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Learning and Living Judaism . .Together FIFTH AVENUE SYNAGOGUE 5 East 62nd Street Tel: 212-838-2122 www.5as.org BULLETIN JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 — ISRAEL 70 YEARS SPEAKER SERIES — SHABBAT, JANUARY 11 - 12, 2019 FAS Warmly Welcomes AMBASSADOR DORE GOLD Friday Night Dinner following services Members: $80/Adult, $40/Child; Non- Members: $100/Adult, $50/Child Great Children's Program! RSVP: [email protected], 212-838-2122, or www.5as.org. Ambassador Gold will speak on the following topic: “The Multiple Tools Used in the Delegitimation of Israel: The Core Goal of the BDS Movement.” Ambassador and Israeli Diplomat Dore Gold is President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. In June 2015, Dore Gold left the Jerusalem Cen- ter, which he had led since 2000, to serve as Director General of the Minis- try of Foreign Affairs, appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During his tenure at the Foreign Ministry until October 2016, Ambassador Gold advanced policies that strengthened Israel on a global level - from Africa and Asia to the Mideast and the Western world. Ambassador Gold has written books and articles on the Middle East, including The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West (Regnery, 2009), and The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City (Regnery, 2007). He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Ofra, their children and grandchildren. SAVE THE DATE: — ISRAEL 70 YEARS SPEAKER SERIES — SHABBAT, MARCH 29 - 30, 2019 SAVE THE DATE: FRIDAY NIGHT, MARCH 8, 2019 FAS Warmly Welcomes CHIEF RABBI DR. WARREN GOLDSTEIN FAS Warmly Welcomes AMBASSADOR Friday Night Dinner following services DANNY DANON Members: $80/Adult, $40/Child; Non- Members: $100/Adult, $50/Child Friday Night Dinner following services Great Children's Program! Members: $80/Adult, $40/Child; RSVP: [email protected], 212-838-2122, or www.5as.org. Non- Members: $100/Adult, $50/Child Great Children's Program! Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein is the current Chief Rabbi of South Africa. In RSVP: [email protected], 212-838-2122, or www.5as.org. his 14 years in office he has launched and led a number of revolutionary initiatives that have changed the landscape of both his own community and Ambassador Danny Danon is Israel’s Permanent Representative to the indeed world Jewry. Locally these include The Bill of Responsibilities which United Nations. Born in Israel in 1971, Ambassador Danon completed his has been adopted by the Department of Education in schools nationwide, IDF service with the rank of lieutenant and served as Overall Command- CAP, a radical crime fighting initiative proactively protecting more than er of the Marva volunteer program. Prior to his appointment in October 250,000 South Africans, and Sinai Indaba, perhaps the largest annual Torah 2015, the Ambassador had a distinguished career in the Israeli Knesset convention of its kind in the world. Two of his local projects have been em- and Cabinet serving as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Deputy Minister of braced and implemented by world-jewry: Generation Sinai, a Torah learn- Defense and Minister of Science, Technology, and Space. Ambassador ing experience between parents and children and, The Shabbat Project Danon served, among others, as Chairman of World Likud, member of the which has united Jews in over 1,500 cities in 101 countries through the Jewish Agency Board of Governors, member of the Zionist Executive of keeping of one shabbat together. A qualified Dayan, Rabbi Goldstein has W.Z.O., and Chairman of the World Betar Executive. He holds a BA in published several books including Sefer Mishpat Tzedek, Defending the International Relations from FIU and an MA in Public Policy from the Human Spirit and The Legacy. The Chief Rabbi has a PhD in human rights Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ambassador Danon is the recent recipi- and constitutional law and is a regular columnist for the Jerusalem Post. ent of an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University. JANUARY 2019 Tevet 24 - Shevat 25, 5779 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Shabbat 1 2 3 4 5 Va’eira New Year’s Day S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM Birchas S 8:30 AM M 4:25 PM M 4:25 PM C 4:23 PM Hachodesh M 4:25 PM M 4:30 PM S 9:00 AM M 4:05 PM E 5:28 PM 6 7 Rosh Chodesh 8 9 10 11 12 Bo S 8:30 AM Shevat S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 9:00 AM KS 9:41 AM S 7:30 AM M 4:35 PM M 4:35 PM M 4:35 PM C 4:30 PM M 4:15 PM M 4:30 PM M 4:35 PM M 4:35 PM E 5:35 PM 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Beshalach S 8:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 9:00 AM KS 9:41 AM M 4:40 PM M 4:40 PM M 4:40 PM M 4:40 PM C 4:38 PM M 4:20 PM M 4:40 PM M 4:45 PM E 5:42 PM 20 21 Tu B’Shevat 22 23 24 25 26 Yisro S 8:30 AM Martin Luther King S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 9:00 AM KS 9:41 AM Jr. Day M 4:50 PM M 4:50 PM M 4:50 PM C 4:46 PM M 4:30 PM M 4:45 PM S 7:30 AM M 4:55 PM E 5:50 PM M 4:50 PM 27 28 29 30 31 S 8:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM KS 9:39 AM M 5:00 PM M 5:00 PM M 5:00 PM M 5:00 PM M 4:55 PM Key — S: Shacharit; KS: Latest time for K’riat Shema; M: Mincha/Ma’ariv; C: Candle Lighting; E: End of Shabbat Clergy: Honorary: Young Leadership Chairs: Rabbi Eli Babich Associate Rabbi Henry Hirsch, ob”m Founding Chairman Rachel Akrongold Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth Rabbi Emeritus, USA Hermann Merkin, ob”m Founding President Wesley LePatner Rabbi Shmuel Fishelis Daf Yomi Ira Leon Rennert Honorary Chairman Jennifer Majzner Rabbi Dr. M. Rosensweig Resident Scholar Prof. William Schwartz, ob”m Honorary Chairman Erynne Rennert Rabbi Yaakov Y. Kermaier Rabbi Emeritus, Israel Rabbi Sol Trau, ob”m Honorary Chairman Joseph Malovany Cantor David Yagoda, ob”m Honorary Chairman Yisroel Halpert Ritual Director Victor Barnett Honorary President Youth Directors: Martin Romerovski, ob”m Honorary President Rivkah Halpert Junior Congregation Officers: Walter J. Molofsky, M.D. Chairman Women’s Club: Men’s Club: Yosef Itzkowitz Jacob D. Gold President Starlin Leitner Taub Zig Mandelbaum Co-Chair Youth Groups Mitchell Davidson Vice President Chairman Steven Eichel Co-Chair Kim Heyman Vice President NEXT DAF YOMI SIYUM: EREV PESACH - FRIDAY, APRIL 19 Join us for a Siyum celebrating the completion of Tractate Chullin by our Daf Yomi study group. Led by distinguished Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Shmuel Fishelis, the class participants include: Joel Davidson, Shimmy Deutscher, Rabbi David Eliach, Aaron Feder, Simon Fischer, Michael Fiskus, Sunny Ganger, Betzalel Gelbtuch, Jacob Gold, Avraham Goldringer, David Hollander, Martin Klein, Andrew Lowinger, Cantor Malovany, David Present, Alan Rechtschaffen, Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth, Steve Schneider, Howard Schraub, Martin Schwartz, Michael Semchuk, Abe Shainberg, Andrew Silverberg, and Charles Taub. The class meets at 6:30 a.m. on weekdays, 7:30 a.m. on Sundays with Rabbi Fishelis, and 7:45 a.m. on Shabbos with Dr. Aryeh Pollack. Great opportunity to join the group as we learn the new Tractate Bechoros on Friday, April 19, with Rabbi Fishelis. 2 FEBRUARY 2019 Shevat 26 - Adar I 23, 5779 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Shabbat 1 2 Mishpatim S 7:30 AM Birchas C 4:55 PM Hachodesh M 5:00 PM S 9:00 AM M 4:40 PM E 5:58 PM 3 4 5 Rosh Chodesh 6 Rosh Chodesh 7 8 9 Terumah S 8:30 AM S 7:30 AM Adar I Adar I S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 9:00 AM KS 9:37 AM M 5:05 PM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM M 5:05 PM C 5:03 PM M 4:45 PM M 5:05 PM M 5:05 PM M 5:05 PM M 5:10 PM E 6:06 PM 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Tetzaveh S 8:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 9:00 AM KS 9:33 AM M 5:15 PM M 5:15 PM M 5:15 PM M 5:15 PM C 5:12 PM M 4:55 PM M 5:15 PM M 5:20 PM E 6:14 PM 17 18 President’s Day 19 20 21 22 23 Ki Sisa S 8:30 AM S 8:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 9:00 AM KS 9:28 AM M 5:25 PM M 5:25 PM M 5:25 PM M 5:25 PM C 5:20 PM M 5:05 PM M 5:20 PM M 5:25 PM E 6:22 PM 24 25 26 27 28 March 1 2 Vayakheil S 8:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM S 7:30 AM Shabbat Shekalim KS 9:23 AM M 5:30 PM M 5:30 PM M 5:30 PM M 5:30 PM C 5:28 PM Birchas Hachodesh M 5:30 PM M 5:35 PM S 9:00 AM M 5:10 PM E 6:30 PM Key — S: Shacharit; KS: Latest time for K’riat Shema; M: Mincha/Ma’ariv; C: Candle Lighting; E: End of Shabbat WITH DR.