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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
JUNE 10, 2017 • PARSHAT BEHA’ALOTECHA • 16 SIVAN 5777
The Jewish Center S H A B B A T B U L L E T I N
GRADUATION KIDDUSH SHABBAT JUNE 17
Mazel Tov to the Federbush/Lebowitz family on the occasion of Julia’s Bar Mitzvah
Monday, June 19 at 7:15PM Contact Joyce Weitz for more info. at 212-877-1176
WOMEN’S TEHILLIM GROUP
EREV SHABBAT 7:00/8:00PM Minchah 8:08PM Candle lighting SHABBAT 7:45AM Hashkama Minyan (The Max and Marion Grill Beit Midrash) 8:30AM Kids’ Kiddush club with Rabbi Yosie Levine (1st Floor) 9:00AM Shacharit (3rd floor) 9:10AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur, Rabbi Zev Bar Eitan: Connecting the Parshiyot (Naso to Ba'alotchecha) - Drush, Pshat, and a Twist... 9:30AM Young Leadership Minyan (1st floor) 10:00AM Youth Groups: Under age 3 (drop off optional, ba-bies must be able to independently sit upright), 3-6-year-olds: Geller Youth Center, 2nd-6th graders: 7th floor 10:45AM Special Sermon by Rabbi Ari Berman Hot Kiddush (1st floor) WITH THANKS TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS: Community Kiddush, Sherry & Mark Fessel in honor of the birth of a grandson to their children Aliza & Mikey Davis Community Kiddush, Dora & Emanuel Federbush in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of their granddaughter, Julia Lebowitz Community Kiddush, Hedda Rudoff in memory of her daughter Shaindy Rudoff Community Kiddush, all those who sponsored in honor of Rabbi Ari Berman (see page 3 for complete list of sponsors) 4:00PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home (meet at 730 Columbus Ave.) 6:45PM Yifa Segal, BDS and Freedom of Speech: The Interna-tional Legal Battle on Campuses Around the World 7:00PM Daf Yomi 7:45PM Minchah Seudah Shlishit Speaker: Yifa Segal, Terror Organizations, Shell Corporations and Their Subsidiaries: Fighting Terrorism In the Courtroom WITH THANKS TO OUR SEUDAH SHLISHIT SPONSORS: Rabbi Yosie & Rachel Levine in memory of Judith S. Levine Carrie Stieglitz, Joseph and Ariel Grun in memory of Moshe Grun and Joseph Stieglitz 9:08PM Shabbat Concludes
Shabbat Morning, June 10 Special Sermon
by Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman President, Yeshiva University
Sunday June 11 Daf Yomi 7:45AM Shacharit 8:30AM Minchah 8:15PM
Mon. June 12 - Thur. June 15 Shacharit 7 & 8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 8:15PM
Friday, June 16 Shacharit 7/8 AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 7/8PM Candle Lighting 8:11PM
DAILY SERVICES
THE JC ANNUAL DINNER Monday, June 12, 2017
at Museum of Jewish Heritage HONORING
Guests of Honor
Barbara & Guy Reiss
Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung
Memorial Award Deena
Blanchard & Akiva
Novetsky
Community Service Award Ben Cooper
Join us as we celebrate the academic achievements of our community graduates. From preschool to PhD, if you, a fami-ly member or a friend flipped a tassel this spring, please let us know by completing the form on our website or emailing [email protected]. If you would like to sponsor the
Graduation Kiddush, please contact Aaron Strum at [email protected] or
Jenn & Gaby at [email protected].
Shabbbat, June 10 Guest Speaker, Yifa Segal
Director of The International Legal Forum: 6:45PM BDS and Freedom of Speech: The International Legal
Battle on Campuses Around the World 8:15PM Seudah Shlishit: Terror Organizations, Shell Corpo-rations and Their Subsidiaries: Fighting Terrorism In the
Courtroom Attorney Yifa Segal is the Director of the International Le-gal Forum (ILF),a global legal coalition initiating and cen-tralizing efforts to battle anti-democratic, anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli operations around the world. Attorney Segal has many years of experience in both law and media, acting to promote Israel’s interests in the international arena from an offensive rather than defensive position.
To sponsor Kiddush or Seudah Shlishit or a JC event, please contact Aaron at [email protected]
NEW Kids Kiddush Club with Rabbi Levine Shabbat Mornings in June from 8:30AM-9:00AM Join us for this special summer series featuring breakfast and learning with Rabbi Levine. 1st grade and up. Parents welcomed. Girl’s Suedah Shlishit for Middle Schoolers & High Schoolers at the home of Rachel Levine June 10 from 7– 8:30PM 6th-8th graders June 17 from 7– 8:30PM High school girls Please RSVP to [email protected] Teen Minyan June 17 If you would like to sponsor the Teen Minyan kiddush please email Jenn and Gaby at [email protected].
YOUTH DEPARTMENT UPDATES
Digital Lunch & Learn with Dr. Erica Brown Tuesday June 13th at 12:30PM. Topic: Into the Wilderness: Framing Sefer Bamidbar Powered by ZOOM, join our interactive learning session from the comfort of home or from the office. 30 minutes of inspira-tion and information in preparation for Shavuot. Registration and login infor-mation to follow. Graduation Kiddush Shabbat, June 17 Join us as we celebrate the academic achievements of our community grad-uates. From preschool to PhD, if you, a family member or a friend flipped a tassel this spring, please let us know by completing the form on our website or emailing [email protected]. If you would like to sponsor the Graduation Kiddush, please contact Aaron Strum at [email protected] or Jenn & Gaby at [email protected]. Annual Membership Meeting June 19 at 8:30PM Our Annual Meeting is a time to hold our annual elec-tion, learn more about the way we operate our Cen-ter, review our finances and honor our outgoing Board members. This meeting is an important part of syna-gogue governance and I hope you will be able to at-tend so you can listen to our reports, ask questions and grab a little nosh. Summer Outing with Rabbi Levine June 22, 11:00AM at the YU Museum A guided tour of 500 Years of Treasures from Oxford $10 members; $12 non-members Please email [email protected] if you would like to sign up. Young Leadership Lecture Series Wednesday, June 28th at 8:00PM Fertility & Halacha Featuring Dr. Bat-Sheva Lerner Maslow Special presentation by Maurizio Molinari Editor in Chief of La Stampa Shabbat morning, July 8 Europe: Between Terrorism and Populism
UPCOMING EVENTS
Dear Members,
As you know, planning for our Centennial Year is
well underway. As we begin to fill in the calendar,
we're looking to find exciting and dynamic speak-
ers/personalities who will be especially fitting for
this monumental year. If you or someone you know
has access to any such people, please be in touch
with us or with Rabbi Zirkind.
Thank you.
Andy Kaplan, Andrew Steinerman and
Rachel Wolf
Centennial Year Co-Chairs
CENTENNIAL PLANNING UPDATE
Nosh and Drash's annual closing Spring Lunch fea-tured words of Torah, lots of food and beautiful camaraderie. Thanks to all the women who come together every week to learn Torah, including those not pictured who were unable to attend today. Looking forward iyH to 5778 !
NOSH & DRASH
ABOUT THE JC
Did you know? At the end of services, congregants remain in their
seats until the conclusion of Adon Olam. As the rab-bi and cantor process down the aisles, the congre-gation rises. The rabbi and cantor look forward to greeting you on the receiving line on your way to
Kiddush.
Thinking of running the New York City Marathon? Join The Jewish Center Centennial Team!
Saul Finkelstein Linda Isaacson Rachel Levine Sabrina Rosen Space is limited.
For more information, please email [email protected]
If you would like to support the Jewish Center Centennial Team please visit the JC website.
THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO SPONSORED KIDDUSH IN HONOR OF RABBI DR. ARI BERMAN
Tuesday Evenings at 7PM June 6,13 and 20 with Rabbi Levine
Biblical Heroes & Villains: The Book of Numbers
Tuesday Mornings at 7:45AM June 6, 13, and 20
with Rabbi Goldstein The World of Korbanot
JCU Summer Series
MAZAL TOV Sherry & Mark Fessel on the birth of a grand-
son to their children Aliza & Mikey Davis. Mazel Tov also to the great-grandparents Judy Fessel Golzman and Cecile & Irving
Skydell and to all the aunts, uncles and cousins Rabbi Noach & Alexis Goldstein on the birth
of a baby boy Yael & Rob Lebowitz on the Bat Mitzvah of
their daughter, Julia. Mazal Tov to grandpar-ents Dora & Emanuel Federbush
Malka Strasberg on her upcoming marriage to Zachariah Edinger, son of Dr. Henry and Rose
Edinger
THANK YOU TO OUR USHERS Emilio Krausz and Deborah de Winter
THANK YOU TO CSS
We would like to once again thank CSS and our dedicated CSS members for providing the
security for our synagogue this week.
CONDOLENCES Alice Wildes on the passing of her father,
Samuel Goldberg
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
To sponsor Kiddush or Seudah Shlishit or a JC event, please contact Aaron at [email protected]
Lori Zeltser & Leonard Berman* Marnie & Scott Black*
Harriet & George Blank* Serena Weider & Jonathan Blank* Rachel Wolf & Andrew Borodach*
Vivian & Daniel Chill* Sherry & Mark Fessel*
Susan Kensky & Samuel Goldman* Ruby & Joseph Gottlieb*
Janine Behrman & Alan Gover* Esther & Steve Graber*
Sharon & Sinclair Haberman Eleanor Merczynski & David Hait*
Alvin Hellerstein* Aliza Herzberg*
Rabbi Robert & Virginia Bayer Hirt* Margie Kahn
Miriam Gutwein & Alex Klein Fran & Jonah Kupietzky*
Amanda Nussbaum & Daniel Laifer* Rachelle & Alan Laytner*
Rabbi Yosie & Rachel Levine
Joan Papier & Dr. Henry Lieberman Rachel Lurie*
Tiki & Simcha Lyons* Barbara & David Messer*
Hanno Mott* Sarah Finegold & Andrew Newton*
Leyla Fortgang & Daniel Posner Ilana & David Prager Barbara & Guy Reiss
Golda Reena & Henry Rothman Avi Schwartz*
Chani & Mark Segall* Rachel Ringler & Yossi Siegel*
Jennifer & Mark Smith* Radine & William Spier*
Marsi & Ira Tokayer Adina & Philip Wagman* Cindy & Jay Worenklein*
* One Gifters
Sefer Bamidbar: The Book of Conversations Dovid Zirkind, Associate Rabbi
Without even telling us who they were, Parshat
Be’haalotcha recounts a story about members
from the Israelite camp who were prevented
from bringing the Korban Pesach due to ritual
impurity. The Torah reports their petition to be
included in the ritual and the compromise which
ultimately gave birth to the concept of Pesach
Sheini. This story teaches us a great deal about
the significance of Korban Pesach, about the
rules of tumah v’taharah, but it also hints at a
major theme of Sefer Bamidbar and contains a
powerful lesson about effective communication.
“There were men who were ritually impure from
[contact with] a dead body and could not per-
form the Pesach on that day. They approached
Moshe and Aharon on that day. And those very
men said to him….” (Bamidbar 9:6-7)
Rav Chaim Paltiel, (13th Century Tosafist) posits,
while we know very little about their identity,
from this one line, we know a great deal about
their character. The emphasis in the text cited
above highlights how these men handled their
misfortune and why they succeeded in creating a
lasting solution. They could have complained to
their families and friends when they learned of
their impure status; they could have spoken neg-
atively about Moshe and his rigidity. But they
did none of those things. The very same men who
were told they could not participate in the
Korban returned to Moshe to openly and directly
find a solution together.
Sefer Bamidbar is full of characters who did the
exact opposite of these men. Korach and his fol-
lowers, the Spies and their families all garnered
support and fueled the fires of vengefulness in
the privacy of their own homes. They spoke
about their leaders behind closed doors. By the
time the conversations were out in the open, the
damage was irreparable.
Contrasting the discord of these tragic episodes,
we also read about the daughters of Tzlofchad,
of the men of Pesach Sheini, who chose to forge
a different kind of relationship, an open line of
communication with their leaders. They never
shied away from expressing their pain, they nev-
er gave up hope that their leaders would have
compassion for their plight and via the strategic
and disciplined pursuit of truth, they were able
to craft a meaningful compromise with Moshe
and Aharon. Thus, argues Rav Chaim Paltiel, with
the little information we have about these anony-
mous men, the Torah constructs a paradigm not
only for leadership but followership as well.
When viewed as a series of communal conversa-
tions, the unit that is Sefer Bamidbar becomes as
relevant as ever; serving as a blueprint for suc-
cessful discourse in today’s Jewish community as
well. We have hopes and dreams for ourselves
as individuals and for our community as a whole,
but progress is only made where healthy conver-
sation thrives. Patience is important, compromise
is a must, and together we can follow Moshe
Rabbeinu’s lead and build a stronger community
together.
Yosie Levine Rabbi
Dovid Zirkind Associate Rabbi
Chaim David Berson
Cantor
Erica Brown Community Scholar
Noach Goldstein Resident Scholar
Avi Feder
William Fischman Rabbinic Intern
Aaron Strum
Executive Director
Jenn & Gaby Minsky Youth Directors
OFFICERS Avi Schwartz President
Andrew Borodach First Vice President
Michael Jacobs Vice President
Deena Blanchard Vice President
Mark Segall Assistant Vice President
Yaron Kinar Treasurer
Len Berman Assistant Treasurer
Andrew Kaplan Assistant Treasurer
Miri Lipsky Secretary
PHONE NUMBERS
Yoetzet Halacha
Ilana Gadish [email protected]
646-598-1080
Jewish Center Chevra Kadisha
212-724-2700 x555
UWS Mikvah 212-579-2011
Hatzoloh 212-230-1000
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
Ben Cooper joined the Jewish Center in 2008 and has been a long-time regular of the Young Leadership minyan and new devotee of the ‘as-yet unnamed JC 30's and 40's group’. Ben has alternatingly served as an YL Gabbai Sheni, baal koreh, baal tefilah, host, and sponsor/attendee for JC & YL events. He is originally from Calabasas in the greater Los Angeles, California area, where he attended Emek He-brew Academy and YULA High School, followed by a year at Yeshivat Sha'arei Mevaseret Zion in Israel. His parents, Jeff and Shelley Cooper, co-founded the Calabasas Shul where his father continues to serve as President Emeritus. Ben is proud to follow in their footsteps in demonstrating personal devotion to the im-portance of being both a proud member of the community and a dependable volunteer and leader. Ben’s sister, Shayna Cooper, also lives on the Upper West Side and is a Jewish Center member. Ben graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts In-stitute of Technology in 2006, where he also held various leadership positions at MIT Hillel. Ben is a Senior Managing Director at Cushman & Wakefield in the Corporate Finance and Investment Bank-ing practice group, where he works with corporations and institutions in maximizing real estate value through the execution of sale, debt & equity financing, and leasing transactions throughout the U.S. Ben also previ-ously worked for Fosun Property Holdings on North American real estate acquisitions, focusing on office and multi-family properties in the top U.S. markets and asset management platforms.
THE JC ANNUAL DINNER
Monday, June 12, 2017 Museum of Jewish Heritage
The Jewish Center cordially invites you to its
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Guests of Honor
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Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung Memorial Award
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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 CommitteeDinner CommitteeDinner CommitteeDinner 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