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The Jewish Center SHABBAT BULLETIN MAY 5, 2018 • PARSHAT EMOR • 20 IYAR 5778 The Jewish Center SHABBAT BULLETIN MAY 5, 2018 • PARSHAT EMOR • 20 IYAR 5778 SHABBAT SCHEDULE The Jewish Center EREV SHABBAT Centennial Dinner 7:00PM Minchah Tuesday, June 5th, 2018 at The Plaza 7:00PM Young Leadership (5th floor) Honoring: 7:36PM Candle lighting Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung z”l Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm SHABBAT Rabbi Isaac Bernstein z”l 7:45AM Hashkama Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter 8:30AM Israel Silverstein Rambam shiur with Rabbi Yosie Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman Levine Rabbi Yosie Levine 9:00AM Shacharit 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur with Rabbi Noach Goldstein, Is Scholar In Residence Weekend with Sally Mayer Yom Kippur a Festival or a Shabbat Shabbat, May 4-5th 9:23AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema The Jewish Center is excited to welcome back our former Education Director 9:30AM Young Leadership Sally Mayer to deliver the Annual Martha Sonnenschein Memorial Lecture. Shabbat Morning Public Lecture 11AM 9:30AM Teen Minyan Israel at 70: Personal Reflections on Life After Aliyah 10:00AM Youth Groups Shabbat Afternoon Tanach Shiur 6:15PM 11:00AM Public Lecture with Sally Mayer, Israel at 70: Megillat Ruth: “Hyperlinks” in Tanach Personal Reflections on Life After Aliyah Seudah Shlishit 7:45PM 4:00PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home Counting up to my Matan Torah: Sefirat HaOmer and Making (meet at 730 Columbus Ave.) Torah Personal 6:15PM Tanach Series with Sally Mayer, Megillat Ruth: “Hyperlinks” in Tanach The Jewish Center Centennial 6:30PM Daf Yomi Hachnasat Sefer Torah th 6:30PM Parent-Child learning with Ora Weinbach Sunday, May 6 7:15PM Minchah Join us for The JC Centennial Seudah Shlishit with Sally Mayer, Counting up to my Matan community-wide Sefer Torah Torah: Sefirat HaOmer and Making Torah Personal Dedication. The final letters of 8:37PM Shabbat Concludes the Torah will be written at the THANK YOU TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS: home of Rachel & Rabbi Yosie Community Kiddush Sponsors: Levine. Following the completion Vivian & Daniel Chill in commemoration of the yahrzeit of the Torah there will be a of Vivian’s father, Harold Jacobs float, music and joyous dancing Alex & Miriam Gutwein Klein in commemoration of the 20th yahrzeit of Miriam’s father, Samuel Gutwein, Reb as we accompany the scroll Yehoshua ben Yitzchak down 86th Street to The JC. The Hanno Mott Lecture on Contemporary Jewish Ethics Like Dreamers: The Immigration Debate in America, Israel and Beyond th WOMEN’S TEHILLIM GROUP Wednesday, May 9 Join us for a masterclass on the contemporary immigration debate, featuring Monday, May 14th at 7:15PM our former Assistant Rabbi, Rabbi Benjamin Samuels, in conversation with the Contact Joyce Weitz for more info. at 212-877-1176 former Assistant Director of the FBI, Steven Pomerantz 7:00PM: Complimentary members-only dinner with the panelists DAILY SERVICE TIMES 7:45PM Minchah/Maariv 8:00PM Program followed by Q&A Sunday, May 6 Mon. - Thurs. Friday, May 11 Please visit www.jewishcenter.org to register. 7:45AM Daf Yomi May 7- May 10 7/8AM Shacharit 8:30AM Shacharit 7/8AM Shacharit 7:45AM Daf Yomi The 7th Annual Keter Torah Awards Honoring: 7:45PM Minchah 7:45AM Daf Yomi 7:00PM Minchah Rona Kellman and Dina Burcat 7:45PM Minchah 7:43PM Shabbat, May 12th Candle-lighting See page 3 for details. The Jewish Center - The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning 131 W. 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 • www.jewishcenter.org • 212-724-2700 JEWISH CENTER UNIVERSITY SCHEDULE COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS Daily: Israel Friedman Daf Yomi with rotating JCU Faculty THANK YOU TO OUR USHERS Amy Latkin, Carrie Stieglitz and Jacob Worenklein Monday 8:00PM Scribe & Scroll: A Three Part Series Thank you to our CSS members whose efforts help maintain a With Rabbi Dovid Zirkind safe shul for our community. Tuesday COMMUNITY ACCOMPLISHMENTS 7:45-8:30AM Advanced Gemara Chaburah with Rabbi Noach Goldstein Congratulations to Elli Strauss on her grandson, Netanel Vinar, taking 10:15-11:30AM Nosh and Drash with Dr. Adena Berkowitz second place in the national Chidon HaTanach. He won a trip to (women only) Israel next Yom Ha’Azmaut where he will be competing in the prestigious international Chidon HaTanach Wednesday 11:00AM Women of the Bible YOUTH DEPARTMENT UPCOMING EVENTS & UPDATES with Rabbi Yosie Levine 7:00PM Introduction to Talmud with Ora Weinbach Teen Minyan - May 5th & 19th Teen Kiddush Sponsors: Lori Zeltser & Len Berman Shabbat Deborah & Robert Marcus in honor of Gideon’s 16th birthday 8:30AM Rabbi Israel Silverstein Rambam Class Birthday Kiddush for March, April and May birthdays - May 12th Kids Kiddush Club with Rabbi Yosie Levine - June 2nd, 9th & 16th with Rabbi Yosie Levine Afternoon Tanach Series with rotating JCU faculty Seudah Shlishit with Eti Meller Sisterhood Brunch Not By Bread Alone: Ultra-Orthodox Women and Employment Shabbat, May 12th at 8:00PM The Sisterhood held its annual brunch on Eti Meller is the Director of Employment Programs at the JDC Israel’s Tevet, a April 29th at the home of Barbara Messer. partnership between JDC Israel and the Israeli government. In her current Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz, professor of position, Eti develops and manages social services enhancing vocational American Jewish History at JTS, and dean integration for the ultra-Orthodox community. A pioneer in the field of employment development for of the College of Jewish Studies, provided the ultra-orthodox community, Eti established Gisha – an informative and engaging look at the the first employment bureau in the ultra-orthodox role Jewish American women on the Upper sector in the State of Israel. West Side have played over the past century. Over sixty five women, The Jewish Center Book Club Spring Herb Lauer Tikkun Leil representing the full spectrum of ages at Meeting Shavuot The Jewish Center, attended the event. Sunday, May 13th at 7:30PM Saturday Night, May 19th Judas by Amos Oz Please visit Discussant: Esther Nussbaum www.jewishcenter.org for Hosted by: Maureen & Laszlo Marcus sponsorship opportunities. Women and Girls’ Reading of Megilat Rut If you are interested in participating in this year's Women's Reading of Megilat Rut, following the main service on the second day of Shavuot, contact Naomi Goldman ([email protected]) or Beth Schwartz ([email protected]) for an assignment. Megillah is read from a book with the nekudot and taamim and help is available for those interested in learning. It’s a great opportunity The Bernard and Vivian Falk Family to get your feet wet! Centennial Siyum HaTanach Update Our Siyum HaTanach is completely assigned! More than 130 JC 100 Acts of Chesed Challenge members and families are studying all 929 Chapters of Tanach in Join our growing list of chesed challenge participants. Join solo or honor of this historic Centennial Shavuot! Check our Facebook wall with a team to do 100 acts of chesed by June 3rd, 2018. Register for updates and Torah insight from our participants and stay for the challenge on the Centennial website tuned for details about our Community Siyum and Tikkun Leil (tjc100.org/chesed-challenge/). Shavuot. Learn well! #100YEARSOFTORAH! Join us for the siyum and celebration on JC MINHAG: Shabbat Morning, May 19th. On singing Yigdal Friday evening, children line up at the steps of the bimah to receive a brachah from the rabbi. CENTENNIAL GALLERY COMMITTEE UPDATE: As the Centennial Gallery Committee is in the process of compiling photos from the past century, they ask you to please share your JC memories with us. Please send us your photos from weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, etc. that have occurred at The JC to have your memories included in the Centennial Dinner Gallery. Email photos to [email protected]. Breaking Bread with God Yosie Levine Rabbi Rabbi Eliezer Buechler, William Fischman Rabbinic Intern Dovid Zirkind Associate Rabbi In the beginning of this week’s parsha we bread, from God. The Netziv assumes that are introduced to the laws that the kohanim must lechem is used in our parsha and in Bamidbar Chaim David Berson follow in order to serve in the Temple. To name a 28:2 because it is telling us that the korbanot we Cantor few, kohanim cannot become tamei (ritually offer to God are not just His own meal; rather Erica Brown impure) except in the case of death of immediate they benefit us too. Just as bread, lechem, Community Scholar relatives, kohanim are limited in who they can supports us in a very physical way, the korbanot Ora Weinbach marry, and kohanim with various physical we offer to God sustain us. This interpretation Community Educator deformities cannot serve in the Temple. In the seems to be the exact opposite of Rashi’s Noach Goldstein listing of these laws, the Torah constantly repeats interpretation, which said that lechem is all about Resident Scholar a refrain as to why the kohanim are held to such God’s meal, not ours. high standards. The Torah informs us that If we analyze Rashi’s approach, however, Avi Feder Senior Intern kohanim “offer the lechem of God” and therefore we may be able to read Rashi in light of the are required to live their lives with higher Netziv’s approach. Although we assumed that for Eliezer Buechler standards. What is this lechem of God? It is clear William Fischman Rashi lechem means it is God’s meal, and not from the verses that this refers to the korbanot, Rabbinic Intern ours, perhaps when Rashi refers to lechem as a which the kohanim offer in the Temple. Why use Aaron Strum the word lechem, however, which is also seudah, a feast, Rashi is hinting to us that Executive Director korbanot are not just for God,-they are for man commonly used to refer to bread? Why not just Samantha Zwick say korban? as well to eat with God.
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