The Jewish Center SHABBAT BULLETIN MAZEL TOV to BETH & JOSH SCHWARTZ and FAMILY on DENNI’S BAT MITZVAH
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The Jewish Center SHABBAT BULLETIN MAZEL TOV TO BETH & JOSH SCHWARTZ AND FAMILY ON DENNI’S BAT MITZVAH OCTOBER 21, 2017 • PARSHAT NOACH • ROSH CHODESH CHESHVAN 5778 SHABBAT SCHEDULE Jewish Center University Fall Semester Begins Our Centennial Semester of Jewish Center University begins October EREV SHABBAT, ROSH CHODESH 23rd and will run through mid-December. For a complete listing of 6:45/8:00AM Shacharit classes, see page 2. 7:45AM Daf Yomi 5:51PM Candle lighting Centennial Scholar In Residence and May & Samuel Rudin Lecture 5:55PM Minchah Professor Jonathan Sarna 5:55PM Young Leadership Kabbalat Shabbat Shabbat morning, October 27-28th 11:00AM Public Lecture SHABBAT, ROSH CHODESH 1917: The Year that Changed American Orthodoxy 7:30AM Hashkama Dr. Jonathan Sarna is University Professor and the Please note the early start time for Rosh Chodesh Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish 8:30AM Rabbi Israel Silverstein Rambam Class History and Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional with Rabbi Yosie Levine (1st floor) Leadership Program at Brandeis University. 9:00AM Shacharit 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur with Rabbi Noach Goldstein, The Covenant of Noach and the Nature of Shechitah A conversation featuring Former US Attorney General 9:30AM Young Leadership (1st floor) Michael Mukasey and IDF General Bentzi Gruber 9:30AM Teen Minyan (4th floor) Monday evening, November 6th, 8PM 4:55PM Daf Yomi Can We Win the War on Terror? 5:00PM Parent Child Learning with Rabbi Noach America, Israel and the Middle East 100 Years after Goldstein Balfour. In celebration of The Jewish Center's Centennial 5:00PM Parsha Series Part 1 with Community Educator, and the 100th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Ora Weinbach, The Enigmatic Emergence of Avraham The Jewish Center and The Jewish National Fund are 5:40PM Minchah pleased to convene this conversion featuring former Seudah Shlishit Speaker, Michael Bassin, I am not a spy United State Attorney General Michael Mukasey and 6:50PM Shabbat Concludes Israeli General Bentzi Gruber. Their discussion will focus on international efforts to fight terrorism and the ongoing THANK YOU TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS collaboration between the US and Israel. Hashkama Kiddush Libbe & Steven Englander in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Ruth Englander Teen Kiddush Lori Zeltser & Len Berman Community Kiddush Sponsor (1st floor) Tehillah Blech Harris in commemoration of the yahrzeits of her parents, Rabbi Samuel Blech & Rebetzin Ruth Blech Sunday, Oct. 22 Mon.-Thurs., Friday, Oct. 27 7:45AM Daf Yomi Oct. 23-26 7/8AM Shacharit 8:30AM Shacharit 7/8AM Shacharit 7:45AM Daf Yomi 5:50PM Minchah 7:45AM Daf Yomi 5:42PM Candle 5:50PM Minchah Lighting 5:50PM Minchah For more information to register visit www.jewishcenter.org WOMEN’S TEHILLIM GROUP 100 Years of Modern Orthodoxy in America Monday, October 23rd at 7:15PM A special 3-part Shabbat morning sermon series by Rabbi Yosie Levine Contact Joyce Weitz for more info. at 212-877-1176 November 4, 11 and 18 The Jewish Center - The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning 131 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 • www.jewishcenter.org • 212-724-2700 COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS MAZEL TOV Bernard Broome on the Bar Mitzvah of his son, Joshua Tova & Josh Epstein on the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Shevy Beth & Josh Schwartz on the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Denni CONDOLENCES Grace Goldblatt on the passing of her mother, Margaret Goldblatt Yair Goldstein on the passing of his mother, Shulamit Goldstein Deborah Veetal on the passing of her father, Joe Veetal THANK YOU TO OUR USHERS Seth Jonas and Brauna Fortgang THANK YOU TO CSS We would like to once again thank CSS and our dedicated CSS members for providing the security for our synagogue this week. JC UNIVERSITY FALL SEMESTER, 10/23-12/20 DAILY (Except Shabbat) Israel Friedman Daf Yomi with rotating JCU faculty, 7:45AM MONDAY 100 Years of Kashruth in America with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, beginning 11/20, 8:00PM TUESDAY Advanced Talmud with Rabbi Noach Goldstein, 7:45AM (8th floor) Nosh and Drosh with Dr. Adena Berkowitz, 10:15AM (4th floor) The Throne Room: From Solomon to Ben Gurion with Rabbi Yosie Levine 8:00PM (4th floor) WEDNESDAY Women of the Bible with Rabbi Yosie Levine, 11:00AM (4th floor) SHABBAT Rabbi Israel Silverstein Rambam Shiur, Rabbi Yosie Levine, 8:30AM (1st Floor) 100 Years of Modern Orthodoxy in America A special 3-part Shabbat morning sermon series by Rabbi Yosie Levine, November 4, 11 and 18 Hashkama Shiur with rotating faculty 9:15AM (5th floor) Israel Friedman Daf Yomi, 45 minutes before Mincha (1st floor) Hilchot Shabbat with Rabbi Zirkind,The Shabbat Goy beginning November 11th, between Mincha and Maariv Parent Child Learning with rotating JCU Faculty AIPAC Policy Conference 2018 Sunday March 4 - 6, 2018 in Washington, DC Registration for the conference costs $599, but if you purchase a ticket through The Jewish Center, you will pay $399, a $200 discount. Contact the Jewish Center office for more information and to purchase your ticket. THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR YOUTH DEPARTMENT SIMCHAT TORAH PROGRAM SPONSORS! HEIDI & JEFFREY ABRAHAM ARIELLE & JACK BERLIN MARNIE & SCOTT BLACK RACHEL WOLF & ANDREW BORODACH NYC Marathon, November 5, 2017 BRIGITTE DAYAN & ARI AFIALO Good luck to our runners: EVELYN & MOSHE FRUCHTER Arik Cohen, Saul Finkelstein, Osher TAMMY & JONATHAN GLASER Frimerman , Linda Markovich, Daniel ALESSANDRA ROVATI & LLOYD HARMETZ Laifer, Rachel Levine, Judith Rosenbaum, BECCA & DAVID HERMAN David Rumschitzki and Sabrina Rosen ALIZA HERZBERG AMANDA NUSSBAUM & DANIEL LAIFER Support our Centennial Team as they run AMY & JED LATKIN in the 2017 NYC Marathon! Sponsor our DANA & NEIL LEIBOWITZ runners and come out on race day to RACHEL & RABBI YOSIE LEVINE cheer them on from the JC cheering STACIE & EDMOND LEVY section (location to be announced). Show SARAH & ERIC LONDON your shul spirit with a custom designed JENN & GABY MINSKY marathon performance shirt. Sponsorship ELISA & ALAN PINES includes a t-shirt. ILANA & DAVID PRAGER ELIZABETH & JONATHAN SCHILOWITZ Avraham's Beginnings: RUTH & JOSEPH SCHWARZ Sponsorship opportunities: A Two Part Parsha Series JENNIFER & MARK SMITH $54, $100, $180, $360, $1,000 with Community Educator, Ora Weinbach ORIT & WARREN TEICHNER To sponsor, contact Batsheva at Shabbat Afternoons October 21st and 28th at 5:00PM ADINA & PHILIP WAGMAN [email protected] Part 1: The Enigmatic Emergence of Avraham Part 2: Lech Licha: Destiny and Destinations WELCOME TO THE JEWISH CENTER’S CENTENNIAL! JEWISH CENTER MINHAGIM WHERE ARE THEY NOW? On Shabbat Bereishit, our Chattanim serve as the Zev Eleff is currently the officers on the bima and our male elected officers Chief Academic Officer of receive aliyot. With rare exceptions, our officers Hebrew Theological College do not receive aliyot the rest of the year. in Skokie, Illonois. He is the author and editor of six books and more than thirty scholarly articles. Zev began his career as the William Fischman Rabbinic Intern of The Jewish Center. To the right is the cover from this week’s JC Shabbat bulletin in 1918 reviewing a Members’ UPCOMING CENNTENIAL EVENTS October 25th, “1917: How One Year Changed the World” Museum Exhibit Tour. Details on page 2. October 27-28th, Scholar In Residence Professor Jonathan Sarna November 4th, The Jewish Center Black and White Soiree November 6th, Rudin Lecture with former The Archives Committee Display Case Attorney General Michael Mukasey and IDF The Archives Committee has been sifting through documents from the start of the JC and they’re General Bentzi Gruber excited to share their findings. Take a look at the display cases in the lobby. Haran’s Burning Faith Yosie Levine Ora Weinbach, Community Educator Rabbi One of the most shocking experiences that because of his father, Terach. The story is actually a Dovid Zirkind accompanies learning Tanakh as an adult is the bit darker than we may have remembered. Rashi Associate Rabbi realization that some of our favorite stories from writes: Chaim David Berson youth are utterly absent from the text itself. Sarah “He died because of his father, for Terach Cantor does not die as a result of the satan bearing fake denounced Avram, his son, before Nimrod news about the sacrifice of her son; Shifra and Puah for having smashed his idols, and so Erica Brown do not seem to be in any way related to Miram and [Nimrod] threw [Avram] into the fiery Community Scholar Yocheved; and Vashti never actually grows a tail. furnace. Haran was sitting, saying in his Ora Weinbach Many midrashim taught in early childhood parsha heart, “If Avram wins, I am with him. And if Community Educator classes are never re-contextualized later in life. A Nimrod wins, I am with him.” When Avram prime example of this phenomenon, is the story of was saved, they said to Haran: “Who are Noach Goldstein Avram and the the fiery furnace. you with?” Haran said to them, “I am with Resident Scholar The story—as taught in kindergarten—goes Avram.” They threw him into the fiery Avi Feder something like this: Nimrod, the wicked idol- furnace, and he burned. Senior Intern worshipping king, hates Avram because Avram won’t Terach caused the death of his son, Haran, by handing worship idols. Nimrod therefore tries to kill Avram by his other son, Avram, over to Nimrod. Haran’s death Eliezer Buechler throwing him into a huge fire-oven. But Hashem was the resulting collateral damage. Haran, unlike William Fischman protects Avram and does not allow him to be harmed Avram, was not saved by God. Rabbinic Intern by the fire. Avram breaks free from the fiery furnace, Instead of presenting a story focused on Avram’s Aaron Strum escapes the wicked King Nimrod, and begins his unwavering emunah, Rashi emphasizes the corollary Executive Director journey to Canaan.