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Vayeishev 5767 s’’xc Shabbat Vayeishev Chabad of the West Side & Chabad Early Learning Center Chanukah Kislev 24-25, 5767 December 8-9, 2006 Candle Lighting: 4:11 PM Shabbat Ends: 5:15 PM Weekly Bulletin V OLUME IFRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2006 24 KISLEV, 5767 ISSUE XIII Fight or Light? Controversy and Irony at Happy Chanukah! SeaTac Airport Celebrate Chanukah with Chabad! More details inside Friday Night, December 15, 5:30 PM Would Moses Recognize Judaism Today? Shabbaton @ Darna Restaurant Sunday, December 17, 3 - 5 PM CHANUKAH SING ALONG Chabad of the West 60s, 101 WEA @ 64th St. Monday, December 18, 4 - 5:30 PM CELC GRAND CHANUKAH CELEBRATION Public menorah lighting in downtown Seattle, circa 1985 @ Young Israel of the West Side, 210 W 91st St. I’m sure many of you have been Tuesday, December 19, 5 - 6:30 PM following the controversy around CHABAD ALUMNI & FRIENDS KIDS CLUB the Seattle Airport holiday dis- Giant Menorah Lighting & Chanukah Give-and-Get play. Here is an article by Yanki Chabad, 101 W 92nd St. Tauber, which I think sheds some light on the issue: Wednesday, December 20, 6 PM PUBLIC MENORAH LIGHTING AND CELEBRATION One thing I've come to realize is that many of us have an innate, Richard Tucker Sq., 66th & B’dwy enduring loyalty to our precon- Sponsored by Chabad of the West Sixties ceptions. We'll stick with them Every Weeknight of Chanukah, Dec. 17 - 21 through thick and thin, no matter MENORAH LIGHTING AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - 5 PM what reality sends our way. Sponsored by Chabad @ Columbia I first realized this some twenty MENORAH LIGHTING AT 66TH @ BROADWAY - 6 PM years ago when a friend and I, Sponsored by Chabad of the West Sixties as two young Chabad-Lubavitch continued on page 2 Chabad ELC . .5 101 WEST 92ND STREET Chabad Shul Section . .10 NEW YORK, NY 10025 212-864-5010 Torah Fax: Perish the Thought . .9 www.chabadwestside.org Inside: Upcoming Events . .3,4 [email protected] Happy Birthdays . .4 CHABAD WEEKLY BULLETIN PAGE 2 Fight or Light? Continued from page 1 through it? There's a public menorah in Red Square. At the Eiffel Tower. Inside the Brandenburg Gate. And in rabbinical students, spent our summers canvassing the thousands of places throughout the United States and state of Montana looking for Jews. We'd drive from town to across the globe. Washington State's own governor is town--some of which only had one or two Jewish families-- proudly hosting a menorah lighting ceremony in the and try to do our bit to encourage Jewish identity and obser- capitol during Chanukah. vance. But the folks in charge at SeaTac didn't want a meno- We were quite a curiosity, and were often featured in the rah. After weeks of stonewalling, bureaucratic double- local newspaper. The publicity proved useful in both drawing speak and suddenly canceled meetings by Port brass, local Jews out of the woodwork and gaining us a welcome Rabbi Bogomilsky's lawyer warned of possible legal response when we called on people. action. The airport's now infamous response was to.... remove the Christmas trees, claiming that they wouldn't One thing irked me though about these newspaper stories. be able to handle the onslaught of religiously diverse After spending an hour lecturing the reporter on Jewish requests. identity and explaining about Shabbat, kosher, tefillin and mezuzah--what did s/he write about? About the "Two Continued on page 12 Hasidic Men Wearing Traditional Hasidic Black Hat and Long Black Coat" who've rolled into town. ADVERTISING RATES FOR THE CHABAD WEEKLY BULLETIN The black hat part was true. Below the neck, however, we wore ordinary business suits. In all fairness to the reporters, Size of Ads and Rates these do tend toward the darker end of the color spectrum. Full Page $1,000 (min 4 weeks @ $250 per week) Still, we weren't in town to promote traditional hasidic garb, Half Page $520 (min 4 weeks @ $130 per week) 1/4 Page $910 (min 13 weeks @ $70 per week) or and we'd have much preferred that the article focus on the $325 (min 4 weeks @ $81.25 per week) more substantive parts of our message. Bus. Card $325 (min 13 weeks @ $25 per week) So one day we left our hats in the car. My partner wore a light grey suit to the interview, and I put on the most light- colored garment I owned--a light-tan plaid sports jacket. Sure enough, the next day's paper ran a full-sized photo- graph of two hatless, light-jacketed young men posed in front of the newspaper building. One held a pair of tefillin, and the other a Shabbat candlestick. The caption under the photograph read: "Tauber, 21, and Begun, 22, two hasidic rabbis sporting the traditional black hat and long black coat, visit Montana on mission." I was reminded again of how attached people can be to their preconceptions when seeing the news reports on the menorah controversy at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The irony is that Rabbi Bogomilsky and his colleagues are squarely on the very opposite side of the debate... First the facts: Seattle Port Authority consultant Mitchell Stein, along with Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, a Seattle-based Chabad- Lubavitch rabbi, wanted to erect a Chanukah menorah at SeaTac Airport. The airport already had 14 large Christmas trees set up in various places throughout their terminals. SeaTac is a major international gateway; why not share the menorah's message with the tens of thousands who pass CHABAD WEEKLY BULLETIN PAGE 3 Upcoming Events Sunday, December 17th 3-5 PM Chanukah Tuesday, Sing Along December 19 Wednesday with Children's Musical Sensation 5 - 6:30 pm December 20 Bobby Doowah! 6:00 PM CHABAD The Archstone "ALUMNI & FRIENDS" Public 101 West End Ave., at 64th St. 4th Floor Multi-Purpose Room KIDS CLUB MENORAH LIGHTING and Celebration Cover: $10 Per Person, Max $30 Per CHANUKAH PARTY! Family at Richard Tucker Square Hot Latkes! Delicious Jelly Gift Wrapping* Doughnuts! Build a LEGO Outdoor Giant Menorah (66th Street and Broadway) Menorah! Face Painting! Lighting Celebration** Latkes & Sufganiot The Menorah will also be And much more! lit every weeknight of Chanukah at 6 PM. About Bobby Doowah Optional parent study Able to appeal to four-year-olds to session with Rabbi Meir Ossey Latkes, Doughnuts, forty-year-olds, Bobby Doowah repre- from 5:00 - 5:30 sents the next generation of children’s Dreidels and musical entertainers. He “presents a Chanukah Gelt for zany medley of movement, dancing * We will be wrapping gifts for the the Children and musical entertainment,” wrote Chai Lifeline Toy Drive. While The New York Daily News, and there will be enough gifts for “charms kids and parents alike.” everyone to wrap, you are wel- JOIN IN A Bobby’s shows meet children on their come to bring your own. CELEBRATION OF level, without cutesy condescension. He is a “musical entertainer extraordi- JEWISH UNITY naire,” wrote Big Apple Parents ** We will be spending some time AND FREEDOM! Magazine, whose concerts routinely outdoors - be sure to dress feature, “kids bouncing ceiling-high, warmly! A project of irrepressible hysterics and energetic Chabad of the West Sixties dancing.” Pre-registration required by 212-706-7708 Friday, December 15 at A project of www.chabadwestside.org/kidsclub. For information on additional Chabad of the West Sixties Chanukah activities FOR QUESTIONS OR TO RSVP PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] visit their website at: OR CALL 212-706-7708! www.chabadw60s.com CHABAD WEEKLY BULLETIN PAGE 4 The 1st Annual Annual memorial Chabad Reunion Chabad for Womens Judy Abrams v”g For Westside Expatriates Circle Sunday, December 17 Sunday Morning, Tuesday, January 16 10am - 12 noon. January 14 Minyan at 9 AM Achieving Balance at Chabad in our Lives 101 W92nd St. Followed by with Rabbi Meir Ossey Breakfast with all Program will include the trimmings a shiur given by Fashion an Attractive, Libby Dreisinger. at Chabad Trendy Handbag 101 W92nd St. with Aviva Sitruk Brunch will be served Hostess: Lara Slager Stay tuned for details... ONGOING CLASSES Happy Birthday! MONDAY EVENINGS 8:15 pm WEDNESDAY EVENINGS 8:30 pm Name Hebrew Date Occurs On PRACTICAL HALACHA IN-DEPTH TANYA with Rabbi Yisroel Fried Abbe Piels 24 Kislev December 15 with Rabbi Meir Ossey AT THE CHABAD SHUL Julia Young 28 Kislev December 19 AT THE HOME OF NAAVA & DANNY ECKSTIEN Maya Engel 27 Kislev December 18 20 WEST 87TH ST. APT. #1B WEDNESDAY MORNINGS Elissa Hackel 24 Kislev December 15 10:45–11:30 SHABBAT PATHWAYS TO THE SOUL Ella Low 27 Kislev December 18 9:00 am a Class for Women THE CHASSIDIC PARSHA Caitlin Kluger 28 Kislev December 19 with Rabbi Shlomo Kugel with Rabbi Yisroel Fried Coffee & Discussion Elliot Serure 25 Kislev December 16 1hour before Mincha AT THE HOME OF RAMBAM SHIUR Gabriella Yohananoff 26 Kislev December 17 DEBORAH & DAVID SHIMKO with Rabbi Yisroel Fried 500 WEST END AVE. APT. #8C at the Chabad Shul Chabad ELC st Chanukah Celebration! Street 4:00 pm - Outdoor Menorah Lighting Monday, December 18 (be sure to dress warmly!) Young Israel of the West Side - 210 West 91 4:00 - 5:30 pm $5 per person / $20 per family Puppet Show - Dancing Pizza Dinner - Chanukah Gelt Chanukah Toy Drive Ends on Monday! Brighten the life of a sick child this Chanukah. Drop off your unwrapped, new gift at the Chai Lifeline Toy Drive drop-off spot. Olive Press Workshop Music 92 Next Week at CELCCELC Chanukah Celebration! Olive Press Workshop Music 97 Monday, December 18 Plus Creative Dance PK Morah Torah 12:30 dismissal for all classes Tuesday, December 19 Chabad ELC ELC Chabad NO SCHOOL Wednesday, December 20 School Resumes Chabad ELC Thursday, December 21 - 101 West 92nd Street 166 West 97th Street Monday, January 1 Phone: 212-864-5010 Tuesday, January 2 Fax: 212-932-8987 www.chabadwestside.org [email protected] Olive Press Workshop Follow the olive from branch to menorah.
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