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BUILDING COMMUNITY Great Neck Synagogue Fall Brochure 2016 - 2017 Plans for Future Growth at GNS 26 Old Mill Rd. | 516.487.6100 1 tabLe of Letter from contents the rabbi Section: Page # Torah - Our Blueprint - Ongoing Torah Study 4 Laying the Foundations - Shabbat Speaker Series 6 Construct your Holidays with GNS 12 Build up Your Video Library 15 Men’s Club / Sisterhood / Women's Learning 16 Youth Programs 17 Sponsorship Opportunities 20 GNS Dinner Save the Date 21 “the torah as our bLueprint” DaiLy Learning scheDuLe ongoing Mondays Tuesdays Community Scholars’ Kollel Community Scholars’ Kollel torah stuDy Rabbi Yudi Jeger Rabbi Yudi Jeger 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 .am. Tanach Rabbi Dale Polakoff Rabbi Ian Lichter 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Wednesdays Thursdays Shabbat Community Scholars’ Kollel Community Scholars’ Kollel Parshat Hashavua Shiur Topics in Aggadata Rabbi Ian Lichter Rabbi Yudi Jeger GNS Rabbinic Team Rabbi Dale Polakoff 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. (Bilfeld home) 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m.– 9:00 a.m. Gemorah Women’s Chumash Class Gemorah (Beitzah) Rabbi Yossi Singer Rabbi Dale Polakoff GNS Rabbinic Team 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. 9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 1 hour before Mincha Community Scholars’ Kollel: Contemporary Topic Chabura Power Chumash Join our Scholars’ Kollel each Rabbi Ian Lichter Rabbi Yisroel Reisman Rabbi Yudi Jeger Rabbi Yisroel Reisman Rabbi Dale Polakoff morning for breakfast, stimulating 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. 1 and a half hours after Shabbat 8:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Torah conversation, and special (rotating homes) lectures and presentations from the GNS Rabbinic team and Fridays Sundays visiting scholars. The Scholars’ Parsha Video Midrash Kollel produces a weekly parsha Rabbi Yissocher Frand Rabbi Dale Polakoff sheet and an annual journal of "Our Primary 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. 9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. original Torah scholarship. Obligation Please speak to Steve Zuckerman or is to Study Torah" Rabbi Lichter for details. Peah 1:1 Rabbi Ian Lichter Rabbi Yissocher Frand 4 Great Neck Synagogue 26 Old Mill Rd. | 516.487.6100 5 “Laying the founDations” With shabbat speaker series shabbat November 5, 2016 speakers OHEL Shabbaton at Great Neck Synagogue November 12, 2016 Our close relationship continues with OHEL as we host the annual Shabbaton with OHEL clients and Great Neck Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Synagogue families. Enjoy Friday night dinner and Oneg together in shul in addition to the Shabbat lunches hosted by the GNS families. The Ohel Shabbaton is one of the most memorable Shabbatot of the year. Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s contributions to Israel and world Jewry over the course of the past five decades have been instrumental in shaping today’s Modern Orthodox society. November 12, 2016 Noted teacher, author and visionary, Rabbi Riskin originally hails from Brooklyn NY. Rabbi Riskin graduated Rabbi Dr. Laibl Wolf valedictorian, summa cum laude from Yeshiva University in 1960, where he majored in Greek, Latin and English Rabbi Dr. Laibl Wolf LL.B M.Ed.Psych. D.Div. Dean Spiritgrow – Josef Kryss Holistic Center, Australia literatures. He went on to receive semicha (rabbinical ordination) from the eminent Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, z”l, a Laibl's teachings focus on personal growth and emotional mastery. He uses the wisdom contained in the Kabalistic texts to reveal Master’s Degree in Jewish History and a Ph.D from New York University’s department of Near Eastern Languages and the inner workings of the mind-emotion balance. While spiritually based, Laibl's teachings are highly pragmatic. Laibl has translated Literature. the complicated Kabbalistic insights into a practical system of application to the minutiae of everyday life. He is able to help people As the founding rabbi of the Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan, Rabbi Riskin created a focal point for an exciting discover the motivation behind their thoughts and emotions, which enables them to understand their behavioral patterns. To this approach to Orthodoxy, attracting many young intellectuals and professionals. He served as a role model for religious end, Laibl has developed the original system of "Behavioral Kabbalah", which transmutes the ancient mystical teachings into a social action through his involvement in civil rights and the plight of Soviet Jewry, and he developed into a major pathway of personal fulfillment. His teachings bring his audience to deeper levels of spiritual enlightenment. He has called his spokesperson for Modern Orthodoxy by pioneering the first women’s Advanced Talmud Study program and the first synagogue service conducted for approach MindYoga®. women by women in the early 70’s. Addressing groups as divergent as the American Psychological Association, the Fortune 500 convention, and Buddhist Yet, in 1983, Rabbi Riskin left his thriving career in Manhattan to pioneer the settlement of Efrat. Upon arrival in Israel, Rabbi Riskin founded a monks, he is often the keynote speaker at worldwide conferences such as the recent "Argentinean Economy and boys’ High School in Efrat, the first in what would eventually become Ohr Torah Stone (OTS): a network of groundbreaking educational Psycho/Spiritual Solutions" in Argentina. As Laibl is attuned to the similarities between Eastern spirituality institutions, women’s empowerment programs, innovative leadership training, bridge-building outreach initiatives, and proactive and Kabbalist teachings, he has met with many leaders of other spiritual communities including an extensive two hour private social action projects that today encompasses 3,000 students from Israel and the Diaspora, ranging from elementary school session with the Dalai Lama. Melbourne University has appointed Rabbi Wolf as its founding lecturer in Jewish Mysticism and to post-graduate programs for men and women. Despite the scope of ages, programs and geographical locales, OTS Spirituality. institutions are all united in espousing the vision and philosophy of their founder: a deep love for Israel, tolerance of Rabbi Wolf will be presenting three times throughout Shabbat: one’s fellow man, knowledge and pride in Judaism, and high level secular studies. The Ohr Torah Stone network is 8:30 a.m. - Main Sanctuary: The Art of Jewish Meditation training a knowledgeable, caring and relevant leadership for the future. 3:30 p.m. - Beit Midrash: Love Is A One Way Street Rabbi Riskin will be giving the Shabbat Drasha in the Main Sanctuary: 11:00 a.m. 4:45 p.m. - Seudah Shlishit: Tales and Songs of Restless Souls 6 Great Neck Synagogue 26 Old Mill Rd. | 516.487.6100 7 November 18-19, 2016 Communal Friday Night Dinner featuring Caroline Gli c k shabbat shabbat Caroline's writings have been published in numerous newspapers and online journals. In addition to her speakers speakers work at the Post, she resumed writing for Makor Rishon as December 10, 2016 & April 29, 2017 the paper’s lead commentator Yoetzet Halacha Lisa Septimus December 17, 2016 in 2004. Caroline is the senior December 3, 2016 Lisa Septimus serves as Yoetzet Halacha AIPAC Shabbaton and fellow for Middle Eastern of Great Neck Synagogue and Young Israel Shabbat Lunch featuring Dr. Sharon Goldman Rabbi Jeffrey Kobrin Affairs at the Center for of Great Neck and also serves as a Yoetzet Dr. Sharon Goldman currently serves as Rabbi Jeffrey Kobrin is the Rosh HaYeshi- Security Policy in Washington, Halacha of the Five Towns. She teaches at the AIPAC Northeast Region Political vah and Head of School of the North Shore DC and travels several times North Shore Hebrew Academy High School, Director. In this capacity, she is Hebrew Academy. In addition to Ordination a year to Washington where where she coordinates informal education responsible for developing an overall from RIETS, he has a BA and MA in English she routinely briefs senior administration officials and members of programs and serves as Dean of the Class strategy for political engagement Literature from Columbia University, where Congress on issues of joint Israeli-American concern. In its Israeli of 2016. In her active role as rebbetzin at throughout the Northeast region, as he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. Rabbi Kobrin Independence Day supplement in 2003, Maariv named Caroline "The the Young Israel of North Woodmere, she is integrally involved with adult well as educating activists on relevant lives in Riverdale, NY with his wife and four daughters. Most Prominent Woman in Israel." she Caroline has been awarded education and youth programming. She has taught at The Jewish Center policy concerns. Sharon recruits and the Ben Hecht award for Middle East reporting from the Zionist Rabbi Kobrin will give the Shabbat Drasha in Manhattan, Riverdale Jewish Center, Drisha, and Yeshiva University’s trains AIPAC members on how to build Organization of America as well as the Abramowitz Prize for Media in the Main Sanctuary: 11:00 am Summer Learning Program. Lisa welcomes your questions about mikvah, effective relationships with their elected Criticism by Israel Media Watch. In 2008, her first solo book, Shackled observance of taharat mishpacha (halacha relating to married life) and officials; manages AIPAC’s legislative Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad was published by Gefen Publishers. women’s health as it connects to Jewish law. mobilizations; conducts educational briefings with candidates for federal office; Caroline will present three times over Shabbat: Lisa Septimus will be presenting three times over Shabbat: and tracks and analyzes local campaign activity. Prior to accepting the Friday Night Dinner: 7:00 p.m. Shabbat Drasha, a shiur at the Kiddush Class Political Director position, Sharon served for 2 years as AIPAC’s Area and an afternoon shiur.
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