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OCTOBER 21-22, 2015 • SHABBAT CHOL HAMOED SUKKOT • 20 T ISHREI 5777 OCTOBER 23-25, 2015 • SHEMINI ATZERET /S IMCHAT TORAH • 22-23 T ISHREI 5777

EREV SHABBAT 5:50PM Candle Lighting 5:55PM Minchah 6:45PM Dinner in The Sukkah for those who pre reserved COMMUNITY -WIDE HAKAFOT Dvar Torah by Frankie and Jed Oliner and Akiva Levine Monday Night, October 24 SHABBAT 8:45AM Shacharit (3 rd floor) Kohelet The entire community is invited 9:47AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema 10:00AM Youth Groups, 2-year-olds, 3-4-year-olds and 5-6-year-olds: Geller Youth to join us for Center; 2 nd -3rd graders, 4 th -6th graders: 7 th floor Hakafot and dancing THANK YOU TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSOR : st Sharon Schneier & Clifford Brandeis in commemoration of the yahrtzeit of Harvey on the 1 floor for Schneier men and women. 12:15PM Lunch in the Sukkah for those who pre reserved Hot kiddush following the Dvar Torah by Emma Salomon TH 4 hakafah. 4:00PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home (meet at 730 DON ’T FORGET YOUR DANCING Columbus Ave.) SHOES 4:55PM Israel Friedman Daf Yomi 5:00PM Parent Child Learning with Rabbi Yosie Levine for 1st-5th Graders (4th FL) 5:40PM Minchah SHABBAT BEREISHIT KIDDUSH Seudah Shlishit speaker: Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank , “Gog U'magog” 6:48PM Shabbat concludes Join us for a special Kiddush hosted by HOSHANAH RABBAH Rabbi Yosie & Dr. Rachel Levine SUNDAY , O CTOBER 23 7:00/8:00AM Shacharit Followed by Breakfast in the Sukkah 7:15AM Israel Friedman Daf Yomi 5:47PM Candle lighting MAZAL TOV TO OUR CHATTANIM 5:55PM Minchah and Shiur by Rabbi Noach Goldstein , Burn Down the Sukkah? A Mysterious Minhag and the Transition to a Post-Sukkot Reality. Chattan Torah: Aaron Weitz Chattan Bereishit: David Reves SHEMINI ATZERET Chattan Maftir: Chaim Dovid Berson MONDAY , O CTOBER 24 Please join us for Seudah Shlishit in 8:45AM Shacharit their honor on Shabbat, October 29 9:30AM Young Leadership Minyan (5 TH floor) 10:00AM Yizkor 10:00AM Youth Groups (see information on page 2) 1:00PM Young Leadership Shemini Atzeret Lunch in the Sukkah (prior reservation required) MAY & S AMUEL RUDIN LECTURE 4:15PM Pre-Hakafot for Pre-Schoolers (1st Floor) SHABBAT NOVEMBER 12 TH AT 5:00PM Israel Friedman Daf Yomi 11:00 AM 5:15PM Youth Department Learning with Rabbi Avi Feder (ages 7-12) (5th Floor) 5:45PM Minchah Shiur by Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, The Sforim are Falling! Musing On The Most Dangerous Bret Stephens is Hagbah Season Of The Year the deputy editorial Candle lighting after 6:45PM page editor of the 6:30PM Community-Wide Hakafot following Maariv Wall Street Jour-

SIMCHAT TORAH nal, for which he won TUESDAY , O CTOBER 25 the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 8:45AM Shacharit 2013. 10:00AM Youth Groups (see information on page 2) 10:15AM Special Shiur for Women with Ariella Zirkind: Kinnah B'Maaseh Breishit: WOMEN'S TEHILLIM GROUP God's Creations in Competition (4th Floor) Monday, October 31 at 7:15PM. Simchat Torah Ice Cream Kiddush, sponsored by Jennifer & Mark Becker Contact Joyce Weitz for more 5:00PM Israel Friedman Daf Yomi information at 5:45PM Minchah and Shiur with Rabbi Avi Feder , Marcheshvan: Not So Bitter After All 212-877-1176 . 6:44PM Yom Tov concludes

The Jewish Center - The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning www.jewishcenter.org • 212-724-2700 SIMCHAT TORAH AT THE JC

Pre-Hakafot for Pre-Schoolers Monday, October 24 from 4:15PM

Youth Department Learning with Rabbi Avi Feder (ages 7-12) •Monday, October 24 from 5:15PM-7PM

Hakafot • Monday, October 24 Community-wide family-friendly celebration of Torah!

Special Shiur for Women with Ariella Zirkind Tuesday, October 25 at 10:15AM (4 th floor)

Simchat Torah Ice Cream Kiddush Tuesday, October 25 Sponsored by Jennifer & Mark Becker

YOUTH GROUPS OVER THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO SPONSORED THE SHEMINI ATZERET /S IMCHAT TORAH PRE -HAKAFOT FOR PRE -SCHOOLERS Groups will meet on Monday and Tuesday from 10:00AM-12:00PM Rachel Wolf & Andrew Borodach Evelyn & Moshe Fruchter 3 and under, 3-4-year-olds and 5-6-year-olds Maxine & Ian Goldman GELLER YOUTH CENTER Shira Orenstien & Danny Kahn 2nd -3rd graders, 4 th -6th graders - 7TH FLOOR Amanda Nussbaum & Daniel Laifer Rabbi Yosie & Rachel Levine THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO SPONSORED Lauren & Jordan Rosenberg SIMCHAT TORAH FOR GRADES 1 TO 8 Miri Lipsky & Joshua Schainker Jennifer & Mark Smith Marnie & Scott Black, Maxine & Ian Goldman Becca & David Herman Join us for Pre-Hakafot for Amy & Jed Latkin, Dana & Neil Leibowitz Pre-Schoolers on Deena Blanchard & Akiva Novetsky Monday, October 24 Sabrina & Guy Salomon and at 4:15PM Adina & Phil Wagman JEWISH CENTER UNIVERSITY FALL SEMESTER BEGINGS OCTOBER 31

DAILY (except Shabbat) Genesis SHABBAT Israel Friedman Daf Yomi with Sadye and Henry Bayer Chumash Rabbi Israel Silverstein rotating JCU Faculty, 7:45AM Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine, Mishnayot Class with

MONDAY 8:00PM Rabbi Yosie Levine, 8:30AM

Heretic with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, WEDNESDAY Hashkama Shiur 8:00PM with rotating Women of the Bible with JCU Faculty, 9:15AM TUESDAY Rabbi Yosie Levine, will resume Advanced Gemara Chaburah October 26th, at 11:00AM Israel Friedman Daf Yomi with with Rabbi Noach Goldstein rotating JCU Faculty, 1 hour 7:45-8:30AM Jewish History: Judaism in a before Minchah Christian Empire with Nosh and Drash with Rabbi Ari Lamm, 7:00PM 39 Melachot with Dr. Adena Berkowitz, Rabbi Dovid Zirkind 10:15-11:30AM To sponsor Kiddush or Seudah Shlishit or a JC event, please contact Aaron at [email protected] UPCOMING EVENTS COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

SHABBAT BEREISHIT KIDDUSH SHABBAT , O CTOBER 29 Join us for a special Kiddush hosted by Rabbi Yosie & Dr. Rachel Levine. THANK YOU TO CSS We would like to once again SEUDAH SHLISHIT IN HONOR OF OUR CHATTANIM thank CSS and our dedicated SHABBAT , O CTOBER 29 CSS members for providing Join us for a festive and entertaining Seudah Shlishit honoring members the security for our syna- dedicated to the core values of the Shul. Come and show your support gogue this week, during the for our Center and the honorees at this program, which is not to be High Holidays and the missed! upcoming holidays.

UPCOMING RUDIN LECTURE SHABBAT NOVEMBER 12 TH AT 11:00 AM THANK YOU TO OUR THE STATE OF OUR UNION : A P OST –ELECTION BRIEFING WITH USHERS BRET STEPHENS Bret Stephens is the deputy editorial page editor of the Wall Street Shabbat October 22 Journal, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2013. He Howard Brodie and is a graduate of the University of Chicago and holds a Masters from the Brauna Fortgang London School of Economics. From 2002 to 2004 Mr. Stephens served as Shemini Atzeret October 24 the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post. In addition to the Journal, he is Jay Worenklein and a respected commentator on American and Israeli foreign affairs, a reg- Chani Segall ular panelist on the Journal Editorial Report, a weekly political talk show Simchat Torah October 25 broadcast on Fox News Channel and the author of "America in Retreat: Mark Segall and The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder," (2014). He lives Tehillah Blech Harris here in New York City with his wife and three children.

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PRE -HAKAFOT FOR PRESCHOOLERS MONDAY , O CTOBER 24 FROM 4:15PM Come dance and sing with the Torah, enjoy a delicious dinner and dessert with your family and friends! Visit our website to register or sponsor.

SIMCHAT TORAH FOR GRADES 1-8 MONDAY , O CTOBER 24 FROM 5:15PM-7:00PM Join Rabbi Avi Feder and the JC Youth Department for Jewish Knowledge Trivia, Prizes, a Candy Table Dancing and More! Refreshments will be served. Event Sponsorship: ($25, $50, $100, $180). Event Chair Becca Herman. Visit our website to sponsor this event.

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Dovid Zirkind Associate Rabbi Kohelet and Jerusalem Rabbi Noach Goldstein, Resident Scholar Chaim David Berson Cantor

There is no question that the age-old Ashkena- multiple faiths and nationalities. However Ari Lamm zi custom of reading Kohelet on Shabbat Chol there is one small problem. Largely thanks to Resident Scholar Hamoed Sukkot is especially welcome this the massacre perpetrated by the conquering year. The sagacity, complexity, and fear of Crusaders in 1099, there was almost no actual Erica Brown God displayed by the wisest of all men serve Jewish community to speak of in this period. Community Scholar as a badly needed counterbalance to much of The Ramban famously wrote to his son that he Noach Goldstein this year’s political and cultural discourse. found only two Jews living in the city when he Resident Scholar (Keep an eye out for—among others— arrived in 1267. Therefore while the museum Kohelet 9.17.) Just recently, I found Kohelet had no trouble finding relevant Christian and Avi Feder William Fischman instrumental for providing a perspective of Muslim pieces from Jerusalem, all its Jewish Rabbinic Intern two recent events concerning the city that artifacts are either German or from the Shlomo once ruled: Jerusalem. 1500s, when the Jewish community began to Aaron Strum recover. On the one hand, we encounter a Executive Director One of course is the absurd resolution passed UNESCO resolution which desperately seeks Jenn & Gaby Minsky this week by UNESCO castigating Israel for to imagine a modern judenrein Jerusalem, and Youth Directors all sorts of alleged aggressions and oppres- on the other hand we see an art exhibit at- sions around the Temple Mount area. The ac- tempt to conjure a Jewish presence in the city OFFICERS cusations themselves are ridiculous, but the at a time where it was not possible. Avi Schwartz President media coverage has justly focused on the res- olution’s exclusive referral to the holiest site in Fast forward to today, with hundreds of thou- Andrew Borodach First Vice President Judaism by its Muslim name, and its descrip- sands of Jews living in the thriving city. We tion of the Kotel as “Al-Buraq Plaza.” The have all seen, either in person or in photo- Michael Jacobs Vice President slander, malignancy, and historical fantasy graphs, the thousands and thousands of Jews emanating from an anti-Semitic UN resolution who flock to the Kotel on Sukkot with their Deena Blanchard simultaneously recall Kohelet 3.16 (“In the lulavim and etrogim, and the rows of kohanim Vice President place of justice there is wickedness, and in the standing ten-deep to perform birkat kohanim. Mark Segall place of righteousness there is wickedness”) To the UN then, our response to their pathetic Assistant Vice President and 1.9 (“There is nothing new under the effort to sever us from our city is simply Yaron Kinar sun”). “Futility of futilities!” (Kohelet 1.2) And as we Treasurer

contrast the Jerusalem of the Middle Ages Len Berman However it is fascinating to juxtapose this res- with the miraculous revival occurring there now Assistant Treasurer olution with the Jerusalem-centered art exhibit before our very eyes, we declare “All that Andrew Kaplan that recently opened at the Met. Titled God does shall endure forever!” (Kohelet Assistant Treasurer “Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under 3.14). Miri Lipsky Heaven,” the exhibit attempts to portray me- Secretary dieval Jerusalem as a cosmopolitan home of Yoetzet Halacha Ilana Gadish [email protected] 646-598-1080

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