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JUNE 3, 2017 • P ARSHAT NASSO • 9 S IVAN 5777 EREV SHABBAT 6TH ANNUAL KETER TORAH AWARDS HONORING 7:00/8:00PM Minchah NAOMI GOLDMAN AND RUBY GOTTLIEB 8:03PM Candle lighting SHABBAT , J UNE 3 FOLLOWING 9:00AM S ERVICES SHABBAT In the spirit of Shavuot, which celebrates two great 7:45AM Hashkama Minyan (The Max and Marion Jewish heroines, Naomi and Ruth, the Keter Torah Grill Beit Midrash) Award ceremony will immediately follow Shavuot. We 8:30AM Kids’ Kiddush club with Rabbi Yosie Levine look forward to recognizing two women in our commu- (1st Floor) nity this year: Naomi Goldman and Ruby Gottlieb 9:00AM Shacharit (3 rd floor) 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, Thank you to our Committee, Humming Along: What To Do (and Not To Do) During Penina Blazer, Dina Burcat, Birkat Kohanim Elana Kaminetsky and Rona Steinerman 9:30AM Young Leadership Minyan (1st floor) 9:10AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema 10:00AM Youth Groups: Under age 3 (drop off op- Shabbat Morning, June 10 tional, babies must be able to independently sit up- Special Sermon by Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman right), 3-6-year-olds: Geller Youth Center, 2nd-6th President, University graders: 7th floor On June 5, Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, the sixth rabbi of Hot Kiddush (5th floor) The Jewish Center, will become the fifth president of 1:00PM Young Leadership Post-Shavuot Shabbat . In celebration Lunch ( for those who pre-registered) of his first Shabbat in his new office, please join us as Rabbi Berman returns to The Jewish WITH THANKS TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS : Center. To sponsor Kiddush in Rose Lynn Sherr in commemoration of the 7th yahr- honor of Rabbi Berman, zeit of Jack M. Pollock, Jacov Moshe ben Mordecai please contact Aaron Strum at Kira Borodach in honor of Naomi Goldman [email protected]

4:00PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home (meet at 730 Columbus Ave.) THE JC ANNUAL DINNER 5PM Youth Department Seudah Shlishit Monday, June 12, 2017 7:00PM Daf Yomi at Museum of Jewish Heritage 7:45PM Minchah HONORING

Guests of Rabbi Community WITH THANKS TO OUR SEUDAH SHLISHIT SPONSOR : Honor Dr. Leo Jung Service Award Veronica & Erwin Muth in Commemoration of the Barbara & Guy Memorial Award Ben Cooper Reiss Deena Yahrtzeit of Veronica's father Zoltan Ungar Blanchard & 9:04PM Shabbat Concludes Akiva Novetsky

DAILY SERVICES Sunday June 4 Mon. June 3 - Friday, June 9 GRADUATION KIDDUSH Daf Yomi 7:45AM Thur. June 8 Shacharit SHABBAT JUNE 17 Shacharit 8:30AM Shacharit 7 & 8AM 7:00/8:00AM Minchah 8:10PM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Join us as we celebrate the academic achievements of our Minchah 8:10PM Minchah 7:00/8:00PM community graduates. From preschool to PhD, if you, a family Candle Lighting member or a friend flipped a tassel this spring, please let us 8:08PM know by completing the form on our website or emailing [email protected]. If you would like to sponsor the WOMEN ’S TEHILLIM GROUP Graduation Kiddush, please contact Aaron Strum at Monday, June 5 at 7:15PM [email protected] or Contact Joyce Weitz for more info. at 212-877-1176 Jenn & Gaby at [email protected]. The Jewish Center - The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning 131 W. 86 th Street, New York, NY 10024 • www.jewishcenter.org • 212-724-2700 UPCOMING EVENTS COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS Celebrate Parade MAZAL TOV June 4 from 11:00AM-4:00PM Shelley and Jonathan Helfand on the engagement of their son Yaakov to Gaby Nachum in Israel. Charles and Mindy Hercman on the birth of a granddaughter Israel and the International Community born to their children Jenn and Itamar Futterman. Scholar in Residence Yifa Segal Audrey Greenfeld on the birth of a granddaughter born to Shabbat Afternoon, June 10 her children Amanda and Darren Bryk. Pe-Mincha Lecture: The Monopoly on Human Rights: How a Shift in Discoursee can effect policy, Justice and Equality in Israel. THANK YOU TO OUR USHERS Seudah Shlishit: The ILF: A Behinds the Scenes look at the Struggle to Esther Graber and Darrin Litsky Defend Israel THANK YOU TO CSS We would like to once again thank CSS and our dedicated Graduation Kiddush CSS members for providing the security for our synagogue this Shabbat, June 17 week. Join us as we celebrate the academic achievements of our community graduates. From preschool to PhD, if you, a family member or a FEMALE RESIDENT SCHOLAR SEARCH friend flipped a tassel this spring, please let us know by completing The Jewish Center is currently searching for a Resident the form on our website or emailing [email protected]. If you Scholar. This leadership position is designed to engage would like to sponsor the Graduation Kiddush, please contact Aaron with and connect to our entire community with a special Strum at [email protected] or Jenn & Gaby at jennandga- focus on the many women in the community. The primary [email protected]. responsibilities of this role include teaching Torah and forming deep relationships with community members. A Annual Membership Meeting complete job description may be found June 19 at 8:30PM at www.jewishcenter.org. To recommend a candidate or Our Annual Meeting is a time to hold our annual election, learn more for questions, please contact Rabbi Levine or any member about the way we operate our Center, review our finances and honor of our search committee: Andrew Borodach, Aliza Her- our outgoing Board members. This meeting is an important part of zberg, Mark Segall or Adina Wagman or synagogue governance and I hope you will be able to attend so you email [email protected]. can listen to our reports, ask questions and grab a little nosh. CENTENNIAL PLANNING UPDATE Summer Outing with Rabbi Levine Dear Members, June 22, 11:00AM at the YU Museum As you know, planning for our Centennial Year is well 500 YEARS OF TREASURES FROM OXFORD underway. As we begin to fill in the calendar, we're $10 members; $12 non-members looking to find exciting and dynamic speakers/ Please email [email protected] if you would like to sign up. personalities who will be especially fitting for this monu-

mental year. If you or someone you know has access to Young Leadership Lecture Series Wednesday, June 28th at 8:00PM any such people, please be in touch with us or with Rabbi Fertility & Halacha Zirkind. Featuring Dr. Bat-Sheva Lerner Maslow Thank you. Andy Kaplan, Andrew Steinerman and Rachel Wolf Centennial Year Co-Chairs YOUTH DEPARTMENT UPDATES End of the Year Seudah Shlishit Thinking of running the Saturday, June 3 Marathon? Sail into Summer Join The Jewish Center Centennial Team! with special Family Comedian Guest. Space is limited.

NE For more information, please Kids Kiddush Club with Rabbi Levine W Shabbat Mornings in June from 8:30AM-9:00AM email [email protected] Join us for this special summer series featuring breakfast and learning If you would like to support the Jewish Center with Rabbi Levine. Centennial Team please visit the JC website. 1st grade and up. Parents welcomed.

JCU Summer Series Tuesday Evenings at 7PM Tuesday Mornings at 7:45AM Wednesday Evenings at 7PM June 6,13 and 20 June 6, 13, and 20 June 7, 14, and 21 with Rabbi Levine with Rabbi Goldstein with Rabbi Avi Feder Biblical Heroes & Villains: The World of Korbanot The Book of Number

To sponsor Kiddush or Seudah Shlishit or a JC event, please contact Aaron at [email protected] SIXTH ANNUAL

KETER TORAH AWARD Shabbat, June 3, 2017

With thanks to our generous sponsors:

Keter Torah Adina & Philip Wagman* Lori Zeltser & Leonard Berman* Cindy & Jay Worenklein* Marnie & Scott Black* Ami & Mike Young Harriet & George Blank* The Sisterhood of The Jewish Center Serena Weider & Jonathan Blank* Penina Blazer Rimon Rachel Wolf & Andrew Borodach* Allison Adler Vivian & Daniel Chill* Gerold & Ardell Borodach Stacy Brooks & Lenny Chodosh Karen Helig & Ivan Ciment Rhoda & Manny Chodosh Ted Comet Michelle Chrein Susan & Arthur Degen Elana Kaminetzky & Brian Cohen Judith Falk Michael Doppelt Vivian & Bernard Falk Sherry & Mark Fessel* Jeannie & Scott Fisher and Family Tammy and Johnny Glaser Brauna & Marvin Fortgang Rabbi Marvin & Judith Goldman Galit Mizrahi & Arnold Franklin Susan Kensky & Samuel Goldman* Tova Friedman Sharon Goldman Judith & Robert Grauman Ruby & Joseph Gottlieb* Tehillah Blech Harris Janine Behrman & Alan Gover* Dovid & Becca Herman Esther & Steve Graber* Avi D. Jacobowitz Eleanor Merczynski & David Hait* Margie Kahn Alvin Hellerstein* The Kalfus Family Aliza Herzberg* Joan Kagan Rabbi Robert & Virginia Bayer Hirt* Lily Kaplan The Hurwitz Family Peter Kashin Rochelle Tarlowe & Seth Jonas Rabbi Ysoscher & Sharon Flatto Katz Shira Orenstein & Danny Kahn Rona & Ira Kellman Ellie & Stacey Karp Bosi, Yaron & Ronit Kinar Eve & Marc Karstaedt Jessica Gross & Larry Klein Rebecca & Emilio Krausz Amy & Jed Latkin Fran & Jonah Kupietzky* David & Nachum Lerner Amanda Nussbaum & Daniel Laifer* Darrin Litsky Rachelle & Alan Laytner* Ann Goldhirsch & Barry Love Lynn Montz & John Leubsdorf Sharon, Jonathan and Iliana Mann Rebecca & Saul Lubetski Paulette & David Meyer Rachel Lurie* Carol & Ira Morrow Tiki & Simcha Lyons* Veronica & Erwin Muth Dinah & Andy Mendes Pamela & David Neikrug Barbara & David Messer* Sharona Reiss Hanno Mott* Malca Resnick Sarah Finegold & Andrew Newton* Lauren & David Reves Deena Blanchard & Akiva Novetsky Daria Pennington & Danny Ripps Jackie Rebibo Beth & Abe Rosenberg Barbara & Guy Reiss* Golda Reena & Henry Rothman Emmy and Michael Rehaut Miri Lipsky & Joshua Schainker Avi Schwartz* Dana Siegal Chani & Mark Segall* Grant Silverstein Rose Lynn Sherr & Stanley Solson Jeffrey & Sandra Smith Rachel Ringler & Yossi Siegel* Amy Sugin Nancy & Joseph Sklarin Jeff Sussman Jennifer & Mark Smith* Michelle Treitel Radine & William Spier* Brian Weiser Rona & Andrew Steinerman Joyce & Aaron Weitz Carrie Stieglitz Sharon Wenger The Vorchheimer Family Harriet Wagman *One Gift Donor The Jewish Center ▪ 131 West 86 th St. ▪ New York, NY 10024 ▪ 212-724-2700 ▪ www.jewishcenter.org Yosie Levine Rabbi Fear Not: Thoughts on the Haftarah for Naso Dr. Erica Brown, Community Scholar Dovid Zirkind Associate Rabbi

This week’s haftarah is fueled by fear. An uni- Human beings are terrified of encountering what Chaim David Berson dentified divine messenger comes to earth to tell is unknowable for us. We want mastery, not Cantor the wife of Manoah (a woman who remains mystery. We need control. We recoil at the lim- Erica Brown nameless throughout the biblical text) that she its of our knowledge. The same expression used Community Scholar will will have a son. Not just any son. This son will by the angel here is also used in Genesis 32:30 Noach Goldstein be a nazarite, a holy man who must abstain when Jacob fights the angel: “Jacob asked, Resident Scholar from wine and shaving his hair; he will also “Pray, tell me your name. But he said,” You must Avi Feder begin to save Israel from their oppression under not ask my name! And he took leave of him William Fischman the Philistines. The announcement is just for the there.” The angel asks Jacob to know that there Rabbinic Intern woman’s ears, and the messenger leaves instruc- are things he will never know. Aaron Strum tions for her own prenatal care with her alone. Executive Director As instructed, Manoah offered up his meal to The wife runs home to tell her husband Manoah God and watched the meal go up in fire from a Jenn & Gaby Minsky Youth Directors the good news. He is skeptical. Is it possible that make-shift altar; “Manoah and his wife looked a strange man approached his wife when she on; and they flung themselves on their faces to OFFICERS Avi Schwartz was alone in a field and now she is pregnant? the ground.” Manoah suddenly realizes that he President He begs God to send the messenger again: “Oh will pay a price for questioning the divinity of Andrew Borodach my Lord…please let the man of God that You this being. He turns to his wife in fear and says: First Vice President sent come to us again, and let him instruct us how “We shall surely die, for we have seen a divine Michael Jacobs to act with the child that is to be born.” The an- being.” His wife reassures him that God took Vice President gel does come once again, but only to Manoah’s their offering and gave them a promise of a Deena Blanchard Vice President wife. Implicitly, God seems to be telling Manoah child, promises that would not have been made to trust his wife. Manoah’s suspicions, however, had God intended them to die. Mark Segall Assistant Vice President increase with this second appearance. Manoah asks to honor this messenger with a meal. Since But what Manoah was really saying to his wife is Yaron Kinar Treasurer angels do not have names nor do they eat, the that human beings cannot withstand fear, and he is no exception. She, in turn, tells him that that is Len Berman angel refuses: “If you detain me, I shall not eat Assistant Treasurer not the case. We can confront fear. In his Jour- your food; and if you present a burnt offering, Andrew Kaplan offer it to the Lord.” Manoah did not believe he nals, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “The wise Assistant Treasurer man in the storm prays to God, not for safety was an angel and again asks for his name and Miri Lipsky is met with the angel’s own impatience: “You from danger, but for deliverance from fear.” Secretary must not ask for my name; it is unknowable!” PHONE NUMBERS

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Eruv Status 212-724-2700 x4 Mazal Tov to our 2017 Dinner Honorees Barbara & Guy Reiss , Guests of Honor Deena Blanchard & Akiva Novetsky, Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung Memorial Award Ben Cooper , Community Service Award

Deena Blanchard and Akiva Novetsky are fiercely passionate about making a difference; actively giving back to the community in both their personal and professional lives. They love and are deeply committed to The Jewish Center. When they first joined, they were so impressed with how warm and welcoming The Jewish Center was and they decid- ed to immediately become involved.

Deena's participation began with youth event planning and later evolved into her serving as the youth co-chair. Under her leadership, together with Neil Leibowitz, the Youth Department is flourishing and welcoming more programming and more children than ever before. Most recently Deena served as a Vice President on the Board, serving as liaison to the office and the Youth Department. Akiva enjoys his role as one of the baal tokeahs on rosh hashana and is excit- ed to continue this tradition on the upcoming high holidays.

Professionally, Deena and Akiva are both physicians having graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Deena is a partner at Premier Pediatrics and Akiva is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mon- tefiore Medical Center. Outside of the Jewish Center, Deena and Akiva are actively involved in the UJA Tov Beya- chad initiative and Deena is excited about her volunteer work with the American Committee for Shaare Zedek, where she recently spoke at their annual Women's Division Health Day.

Deena is also actively committed to helping identify and provide affordable access to treatment for women with post- partum mood disorders. She sits on the Advisory Board of The Seleni Institute and has been outspoken in her advocacy efforts. Akiva is committed to furthering research and hoping to develop improved ways of identifying and treating womens' cancers. He was awarded the prestigious Calebresi fellowship for Career Development in Cancer Research- ers in 2016.

Deena and Akiva are proud parents to Nathan, AJ and David and are committed to being active members and serv- ing as volunteers in the Jewish Community and the greater world as a whole.

THE JC ANNUAL DINNER Monday, June 12, 2017 Museum of Jewish Heritage The Jewish Center cordially invites you to its TÇÇâtÄ ZtÄt W|ÇÇxÜ

Barbara & Guy Reiss Guests of Honor

Deena Blanchard & Akiva Novetsky Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung Memorial Award

Ben Cooper Community Service Award

Monday evening, June 12, 2017

Museum of Jewish Heritage

Complimentary Museum Viewing 5:00-6:30PM

Black Tie Optional Dinner: 6:30PM Couvert: $500 per person Program: 8:15PM

Honorary Dinner Chairs Rabbi Robert & Virginia Bayer Hirt Lori Zeltser & Len Berman Dina & David Weinstein Cindy & Jay Worenklein

Dinner Committee Shayna Cooper Hindy Dym Mindy & Ami Horowitz Judith Kaplan Dana & Neil Leibowitz Miriam Lipsky & Joshua Schainker Sarah & Drew Newton Amanda Nussbaum & Daniel Laifer Avi Schwartz Jennifer & Mark Smith Rachel Wolf & Andrew Borodach Tali Yarmush