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Kehilath Jeshurun Bulletin CHANUKAH ISSUE KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Volume LXXVI, Number 2 December 8, 2006 17 Kislev 5767 AM HASEFER BOOK CLUB REVIEWS SAMUEL S. SILVERSTEIN SHABBATON “THE U.N. EXPOSED” JANUARY 12-13, 2007 Sunday, January 28 6:30 PM at KJ Our Featured Scholar RABBI JOSEPH TELUSHKIN January 12th - Friday Evening Dinner immediately following 4:45 PM Shabbat services: “HUMILITY, SELF-ESTEEM AND FORGIVENESS: JEWISH INSIGHTS INTO BEING A GOOD PERSON” FRIDAY EVENING SHABBAT DINNER January 13th - Saturday Morning Members Non-Members at the conclusion of Special Guest Speaker Adults: $35 $40 9:00 AM Shabbat services: ERIC SHAWN Juniors (ages 12-18): $30 $35 “TEN OBSTACLES TO CHANGE: Children (ages 2-11): $18 $30 The Congregation is honored to YEAR-ROUND LESSONS host Eric Shawn, a New York based FROM THE LAWS OF TESHUVAH” senior correspondent for FOX News Channel, who will discuss his new Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, born and Synagogue for the Performing Arts in book The U.N. Exposed: How the raised in New York, is a graduate and Los Angeles, he is an author of many United Nations Sabotages America’s ordained rabbi of Yeshiva University. A books and has written several novels as Security and Fails the World. The sought-after lecturer, associate of well as popular articles and television event will be moderated by noted CLAL, and spiritual leader of the and film scripts. political consultant Hank Sheinkopf. Created after World War I to promote peace and international Please join us for some WHEEL fun understanding, the U.N. has, over the at an evening of charity years, failed to achieve its original mission. With a rare insight into the and good cheer. United Nations, the book focuses on many disturbing aspects of its KJ ANNUAL DINNER operations that have been ignored by to benefit the mainstream media. Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Mr. Shawn has covered a number of breaking news stories for FOX. A This Saturday Night, December 9 graduate of Georgetown University with a degree in Urban Studies, Mr. 8:00 PM Photo by Mitch Krevat Shawn also reported the Unabomber Morris and Ida Newman Walk-in registration arrest, the Persian Gulf War and the Educational Center 1992 Clinton campaign. welcome 60 East 78th Street, New York City The entire congregational community DINNER CO-CHAIRS is encouraged to attend. Barbara & Harvey Arfa, Abby & David Doft, Lisa & Mark Todes, Barbara Zimet Page 2 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN WELCOME Kesher presents... Kehilath Jeshurun warmly welcomes the following new Uncle Moishy members who have joined the Congregation between the printing In Concert! of the last Bulletin, August 25, and this Bulletin, which went to press on Date: Sunday, December 10 November 20: Time: 11:00 am Laurie & Dr. Eli Bryk Location: Heyman Auditorium Phyllis & Jack Diamond For Tickets, Contact 212-987-3306 or [email protected] Gabriella & Rudolph Dresdner Majorie & Albert Fortinsky More Upcoming Great Kesher Events: Michelle & Daniel Gewanter Melavah Malka with Rabbi Avrumi Drs. Jacqueline Green and his Magical Keyboard - January 20 & John Grossman n Progressive Dinner - February 10 Hanan Halili Zeev Hechter WINTER YOUTH ACTIVITIES Drs. Aviva Preminger December 9 - Open Gym grades 1-4 January 28 - Hello Yellow & David Hiltzik December 10 - Hello Yellow January 28 - KJBL December 10 - KJBL February 3 - Family Mishnayot learning Gladys and Martin Kartin December 15 - Tot Shabbat Program with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik for grades 2-4 Joanne Krupp December 16 - Open Gym Night for Grades 7-12 February 3 - Tu B’Shevat Seder December 17 - KJBL February 3 - Open Gym Night for Grades 5-6 Suri and Dr. David Landerer January 6 - Open Gym Night for Grades 5-6 February 4 - KJBL Dr. Linda Michelson January 6 - Family Mishnayot learning February 4 - Youth Department with Rabbi Soloveichik for grades 2-4 Super Bowl Party Anna Propp January 7 - KJBL February 9-10 - Yachad Shabbaton Rebecca Feit & Rami Sasson January 13 - “Girls Only” Open Gym February 10 - Open Gym Night for Grades 7-12 January 19 - Tot Shabbat February 11 - KJBL Drs. Lu Steinberg January 20 - Teen Open gym February 23 - Tot Shabbat & Michael Schulder January 21 - KJBL February 24 - Open Gym Night for Grades 1-4 January 27 - Open Gym Night Grades 1-4 February 25 - KJBL Jannine and David Zucker MEN’S CLUB FILM SERIES AT KJ SUPPER LECTURE ON DIVESTMENT KJ SYNAGOGUE “MORE WITH MEMBERSHIP: PRECIOUS ALEX JOFFE BE A PART OF THAN PEARLS” SUNDAY, THE JEWISH PEOPLE FEBRUARY 18TH Contact KJ Administrator WITH THE DIRECTOR 6:30 PM AT KJ Leonard Silverman NAFTALI ROBERT FRIEDMAN at 212-774-5680 or Alexander Joffe is an archaeologist [email protected] SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH and historian. Educated at Cornell 7:00 PM AT KJ University and the University of An engaging and compelling exploration of the Arizona, he has taught at Penn State intellectual and spiritual struggles faced by a survivor University and at SUNY Purchase of a Nazi concentration camp who immigrated to and has published extensively on America after the war. The film explores the Near Eastern archaeology, as well as challenges of achieving self-renewal as a human being modern politics and culture. He is and as a committed Jew, without forgetting the vivid, currently the Director of Research for yet incomprehensibly painful, memories of the past. the David Project, a Boston-based Everyone in the community is urged to attend Israel advocacy magazine, published this excellent fim. by the Center of Herzliya, Israel. KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 3 KJ TO PRESENT BAR MITZVAH PROGRAM NATHAN AND VIVIAN FINK FOR FATHERS AND SONS MEMORIAL LECTURE KJ is happy to offer a new Through text study, projects and RAV HERSHEL learning program for fathers and sons interactive learning, each parent/child SCHACHTER from our community reaching bar "chavruta" will connect with these "INSIGHTS INTO THE LAWS OF mitzvah age. The KJ Bar Mitzvah Jewish sources and become partners program is an opportunity to explore, on the spiritual journey of what it SHABBAT II" in creative and interactive ways, the means to be a Jewish adult today. Wednesday, January 10 challenges and opportunities of The Bar Mitzvah program is led 8:00 PM reaching bar mitzvah. by Rabbi Hillel Rapp, meeting on Rav Hershel Schachter The Bar Mitzvah Program, Sundays between 10:30 am and 12:00 is one of the foremost developed specifically for KJ, pm on January 14th and 28th, halakhic decisors of the explores the Jewish sources on daily February 11th and 25th, and March Modern Orthodox living and ritual practice in a way 11th. To register or inquire, please community. His annual which is hands-on, exciting and contact Hillel Rapp at [email protected] mini-course at KJ is a meaningful. or 212-774-5652. valuable resource and we are honored to host him in our community. 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