. this Relax, delicious Seudah heritage out with friends friendshang new your make and while entertained. are our youth UPCOMING EVENTSUPCOMING Shabbat, May 14 at 9:30AM 14 at May Shabbat, once which meets minyan, teen JewishCenter The to women isa month, and a forum men for young Davening lives. in their religious roles leadership take our young and men, the young by led are layning and exploring the Kriat Divrei Torah deliver women Teen Minyan and Kiddush in a Private and Kiddush in a Private Minyan Teen Garden Thursday, May 12 May Thursday, family BBQ in JC rooftop us for a special Join Enjoy Day. Independence of Israel’s celebration Israel- create children as your delicious music food and crafts. themed Yom Ha’atzmaut Family BBQ Family Ha’atzmaut Yom Shabbat, May 7 Shabbat, May Yom All before will groups the Shabbat spend interactive in Israel-themed engaging Ha’atzmaut programs. educational Israel Shabbat Thursday, May 5 at 7:00PM, 5 May Thursday, UWS the on residence a private at Located join us for this to All invited girls and women are Rachel, Rachel Ringler. featuring program annual will us with extraordinaire, delight her baker delicious the most make to of how demonstration on our challah, which make will we to a chance all have Berkowitz Adena Dr. addition, In home. take own and traditions) will the various segulot (mystical share with of the tradition and challah baking connected address The Pesach. after key in the challah a putting direct Please willof the event upon be given RSVP. jennandgaby@ at Gaby and Jenn to questions jewishcenter.org. Annual Challah Bake Annual Challah The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Program Spring | JewishCenter The X Reading of the Names: UWS Yom Hashoah Commemoration Wednesday evening, May 4 at Congregation Rodeph Shalom (7 West 83rd Street) Once again we come together to commemorate Yom HaShoah in The Reading and Hearing of the Names of those killed during the Shoah. The Jewish Center reading will be from 4:00-4:20AM. For more information, please visit our website. Young Couples & Families Picnic A Special Private Tour with Rabbi Yosie Shabbat, May 14 Levine in Commemoration of Yom Hashoah: Join other young couples and families for a Anti-Semitism 1919-1939 potluck picnic Shabbat lunch in Central Park! at the New York Historical Society For more information and to RSVP, visit our Thursday, May 5 website or contact Yael & Tony Pinto and Jessica Join Rabbi Levine and the Advanced Leadership & Noam Zeffren at [email protected]. committee for a guided tour of this exhibit. Tickets cost $20 per person. Visit our website to register. Please direct questions to Batsheva, clergy Blood Drive assistant, at [email protected]. Sunday, May 22 from 10:00AM - 2:30PM Join The JC for our annual blood drive and help save a life. For questions, email [email protected]. Sisterhood Annual Brunch Sunday, May 22 at 10:30AM at the home of Heidi & Jeff Featuring a special tribute to past Sisterhood president Paulette Papilsky, z’’l and a special Annual “Shlissel” Challah Bake address by Best-Selling Author and Jewish Thursday, May 5 at 7:00PM, located at a private residence on the UWS (address given upon Center Member, Seth M. Siegel, Good News: RSVP) Why the BDS Bullies are Losing Every Battle. For more information and to register please email All women and girls are invited to join us for [email protected]. this annual program featuring Rachel Ringler. Rachel, challah baker extraordinaire, will delight Book Club Meeting: All Who Go Do Not us with her demonstration of how to make the Return: A Memoir by Shulem Deen Sunday, June 5 at 7:30PM, at the home of most delicious challah which we will all have a Maureen & Laszlo Marcus, 645 West End Ave chance to make on our own and take home. In addition, Dr. Adena Berkowitz will share the All are welcome to join for our final book club Upcoming Events and Programs and Events Upcoming various segulot (mystical traditions) connected meeting of the year. The group will discussAll with challah baking and the tradition of putting a Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir by Shulem key in the challah after Pesach. Please register on Deen. Rabbi Dovid Zirkind will lead the our website. Questions can be directed to discussion. If you have questions, please email [email protected]. Dinah Mendes at [email protected].

10 The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Upcoming Events and Programs 11 X our And All of y And ​ Save the Date: Special Briefing by Briefing the Date: Special Save Editor-in-ChiefMaurizio Molinari, of La Stampa Shabbat, July 30 Shabbat, June 25 Shabbat, topic of the lecture willThe be determining for Jewish strategies and goals appropriate witheducation, a focus on individual instruction. Shabbat Morning Public Lecture by by Lecture Public Morning Shabbat Fridman, Daniel Rabbi Children Shall Learn of God Shall Learn of Children Guests of Honor: Shira Orenstein & Daniel Kahn & Daniel Orenstein Shira of Honor: Guests & Kahn Pinto Yael Award: Memorial Leo Jung Rabbi Dr. Pinto Tony Rabbi ServiceCommunity Dovid & Ariella Award: Zirkind information. for more our website Visit Shabbat, June 11 this Lily Wagman Adina Kaplan and forward look recognizing to We support to this and information visit more for Please our website year. program. Leil Shavuot Tikkun night, June 12 Sunday and Girls Megillat Ruth Reading Women at 1:00PM June 13 Monday, in the main for this event special of every JC women generation Join contact information more For 1:30PM. sanctuary lunch at by followed [email protected] at Schwartz Beth 5th Annual Keter Torah Awards Torah 5th Annual Keter Glassman at [email protected] or call 212-724-2700x110. Glassman at [email protected] For more information on events and programs, contact Eliane Dreyfuss and programs, contact Eliane Dreyfuss on events more information For The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Program Spring | JewishCenter The Tuesday, June 7 Tuesday, at Guastavino’s The Jewish Center The Jewish Annual Dinner Monday, June 20 June Monday, to meeting annual an hold we year Each forum open elect an business, conduct on shul and Board to the members and officers new new welcome and Committee Administrative ones. departed remember and members Graduation Kiddush Graduation 18 June Shabbat, academic the celebrate us as we Join of our community graduates. achievements if a family you, member PhD, to preschool From thisor a friend spring,tassel a flipped please eliane@ at Eliane contacting by us know let sponsor like would to you If jewishcenter.org. Aaron contact Kiddush, please the Graduation & or Jenn [email protected] Strum at [email protected]. at Gaby Annual Membership Meeting X

Young Professionals Yom Hazikaron Salute to Israel Parade Memorial and Yom Ha’atzmaut Sunday, June 5 from 11:00AM to 4:00PM Celebration featuring the Moshav Join The Jewish Center at one of the largest Band gatherings in the world in support of Israel. Wednesday, May 11 at The Jewish Center Celebrate the 68th anniversary of the State of Minchah at 6:20PM followed by a Yom Hazikaron Tekes and then a Musical Ma’ariv Israel as we march up Fifth Avenue. This year’s Chagigit and Tefillah Chagigit theme is ‘Sight, Sound & Spirit.’ For more information please visit The evening will begin with a special tekes www.celebrateisraelny.org. for Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Remembrance Day, followed by a Ma’ariv chagigit for Yom Ha’atzmaut with a musical . Community-wide Party By the Shore Afterwards, everyone is invited to a concert Thursday, May 12 at the 79th Street Boat Basin with Moshav Band. Co-presented by The Join The JCC of Manhattan as the Hudson River Jewish Center, Congregation Ohab Zedek, becomes the Tayelet (promenade) to Congregation Ramath Orah, Kehilat celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut. Come early for kids’ Rayim Ahuvim, Lincoln Square Synagogue, activities, or join us at 6:30PM for an after-work Young Israel of the West Side, West Side celebration. Great Israeli music and food included Institutional Synagogue, Darkhei Noam and in the $5 ticket price. Your first drink is on us! Congregation Shearith Israel–The Spanish & Visit www.uwsisrael.org for more information and Portuguese Synagogue. This event costs $5 to RSVP. and pre-registration is required. Please visit www.uwsisrael.org to register.

Yom Ha’atzmaut Family BBQ Thursday, May 12 at 4:30PM Join us for a special JC rooftop family BBQ in celebration of Israel’s Independence Day. Enjoy delicious food and music as your children create Israel-themed crafts. Celebrate Israel with The Jewish Center with Jewish The Israel Celebrate

12 The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 The Hanno Mott Lecture 13 X Professor Samuel Rascoff Samuel Professor serves director as faculty Samuel Rascoff, an expert in national security law, Named a Carnegie and Security. on Law Center University York of the New City York the New School from Scholar in 2009, Rascoff the Law to came Department, analysis. A Police of intelligence where he served as director with first class honors, and summa cum laude, Oxford of Harvard graduate US Supreme to clerk School, Rascoff served as a law Law previously Yale of the US Court Judge Pierre N. Leval and to Court H. Souter Justice David also a special assistant with the He was the Second Circuit. of Appeals for Lipton, at Wachtell, in Iraq and an associate Authority Coalition Provisional Rascoff’s & Katz. Rosen publications include “Presidential Intelligence” Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman Rabbi Z. Feldman Daniel is of Teaneck, Rabbi of Congregation Ohr Saadyah Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman, at the Rabbi Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva Yeshiva a Rosh in the Sy Syms School of Business and the as an instructor as well University, of the Editor and serves as the Executive of Social Work, School Wurzweiler B’Yavneh Kerem of YU Press. He is an alumnus of Yeshivat RIETS initiative the Rabbi from Yadin) and Yadin Yoreh (Yoreh his ordination and received of the Bella and a fellow where he was Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, is the author of “The Right and Rabbi Feldman Elyon. Harry Wexner expanded 1999; (Jason Aronson, The Good: Halakhah and Human Relations” Soul” and the Jewish Chesed Books, 2005); “Divine Footsteps: edition, Yashar

(Harvard Law Review); “Counterterrorism and New Deterrence” (NYU Law Review); “Establishing Official Review); (NYU Law Deterrence” and New “Counterterrorism Review); Law (Harvard “Domesticating Intelligence” Review); Law (Stanford of Counter-Radicalization” and Strategy Islam? The Law Review). Law (Texas Terrorism” (Counter-) of Homegrown and “The Law Review), Law (Southern California (Yeshiva University Press, 2008); “False Facts and True Rumors: Lashon Hara in Contemporary Culture” (YU Culture” Lashon Hara in Contemporary Rumors: and True Facts Press, 2008); “False University (Yeshiva Rabbi Feldman BaSefarim. entitled Binah essays of Talmudic as three volumes Press/Maggid Books); as well publications such for and has also written essays of Talmudic volumes of more than ten is the co-editor lecturer in Handbook of Judaism and Economics. He is a frequent and the Oxford as The Orthodox Forum, America and abroad. locations across The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Program Spring | JewishCenter The For more information and to register, please visit www.jewishcenter.org. register, and to information more For

In an age of social media and ever-expanding technological technological media and ever-expanding In an age of social continue limits and possibilities of personalcapabilities, the privacy ethical legal, the discuss as they thinkers leading two Join change. to digital landscape. of our ever-evolving and religious implications the Ethics of Personal Privacy Privacy of Personal the Ethics • Lecture begins at 8:00PM 31 May Tuesday, An Armchair Conversation featuring: Conversation An Armchair Samuel Rascoff and Professor Z. Feldman Rabbi Daniel Surveillance and Technology, The Hanno Mott Lecture Lecture Mott Hanno The on Contemporary Ethics Jewish Scholar in Residence: Erica Brown, JC Community Scholar Shabbat and Shavuot, June 11–13 X Join us for lectures, learning and leadership training sessions over Shabbat and Yom Tov.

Erica Brown is an educator and author who consults for the Jewish Agency and other Jewish non-profits. She lectures and writes widely on subjects of Jewish interest and leadership. She lives with her husband and four children in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Shabbat Morning Public Lecture by Scholar in Residence: Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman Wisdom and Humility in a World of Personal Autonomy In commemoration of the first yahrzeit of mori ve-Rabbi, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein Shabbat, May 14 following 9:00AM services

Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman is a noted speaker and author who lectures widely throughout Israel and the United States. His shiurim combine profound psychological insight and sensitivity with deep erudition, conceptual sophistication, path-breaking creativity, humor, and inspiration. Rabbi Berman is the former Rabbi of The Jewish Center and Instructor of Talmud (Reish Metivta) at Yeshiva University. He earned a BA in Philosophy from Yeshiva College, an MA in from the Bernard Revel Graduate School, and Ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, after which he continued his studies in RIETS’ Kollel Elyon. After making , Rabbi Berman earned a PhD in the philosophy of Halacha at Hebrew University and now serves as Rosh ha-Mercaz of Heichal Shlomo in Jerusalem.

With thanks to our sponsors: Sharon & Sinclair Haberman, Dinah & Andy Mendes, Ilana & David Prager Spring Lecture Series Lecture Spring Shabbat Afternoon Jewish History Series Jews and Christians in the Medieval Era and Today: A Thirteenth Century Conversation of Enduring Significance

Seudah Shlishit Shiur Living in Gush Etzion During a Wave of Terror: Reflections on Life in Israel

14 The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Spring Lecture Series 15 X We welcome your feedback and ideas. feedback your welcome We Bernard Falk, David Meyer, Rabbi Dovid Zirkind Rabbi Dovid Meyer, David Bernard Falk, Martha Sonnenschein Memorial Lecture Soloveichik Layaliza by 4 following 9:00AM services June Shabbat, in as valedictorian University Yeshiva from graduated Soloveichik Layaliza Yale a JD from earned then She Studies. General and Studies both Jewish also clerked She Court of Israel. on the Supreme clerked and School Law York District District Court for the Southern of New States on the United Rifkind Weiss, and Wharton Paul, at associate a litigation became and at the Attorney States she is Assistant an United Currently, Garrison, LLP. York. way the Along New District Eastern of for the Office Attorney’s U.S. in lectures given has and Education, MS in Jewish an she also obtained is She a sci-fi junkie States. the United around communities Jewish many children. her by chess at beaten gets regularly and a chocoholic, and Former Member of Knesset Ruth Calderon and Ruth Calderon of Knesset Member Former Conversation in Ari Berman Dr. Rabbi OpportunitiesChallenges, Life of Jewish and Complexities Today in Israel and Learning 7:30PM 15 at May Sunday, the Hebrew from MA in Talmud her PhD and earned Ruth Calderon secular, Israeli the first 1989, she established In of Jerusalem. University she 1996 In Midrash. Beth egalitarian and pluralistic, co-educational, ALMA,founded with Hebrew Israelis secular which acquaint seeks to a Atid party made was and Yesh the new 2012 she joined In culture. with Aviv in Tel a position until lives she held She 2015. member, Knesset children. three her connection the strengthens which B’Yachad Tov by is co-hosted event This York. of New UJA-Federation the and community Orthodox the between of the members $18 for and members Center Jewish $10 for cost Tickets event. this for register to website visit Please our community. The committee can be reached at [email protected] The committee For more information and to register, please visit our website. our website. please visit and to register, more information For Thank you to our education committee: Leora Botnick,Thank you Naomi Cohen, The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Program Spring | JewishCenter The Fourth Annual Keter Torah Awards X S Shabbat, June 11 T Rabbi Shimon said, “There are three crowns: the crown of Torah, the crown of priesthood, and the crown of kingship. And the crown of a good name is superior to them all.”

In the spirit of Shavuot, which celebrates two great Jewish heroines, Naomi and Ruth, the Keter Torah Award ceremony will immediately precede Shavuot. The ceremony provides a unique opportunity for The Jewish Center family to show its high regard for the outstanding commitment and leadership of women in our community. This year’s Keter Torah Awards will be presented on Shabbat, June 11, 2016, following Shabbat morning services in The Jewish Center’s main sanctuary. OUR

Lily Kaplan Adina Wagman HONOREES

Please mark your calendars and join us for this special event.

Keter Torah Awards Torah Keter If you would like to acknowledge the women of our synagogue, and our honorees, please visit www.jewishcenter.org. Your donation will contribute towards honoring these women, as well as to support the work of The Jewish Center. Your name will be published in the program to be distributed at the presentation.

Keter Torah Sponsor: $180 • Rimon Sponsor: $72

For more information on events and programs at The JC, contact Eliane Dreyfuss Glassman at 212-724-2700 x110 or [email protected].

16 The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Shavuot at The Jewish Center 17 X Tikkun Leil Shavuot kicks Leil Shavuot Tikkun off with: by co-taught session A special Erica Brown Levine Dr. and Rabbi Yosie 11:45PM 11 at June night, Saturday the night throughout classes Shiurim and The Jewish Center | Spring Program Guide 2016/5776 Program Spring | JewishCenter The Parent-Child Learning over Shavuot Learning over Parent-Child Young Leadership Pre-Shavuot Dinner Leadership Pre-Shavuot Young 10 June Friday, more for website our Visit event. sell-out Leadership Young annual this with chag three-day the off Kick get involved. to or questions any with [email protected] email Please register. to and information and Girls’ Megillah reading Women 1:30PM lunch at by followed 1:00PM, 13 at June Monday, The Jewish Center is pleased to offer many classes, programs, and social opportunities to the Jewish community free of charge. To continue to fulfill our mission as the Center for Jewish Life and Learning on the Upper West Side, we depend on the munificence of our X participants. We invite you to join the growing number of members and donors who so generously support us.

For more information please visit www.jewishcenter.org Sponsorship Oppotunities Library/Beit Midrash away with a memorial gift to The Jewish Center. There The Jewish Center aims to make the Library/Beit is no better way to pay tribute to a life lived in pursuit Midrash a place where everyone will feel comfortable of Jewish ideals and values. Your thoughtfulness will be to learn and study. We are continuously expanding acknowledged with a gift card to the family or friends you our literary resources with relevant works and greatly designate. For more information on tribute gifts, contact appreciate your book requests and donations. To support Aaron at [email protected]. our learning center, please contact [email protected] or visit our website. Memorial Plaques We recently installed a new Memorial Board on the west Kiddush or Seudah Shlishit side of our Main Sanctuary. Purchasing an individual or Sponsorship family plaque is a wonderful way to memorialize a loved one. If you would like more information, please contact One of the best parts of The Jewish Center is shmoozing our Executive Director, Aaron Strum at 212-724-2700 during Kiddush. This time helps us build the connections x107 or at [email protected]. that make us a strong, vibrant community. By sponsoring a Kiddush, you participate in supporting and fostering that sense of community. You can honor someone, Rabbi Leo Jung Memorial Fund remember someone, celebrate a simcha or personal Throughout the year, hundreds of people and places turn accomplishment. to The Jewish Center for financial assistance: orphanages, hospitals, poor people, yeshivot, and others. They come to There are many different (Community The Jewish Center from our local community, from across Kiddush, Hashkama Kiddush, Young Leadership the United States, and from Israel, because The Jewish Kiddush, Youth Birthday Kiddushes) and levels of Center is known as an institution that embodies the values Kiddush sponsorship. To support our Kiddushes, please of chessed and . Our charity fund, named after contact Aaron Strum at [email protected]. and created by Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, zt”l, was established to help Jews in need throughout the world. Monies from this Sponsoring a Learning account are distributed at the discretion of the Rabbi. Opportunity Celebrate a special occasion with a gift to The Jewish These are just some of the ways you can show your Center in honor of a friend or family member. Your appreciation and support for The Jewish Center. contribution will be acknowledged with a gift card For more information about other sponsorship informing the person being honored of your generosity. opportunities, please contact Aaron Strum at astrum@ You may also wish to remember those who have passed jewishcenter.org or call 212-724-2700.

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