The Avrom Silver Jerusalem College for Adults is the educational component of the Seymour J. BackPage Abrams • Orthodox Union • Jerusalem World Center and incorporates all the classes & lectures of the OU Israel Center. "Regular" classes & lectures • 20å members, 25å non• members. Life members, 5å (except for programs of/with other organizations). Membership 250å couple, 180å single. No one will be turned away for inability to pay. 665 Programs of the Center are partially funded by the Jewish Agency for Israel Schedule for Erev to Erev Shabbat (Fri•Fri), 13•27 Nissan (April 22 • May 6)

Thursday, April 21st • the Center will be open from 9:00am to 2:00pm for Tidbits pick•ups and at 1:20pm Friday, April 22 • Shabbat, April 23 • Sunday, April 24 The Center will be closed The Israel Center family wishes you and yours a gnye xyk gqt bg

Chol HaMoed at the Israel Center v Monday, April 25th, 8:00pm

Jerusalem Love A historical journey, told with original and classic Broadway songs and Israeli classics... starring Seth Yisra'el Lutnick, accompanied by Paul Salter, keyboard

30å members & students • others 40å Ezer Kenegdo Matchmaking • Confidential – Sincere • Professional New Hours: 1:30•9:30pm Sunday•Thursday • Call Ayalah Haas (02)566•6039 • www.ezerkenegdo.com

Israel Center TT #665 · BackPage A · PESACH 5765 Issue v Tuesday, April 26th, 10:30am Review of Omer, Tal, Chol HaMoed, and more... Shiur by Phil Chernofsky v Tuesday, April 26th, 1:00pm • Walking Tiyul, see page 23 for details v Tuesday, April 26th, 8:30pm Experience the crisp clear air of the HOLY CITY OF TSFAT here in YERUSHALAYIM Simply Tsfat in Concert In concert, they merge Heaven and Earth through music and stories of the great Chassidic master, Rebbe Nachman of Breslev Tuesday 26th April, Chol HaMoed Pesach

Advance bookings: 03•532•5272 • 052•566•5601 • tickets: 40å /50å (at the door) v Tuesday, April 26th, 8:00pm Living Healthy, Happy, and Long a nuturition lecture by Irwin Goldenberg v Wednesday, April 27, 9:30am • Tiyul to Gush Katif • BOOKED

Root & Branch Association in cooperation with the Israel Center Wednesday, April 27th • 18:45•21:45 18:45: "Responding Jewishly to Israeli Environmental Problems" 19:45: "Applying Jewish Values to Help Save Humanity and Revitalize " 20:45: "Should be Vegetarians?"

by Prof. Richard H. Schwartz Info: [email protected] • NIS25 per person, members NIS20, students NIS10

Israel Center TT #665 · BackPage B · PESACH 5765 Issue A F Israel Homes Program presents: D R M E An Informative Multimedia Presentation about IS E S IO Buying a Home in Israel N Financing issues / Mortgage options • Legal questions answered Where to buy? • New or Second•hand? • Investments, nd2 home, ? Wednesday, April 27 (Hol HaMoed Pesach) 7:30pm at the Center Presented & Sponsored by: RE/MAX Vision – Eli Buton • Real Estate Attorney – Jonathan Livny Bank of Jerusalem • Stuart Hershkowitz • Israel Homes Program • Dr. Gary Steinman Kesher Property Management – Elana Zeevi • Bank Leumi (Rehavia branch) – Miri Pakin & Emanuel Nadgar

For more information call: Alyssa Friedland (02) 623•0430 or 054•668•4111

The Center will be closed Thursday and Friday Chol HaMoed and Shabbat the Seventh Day of Pesach. We will reopen IY"H on Sunday, May 1st,

SUN•Thu in the Ganchrow Beis Medrash (first floor)

10:00am Masechet Kiddushin with Rabbi Pesach (Paul) Greenman

1:20pm Mincha (this time stays the same throughout the year)

3:00pm Daf Yomi by Rabbi Shmuel Halpern

4:30pm Shiur in oixcdpq zkqn by Rabbi Hillel Ruvel Call to check exactly when these shiurim will resume

SUNday N'SHEI LIBRARY CLOSED oey`x mei Sunday morning classes with Golda Warhagtig, Tonia Frohwein, and Shprintzee Herskovits • call to verify who will be teaching on Isru Chag

Sundays 12:30pm (and WED 8:00pm) •Creative Life Education Alternating presenters, incl. Dr. Vivienne Damelin, Aharon Romm

Israel Center TT #665 · BackPage C · PESACH 5765 Issue Issues in Jewish Thought Sunday as they emerge from the Torah with the help of Rabbi 7:30pm Ramban's Commentary • Now Studying: Chaim men & women The genealogy of No'ach's descendants: Eisen A link to what past?

MoNday N'SHEI LIBRARY • closed ipy mei Pearl Borow and Rabbi Leff will resume IY"H on Monday, May 2nd. Dr. Goldblum will resume on the 9th

on sale: Jewish Books for Adults and Children by Simcha Publishing • Mondays 10:00•12:00

Call Sura Faecher Fit Forever: Look & Feel your Best! 993•2524 Exercise for women of all ages, Mondays 11:35•12:30pm Gentle exercises to improve flexibility, circulation, posture, etc. Breathing and relaxation skills to use every day.

Monday, May 2nd, 12:30pm, in the Library (free) Using Mishna to Memorialize Those Fallen in the Holocaust • Rabbi Aharon Adler

Mondays: Pri Chadash Women's Writing Workshop 5:20•7:20pm with Ruth Fogelman (628•7359) & Mindy Aber Barad (643•5276)

Women's Beit Midrash MON (and WED) 3:00•5:00pm Acquire study skills and knowledge crucial to your life as a Jew • join us! Guided Chavruta study with Pearl Borow Fine Tuning Shabbat (with text) • Phil Chernofsky Mondays, 8:30pm • AM SEGULA series: “Curing the Jewish Heart” with Eli Yosef

Israel Center TT #665 · BackPage D · PESACH 5765 Issue MASK • Mothers & Fathers Aligned Saving Kids J'lem Chapter at the OU Israel Center • www.maskjerusalem.cjb.net • 050•754•2717 NEXT MEETING: Monday, May 2nd, 7:30•9:30pm

TUESday iyily mei The Israel Center and the Old City Free Loan Association 16th year • over 4000 loans granted Gemach • Free Loan Society to provide interest•free loans for people in financial distress (living in the Jerusalem area). Interviews at the Center on Tuesdays from 10:00•12:00 and 19:00•21:00 • Please bring ID 9:00am Phil Chernofsky on the Omer, substituting for Rabbi Adler 10:15am Rabbi Gold: The Parsha through the Eyes of the Haftara 9:00am Dr. Hayim Abramson: Torah Allegories and 11:00am in Hebrew 10:50am Rabbi Spiegelman on Parshat HaShavua Raizel Zisk resumes on May 10th Tuesday, May 3rd, 12:30pm, in the Library (free) New Windows into the Past: Answers to Still Open Questions About the Holocaust • David Silberklang of Yad Vashem Call to check exactly when Esther Sutton and Leah Zitter will be resuming their classes Hill 24 Doesn't Answer • ICVC video • see page 18 for details A class for the serious and the curious... at the Israel Center: THE LANGUAGES OF THE TENACH on Tuesday evenings, at 8:00pm • with Yoel Lerner Explore similarities and differences between the Hebrew and the Aramaic of the Tenach • the significance of the Migdal Bavel episode • the importance of the hakhamim of Tiberias in the 7th and 8th cent. CE • Biblical Hebrew's use of sounds for which there were no separate letters in the alphabet • Biblical Hebrew's verbs which have no real tenses • Torah speckling its stories with words reflecting the linguistic background of those stories • the different Hebrew dialects spoken in different parts of the country during the days of Bayit Rishon

Israel Center TT #665 · BackPage E · PESACH 5765 Issue WednESday iriax mei Rabbi Gordon and Rabbi Wolicki will resume their shiurim IY"H on May 4th Chani Abramson & Jackie Lowenstein will both in resume IY"H on May 4th

Wed. May 4th, 12:30pm, in the Library (free) "To Remember is a Mitzvah" Rabbi Sholom Gold

Wednesday, May 4th, at 7:45pm ( at 9:00pm) Leil Yom HaSho'a V'ha•G'vura (early) Confronting Human Suffering — with G•d Rabbi Chaim Eisen

ThurSday iying mei THU: Dvar Torah by Menachem Persoff

Art Workshop Thursdays, 10:00•12:00 Weekly drawing class (other media possible) Call Rachael at (02) 627•1577 for details

THU Phil time varies Shiur while you fold... Chernofsky

Friday zay axr 9:00am Rabbi men & Chaim women Overview of Pirkei Avot Eisen

Israel Center TT #665 · BackPage F · PESACH 5765 Issue Friday EVE zay lil "Early Shabbat Minyan" Mincha 15 mins. before Plag; Kabbalat Shabbat after Plag Erev Shabbat Parshat K'doshim, Friday May 6th Mincha will be 5:43pm, Plag is 5:58pm, Kabbalat Shabbat. Mincha: Emor 5:47pm • B'har 5:51pm • B'chukotai 5:55pm Upcoming at the Israel Center Shabbat Parshat K'doshim, May 7th, 5:00pm shiur (Mincha at 6:00pm) The Avot and the Mitzvot • Dr. Moshe Kuhr

Friends and relatives of singles! Members of shidduch committees and matchmakers! People who want to make a difference in another Jew’s life! The Art of Being a Dating Advisor with Tips On How To Be A Better Shadchan Sunday, May 8 • 6:45 to 10:00pm Admission 75å • includes materials and ongoing “technical support” Rosie Einhorn, L.C.S.W. and Sherry Zimmerman, Esq. authors of Talking Tachlis and In The Beginning, dating advice columnists and founders of Sasson V’Simcha, a non•profit organization dedicated to helping Jewish singles marry Also... Dealing with difficult issues • Monday, May 16, 8:00pm • 30å

Shabbat Parshat Emor, May 14th, 5:00pm shiur (Mincha at 6:00pm) Parsha and... • Yaacov Peterseil & Co.

Feeling emotional pain? Experiencing depression, anxiety, anger, lack of focus, or an inability to make your needs understood? In this stressful era, all of us have these feelings sometimes. When we feel owned by these feelings, it's time to find methods to regain control of ourselves. Acquire practical skills to help improve self•esteem, self•control, and interpersonal effectiveness. Cognitive•behavior oriented group for women beginning after Pesach. Limited space. Register NOW • Call Judith Rosenblum, M.S.W. 052•511•8407 or Devora Weinberger, B.A., therapist, Hadassah Hospital Trainee in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, M.A. Physcology Candidate 050•635•5982

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