Kehillah The Newsletter of the Fuchsberg Center

The United Synagogue of ’s Shirley and Jacob Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center Volume 1, Issue 2 • www.uscj.org.il Spring 2006 • 5766 RABBI BENJAMIN Z. KREITMAN Turning Dreams into Realities

Losing its struggle to survive in a mostly Chasidic and African-American community, one of New York’s landmark Conservative synagogues, the Brooklyn Jewish Center in Crown Heights, closed its doors eight years ago. But before doing so, the synagogue turned to its GEMILUT HESED much-beloved former rabbi, Benjamin Z. Kreitman, and asked him to help the dwindling congregation come to terms with its closing. It also sought his advice in selling its glorious Lending a Helping dome-topped building. Hand to Israelis Amazingly, Rabbi Kreitman and Ben Moskowitz, the synagogue’s president, were able to turn the sorrowful experience into a rebirth for Conservative Judaism. Helen Wrobel and her husband, Tal Eyal, wanted to imbue Together, Rabbi Kreitman and Mr. Moskowitz convinced the synagogue’s remaining their daughter’s bat mitzvah with added meaning. So last members to contribute proceeds from the building’s sale to a Conservative institution in summer, the Great Neck, New York, family celebrated the Jerusalem that North American Conservative Jews would one day consider their home milestone occasion in Israel and, through the Fuchsberg in the Jewish homeland. Their inspired guidance led the congregation to present $600,000 Jerusalem Center, volunteered at a soup kitchen in Jerusalem. to what eventually would become the Shirley and Jacob Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center “We prepared and served lunch, and it was a very meaning- of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. The Brooklyn Jewish Center’s gift, ful experience,” says Helen, the mother of three children, which also included a donation to the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center’s Conservative Jordan, 14, Elana, 12, and Ronni, 8. “The recipients’ , represented the first major gift given to the Conservative movement’s headquar- response was wonderful. They appreciated that we were ters in Jerusalem. giving up our ‘vacation’ time to help, and we were grateful “We said that a synagogue that’s closing has to make aliyah — and by giving the money to be able to lend a helping hand.” to the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, that’s exactly what the Brookyn Jewish Center did,” Each year, hundreds of visitors to Israel participate in says Rabbi Kreitman. the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center’s three-year-old Gemilut Rabbi Kreitman credits the late Alan Tichnor, his close friend and a former United Hesed, a program that arranges hands-on volunteer Synagogue president, with suggesting the Center as a prime beneficiary of the opportunities for United Synagogue and Masorti members congregational gift. from throughout the globe, including families, synagogue groups, individuals, participants in the Nativ post-high school leadership program, and students at the Center’s . Volunteer activities are tailored to the participants’ interests and include preparing and delivering packages to soldiers, assisting developmentally and physically disabled adults, and helping children from broken homes. Depending on the participants’ availability, assignments can run anywhere from an hour to a year, although most organizations would like volunteers to be available three hours a day for an activity, which can include traveling time.

“We do our best to come up with creative ideas that will make every volunteering experience worthwhile and In the 1980s, Rabbi Kreitman presented a to Rabbi Kreitman and the late Alan Tichnor, productive,” says Avigail Ben Aryeh, who arranges Gemilut an Ethiopian-Jewish family in memory of their son, who suggested the congregational gift an Israeli soldier who was killed in Lebanon. to the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center. Hesed’s community service activities. The program can connect volunteers to more than one hundred social “Alan Tichnor asked me whether I could help give life to a new institution,” says Rabbi service organizations. Kreitman. “He recognized that the future of Conservative Judaism depends on having a Gemilut Hesed also collects supplies for social service base in Israel and that the Center would demonstrate the movement’s total commitment organizations in Israel, with visitors encouraged to bring to Zionism.” The sanctuary in the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center’s synagogue, Congregation a suitcase filled with items for the Center to distribute. Moreshet Yisrael, is dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Israel H. Leventhal, the Brooklyn If they have time, visitors can deliver the supplies personally, Jewish Center’s founding rabbi. meet with the recipients, and learn about the non-profit’s A learned, wise, and insightful man, Rabbi Kreitman is an icon in the Conservative (Continued on next page) Jewish world. He is the executive vice president emeritus of United Synagogue as well as the rabbi of the World Council of Synagogues, an organization of Conservative synagogues outside North America. In addition, he is rabbi emeritus of Flatbush Shaare Torah Jewish Center. (Continued on back page) Fuchsberg Provides Nativ’ers with a Stimulating Atmosphere

What do Hillel Skolnik, a graduate of a Solomon Hillel, a 2001-2002 Nativ’er from Forest Hills, New York, “The Fuchsberg Center is a beautiful campus in Schechter day school and high school, Josh Altman, pursued the academic track, relishing the fall semester downtown Jerusalem,” says Josh, a native of a graduate of public schools, and Julie Rappoport, a he spent studying at the Conservative Yeshiva Deerfield, a Chicago suburb. “It was a place that graduate of modern Orthodox schools, have in common? fostered community. Students knew they could walk “Studying Jewish text is an experience in and of into any room and know everyone they saw.” They each credit their experiences at the Fuchsberg itself, and doing so within the framework of the Jerusalem Center with having a major, positive Conservative movement, under the direction of the As he tells it, the year in Israel was a life-defining impact on their lives. most educated and caring teachers, in Israel, no less, experience that was enhanced by the Center’s location is at a level all its own,” says Hillel, who graduated in the prime Jerusalem neighborhood of Rechavia, As participants in Nativ, United Synagogue’s post- from Brandeis University in three years and has since a 15-minute walk to the Old City. “The Center truly high-school-year-in-Israel program, Hillel, Josh, been accepted to the Jewish Theological Seminary’s added to my Nativ experience, giving me access to all and Julie considered the Center their home away rabbinical school. that Jerusalem has to offer,” says Josh. “I didn’t feel from home. It not only placed them in the heart as though I was a tourist in Israel.” of Jerusalem but also provided them with a warm, welcoming community and an intellectually stimulating As a result of his experience, Josh has reevaluated his environment for serious learning and thought-provoking plans. Although he was admitted to Tufts University, discussions, they said. he has opted to earn his undergraduate degree through the Joint Program of Columbia University As part of Nativ, students can opt for the academic or and the Jewish Theological Seminary’s List College. yeshiva track. In the former, Nativ’ers take courses in “I had been to Israel three times before Nativ, but this the fall at the Center’s Conservative Yeshiva or at the experience was entirely different,” says Josh. “It was Hebrew University of Jerusalem and spend the spring really incredible.” semester living in a kibbutz or doing community service. In the yeshiva track, students spend the entire Julie Rappoport, a native of Fairfield, Connecticut, hailed year studying at the Conservative Yeshiva. Students the Center for providing her with a “life-changing in both groups participate in leadership seminars and experience.” As a Nativ’er last year, she spent the volunteer around Jerusalem and other parts of Israel. fall semester studying at the Conservative Yeshiva. Nativ students ready for Shabbat in Jerusalem. “I found the yeshiva so inspiring because every single The yeshiva’s diverse student body also fascinated person is there because he or she wants to be — wants Hillel. “For the first time, I was not just learning to be in Jerusalem, wants to be studying Torah, and with students my age but with college graduates, wants to be in a Conservative environment,” says Julie. people taking a year off from work, as well as with Like Josh, Julie says her experience at the Center people from throughout the world,” he says. “So, Kehillah has convinced her to attend the Joint Program. She depending upon where they came from and their originally had been accepted by Boston University’s The Newsletter of the personal history, they approached the text differently, Management School. Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center which contributed to the quality of the learning experience. It was phenomenal Jewish learning.” During her recent winter break from college, Julie, The United Synagogue of who plans to major in psychology and enter the field Conservative Judaism’s Josh Altman, a 2004–2005 Nativ participant, lived at of organizational behavior, traveled to Israel and Shirley and Jacob Fuchsberg the Center while taking courses at Hebrew University. Jerusalem Center stayed at the Center.

Volume 1, Issue 2 • www.uscj.org.il “I immediately felt as though I had returned home,” Spring 2006 • 5766 she says.

Raymond B. Goldstein, PhD International President

Temma Kingsley Chair GEMILUT HESED Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center Campaign

Alan Ades Lending a Helping Hand to Israelis Coordinator Fuchsberg Jerusalem (Continued from front page) Center Campaign

Franklin D. Kreutzer mission. Items now in demand include clothing in Gemilut Hesed because our trip was during Chair — new or used but in good condition — for men, Thanksgiving, and since we were missing Thanksgiving Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center Operations women, children, and infants; bridal gowns; toiletries in the States, we thought it would be particularly and makeup for a woman’s shelter; dental floss, meaningful to do some mitzvah work in Israel,” Rabbi Jerome M. Epstein Executive Vice President toothbrushes, and toothpaste for a free dental says Andrea, the mother of three young children. clinic; and toys for hospitalized children. Dr. Steven Huberman The couple e-mailed Avigail about their interests, Director of Development and Regional Activities Atlanta residents Howie and Andrea Seidel Slomka and as a result, they helped out at Meir Panim, the

Rabbi James M. Lebeau participated in a Gemilut Hesed project during their soup kitchen where Helen Wrobel and her family Director of Fuchsberg visit to Israel in November 2004. “We were interested had volunteered. The Slomkas served lunch on Jerusalem Center Thanksgiving Day. Ronald Friedman Director of Campaign Andrea says that she and her husband were moved Development and Marketing by the kindness and warmth of the recipients, who wished them a Shabbat shalom. “Somehow, hearing Joanne Palmer Director of Communications these good wishes from poor, hungry, and, possibly,

Deborah Cheerman homeless fellow Jews struck a chord with us,” says Development Associate Andrea. “It was a most special day.” Cara S. Trager Writer For more information about Gemilut Hesed or to participate in one of its projects, please email Marschallin+Sachs As part of a Gemilut Hesed project, Nativ'ers helped out at a Design Chanukah party for Ethiopian-Israeli children in Mevaseret Tzion. [email protected] Major Contributors

With their vision and generosity, the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Barbara & Jerome Levin Kitchenette in Long-term Center’s major contributors play a pivotal role in securing and Residence Building strengthening the Conservative movement’s home in Israel. Henia & Marc Liebhaber Ann & Bruce Littman Newest Major Gifts Roz & James Marks Dormitory Room Terrace in United Synagogue expresses its appreciation to the newest Residence Hall and Learning Center major contributors to the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center: Dianne & Martin Newman Dormitory Room Terrace in Diane and Howard Wohl, $500,000 Residence Hall and Learning Center for the main lecture hall in the Center’s Rappaport Building Rabbi Seymour and Barbara Panitz Kalb Memorial/Temple Beth Sholom Campaign, $250,000 Torah Holder in Residence Hall for the Center’s Cantorial Room and Learning Center Vicki B. & Gary Phillips Morrine and Dan Marantz, $250,000 Reception Desk in Residence for the library collection in the Center’s Conservative Yeshiva Hall and Learning Center Irving Pozmantier Joseph Pressman Roberta & Irwin Chafetz Founders David Renzer $5,000,000+ Joan & Ted Cutler Lectern in Conservative Yeshiva Beit Fuchsberg Family Foundation Meryl & Ron Gallatin – Robin & Alan Fuchsberg Rae & Joseph Gann Joan & Harry Samet Naming – Rosalind & Richard Kaufman Entrance, United Synagogue Lisa & James Schlesinger – Janet & Peter Levine Headquarters Building – Susan & Ralph Raphaelson Kathy & Henry Sender The Aaron and Cecile Goldman The Center Helen R. & Sydney J. Shuman Family Foundation Lectern in Residence Hall Opportunities Main Student Lounge in and Learning Center Benefactors Residence Hall and Learning Center Sherry & Richard Skolnik $2,500,000+ Doris & Ernest Goodman Entrance, United Synagogue Bette-Ann & William* Spielman The Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center represents the heart of Cobey & Robert Rapaport Headquarters Building Small Seminar Room in The United Synagogue Residence Hall and Learning Center Conservative Judaism in Israel. You can be part of its exciting Headquarters Building Charlotte & Louis Kaitz development with a generous gift that will forever convey your Barbara & Leo Karas Joyce & Allan Sugarman Student Lounge (C510) in commitment to securing a vibrant home in Israel for Conservative/ Temple Beth Sholom, Patrons Residence Hall and Learning Center Roslyn Heights, NY Masorti Jews. Much has been accomplished, but much more $1,000,000+ Arthur Koven David Sholk Ttee needs to be done to realize the dream. Here are some naming Lois & Leonard Green Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation Merritt & Mildred S. Overall Pavilion Courtyard Netilat Yadayim in Residence & Davita Yoelin opportunities for your consideration: Hall and Learning Center Dormitory Room Terrace Lynette & J.B. Mazer in Residence Hall and Long-Term Residence Building — $3 million Guardians Corner Terraces in Residence Learning Center $500,000+ The long-term residence building, located at 2 Agron Street, Hall and Learning Center Harold Zatz Brooklyn Jewish Center Judy & Mark Yudof has been renovated into a top-quality residential facility for The Sanctuary in the Religious Center, the Center’s guests and participants in USY programs. Its Beit Midrash Furnishings Friends 18 rooms are air-conditioned, and each has its own bathroom The Oran Family Sponsors $5,000+ Aron Kodesh in Religious Center, $25,000+ Arthur Ainsberg and telephone, Internet, and television connections. The Entrance Lobby in Residence Hall Frances & Hubert J. Brandt and Learning Center Leonora & Leonard Ayre building features a chapel/lecture hall with Jerusalem stone Meeting Room in Residence Temple Zion Israelite Center, Hall and Learning Center Rhoda & Jordan Baruch floors and arched ceilings. Miami, FL Congregation Ahavath Achim, Phyllis and M. Barry Bochner Franklin D. Kreutzer, President Belleville, NJ Amphitheater, Auditorium, Hanukkiah Bobbi & Barry Coller Main Campus Entrance — $750,000 Sanctuary Doors in Religious Center Diane & Howard Wohl Conservative Synagogue The Center’s main entrance, on Agron Street, is a focal point Donald J. Fleishaker Main Lecture Hall in United of Jamaica Estates, NY Ner Tamid in the Beit Midrash for students and visitors entering and exiting the campus. Synagogue Headquarters Building Library Bookshelf of The Conservative Yeshiva Sybil & Alan Edelstein Multi-Purpose/Dining Room — $500,000 Esta Fuchsberg Mezuzah Architects Susan & Michael Gelman Esther & Seymour Fuchsberg Located in the residence hall and learning center, the $250,000+ Torah Holder in Religious Center multi-purpose/dining room – which is one of two – affords Jody and Raymond Goldstein Epstein/Geller/David Families Rosalind & Mervin D. Gray Library Bookshelf students and other groups an ideal space for seminars and Beit Midrash Diane & Harold Grinspoon David Gortz Harold Kalb Memorial/ social gatherings. On weekdays and Shabbat, congregational Shelley & Scott Kaplan Temple Beth Sholom Campaign James Gould groups use the space for scheduled meals. The Cantorial Room Judy & Franklin D. Kreutzer Suzanne & Joseph Gruber Temma & Alfred D. Kingsley Lizbeth & George Krupp Alice Gurwitsch Gallery — $100,000 Main Dining Hall in Residence Hall Jan & Charles Nirenberg and Learning Center, Sukkah Lois G. & Barry Jacobs The gallery, a second-floor seating area, overlooks the majestic Irene & Norman Sholk Morrine and Dan Marantz Jewish Federation of Somerset, sanctuary and accommodates large gatherings. Yeshiva Library Sosland Foundation Hunterdon & Warren Counties, NJ Library Bookshelf USCJ Youth Activities Arleen & Marc Sternfeld Lobby (Religious Center) — $75,000 USY Complex Doors to Pavilion Rosalind & Gary Judd The entrance area to the Center’s Congregation Moreshet Brenda & Alexander Tanger Mollie & Jack Karlin Yisrael includes a synagogue office and a small reception area. Builders Bracha & Martin Werber Arlene & Seymour Katz Ner Tamid in Residence Hall Sheryl & Fred Katzenstein $100,000+ and Learning Center Dormitory Floors — $75,000 each Farla & Harvey Krentzman Susan & Jack* Becker Marilyn & Gary Wind The newly renovated residential facility, located at 2 Agron Street, Project Oded Auditorium Foyer in Residence Dorothy & Rabbi Meyer Kripke Mezuzah houses participants in Nativ, USY’s year-in-Israel program, Family of Theodore Kirshner Hall and Learning Center Mezuzot Women’s League for Nat Landes and summer-in-Israel Pilgrimage. Its two residential floors, Benjamin Z. Kreitman Conservative Judaism Betty & Lou Meltzer each with nine dormitory rooms, can accommodate up to Study Halls in Residence Hall Meeting Room/Shelter in and Learning Center Residence Hall and Learning Center Phyllis & Kalman Miller 80 overnight guests. Library Bookshelf Gloria & Eugene Landy Anne & Henry Zarrow Ner Tamid in Religious Center Terrace in Long-term Nina & Harvey Mintzer Student Lounges — $50,000 each Residence Building Deede & Stephen J. Lovell Beth & Gabriel Nechamkin Maxine & Jack Zarrow The lounges provide students with a comfortable place to study Carol & A. Mark Rosen Jack Porter with classmates, take a break between classes, or just socialize Main Kitchen in Residence Melissa & John Rosen Hall and Learning Center with friends. Contributors Dormitory Room Terrace in Residence Hall and Learning Center Harold Rosen* $10,000+ Computer Lounge in Laurie & Eric Roth Dormitory Rooms — $36,000 each Long-term Residence Building Susan & Howard Alfred Jacqueline Saltz The youth and educational building, located at 6 Agron Street, Marjorie Shuman Saulson Samuel Buxbaum Library Bookshelf is the heart of the Center’s campus. This naming opportunity The Tichnor Family Jane & Dennis Carlton Mel Seidenberg Patio Entrance to the Residence Dormitory Room Terrace in is for the 18 larger rooms for guests. Some of the top-floor rooms Hall and Learning Center Residence Hall and Learning Center Eunice & Jay Shapiro Library Bookshelf feature balconies that overlook the Old City. This is a fitting Alfred Viertel* Ruth & Irving Claremon Fran & Butch Weaver opportunity to honor a USY chapter or an alumni group. Barbara and Jay Wiston Bernice & Alan Cohen Cherie & Alan Weiss Reception Area in Residence Marcy & William Forster Mezuzot — $5,000 each Hall and Learning Center Dormitory Room Terrace in Alfred Weissman Residence Hall and Learning Center A beautifully crafted mezuzah is affixed to every doorpost in the Elysia and Stephen Wolnek Patricia & Arthur Werschulz Aron Kodesh in United Synagogue Rosalie & Meyer Fuchsberg Library Bookshelf Center. This is an ideal opportunity to add your name to one of Conservative Yeshiva Dormitory Room Terrace in Clarence Wolf Jr. and the ancient symbols of Judaism. Residence Hall and Learning Center Alma B. Wolf Foundation Inc. Supporters Michelle & Marc Gary Ruth & Melvin Wolzinger Torah Holder in Residence Hall $50,000+ and Learning Center Lea & Saul Zatz For more information on these and other naming Lila & Rabbi Mendel Abrams Nancy & Sheldon Gilman Shira Zeller Bima opportunities, please call Ronald Friedman, Bed in Residence Hall Roberta & Eugene Zinbarg Ruth & Alan Ades and Learning Center United Synagogue’s director of campaign development Netilat Yadayim in Residence Marjorie & Joseph Hess and marketing, at 212.533.7800, ext. 2522, Hall and Learning Center Garden Area Behind Building Y *Deceased Council of Regional Presidents or email [email protected]. Felecia & Harold* Kalb – Paul Kochberg, Chairman USCJ deeply appreciates every – Dr. Steven Huberman, Director Gertrude & Elmer Kaplan Student Lounge in Long-term contribution, but space does Suzette & Rabbi Harold Kushner not permit a complete listing Residence Building Rabbi’s Study in Religious Center of all contributors to the Nancy & Sidney Lejfer Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center. RABBI BENJAMIN Z. KREITMAN Turning Dreams into Realities

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Born in Warsaw, Poland, Rabbi Kreitman grew up in indelible mark on United Synagogue in many ways. the deaths of eight of their 10 children as they Louisville, Kentucky, where his father was a rabbi and continued to grow, and the journeyed on foot through the Sudan to Israel. the shochet. Eager for their son to receive a proper Solomon Schechter Day School network expanded. Upon receiving the Torah, the couple had but Orthodox education, his parents relocated their family Rabbi Kreitman also infused all of United Synagogue’s one more request: a synagogue to house it. to New York and enrolled him in an Orthodox yeshiva. activities with meaningful Jewish content and a Their wish was Rabbi Kreitman’s command, and with As a young man, Benjamin Kreitman attended Yeshiva meaningful Conservative Jewish message. the help of the Jewish Agency, the local municipality, College, but just before his rabbinic ordination, Throughout the years, Rabbi Kreitman also has helped and the Gloria and Sidney Danziger Foundation — he left the college for the Jewish Theological Seminary. battered souls find new meaning in their lives. of which he is the trustee — he orchestrated the “I thought that the halacha [Jewish law] had to bend development of a synagogue in Lod. “The synagogue To that end, he is the founding president of American to be relevant to modern times,” says Rabbi Kreitman. and the Torah are among my most precious Friends of Neve Hanna, which provides much-needed memories,” he says. After a stint as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy during funds for a non-profit home for children and World War II, Rabbi Kreitman joined Kehillath Israel adolescents. Located in Kiryat Gat and affiliated with Rabbi Kreitman has an equally fulfilling personal life. in Brookline, Massachusetts, as the assistant rabbi to the Masorti movement, Neve Hanna offers a loving, He and his wife, Joyce, who has a degree in computer Rabbi Louis Epstein. Next, he assumed his first pulpit safe environment for children and adolescents who programming and works as a computer consultant, post at a synagogue in New London, Connecticut. In have been abused and neglected. Rabbi Kreitman first will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in 1952, he left to become the associate rabbi at Brooklyn learned about Neve Hanna while helping his cousin, August. The Kreitmans are the proud parents of two Jewish Center and worked under Rabbi Leventhal, Sidney Danziger, find a project that would befit the daughters, Jamie Lauren Kreitman, a Judeo-Arabic whom he succeeded as the synagogue’s rabbi. memory of Mr. Danziger’s beloved wife, Gloria. expert-turned-successful-fashion-designer with her own label, and Rabbi Jill Kreitman, a professor of At BJC, Rabbi Kreitman introduced the Mishnah This summer, Rabbi Kreitman plans to participate in philosophy and the rabbi of the campus community Fellowship class, which drew rabbis, physicians, a Neve Hanna mission to Israel, which will include a of Long Island University’s C.W. Post in Brookville, lawyers, and government leaders. Much to Rabbi special dedication of Congregation Moreshet Yisrael’s New York. In addition, the Kreitmans have three Kreitman’s delight, the Mishnah Fellowship lasted sanctuary as a gift from the Brooklyn Jewish Center. grandchildren. beyond his association with the synagogue, even Rabbi Kreitman also has made a difference in the after Chabad bought the building. With his ongoing commitment to the Conservative Ethiopian-Israeli community. In the late 1980s, he movement and the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, In 1968, with the demographics of the area changing, helped an Ethiopian-Israeli couple fulfill their wish Rabbi Kreitman remains an enduring leader in the Rabbi Kreitman left BJC for Shaare Torah, and from to receive a Sefer Torah in memory of their son, an Conservative Jewish community. 1976 to 1989, he was United Synagogue’s executive vice Israeli soldier who had been killed in a helicopter president. During his tenure, Rabbi Kreitman left his crash in Lebanon. The parents already had endured

Calendar of Events in Jerusalem Highlights Continuing Education Series Cultural May 5: Masorti Mission Shabbat dinner Monday Evening Forum Sunday and Tuesday Evenings – programs in Hebrew May 26: Neshamah Schechter High School’s – an ongoing event led by a different guest three-month program ends lecturer each week June 1: All-night “Tikun Layl Shavuot Study” Project Oded Continuing Education Program Conservative Yeshiva Activities until sunrise – an ongoing series of classes from Sunday May 2: Special Yom HaZikaron program through Thursday, ending June 22 June 16: Meeting of the Masorti/Conservative and classes delegation to the World Zionist Congress Project Oded “Three Weeks In July” Program May 16: Lag B’Omer – an ongoing series of classes from Monday June 12-19: Project Reconnect Israel through Thursday, beginning July 3 July 3: Summer Program begins Mission June 12-22: Hazak/Fuchsberg Learning Center On Campus Happenings For the latest information on all the Community Program Wednesday Evenings Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center’s programs, – Learning Community Hevruta call 212.533.7800, ext. 8, or go to Nativ – Year-Long Program www.uscj.org.il May 3: Israel Independence Day May 7-11: Leadership Seminar celebrations May 29-June 4: Final week in Jerusalem May 24: BBQ for overseas students June 1: Student-led services followed USY Pilgrimage by a dairy Shavuot buffet dinner June 20: First of 600 USY’ers arrive in Israel and an all-night study session

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