ה י ב ר ו א י נ ס ט י ט ו ת ד ׳ ר י ב ר ד ל ~ Hebrew Institute of Riverdale THE BAYIT BULLETIN May 18, 2012 27 Iyar, 5772 Hebrew Institute of Riverdale Wishing Mazal Tov to: 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway Pamela & Jeffrey Gurock on the birth of a granddaughter, Dahlia Ruth, to their children Rosie & Dan Mattio.

Bronx, NY 10463 Beth & Ari Hait on the engagement of their daughter Tzipora to Eytan Buchman. www.thebayit.org E-mail: [email protected] This Shabbat @ The Bayit Phone: 718-796-4730 SHABBAT UNITY TEFILLAH & LEARNING: Join tefillah - and learning about tefillah - with the whole Bayit. We’ll begin tefillah at 8:00am, and all Ashkenazi tefillot will join Fax: 718-884-3206 as one. At the end of tefillah, we’ll be joined by Beth Aharon, and have 2 shiurim slots, each Rav : [email protected] with two choices, on topics of tefillah: Rabba Sara Hurwitz: [email protected] 10:30am - 11:10am: Dr. Chaya Gorsetman: “Tefillah: A Developmental Process from Childhood to Rav Steven Exler: [email protected] Adulthood” (Main Sanctuary), OR Rav Murray Schaum: “How to Reach the Infinite: The Structure of Tefillah.” (Lower Level Beit Midrash) Rav Ari Hart: [email protected] 11:15am - 11:55am: Brian Spira: “Shir Shel Yom: Origins, Practices, and Meaning” (Lower Level Beit Midrash), OR Dr. Debra Kaplan: “A Different Kind of Tefillah be-Tzibur: German in the Early Modern Kiddush Countryside.” (Main Sanctuary) Followed by the May Birthday Kiddush. Kiddush will be sponsored this week in honor of the May Birthdays. BETWEEN MINCHA AND MAARIV - Shiur with Rav Ari Hart For the list of sponsors see box on page 2. “Shmittanomics - Does the Torah Have An Economic Worldview?”

To sponsor a Kiddush, please contact MOTZEI SHABBAT MAARIV - YOM YERUSHALAYIM: Please join us at the end of Shabbat Arielle Berger - [email protected]. for a festive Motzei Shabbat Maariv with special Yom Yerushalayim melodies.

This Week YOM YERUSHALAYIM FILM NIGHT - This Sunday, May 20, 6:15pm Shabbat Parshiot Behar- Join us for a film screening and short discussion. We’ll watch a short film about seven diverse Israelis in Bechukotai one building in Nachalat Shiva, and a second short film of interviews with those who were there in • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm 1967. Light snacks provided. Suggested donation $5. Will lead into 8:00pm Mincha/Maariv. • Candle Lighting: 7:52pm Next Shabbat @ The Bayit • Shacharit - Unity Tefillah: 8:00am SPECIAL ISRAEL SHIUR WITH RAV AVI - Shabbat, May 26: “Yearning for Israel: The Diaspora • Sephardic Tefillah: 8:00am (2nd FL BM) Relationship to the Jewish State.” We’ll go straight through tefillah without a drasha, and Rav Avi will teach this shiur at the conclusion of tefillah. • Sof Zman Kriat Shema: 9:13am • Parsha Shiur: 6:55pm BETWEEN MINCHA AND MAARIV - Shiur with Rav Steven “Receiving the Torah Again: Preparations for Shavuot.” • Mincha: 7:40pm • Shabbat Ends/Maariv: 8:56pm ISRAEL DEBATE @ The Bayit Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and Peter Beinart Weekday Times Tuesday, June 5 at 8:00pm (Please note: Mincha will be at 7:45pm, • Shacharit and Maariv after the debate) A powerful night of engagement and Sun: 8:30am (Yom Yerushalayim) discussion over the future of Medinat Yisrael. Feel free to submit questions in advance to [email protected]. Mon/Thurs: 6:40, 8:00am Tue: 6:30, 8:00am Our Book of Remembrance - Yizkor Book is now in formation. Please fill (Rosh Chodesh Sivan) out the form and return it with an optional contribution to the shul Wed/Fri: 6:45, 8:00am office by this Tuesday, May 22. You must submit this form each year in order to have a listing in the book. The form is available on our website • Mincha/Maariv all week: 8:00pm at www.thebayit.org or on the table in the shul lobby. Next Week Shabbat Parshat Bamidbar & SHAVUOT DINNER AT HIR - Saturday night, May 26: On Erev Shavuot, Erev Shavuot May 26, join us for a delicious dairy dinner and learning session. Members: $30/ • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm Adult, $20/Child, Non-member: $35/Adult, $25/Child. Reservations must be made by Tuesday, May 22. To sign up online go to www.thebayit.org. • Candle Lighting: 7:58pm • Shacharit - Main Tefillah: 8:30am Please join us at our 38th Annual • Mincha: 7:55pm Journal Dinner - • Candle Lighting: 9:02pm Sun., June 10, 2012 • Maariv: 9:05pm at 5:00pm

Please see our full Shavuot Ruby & Stanley Ann & James Schedule on pages 2-3. Jean & Phil Langer Schneider Lapin THE BAYIT BULLETIN

This Week’s Classes @ the Bayit Shavuot Schedule @ the Bayit Daf Yomi with Rabbi Dov Linzer meets in Room 3-4. We’re honored to learn with Rabbi Dov Linzer this year on 7:30am Sun.-Fri., and Shabbat after Mincha. “Issues in Conversion”. Please join us for his 4 talks over the course of Shavuot, for serious text study and discussion on a Shabbat critical practical communal issue. We’ll study the laws and values 6:55pm - Parsha Shiur with Rav Steven and analyze the responsa literature on fascinating real cases. We have lots of other special programming for adults and children. After Mincha - Parshat Hashavua with Beth Aharon (2nd Fl. Beit Midrash) After Mincha - Shiur with Rav Ari Hart (Main Sanctuary) Friday, May 25 - Erev Shabbat 7:00pm - Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat Monday 7:58pm - Candle Lighting

6:30pm - Hebrew Reading Crash Course, Level I (Lobby)* 7:15pm - Hebrew Reading Crash Course, Level II (Lobby)* Shabbat, May 26 - Erev & Leil Shavuot 8:30am - Shacharit - Main Tefillah 7:30pm - Book of Kings with Rav Avi (Lobby) 8:00pm - Advanced Hebrew Ulpan (Lobby)* 7:55pm - Mincha 8:00pm - Advanced Talmud with Rabbi Jeff Fox (at David Mann’s home. 8:30pm - 9:00pm - Shiur with Rav Steven - “Receiving the Torah Again: E-mail [email protected] to attend.) Preparations for Shavuot” 9:02pm - Candle Lighting After Tuesday 9:05pm - Maariv 10:00am - Book of Genesis with Rav Avi (Lobby) 9:30pm - Dine and Discuss - Communal Dinner and Learning 11:30pm - 1:00am - Beth Aharon Tikkun Leil Shavuot Wednesday 11:30pm - 12:30am - “Conversion From Ruth to Today: History and 7:30pm - Intermediate Hebrew Ulpan (Lobby)* Critical Elements” with Rabbi Dov Linzer

12:45am - 1:30am - Shiur with Rabbinic Intern Ruth Balinsky Friedman - Thursday “Poverty and Economics in the Book of Ruth” 10:00am - Book of Shoftim with Rav Steven (Lower Level Beit Midrash) 1:45am - 2:30am - Shiur with Shira Billet 7:30pm - Biblical Hebrew and Siddur Study with Sara Kinberg (Lobby)* 2:45am - 3:30am - Shiur with Rabbinic Intern Josh Strosberg Friday 3:45am - 4:30am - Shiur with Rav Ari Hart 4:35am - 4:45am - Shiur with Rav Steven - “Songs of the Morning” 7:20am - Tractate Moed Katan with Rav Steven (Lower Level Lobby) 4:55am - Shacharit

* All Hebrew classes are taught by our experienced teacher Sara Kinberg. For more info. Sunday, May 27 - Shavuot Day 1 on the Hebrew program and for guidance about placement, please contact Sara at 8:30am - Shacharit 718-548-2461. Payment made directly to the teacher. After Tefillah - Shiur with Rabbi Dov Linzer - “Conversion Policies and Standards: Part 1 - Policies” Happenings @ the Bayit 6:30pm - Teen Panel for Teens and Adults - “Our Perspective on Jewish Life Today” ABRAHAM & SARAH’S TENT: Join us for Abraham & Sarah’s Tent this Friday 7:30pm - Mincha night. To sponsor future tents contact James Lapin at [email protected]. 7:50pm - Shiur with Rabbi Dov Linzer - “Conversion Policies and

GRADUATION CELEBRATION - May 28: Please submit the names of Standards: Part 2 - Standards” your graduates from any level of school or program - name and 8:30pm - Maariv 9:03pm - Candle Lighting After This Time program - and we’ll publish them in the bulletin and celebrate on the second day of Shavuot. $18 suggested donation per graduate. Names Monday, May 28 - Shavuot Day 2 must be submitted by May 22. 8:30am - Shacharit with Megillat Ruth (Male Readers) SHABBAT MORNING TRIP TO PELHAM PARKWAY JUNE 2: Join us as we bring 10:30am (approx.) - Yizkor the joy of Shabbat to Russian Jews in Pelham Parkway. We leave from the Bayit at After Musaf - Megillat Ruth (Male & Female Readers) 8:00am, and will have tefillah at Congregation Sons of Israel. Kiddush followed by 7:00pm - Shiur with Rabbi Dov Linzer - “Conversion of Minors: lunch with the Pelham Parkway Jewish community. On our way back we will stop by Issues and Values” the Botanical Gardens for a Shabbat walk. Please RSVP to [email protected]. 7:55pm - Mincha 8:15pm - Graduation/Siyum Program SHIUR WITH HEZI MARGALIT: Shabbat afternoon, June 2, between Mincha and 8:15pm - Daf Yomi Maariv. Come learn about Dr. Margalit’s area of expertise in a shiur titled, 9:08pm - Maariv/Yom Tov Ends “Establishing Halachic Maternity in In Vitro Fertilization.” Dr. Margalit has been in Riverdale with his family this year as a Fellow at NYU’s Tikvah Center for Law & MAY BIRTHDAY KIDDUSH: Kiddush is sponsored by: Jewish Civilization. His Ph.D. is Law is from Bar Ilan University and he lectures at Kathy Goldstein in honor of Andy Goldstein-Rosenfeld’s Ono Academic College. birthday; David E. Levine in honor of Russell Levine’s KAVVANAH TEFILLAH: Slower tefillah with Rav Steven including meditation and birthday; Chaim & Chaya Marks in honor of Chaya’s song. Light breakfast follows. Meets requirements of Shacharit. Room 3-1. Sun., birthday; Mark and Akiva Davis, and Gillian Steinberg in honor of Jun. 3. Gavri Davis’s birthday; Rhonda Stock in honor of Benjy Stock’s THE BAYIT’S CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI POETRY GROUP - Wed., June 6, birthday; Shira Billet & Steven Exler in honor of their niece, Teeli 7:00pm: Under the guidance of poet and translator Atara Fobar. Poems read in Jacobson’s birthday; Lidia Lidagoster-Villegas in honor of Ilana Hebrew with English translation and discussion. 3rd FL, Room 3-3. Tamar Lidagoster’s 18th birthday; Rav Avi & Toby Weiss in honor RECEIVE RAV AVI’S FORSHPEIS VIA E-MAIL: Interested in receiving Rav Avi’s of their son Dov Weiss, grandson Gilad Fischberger, and forshpeis weekly by email? Email [email protected] to be added to the list! granddaughter Avigail Fischberger’s birthdays.

WELCOMING TO OUR BAYIT: If you would like friends or family welcomed on Shabbat morning, you can now enter their names in this link: http://tinyurl.com/bayit- RESERVE THE BAYIT FOR YOUR SIMCHA: HIR has begun using a shabbat-welcome. Please continue to make our Bayit welcoming by introducing written contract for the rental of its facilities. If you would like to rent space yourself to at least one new person every Shabbat and by inviting new families to in the shul, or if you believe that you have reserved the Bayit for your simcha join you for a Shabbat meal. Not every "new" face is new to Riverdale, but if they are but have not been contacted regarding the new contract, please contact new to you, that’s what counts. Richard at [email protected]. Only reservations that accompany a signed contract and the required deposit will be maintained. THE BAYIT BULLETIN

Calling all Riverdale kids! The Bayit is the place to be! Be a part of it! Registration required - now open. Please use the following link to register: http://tinyurl.com/3gzfgu9

This Week Shabbat Morning Groups:

9:30am-11:30am This Sunday — May 20th:

Children’s Musical Tefillah — 10am in room 3-5/3-6

• Room 3-4: NURSERY • Enjoy a musical tefillah with your very own musical • Room 3-5: PRE-K instruments, followed by breakfast and arts & crafts • 3-6: KINDERGARTEN Yom Yerushalayim with Rav Shaul Feldman • Room 3-3: GRADES 1 & 2 • For teens and adults, sponsored by Bnei Akiva • Room 3-7: GRADES 3 & 4 • 8pm at YIOZ • Room 3-2: GRADES 5 & 6 Erev Shavuot — May 25th: • Lower Level: Right Hand Social Hall: TOT SHABBAT* *10:30am-11:30am Tie Dye with Bnei Akiva — 10-11:30am @ YIOZ [non-supervised open play space 9:30am-10:30am — parent must stay with child(ren)] • 1st-6th graders are welcome for snacks and games! • Please bring a white t-shirt. $3/child

This Shabbat Afternoon — May 19th AFTERNOON GROUPS WITH BNEI AKIVA SNIF AT HIR Join Bnei Akiva — in conjunction with HIR, RJC, YIOZ

for Shabbat afternoon fun with friends and madrichim! 1st-5th graders — 5:00-6:30pm — 3rd Floor

YOUTH & TEEN SHAVUOT @ HIR!

Shabbat, May 26th Shavuot Night, May 26th Shavuot Day 1, May 27th Shavuot Day 2, May 28th • Special parent-child trivia • TEENS Dinner, followed • Candid TEEN • Cheesecake Baking at competition with Rav Steven & by theological discussions PANEL on cutting groups! Menachem 2 hour V’Shinantam and Torah study edge topics for adults • Afternoon program with amazing snacks! All Ages! • Amazing snacks all night and teens to attend with gaga & cheesecake

V’SHINANTAM: Join friends and family for parent-child Torah study — 1 Hour before Mincha Lower Level Beit Medrash.

This Shabbat, This week’s snacks are still in need of sponsorship. Pirkei Avot & Chulent Menachem is away. For more information about sponsoring Shabbat chug will meet with Abby will be morning snacks and birthday Kiddush parties, please special guest teacher Rav supervising groups. contact Gillian Steinberg at [email protected] or Menachem. Ari Hart this week at 11:00am.

Have YOU Joined the PJ Library Yet? For Assistance, Please Contact: The PJ Library at HIR provides free Jewish children’s books and music to Menachem Menchel, Youth Director families in the Riverdale area. Office - 718-796-4730 ext. 119 It’s easy to enroll! Go to www.pjlibrary.org/ny/HIR Sign up and share news of this program with your friends and neighbors with young children! Cell - 516-233-8285

For more info contact Shuli in the HIR office at 718-796-4730 x102. [email protected] Stay tuned for special PJ events being planned for this year!

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Chesed Opportunities Beyond the Bayit HELP AN ISRAELI FAMILY WHILE THEIR 20-MONTH RENFREW EATING DISORDERS CONFERENCE: “In Pursuit of Perfection: Body OLD BABY UNDERGOES SURGERY: An Israeli family Image and Eating Issues in the Jewish Community” - This Sun., May 20, 8:45am, arrived in the US two weeks ago with their 20-month old at Hotel Plaza Athenee, 37 E. 64th at Madison Ave. This half-day seminar for daughter, Tamar. Tamar has a rare and malignant tumor on her health and mental health professionals, educators and clergy, will address liver and lungs and is to be operated on at Columbia Presbyterian women’s body image issues and eating disorders within the Jewish Community. in two weeks. If someone has a vacant furnished apartment that can Kosher breakfast included. For more information, please visit renfrewcenter.com or accommodate a family of six (3 adults and 3 children) for a short-term period contact Debbie Lucker at [email protected] or 215-254-1618. please contact Lilach at [email protected] or call 914-299-9691. If you would like to assist the family with meals, go to CLEANUP OF W. 232ND ST.: This Sun., May 20 from 10:00am - 3:00pm is the www.takethemameal.com, and use User Name: Statter, Password: 1234 to second cleanup for W. 232nd St. along the southern end of Seton Park. Volunteers sign up for a meal. will be hauling light debris to the street and laying a woodchip path through the cleared area. Wear long pants and long-sleeved shirts and bring work gloves. For Do you know someone who needs any of the following? further information, call Sura at 718-543-6527. Would you like to volunteer for any of these committees? LECTURE ON YIDDISH: Paul Glasser, Associate Dean of YIVO’s Max Weinreich Shiva: We are looking for fill-in volunteers. Please contact Center will be giving a lecture titled “History of the Yiddish Language” this Sun., [email protected] May 20, 2:00pm at the Riverdale Temple ballroom, 4545 Independence Ave. This

is the last part of a four-part lecture series presented by the YIVO Institute for Home or Nursing Home Visits or Telephone Calls: Jewish Research, in partnership with the Riverdale Temple. To RSVP please go to Rivka Haut: 718-543-1072, [email protected] www.yivo.org/reservations or call 212-294-6127. Ruth Licht: 718-796-3491, [email protected] YESHIVAT PROGRAM @ THE JCC: Please join Yeshivat Maharat Meals for New Mothers: for, “Sexuality, Modesty and Niddah in the 21st Century” at the JCC in Manhattan, Aimee Baron: 718-432-0777, [email protected] 6:30pm - 9:30pm, this Sun., May 20. Groundbreaking sessions will be taught by guest lecturers, Yeshivat Maharat students, and faculty. To register, please visit Hospitality and Welcome: [email protected] www.yeshivatmaharat.org.

Young HIR: [email protected] YOM YERUSHALAYIM SHIUR: Bnei Akiva of Riverdale and YIOZ invite you to participate in a shiur with guest speaker Rav Shaul Feldman, Director of Bnei Akiva Memorial Day Jewish Community Event North America, in honor of Yom Yerushalayim. This Sun., May 20, 8:00pm Join the Bayit at a Co-sponsored Community Event. (between Mincha and Maariv) at YIOZ, 6015 Riverdale Ave.

The Bayit joins the Council of Young Jewish Presidents and the Jewish OU SINGLES EVENT @ MR. BROADWAY: Calling all singles age 35+. The OU Community Relations Council of New York and others for a Memorial will be holding a buffet with special guest speaker Rabbi Yaakov Spivak on Tues., Day Ceremony honoring the lives of American service members who May 29, 7:00pm at Mr. Broadway, 1372 Broadway (at 38th St.). Rabbi Spivak will were killed in defense of our country. Speaker Major General Sidney speak about “Secrets of the Mystical Dimension”. To register call 212-613-8300. Shachnow, a retired army general and Holocaust Survivor, will share his story. Wednesday, May 23rd at 7:00pm at The Jewish Center, 131 HEARTBEATS - A NIGHT OF SONG, DANCE AND CONNECTION: All women West 86th Street. For more info contact Noam at are invited to a student-run performance on May 30, 7:30pm at Ma’ayanot Yeshiva [email protected]. High School, located at 1650 Palisade Ave., Teaneck, NJ 07666. Proceeds raised at event will be donated to the Kol Kallah Fund, a branch of Yad Eliezer which provides Israel’s impoverished brides and grooms with their needs to begin a Social Worker @ The Bayit home. Proceeds raised in memory of Ayelet Galena z”l. For more info. call Etana Staiman at 201-414-2899 or e-mail [email protected]. Questions about an aging loved one, financial pressures, concerns about children? Contact HIR social worker, Anna Kirshblum for TEHILLAH BIKE FEST: The 3rd Annual Tehillah Bike fest is here! Come ride the guidance, information, referrals and a sympathetic ear. There is no fee North County Railway. Ride for fun, for fitness, and to support the Arnie Kaufman and all conversations are strictly confidential. Meet with her at HIR or in Tehillah Hebrew School Scholarship Fund. Sun., Jun. 3, 10:00am - 3:00pm/ meet her office at the Beatman Center on 239th street. Anna can be reached at Gedney Park, rear parking lot, (161 Millwood Rd., Chappaqua, NY 10514). at 718-601-9714 or at [email protected]. (In partnership with UJA and Registration includes lunch, unlimited water & snacks: $25/adults, $15/ages under JBFCS) 18. Register online at www.congregationtehillah.org or 718-884-4839.

SALUTE TO ISRAEL PARADE - Sun., Jun. 3: The Salute to Israel Parade is the HIR Gift Card Program: Plan for your shopping using gift largest event in the world celebrating the Anniversary of Israel’s Independence. cards! Cards available for Fairway, Skyview, Corner Cafe, Join the 100,000 participants, stepping off Fifth Avenue (between 57th St. and 74th Glatt Shop, Riverdale Kosher Market and many more. Email St.), cheered on by an expected one million spectators. The parade will take place order to [email protected]. To see listings, log on to this year on Sunday, Jun. 3, from 11:00am - 4:00pm. For more information e-mail [email protected] www.shopwithscrip.com, create an account, use the HIR non-profit code 58L43DE621333, and shop! Buy it for the Bayit!! For questions call RAV RAZ HARTMAN KUMSITZ AT THE KRANZLERS: Please join us for a very Shira Gordon - 718-549-4280. special program on Sun. night, Jun. 3, at 8:30pm at the home of Adinah & Elli The HIR Scrip committee is looking for volunteers to sell gift cards at Kranzler, 4640 Delafield Ave. Rabbi Raz Hartman, from Nachlaot, Jerusalem, will shul events. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Shira. be performing his beautiful songs and teaching his unique, and spiritual Torah. He We now have a dedicated HIR Scrip Paypal link which will enable is an accomplished musician and composer, and an inspired and inspiring soul. $10 suggested donation being collected at the event. you to pay for your gift cards online with the credit card of your choice. DAVENING AND CHUMASH CLASSES WITH MARILYN SELBER: Learn the You can now purchase our most popular gift cards right from our website order and meaning of the prayers. Learn Chumash in Hebrew. Improve your Hebrew reading, writing and comprehension. This class gives you the tools you www.thebayit.org. The gift cards tab is on the left side menu bar. need. Everybody learns, regardless of their level. For more info., Thank you for your support. [email protected]. Hebrew Institute of Riverdale - The Bayit 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway, Bronx, NY 10463 Ph: 718-796-4730; Fax: 718-884-3206 Website: www.thebayit.org; E-mail: [email protected] We welcome Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and Peter Beinart to the Bayit for a powerful night of engagement and discussion over the future of Medinat Yisrael.

Moderated by Rabbi Avi Weiss

Please note: Mincha will be at 7:45pm, and Maariv will follow the debate.

Feel free to submit questions in advance to [email protected].

Tues., June 5 at 8:00pm

Rav Shlomo Riskin is Chief Peter Beinart is a former editor of Rabbi of Efrat and Chancellor The New Republic and is the author of Ohr Torah Stone. He was of three books. He is Associate previously the Rabbi of Professor of Journalism and Political Lincoln Square Synagogue in Science at CUNY, senior political NY. writer for The Daily Beast and the editor of its blog "Open Zion". HIR’s 38th Annual Journal Dinner - June 10, 2012 Yasher Koach to all the supporters of our 38th Annual Journal Dinner.

Sara Hurwitz & Josh Abraham Roberta & Bernard Horowitz Hadassah Schultz Sharon Adams Sherry & Ezra House Bat Sheva Marcus & Elliot Schwartz Apple Bank, Kirk Warner Madeline & Hillel Jaffe Shani & David Schwartz Lorna & Mark Baker Debbie & Howard Jonas Shira Gordon & Phil Shaw Etty & Tzvi Bar-Shai Vivian & Matt Kanig Rebecca & Yehuda Shmidman Jayne & Harvey Beker Wendy Levinson & Bob Kaplan Tehilla Siegel Maya & Robert Berman Sharon & Michael Kaplowitz Ruthie & Joel Simon, Riverside Memorial Gaya & Lewis Bernstein Nancy & Shimon Katz Bobbe Gaims-Spiegel & Robert Spiegel Beth Aharon, Sephardi Minyan, Michael Klapper & Benjamin Klapper Atara Gorsetman & Brian Spira Tsuri Gadasi James A. Kole (Kole & Kole) Joan & Arnold Stark Judy & Lanny Binstock Robert Krausz Audrey & Elliot Waldstreicher Paula & Jonathan Blank Stephanie Nussbaum & Michael Kress Susan & Dov Weinstock Beth & David Braunstein Eileen & Dan Langer Julie & Michael Weiss Klara & Philip Brieff Fred Langer Toby & Rabbi Avi Weiss Sanford Bruckner Lily & Richie Langer Hanna & Michael Weissbrot, SJ International Nava & Adam Cohen Ruby & Stanley Langer Diane & Michael Werner Judy & Jerry Dietz Ann & James Lapin Elisheva & Conan Yuan D.J. Drugs Jackie & Marty Laster Esther Zimet Karen Stahl-Don & Philip Don Chani & Steven Laufer Alexandra & Jonathan Zizmor Debbie & Moshe Drelich David E. Levine Susan & Jonathan Dzik Roxanne & Eric Levine Moshe Edelman Terri Simon & Eric Levine Alisa & Adam Eilenberg Sybil Levine Ruth & Ted (Leonard) Einstein Moshe Levison Sarah & Noah Farkas Ruth Licht Sign up for the Annual Journal Dinner Wendy Zierler & Daniel Feit Rena Friedman & David Lichtenstein on Sun., Jun. 10 Zlochower & Dov Linzer Beverly & Ted Fettman at 5:00pm Suzie & Chaim Marder Leora Gorsetman & Omri Flicker register online @ Robert Fox, Alan Party Rental Lillian & Michael Marton www.thebayit.org. Laura & Aaron Frank Maze Laboratories Sally & Danny Frankel Stuart Olsen Anat Sharbat & Ariel Freidenberg Joy Perla Bonnie & Isaac Geld Valerie Altmann & Daniel Perla Marty Gelman Andrea & Tal Plotkin Did you know? The Bayit maintains a strong Sharon & Scott Glass Moses Podolski Judith Kaplan & Lawrence Polsky connection to our neighbors Chaya & Fred Gorsetman at the Riverdale ATRIA! Adele & Elliot Rabin Jennifer & Brian Grosberg Youth and parents from the Seryl Ritter & Buddy Skydell Pamela & Jeff Gurock Bayit have participated in Goldie & Joe Guttman Riverdale Pediatrics Simchat Torah Hakafot, David Haas Sheryl Haut & David Rosenberg Sunday Morning Musical Beth & Ari Hait Ross Brothers Inc. Tefillah, and Purim Megillah Roslyn & Israel Rubin reading and celebration along Charles Hall with ATRIA residents. Ira Herschaft Elan Schnieider Jean & Phil Schneider Mitchel Herstic Help support these Annie & Ari Hoffnung Florence Schneider & Iris Schneider And other ongoing Nancy & Milton Honig Uri Schneider programs by attending our Annual Journal Dinner. To view this week’s banner go to http://www.thebayit.org/weekly-bulletin.html

THE BAYIT The Hebrew Institute of Riverdale - The Bayit - is an open Orthodox Synagogue which serves the entire Jewish community. The Hebrew Institute is a synagogue that warmly embraces all Jews regardless of affiliation, commitment or background. It is affectionately known as the "Bayit", which is a home - a place of love and welcome. The HIR is known nationally for bringing spirituality into the synagogue, for activism, learning programs, and work on behalf of the elderly, the homebound, and the mentally and physically challenged.