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The Jewish Center SHABBAT BULLETIN DECEMBER 12, 2015 • PARSHAT MIKETZ , S HABBAT ROSH CHODESH AND CHANUKAH • 30 K ISLEV 5776 Mazal Tov to the Kaplan family on the occasion of Einav’s Bat Mitzvah EREV SHABBAT CHANUKAH V WELCOME TO OUR COMMUNITY SCHOLAR 4:11PM Candle lighting DR. E RICA BROWN 4:15PM Minchah (3 rd floor) 7:30-9:00PM Community Chanukah Oneg WHO IS JOINING US THIS SHABBAT Teen Chanukah Lounge Seudah Shlishit: Have the Hellenists Won? Dr.Jekyll and Rabbi Hyde SHABBAT Sunday Morning 9:30am ROSH CHODESH AND CHANUKAH VI When Yaakov Met Pharaoh: Genesis 47 as a Metaphor 7:30AM Hashkama Minyan (The Max and Marion Grill Beit Midrash) for Exile and Redemption Please note earlier time. 8:30AM Rabbi Israel Silverstein Mishnayot Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine YACHAD SHABBTON 9:00AM Shacharit (3 rd floor) 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur with Rabbi Noach Goldstein (Lower Level) SHABBAT , DECEMBER 18 9:15AM Young Leadership Minyan (The Max Stern Auditorium) The JC is proud to partner with Manhattan Day 9:30AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema School and the Orthodox Union as they host their 10:00AM Youth Groups, Under age 3, 3-4-year-olds and 5-6-year-olds: annual Yachad Shabbaton. Participants will join us Geller Youth Center; 2 nd -3rd graders, 4 th -6th graders: 7 th floor Special Chanukah Programs in Youth Groups for Kabbalat Shabbat followed by a com- Community Kiddush (The Max Stern Auditorium) munal Shabbat Dinner. Sponsorship and hospitality opportunities available. For WITH THANKS TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS : more information and to get involved, Chaviva, Andrew, Barak & Vered Kaplan, in honor of their contact [email protected]. daughter/sister Einav's Bat Mitzvah Gail Propp in commemoration of the Yahrzeit of her father, Oscar Dane THE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE HAS BEEN EXTENDED ! Cecile & Irving Skydell in memory of his mother, Henya Dinah bas Rav Yaakov Chaim Join Today • It’s Where You Belong Meira & Tobi Tugendhaft in memory of Regina Tugendhaft Shira Zeif in memory of her beloved grandmother, Nelly Ekstein Join by December 15 and save 20% on dues 12:20PM Early Minchah (The Max and Marion Grill Beit Midrash) Discount includes a 14-month membership. 2:45PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home (meet at 730 Columbus Avenue) 4:00PM Minchah (3 rd floor), Shabbat afternoon groups (5 th floor) To apply for membership, visit our website or Israel Friedman Daf Yomi pick up a form in the lobby. 39 Melachot with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind Seudah Shlishit Youth Speaker: Mordechai Schwarz Questions? Email our Membership Committee Seudah Shlishit Speaker: Dr. Erica Brown: Have the Hellenists Won? co-chairs Naomi Goldman and Ron Shapiro at Dr. Jekyll and Rabbi Hyde [email protected]. With Thanks to Our Seudah Shlishit Sponsors: Saul Finkelstein, Anne Friedman and family in commemoration of the SIXTH ANNUAL TEEN VS . C LERGY yahrzeit of Saul's father, Bernard Finkelstein Kathy & Milton Parnass In commemoration of the yahrtzeit of Milton's BASKETBALL GAME father, Gedaliah Dovid Parnass SATURDAY NIGHT , D ECEMBER 19 AT 7:00PM Meira & Tobi Tugendhaft in memory of Regina Tugendhaft 5:11PM Shabbat concludes Please join our growing list of sponsors: Musical Havdalah Sharon & Clifford Brandeis DAILY SERVICES Lori Zeltser& Len Berman Sun., Dec. 13 Mon., Dec. 11 - Rachel Wolf & Andrew Borodach Chanukah Thurs., Dec. 17 Fri., Dec. 18 Leslie & Jeffrey Lang Daf Yomi 7:45AM Chanukah Ends on Shacharit 7/8AM R. Yosie & Rachel Levine Shach 8:30AM Monday Daf Yomi 7:45AM Sarah & Stuart Milstein Minchah 4:15PM Shacharit 7/8AM Candle lighting Abby & Marc Posner Daf Yomi 7:45AM 4:12PM Barbara & Guy Reiss Minchah 4:15PM Minchah 4:20PM Rachel & Daniel Solomons WOMEN'S TEHILLIM GROUP • Monday, December 21 at 7:15PM. Contact Joyce Weitz for more information at 212-877-1176. See the insert for more information . 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 MAY AND SAMUEL RUDIN LECTURE FEATURING HARVARD PROFESSOR NIALL FERGUSON In celebration of Chanukah, The Jewish Center hosted a special May and Samuel Rudin Lecture featuring Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson, author of Kissinger, The Idealist . His subject, From Refu- gee to the White House: Henry Kissinger and the “American Jewish Journey” spoke to the amazing American Jewish journey and the complex narrative of Kissinger as a historian, politician and Jew. A small number of copies are still available through The Jewish Center office at the discounted price of $20. Please contact the office for more information. JC D ELEGATION AT THE AIPAC P OLICY CONFERENCE March 20-22 in Washington, DC The AIPAC Policy Conference is the pro-Israel community's preeminent annual gathering. The event attracts more than RABBI JUNG FUND APPEAL 16,000 community and student activists from all 50 states, and more than half of the Senate, a third of the House of Represent- Thank you to everyone who has al- atives and countless Israeli and American policymakers and ready responded so generously to thought leaders. Over three jam-packed days, Policy Confer- our recent Rabbi Jung Fund appeal. ence participants choose from hundreds of informative sessions If you have not yet contributed or and participate in the pro-Israel community's largest and most redeemed your pledge, you may do important advocacy conference. Tickets with The JC so online or through our office by discount cost $399 per person. Register before December 31 making a check out to the Rabbi Dr. to lock in this deal. Please visit our website to purchase your Leo Jung Memorial Fund. tickets. Only 16 tickets left. JEWISH CENTER UNIVERSITY FALL • SEMESTER RUNS THROUGH DECEMBER 18 For more information visit our website or contact Rabbi Dovid Zirkind at [email protected] DAILY (except Shabbat) WEDNESDAY SHABBAT Israel Friedman Daf Yomi with Women of the Bible with Rabbi Rabbi Israel Silverstein rotating JCU Faculty, 7:45AM Yosie Levine, 11:00AM Mishnayot Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine, 8:30AM MONDAY Parshah/Haftarah Round Table Timing is Everything: Studies in with Rabbi Daniel Fridman, 7:15- Hashkama Shiur with rotating Mesechet Kedushin with 8:00PM JCU Faculty, 9:15AM Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, 8:00PM Advanced Talmud Chabura with Israel Friedman Daf Yomi with TUESDAY Rabbi Daniel Fridman, 8:00PM rotating JCU Faculty Nosh and Drash with Dr. Adena The Next Level with Rabbi Mark 39 Melachot with Rabbi Dovid Berkowitz, 10:15-11:30AM Wildes, 8:00PM Zirkind Jewish History: Judaism in a Parent-Child Learning with Christian Empire with Rabbi Ari th rotating JCU Faculty. Check the Lamm, 7:15PM (7 floor) bulletin for dates and times David, King of Israel Sadye and Henry Bayer Chumash Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine will resume on Dec. 15 at 8:00PM To sponsor Kiddush or Seudah Shlishit or a JC event, please contact Aaron at [email protected] UPCOMING EVENTS SPECIAL COMMUNITY CHANUKAH ONEG COMMUNITY SHABBAT , D ECEMBER 11 (7:30-9:00 PM ON THE 4TH FLOOR ) ANNOUNCEMENTS Join us for a community oneg featuring divrei Torah from our clergy and a musical performance by Cantor Chaim David Berson. Sponsorship opportunities are available. A C ONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION COURSE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BETH DIN OF AMERICA , DOES JEW- MAZAL TOV ISH LAW HAVE A PROBLEM WITH FEMALE WITNESSES ? [H INT : N O] WITH MICHAEL AVI HELFAND , P H.D. Chaviva & Andrew Kaplan THURSDAY , D ECEMBER 17 FROM 8:00PM-9:30PM on their Daughter Einav's Bat This class is worth 1.5 ethics credits and costs $75. To register, please visit our website. Mitzvah, to siblings Barak and Vered, and Bomoma Lily SEUDAH SHLISHIT WITH RABBI PERRI ROSENTHAL Kaplan. Mazal Tov as well SHABBAT , D ECEMBER 18 to Safta Eudice Greenfield Topic: Understanding the Challenges of Ba'alei Teshuva and their families from Skokie, IL. Rabbi Pinny Rosenthal is a long time Jewish educator with more than 20 years in the Day School Judy Marbach on the Bat Sector. He was the lead guitarist for Shlock Rock for many years. Rabbi Rosenthal currently serves Mitzvah of her granddaugh- as the Senior Director at Manhattan Jewish Experience ter, Lily Oberstein. PERFORMANCE BY THREE UPPER WEST SIDE CANTORS Daniel Mael on his recent THURSDAY , D ECEMBER 24 AT 8:30PM AT THE JEWISH CENTER engagement to Isabel Don’t miss this performance by Cantor Zevi Muller of West Side Institutional, Cantor Chaim David Tsesarsky. Berson of The Jewish Center and Cantor Yanky Lemmer of Lincoln Square Synagogue. Light snacks, sushi, wine and drinks will be served. Visit our website to register. Tickets cost $40 in advance and Gladys & Dr. Robert Richter $50 at the door. Visit our website to register and direct questions to [email protected]. on the birth of a greatgrand- son, born to their grandchil- NEW MEMBERS KIDDUSH dren Atara & Sander Gross. Shabbat, January 9 following services Our Officers and Rabbis would love to get to know our new members better. All those who joined Marilyn Rothschild on the in 2015 are invited to join for this Kiddush. We hope you will take advantage of this wonderful birth of her granddaughter opportunity to meet one another as we embark on the journey of strengthening our community to- Maya Tova, parents of gether. Benjamin & Limor Rothschild. JEWISH CENTER BOOK CLUB MEETING : THE BETRAYERS BY DAVID BEZMOZGIS Rabbi Mark & Jill Wildes on Sunday, January 10 at 7:30PM at the home of Dinah & Andy Mendes at 262 Central Park West the occasion of Yehuda's The Betrayers , David Bezmozgis’ prize-winning (National Jewish Book award 2015), is a page- Bar Mitzvah turner novel about an ex-Soviet Israeli politician who confronts the man who betrayed him to the KGB.
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    Jewish Estate Planning Handout materials are available for download or printing on the HANDOUT TAB on the gotowebinar console. If the tab is not open click on that tab to open it and view the materials. 1 Jewish Estate Planning By: Mathew Hoffman, Esq.; Dr. Rabbi Henry Hasson; Rabbi Shlomo Weissmann; Jonathan I. Shenkman, MBA and Martin M. Shenkman, Esq. 2 Thank you to our sponsors InterActive Legal – Vanessa Kanaga – (321) 252-0100 – [email protected] 3 Thank you to our sponsors Halachic Organ Donor Society - “HODS” – For more information see www.hods.org – 521 5th Ave, New York, NY 10175 – (212) 213-5087 – To obtain a form donor card see https://hods.org/registration/ Bet Din of America – For more information see https://bethdin.org/ – 305 7th Ave 12th floor, New York, NY 10001 – (212) 807-9042 – For forms see http://bethdin.org/forms/ 4 General Disclaimer The information and/or the materials provided as part of this program are intended and provided solely for informational and educational purposes. None of the information and/or materials provided as part of this power point or ancillary materials are intended to be, nor should they be construed to be the basis of any investment, legal, tax or other professional advice. Under no circumstances should the audio, power point or other materials be considered to be, or used as independent legal, tax, investment or other professional advice. The discussions are general in nature and not person specific. Laws vary by state and are subject to constant change. Economic developments could dramatically alter the illustrations or recommendations offered in the program or materials.