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NOVEMBER 5, 2016 • P ARSHAT NOACH • 4 C HESHVAN 5777 EREV SHABBAT NOVEMBER 7TH AT 8:00 PM 5:31PM Candle lighting LIKE DREAMERS : AN AMERICAN 5:35PM Minchah AUTHOR , AN ISRAELI STORY AND THE

INTERNATIONAL BACKDROP OF MOD- SHABBAT 7:45AM Hashkama Minyan (The Max and Marion Grill Beit Midrash) ERN ISRAEL , A CONVERSATION WITH 8:30AM Rabbi Israel Silverstein Mishnayot Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine NOTED SCHOLAR YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI 9:00AM Shacharit (3 rd floor) 9:15AM Hashkama with Rabbi Avi Feder: The Rainbow - Maybe not 7:15PM Pizza and Discussion for so pretty after all. high school students. 9:30AM Young Leadership (The Max Stern Auditorium) 8:00PM Community Lecture and Q&A. 9:23AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema To register, visit http://centennial.yuhsb.org/ 10:00AM Youth Groups: Under age 3 (drop off optional, babies must be events/ able to independently sit upright), 3-6-year-olds: Geller Youth Center, This event is free and open to the public 2nd-6th graders: 7th floor

WITH THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS : Hashkamah Kiddush, Hashkama Kiddush Members in honor of our own MAY & S AMUEL RUDIN LECTURE long time Mitpalel, Aaron Weitz , this year’s Chatan SHABBAT NOVEMBER 12 Community Kiddush, Joseph & Nancy Sklarin in honor of the birth of a THE STATE OF OUR UNION : grandson to their children Lesley and Josh Herbert A P OST –ELECTION BRIEFING WITH BRET STEPHENS Community Kiddush, Sandra & Jeffrey Smith in commemoration of the 2nd Yahrtzeit of Jeffrey's father Myron Smith, Meir Rephael ben Shalom Bret Stephens is the deputy editori- Moshe z"l al page editor of the Wall Street Journal, for which he won the Pulitz- (Early Minchah will begin next week). er Prize for commentary in 2013. 3:30PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home (meet at 730 Columbus Ave.) 4:35PM 4:45PM Parent Child Learning with Rabbi Avi Feder (Grades 1-5) 5:20PM Minchah Speaker: Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, Bavel and The Brave New World Seudah Shlishit Sponsors: A CHEF’S MASTER CLASS WITH THE Lily Kaplan in memory of her husband, Joseph Solte Kaplan's 8th yahrzeit OWNERS OF LE MARAIS Veronica & Erwin Muth in commemoration of the yahrzeit of his father, Monday November 14th @ 8:00PM George Muth Sponsored by The Jewish Center Sisterhood Deborah de Winter & Philip Sussman in commemoration of the first yahr- Registration is now open. zeit of Philip's mother, Alma (Tenzer) Sussman This event is open to men and women. Please visit our website for more 6:30PM Shabbat concludes information and to register. *Please remember to move clocks back one hour.

DAILY SERVICES MEMBERSHIP DRIVE AT THE JC Sunday, Nov. 6 Monday, Nov. 7- Friday, Nov. 11 NOVEMBER IS MEMBERSHIP MONTH AT THE JC Daf Yomi 7:45AM Thursday, Nov. 10 Shacharit 7/8AM THE JEWISH CENTER • I T’S WHERE YOU BELONG Shacharit 8:30AM Shachart 7/8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 4:30PM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Candle Lighting 4:24PM Become a member by November 30 th and Minchah 4:30PM Minchah 4:30PM save 20% on the annual membership fee. WOMEN ’S TEHILLIM GROUP Apply for membership online at www.jewishcenter.org or pick up an Monday, November 14 application in the lobby. at 7:15PM Contact Joyce Weitz for more info. at 212-877-1176

The Jewish Center - The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning 131 W. 86 th Street, New York, NY 10024 • www.jewishcenter.org • 212-724-2700 UPCOMING EVENTS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Join by November 30 th and save 20% on dues Discount includes a 14-month membership, through the end of next December. To apply for membership, visit our website or pick up a form in the lobby. Questions? Email our Membership Committee co-chairs Naomi Goldman and Ron Shapiro at [email protected].

SHABBAT NOVEMBER 12 TH AT 11:00 AM THE STATE OF OUR UNION : A P OST –ELECTION BRIEFING WITH BRET STEPHENS Bret Stephens is the deputy editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2013. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and holds a Masters from the London School of Economics. From 2002 to 2004 Mr. Stephens served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post. In addition to the Journal, he is a respected com- mentator on American and Israeli foreign affairs, a regular panelist on the Journal Editorial Re- port, a weekly political talk show broadcast on Fox News Channel and the author of "America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder," (2014). He lives here in New York City with his wife and three children.

THE JEWISH CENTER BOOK CLUB FALL 2016 First Session: November 20, 2016 at 7:30PM The Puttermesser Papers: by Cynthia Ozick, Discussant: Dr. Jerome Chanes Host: Dinah and Andy Mendes - 262 Central Park West Our theme this year at the Jewish Center Book Club --now in its 16 th year -- is the intersection of Jewish and American life in New York City. The three selections are works of recognized literary merit that cover different time periods. We begin with Cynthia Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers (1997) -- a collection of five stories woven around one protagonist, Ruth Puttermesser, an aging civil servant with a rich and fertile inner life, who creates her own Golem.

THANKSGIVING PACK -A-THON Hosted by Congregation Shearith Israel Thursday, November 24, 10:00 am We are pleased to announce that throughout this year we will be joining forces with Congrega- tion Shearith Israel for a number of exciting and powerful programs. The first program is an inter-faith Pack-A-Thon on Thanksgiving morning. Together with UJA’s Tov B’Yachad and West End Collegiate Church the community will come together for this meaningful and impactful event and will ensure that our packages of nutritious and kosher food delivered to people in need. The Pack-a-thon will have a youth track as well. If you’d like to join the event committee and help ensure the success of this important activity, please contact Sarah Sue at slan- [email protected]. *Stay tuned for information about our winter ski trip and spring barbecue. To get involved in our joint synagogue events please email Rabbi Zirkind at [email protected] or achdu- [email protected]

SHABBAT DINNER DECEMBER 9TH Friday Night Dinner with the Israeli soldiers from Peace of Mind. For more information contact [email protected]

To sponsor Kiddush or Seudah Shlishit or a JC event, please contact Aaron at [email protected] YOUTH DEPARTMENT UPDATES

HIGH SCHOOL ONLY ONEG WITH RABBI NOACH GOLDSTEIN THANKSGIVING DAY FIREHOUSE VISIT BRING A FRIEND ! THURSDAY , N OVEMBER 26 AT 11:00AM FRIDAY , N OVEMBER 11 AT 7:30 PM -10 PM We will meet in The JC lobby and walk to our local For more details or to RSVP firehouse. Bring a thank you card and some home- email: [email protected] baked goods to our brave firefighters.

TEEN MINYAN YOUTH FAMILY DINNER SATURDAY , N OVEMBER 12 SHABBAT DECEMBER 2 For more details or to sponsor the kiddush, DETAILS TO FOLLOW contact Gaby: [email protected] ADD A BIRTHDAY SPONSORSHIP TO ONE OF OUR FUN- MOVIE NIGHT FILLED YOUTH EVENTS ! SATURDAY , N OVEMBER 12 AT 6:45PM– 9:00PM Party Choices this year Include Arts & Crafts, Movie Enjoy a classic film while enjoying pizza and popcorn Nights, Zumba, Krav Maga, Laser Tag, Bubble Soccer. with your friends! Ages 7 and up. Please visit the Jew- Email Jenn and Gaby for more details and dates at- ish Center website to register. [email protected].

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS MEMBERS RUNNING THE MAZAL TOV NYC MARATHON Rabbi Robert & Virginia Bayer Hirt on the birth of If you are running, a great granddaughter, please let us know. Marlee Amanda Rotenstreich Judith & Rafi Rosenbaum on the birth of twins, a boy and a girl. ABOUT THE JC Nancy & Joseph Sklarin honor of the birth of a grandson to their children Lesley and Josh Herbert Did you know? At the end of services, congregants remain in THANK YOU TO OUR USHERS their seats until the conclusion of Adon Olam. Scott Black and Beth Schwartz As the rabbi and cantor process down the aisles, the congregation rises. The rabbi and THANK YOU TO CSS cantor look forward to greeting you on the We would like to once again thank CSS and our receiving line on your way to Kiddush . dedicated CSS members for providing the security for our synagogue this week.

COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF CLASSES For more information visit our website or contact Rabbi Dovid Zirkind at [email protected] DAILY (except Shabbat) Jewish History: in a SHABBAT Israel Friedman Daf Yomi with Christian Empire with Rabbi Israel Silverstein rotating JCU Faculty, 7:45AM Rabbi Ari Lamm, 7:00PM Mishnayot Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine, 8:30AM MONDAY Genesis Heretic with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, Sadye and Henry Bayer Chumash Hashkama Shiur with rotating JCU 8:00PM Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine, Faculty, 9:15AM 8:00PM TUESDAY Israel Friedman Daf Yomi with Advanced Chaburah with WEDNESDAY rotating JCU Faculty, 1 hour before Rabbi Noach Goldstein Women of the Bible with Minchah 7:45-8:30AM Rabbi Yosie Levine, at 11:00AM 39 Melachot with Nosh and Drash Rabbi Dovid Zirkind with Dr. Adena Berkowitz, 10:15-11:30AM

To sponsor Kiddush or Seudah Shlishit or a JC event, please contact Aaron at [email protected] The Rainbow Connection: Thoughts on Parshat Noah Yosie Levine Rabbi Dr. Erica Brown, Community Scholar Dovid Zirkind “Zokher ha-brit, ne-eman be-brito, ve-kayam ter, day and night will never cease’” (Genesis Associate Rabbi be-maamaro .” This is the text of the blessing 8:20-23). Chaim David Berson we make upon seeing a rainbow: “ who re- Cantor members the covenant, and is faithful to His God promised never to destroy all living covenant, and keeps His promise.” Strangely, creatures again. That’s a huge relief. But Ari Lamm we remind God, in this blessing of a promise tucked within this promise and the good smells Resident Scholar

God made long ago. that surround it, is this strange and disturbing Erica Brown clause – “even though every inclination of the Community Scholar We make a blessing when we see a rainbow human heart is evil from childhood.” Let’s face not only because it’s a spectacular natural it. That’s a downer. We will never amount to Noach Goldstein occurrence but also because it takes us back much because our evil inclination from the time Resident Scholar to an earlier time. It situates us near the end we are young will continually overpower us. Avi Feder of our parsha when, as a sign of God’s cove- Suddenly, as Kermit might say, we’re not feel- William Fischman nant not to destroy us again, He makes a ing the rainbow connection. Rabbinic Intern rainbow. This rainbow is not only about its Aaron Strum magnificent blend of colors, representing the The German psychoanalyst Erich Fromm Executive Director many “stripes” of diversity on Noah’s ark. It is (1900-1980) has a redeeming reading of this also about its shape as an expansive bridge story. Fromm was the only child of Orthodox Jenn & Gaby Minsky Youth Directors that connects one part of the earth to another parents who had a strong Jewish education as it cuts across the sky. This bridge connects before he left traditional practice. These were OFFICERS us once again, in an act of beauty, with a texts with which he was intimately familiar. In Avi Schwartz God we had been estranged from because of The Art of Loving , Fromm reads the Hebrew President collective wrongdoing. word “ me-neurav ” as “during one’s childhood.” Andrew Borodach This renders the promise as an understanding First Vice President To remedy the “ hamas ” or thievery to which that God has of humans. During one’s youth, Michael Jacobs the Torah attributed the flood, Noah’s first act human beings are self-absorbed. A baby cry- Vice President out of the ark was building an altar, a place ing cares little, he says, for what his parents Deena Blanchard of giving rather than taking. But a careful are doing. The world orbits around the child. Vice President study of the text is confounding because This normal course of events can change as God’s promise does not quite have a rainbow the child grows into adulthood and comes out Mark Segall Assistant Vice President quality to it: “Then Noah built an altar to the of his or her narcissistic shell. God’s promise is Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals predicated on our not staying the way we Yaron Kinar Treasurer and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings are. We have to grow out of taking and on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma grow into giving. Some adults are just big Len Berman Assistant Treasurer and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse children when it comes to taking. God expects the ground because of humans, even more of us after the flood. Sure, we’re selfish Andrew Kaplan Assistant Treasurer though every inclination of the human heart is but that selfishness must peel away as we evil from childhood. And never again will I evolve and become responsible for humanity. Miri Lipsky destroy all living creatures, as I have That’s when we can really appreciate God’s Secretary done. ‘As long as the earth endures, seedtime promise and His rainbow. PHONE NUMBERS and harvest, cold and heat, summer and win- Yoetzet Halacha Ilana Gadish [email protected] 646-598-1080

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Isabel Tsesarsky 2 year olds (Tots) My name is Isabel Tsesarsky and I grew up here on the Upper West Side. I spent two years at Emory University before transferring to Stern College. I very much enjoy work- ing with young children and was fortunate to have been a Morah at the Chabad of the Upper West Side pre-school. I hope to continue with childhood education upon my grad- uation from Stern. I live with my husband on the Upper West Side and look forward to this year with the Tots! Shana Tovah and may everyone have a happy, healthy, and sweet new year!

Zoe Ogden 3-4 year olds I'm from Atlanta, GA and, after a year in Israel, am studying pre-medical studies at Bar- nard College. I love exploring the city in my free time. I'm so excited to be joining The Jewish Center community leading 3-4 year old Shabbat groups! In groups, I hope to share my love and excitement for Shabbat with your children, introducing them to Daven- ing, Parsha, and fun Shabbat games!

Rachel Karpf 5-6 year olds Rachel is excited for her third year teaching the 5- and 6- year old group at the Jewish Center. During tefilah we focus on the many different ways we can connect to Ha- shem. We also look at the parshat hashuvah for models on how we can be kinder and braver kids. During the week Rachel teaches first grade at the Manhattan School for chil- dren.

Molly Goldmeier 2nd – 3rd Grade Molly is excited to be working with the youth programming at the Jewish Center! Previous- ly, Molly worked as Head of Camp at Camp Stone and was a student volunteer at the New York University's Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life on Campus. Molly is look- ing forward to meeting more people at the Jewish Center and is grateful for the oppor- tunity to be involved in the vibrant youth department.

Todd Carney Tween Minyan 4th - 6th grade Todd is originally from the Chicago land area and went to college in DC before moving to NYC last year. Todd lives on the Upper West Side and currently works in digital advertis- ing. Outside of work, Todd enjoys cooking, trying new restaurants and going to Broadway shows. Peace of Mind (POM) , developed by the Israel Center for Psychotrauma/Herzog Hospital, provides a bridge back to civilian life through a 9-month psychotrauma therapy program which includes one week in our community. POM helps Israeli veterans who served in high-risk combat units, under extremely difficult circumstances, make a smooth transition back to civilian life. This workshop will enable the veterans to process their service experiences and let go of the burden they have been carrying around.

PEACE OF MIND AT THE JC • W INTER 2016 The JC is honored to welcome our second group of former IDF soldiers from an elite high-risk combat unit during their therapeutic workshop. The entire JC family, from the Youth Department through Advanced Leadership, is invited to be in- volved in this amazing week. Please join us in showing our hakarat hatov and creating a life-changing experience for these soldiers who have given so much.

POM COMMITTEE Tehillah Harris , Susan & Arthur Degen, VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Naomi Goldman, Mindy & Ami Horowitz, • Host the participants Eve & Marc Karstaedt, Bosi & Yaron Kinar, • Sponsor lunch boxes, transportation or Rebecca Pine Lubetski & Saul Lubetski, evening events for the group Barbara & David Messer, Pamela & David Neikrug, • Chaperones activities Sabrina & Guy Salomon, Miri Lipsky & Josh Schainker, • Help drive participants to events Beth & Josh Schwartz, Rona & Andrew Steinerman, Whether you have a little time or a lot to give Rachel & David Vorchheimer and Adina & Phil Wagman to this project (during the day or in the even- ing), we look forward to hearing from you. FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER DECEMBER 9TH WITH THE ISRAELI SOLDIERS FROM For more information, and to get involved PEACE OF MIND please contact [email protected]. For more info contact [email protected]

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