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SPRING ADULT EDUCATION ISSUE KehilathjeshurunBulletin Volume © XLVIII, Number 5 January 23, 1981 18 Shevat, 5741 WHAT TO DO PROFESSOR HAROLD FISCH TO RETURN BEFORE THE DOCTOR ARRIVES TO KEHILATH JESHURUN AS SUBJECT OF MEN'S CLUB PANEL SECOND SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE ON SHABBAT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13-14 FEBRUARY 4 Ladies Invited The Men's Club of the Congregation is Famiiy Dinner To Be Held Friday Evening presenting a panel of distinguished physi¬ The second Scholar in Residence Shabbat cians who will discuss Self-evaluation of and Friday Evening Family Dinner will be Medical Problems: WHAT TO THINK held on the Shabbat of February 13 and 14. AND DO BEFORE THE PHYSICIAN ARRIVES - IF YOU NEED ONE Dr. Harold Fisch, who spoke so eloquently AT ALL. from our pulpit last year, will make three The program was announced by Mr. presentations to the congregation. Follow¬ Norman Bulow, President of the Men's Club. ing kabbalat Shabbat services and a Friday Evening Family Dinner, Professor Fisch Moderating the panel will be Men's Club Vice will speak on: THE LIMITS OF President, Dr. Norman Javitt, who is Professor of Medicine SCIENCE. Recognizing Judaism's open¬ and Chief of the ness to new knowledge, he will question Division of Hepatic Diseases at the New York whether science need not be subject to Hospital -Cornell Medical Center. moral controls. This question has become The panel includes Dr. Harvey Klein, Associate Clinical Professor of particularly urgent in an age of genetic Professor Fisch's writings have been Medicine, also at New York engineering, nuclear science and depth mainly in the field of literary criticism. He Hosptial - Cornell Medical Center; our esteemed member, Dr. psychology. is also known as an eloquent spokesman for On David Woldenberg, Assistant Clinical Pro¬ Saturday morning, Professor Fisch religious Zionism and his articles on Jewish will fessor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai speak from the pulpit during Shabbat themes and Israel's current problems have School of Medicine and morning services on: THE LIMITS OF appeared in periodicals throughout the attending Physi¬ cian in Medicine and LEADERSHIP. Recognizing the Rabbi as Jewish world. Cardiology at Beth a recent model in Jewish Israel Hospital; and our devoted member, leadership, Dr. Dr. Fisch has just published a new book, Dr. Fisch questions the validity of that leader¬ THE ZIONIST REVOLUTION: A NEW Joseph Markenson, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the ship today and ponders the Rabbi's role in PERSPECTIVE. Here, Professor Fisch Hospital for the future. Special argues that over the years, the real spiritual Surgery of the Cornell Medical Center. Between mincha (4:30 pm) and maariv and religious motives of Zionism have been services on The Saturday afternoon, Professor (continued on page four) panel will be reviewing a wide variety Fisch will speak on the topic: THE LIMITS of topics, including fever, headaches, RESERVATIONS FOR OF ART. Observing that the tabernacle in breathlessness and choking, chest discom¬ FRIDAY the wilderness was conceived as a supreme EVENING DINNER fort, trauma, sports medicine, stress work of art, but that the testing, taxi vs. ambulance, medications golden calf was The several Friday Evening Family and useful books the also a great popular success, Dr. Fisch for layman. Dinners, held throughout the year, have challenges our ability to discriminate. He The program will be held in the KJ Social become a very popular part of the Hall on acknowledges that today we see all art and Wednesday evening, February 4. synagogue calendar. is a time to It share All poetry treated as sacred, even when men and women of the congregation they in the traditions and festivities of the have become subversive. Professor Fisch and friends and guests of the community Sabbath, including the joyful singing of examines our text's treatment of this are invited. ques¬ Shabbos zmirot. At our last such occa¬ tion. Panelists will accept questions from the sion, in November, we were over¬ audience and refreshments will be served. subscribed and, unfortunately, many HAROLD FISCH people who wished to join us could not full payment must accompany your A Oxford graduate of University, and liv¬ be accommodated. We, therefore, urge reservation. Use the reservation form on ing in Israel since 1956, Dr. Fisch has been you to make your reservations im¬ page 4. Professor of at English Bar Ilan University mediately, so that you may share in the Reservations will be honored as long since 1957 and is head of the Institute for family spirit of the entire evening. as space permits, but only through Judaism and Contemporary Thought. In The cost for adults is $8.50, and for February 3. Due to space limitations, 1977 he attended the thirty-second United children, including full-time students only those attending the Friday Evening Nations General Assembly as a member of through university level, is $4. For your Dinner can be accommodated for the the Israeli delegation. reservations to be honored a check in lecture. Page Two KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Within Our Family KJ COUPI.I S CLUB PRESENTS ITS SECOND ANNUAL BIRTH BAR MITZVAH BROADWA } PRODUCTION Mazel tov to Laura and Dennis Barouch MY FAIR LADY upon the birth of their first child, Oren Saturday Evening Sunday Afternoon Joseph. Similar good wishes to the proud grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Morton April 4 April 5 Kanrerman, on this delightful event. Our warmest wishes too to Mrs. Helen Brody, the proud great-grandmother of the new ar¬ ANNUAL rival. We understand that Oren Joseph SISTERHOOD L UNCHEON bears the name of Mrs. Brody's father and MONOA V, APRIL 6, I9SI that he also was named after his great-great¬ NEB RAMA/ AUDITORIUM grandfather, the late Rabbi Jacob Joseph, Ophir Finkelthal 60 who was a leader in American Jewry. Laura East 7S Street and Dennis also had in mind our beloved Mazel Tov to Mr. and Mrs. Irmin NYC Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein in naming their Finkelthal on the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Honoring first child. Rabbi Lookstein was the one Ophir, which will take place in our who MRS. EDGAR TRAUTMAN joined them in marriage. synagogue on Shabbat morning, February May Oren Joseph grow up to Torah, 14. Ophir, who is a student at the Rabbi for her many years of loyalty chupah and ma'asim tovim. Joseph^ H. Lookstein Upper School of and devoted service Ramaz, will chant the Haftorah at that to the Sisterhood and the Congregation time. ENGAGEMENTS PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT Mazel tov to our new member, Martin STOP IN AND SEE THE Markowitz, upon his engagement to marry We are proud that our member, Dr. Ruth Nadelbach, a Ramaz graduate of who Michael W. Sigall, who is now engaged full KJ RAMAZ is at present a member of the Ramaz facul¬ time in the practice of law, is about to JUDAICA SHOP ty. We are happy for both of these young return, on a part time basis, to the academic people and we hope that their wedding will world where he began as a Professor of WINTER HOURS: take place in joy and blessing. Political Science. He has been named Ad¬ Sunday Mazel tov to our devoted member, Stuart junct Associate Professor of Law at New I2:(X) PM - 3:(X) PM Sloame, upon his engagement to Ellen York Law School where he will be teaching Monday, Wednesday & Thursday Seeherman. Both the bride and groom are Legal Ethics. All good wishes to him and to attornies in New York. May the wedding his students for much satisfaction in this 12:(X) PM - 5:(X) PM lake place in happiness and blessing. new role. Tuesday (Beginning February 3) 7:(X) -9:(X) PM COMMUNAL SERVICE Beautiful Items For Bar - Bat Mitzvah Iln Jffletnoriam Mazel tov to our esteemed member, Ira Gifts for Special Occasions Rennert, upon his election as President of A. Milton Brown Wonderful Book, Seforim & the Fifth Avenue Synagogue. We offer our Record Selection We mourn the best wishes to this sister religious institution passing of one of our finest. He was KJ LOBBY on its excellent choice. Secretary of the Congrega¬ May Ira and the All tion. He served as a Trustee of Kehilath proceeds from sales go to support the Fifth Avenue Synagogue both flourish in a Jeshurun and Ramaz. He was a KJ Youth Program and the Ramaz mutually rewarding relationship. leading benefactor of the synagogue and the After-School Programs. school. CONDOLENCES He was all of this but much more. Retir¬ REMINDER We extend our heartfelt condolences to ing in nature, he nevertheless projected glowingly an image of what a modern Or¬ our devoted member, Dr. Joseph Litwins, Please be advised that Berger Meats and thodox Jew ought to be: pious and on the passing of his beloved sister, Sonny Poultry on 87th Street, just East of 3rd generous, kind and refined, gentle and Friedman. Avenue, is not under the supervision of the reverent. He understood obligations and We extend our sincere condolences to our Mid-Town Kashruth Board. Members'of accepted them readily. No task was too in¬ the new member, William Goldberg, uppn the community are urged to use butchers significant or too great for his attention. passing of his beloved mother, Bessie which are under the Board's supervision. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Goldberg. his dear wife, Lillian, who is herself a Wc extend our sincere condolences to our leading member of the Congregation and KEHILATH JESHURUN esteemed member, Murray M. Rosenberg, Sisterhood, to Benjamin Brown, Secretary BULLETIN on the passing of his beloved sister, Esther of Kehilath Jeshurun, to Warren Brown, Kuhn. Published Monthly except who grew up in our shul and is a leader in a July and August by We record with sorrow the passing of 1 ong Island congregation, and to all the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Alfred Golding, beloved brother of our members of the bereaved family.