Fri., June 3 Shacharit 7/8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 7/8PM Candle lighting 8:04PM. SHIRA ORENSTEIN & DANIEL KAHN Guests of Honor

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1 The Jewish Center S H A B B A T B U L L E T I N EREV SHABBAT 7:00PM Minchah (8:00PM Minchah will resume on June 3) 7:59PM Candle lighting MAY 27-28, 2016 PARSHAT BEHAR 20 IYAR 5776 SHABBAT 7:45AM Hashkama Minyan (The Max and Marion Grill Beit Midrash) 8:30AM Rabbi Israel Silverstein Mishnayot Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine 9:00AM Shacharit (3 rd floor) 9:11AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz (5 th floor) Young Leadership Minyan will resume next week 10:00AM Youth Groups: Under age 3 (drop off optional), 3-4-year-olds, 5-6-year-olds: Geller Youth Center; 2 nd -3 rd graders, 4 th -6 th graders: 7 th floor Community Hot Kiddush in honor of all who have served in our armed forces (5 th floor) WITH THANKS TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS: Hashkama Kiddush, Shmuel Unterberg in honor of his aufruf and forthcoming marriage to Meira Lerner Community Kiddush, Miriam Gutwein & Alex Klein in commemoration of the 18 th yahrzeit of Miriam's father, Samuel Gutwein, Reb Yehoshua ben Yitzchak Community Kiddush, Kathy & Milton Parnass in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Milton's brother, Norman Parnass, Chaim Nachum ben Gedalia Dovid 4:00PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home (meet at 730 Columbus Ave.) Jewish History Series will resume next week Parent-Child Learning will resume next week 7:00PM Israel Friedman Daf Yomi 7:45PM Minchah Seudah Shlishit Speaker: Rabbi Avraham Shmidman, Lower Marion Synagogue in Philadelphia, From Anticipation to Participation: Counting as a Sacred Prerequisite for Shmittah and Yovel WITH THANKS TO OUR SEUDAH SHLISHIT SPONSORS: Meira & Tobi Tugendhaft in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Saul Dov Tugendhaft 9:00PM Shabbat concludes The Hanno Mott Lecture on Contemporary Jewish Ethics: An Armchair Conversation featuring Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman and Professor Samuel Rascoff, Technology, Surveillance and the Ethics of Personal Privacy Tuesday evening, May 31 See page 3 for more details. Martha Sonnenschein Memorial Lecture by Layaliza Soloveichik, Hide and Seek: A Yom Yerushalayim Reflection Shabbat, June 4 at 11:00AM See page 3 for more information. 5 th Annual Keter Torah Award Honoring Lily Kaplan and Adina Wagman Shabbat, June 11 at 11:00AM In the spirit of Shavuot, which celebrates two great Jewish heroines, Naomi and Ruth, the Keter Torah Award ceremony will coincide with Shavuot. We look forward to recognizing two women in our community this year: Lily Kaplan and Adina Wagman. If you would like to acknowledge the women of our synagogue, and our honorees, please visit jewishcenter.org and donate under the Keter Torah event page. Keter Torah Sponsor - $180 Rimon Sponsor - $72 Sun., May 29 and Mon., May 30 (Memorial Day) Daf Yomi 7:45AM Shacharit 8:30AM Minchah 8:05PM DAILY SERVICES Tue., May 31- Thurs., June 2 Shacharit 7/8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 8:05PM Fri., June 3 Shacharit 7/8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 7/8PM Candle lighting 8:04PM WOMEN'S TEHILLIM GROUP Monday, June 6 at 7:15PM. Contact Joyce Weitz for more information at SHIRA ORENSTEIN & DANIEL KAHN Guests of Honor THE JC ANNUAL DINNER Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at Guastavino's A Special Shiur with Rabbi Daniel Fridman, Kedushato shel Aharon: Birkat Kohanim: 5:30PM HONORING YAEL KAHN PINTO & TONY PINTO Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung Memorial Award VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT RABBI DOVID & ARIELLA ZIRKIND Community Service Award Dinner: 6:30PM Program: 8:15PM Black Tie Optional Couvert: $500 per person The Jewish Center - The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning 131 W. 86 th Street, New York, NY

2 THE JEWISH CENTER SALUTES OUR VETERANS With deep appreciation to the many members of The Jewish Center family who proudly served our country. Kiddush is being sponsored by The Jewish Center in their honor. George Blank Capt. Dr. George P. Burak, z l, brother of Michael Burak Ken Canter, father of Susan Canter Rabbi Abraham Chill, father of Daniel Chill Judge Leo Glasser Sol Gold, z l, father of Sarah Gold Ben Golzman, z l, husband of Judy Golzman Arthur Gottlieb, z l, father of Joseph Gottlieb Morris Green, z l, husband of Charlotte Green Dr. Irwin Gribetz Manny Gross Zvi Gruenspecht, First Lieutenant in the Air Force's Medical Service Corps. Grandson of Gladys & Bob Richter Eric Guttman Alvin Hellerstein Paul Kaufmann Samuel Kramer, z l, grandfather of Avery Neumark Harold I. Levine, z l, father of Lois Burak Harvey Litt, z l Peter Lunzer, z l, father of Fran Kritz Captain Joseph J. Marbach, z l, husband of Judy Marbach Melvin Neumark Captain Moses Nussbaum, z l, husband of Esther Nussbaum Jack Pollock, z l, husband of Rose Lynn Sherr Jack Sternklar, z l, husband of Lila Sternklar Harry Skydell, z l, brother of Irving Skydell Harold Turobiner Aaron Weitz Fred R. Wiesen, z l, uncle of Lois Burak Joseph Zuckerman Active Duty: Greg Behrman, Lieutenant JG, US Navy, CIG Special Advisor, Kabul, Afghanistan, son of Janine Behrman & Alan Gover We apologize for any omissions. SISTERHOOD ANNUAL BRUNCH Thank you to all who joined! Thank you to Heidi Abraham for hosting the brunch. JEWISH HISTORY SERIES June 4 at 6:45PM Talia Graff, Between Two Worlds: Mendelssohn, Wessely and the Move Toward Modernity June 18 at 7:00PM Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Femme Fatale: A Responsum on Isha Katlanit as a Window into Conceptions of Magic, Medicine and Science in the Early Modern Period SHAVUOT PROGRAMS AT THE JEWISH CENTER Friday, June 10 - Monday, June 13 Young Leadership Pre-Shavuot Dinner Friday, June 10 Kick off the three-day chag with this annual Young Leadership sell-out event. Please visit our website to register. Please yl@jewishcenter.org with any questions or to get involved. Keter Torah Award Honoring Lily Kaplan and Adina Wagman Shabbat, June 11 See page one for more information or visit our website. Erica Brown, JC Community Scholar, will join us on Shabbat and Shavuot, June Herb Lauer Tikkun Leil Shavuot: The Questions Keeping Us Up at Night Learning Kicks off with a Special Session Co-taught by Rabbi Yosie Levine and Dr. Erica Brown Saturday night, June 11 at 11:45PM Shiurim and classes throughout the night. Please visit our website to become a sponsor of this program. Women and Girls Megillah Reading Monday, June 13 at 1:00PM Family Shavuot Lunch Monday, June 13 at 1:30PM Following Women and Girls Megillah Reading, families are invited to celebrate Shavuot together. Please visit our website for pricing and sponsorship opportunities. JEWISH CENTER UNIVERSITY SPRING SEMESTER DAILY (except Shabbat) Israel Friedman Daf Yomi with rotating JCU Faculty, 7:45AM TUESDAY Beit Hamikdash to Barbecue: Exploring the Mitzvah of Shechita with Rabbi Noach Goldstein, William Fischman Rabbinic Intern, 7:45AM Jewish History: Judaism in a Christian Empire with Rabbi Ari Lamm will resume on June 14 WEDNESDAY Women of the Bible with Rabbi Yosie Levine, 11:00AM The Book of Ruth with Rabbi Daniel Fridman, 6:45PM The Next Level with Rabbi Mark Wildes, 8:00PM SHABBAT Rabbi Israel Silverstein Mishnayot Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine, 8:30AM Hashkama Shiur with rotating JCU Faculty, 9:15AM Israel Friedman Daf Yomi with rotating JCU Faculty Parent-Child Learning with rotating JCU Faculty To sponsor Kiddush or Seudah Shlishit or a JC event, please contact Aaron at astrum@jewishcenter.org

3 The Hanno Mott Lecture on Contemporary Jewish Ethics: An Armchair Conversation featuring Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman and Professor Samuel Rascoff, Technology, Surveillance and the Ethics of Personal Privacy Tuesday, May 31 at 8:00PM; exclusive reception for JC members only at 7:00PM In an age of social media and ever-expanding technological capabilities, the limits and possibilities of personal privacy continue to change. Join two leading thinkers as they discuss the legal, ethical and religious implications of our ever-evolving digital landscape. For more information and to register, please visit our website. Martha Sonnenschein Memorial Lecture by Layaliza Soloveichik, Hide and Seek: A Yom Yerushalayim Reflection Shabbat, June 4 at 11:00AM Layaliza Soloveichik graduated from Yeshiva University as valedictorian in both Jewish Studies and General Studies. She then earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and clerked on the Supreme Court of Israel. She also clerked on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and became a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind Wharton and Garrison, LLP. Currently, she is an Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Along the way she also obtained an M.S. in Jewish Education, and has given lectures in many Jewish communities around the United States. Book Club Meeting: All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir by Shulem Deen Sunday, June 5 at 7:30PM, at the home of Maureen & Laszlo Marcus, 645 West End Avenue All are welcome to join for our final book club meeting of the year. Rabbi Dovid Zirkind will lead the discussion. Direct questions to bookclub@jewishcenter.org. Graduation Kiddush Shabbat, June 18 Join us as we celebrate the academic achievements of our community graduates. 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 ing eliane@jewishcenter.org. If you would like to sponsor the Graduation Kiddush, please contact Aaron Strum at astrum@jewishcenter.org or Jenn & Gaby at jennandgaby@jewishcenter.org. Bikkur Cholim Luncheon Shabbat, June 18 Annual Membership Meeting Monday, June 20 Each year we hold an annual meeting to conduct an open forum on shul business, elect new officers and members to the Board and Administrative Committee and welcome new members (and remember departed ones). Special Briefing by Maurizio Molinari, Editor-in-Chief of La Stampa Shabbat, July Grade Girls Seudah Shlishit Hosted by Rachel Levine Shabbat, June 4 from 7-8:30PM There will be lots of great food to eat and a full array of homemade desserts, so make sure you come hungry! For more information and to RSVP rachel.levine1@gmail.com. Spring and Summer Birthday Kiddush Shabbat, June 4 Please visit our website to sponsor. Bikkur Cholim Visits Shabbat, June 4 UPCOMING EVENTS YOUTH DEPARTMENT PROGRAMS & UPDATES For more information contact jennandgaby@jewishcenter.org. Post Bat Mitzvah Group Shabbat, June 11 Sponsored by Beth & Josh Schwartz. Shavuot Family Lunch Monday, June 13 at 1:30PM Join us for a relaxed family-friendly dairy lunch on the second day of Shavuot. Visit our website for prices, sponsorship opportunities and more information. Teen Minyan and Hot Kiddush Shabbat, June 18 COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS MAZAL TOV Chaya & Adam Berkowitz on the birth of a girl Aliza Herzberg and Howard Brodie on the occasion of Mia's Bat Mitzvah Hindy Poupko & Seth Galena on the birth of a girl Danny Krasna on the occasion of his aufruf and forthcoming marriage to Hudi Grunwald Shmuel Unterberg on the occasion of his aufruf and forthcoming marriage to Meira Lerner THANK YOU TO OUR USHERS Thank you to our ushers, Jay Worenklein and Barbara Reiss 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. DAILY MINYAN REMINDER As many of our regulars begin to disperse for the summer, we encourage you to strengthen our daily minyan. Come once or come often! We would love to have you with us. CELEBRATE ISRAEL PARADE Sunday, June 5 from 11:00AM to 4:00PM PUBLIC LECTURE BY RABBI DANIEL FRIDMAN, AND ALL OF YOUR CHILDREN SHALL LEARN OF GOD Shabbat, June 25 To advertise or list an announcement in The Jewish Center Bulletin, please contact us at eliane@jewishcenter.org

4 In comparison with his role as pioneering commentator on the Bible and Babylonian Talmud, Rashi s other, pivotal contribution to Jewish history receives relatively little attention: his role as popularizer of rabbinic literature. Indeed, the ubiquity in Jewish cultural history of the Sifra s jibe mah inyan Shemittah etzel Har Sinai ( What has the Sabbatical Year anything to do with Mount Sinai? ) is probably to be laid at Rashi s feet. Since Rashi, students of rabbinic literature have used this quip taken from the beginning of this week s sidra to question how one thing may be related to another; the rabbinic equivalent of What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? The irony, of course, is that the phrase is backwards. As commentators from the Rabad to the Maharal have noted, there is no need to explain the Sabbatical Year s presence in our sidra s context. It represents the logical continuation of last week s sidra and is related to what follows afterward. What actually requires explanation is the appearance, here, of Mount Sinai! The question, in essence, should be reversed: What has Mount Sinai anything to do with the Sabbatical Year? Indeed, perhaps this phrase spurring its hearers to pay closer attention to detail derives its piquancy precisely from the fact that its details have been garbled. In any case, upon reading this phrase in Rashi, I recalled a passage in an essay by Ahad Ha am, the doyen of cultural Zionism. The passage is wonderfully written, and strikingly relevant even today. In lieu, then, of a traditional Bulletin Dvar Torah, I have simply translated the passage and have appended forgive me a few thoughts. The passage is from Ahad Ha am s savage review, titled The Sin and Its Punishment, of Theodor Herzl s novel, Altneuland. In it, Ahad Ha am took special exception to PEACE OF MIND CONFERENCE AT THE JEWISH CENTER On December 4-11, 2016, The Jewish Center is honored to welcome our second group of 16 former IDF former soldiers from an elite high-risk combat unit through the Peace of Mind (POM) program. The unique POM program provides a bridge back to civilian life through a 3-month psychotrauma therapy program which includes one week in our community. The entire JC family, from the Youth Department through Advanced Leadership, is invited to be involved in this amazing week. Please join us in showing our hakarat hatov and creating a life-changing week for these soldiers who have given so much. We are looking for host families, cooks, chaperones, drivers, donors and more - whether you have a little time or a lot to give to this project (during the day or in the evening), we look forward to hearing from you at pom@jewishcenter.org. Thank you for your involvement! Ahad Ha am vs. Herzl Rabbi Ari Lamm, Resident Scholar Herzl s vision of the eventual Jewish State as including a secularized, sanitized version of the Third Temple built somewhere other than the Temple Mount. Ahad Ha am writes: Had any of these Europeans [that is, political Zionists like Herzl] attempted to envision the future of some other, foreign nation, that person would certainly have thought it necessary to prepare himself for the task by first investigating that nation s customs, beliefs, traditions, and development, so that he should not err in ascribing to that nation acts that are contrary to its character Now, had [Herzl and his colleagues] applied this to their own nation, Israel, they would undoubtedly have known that were the Jews to return to their homeland and establish a state for themselves, they would then have built synagogues, study houses and other communal institutions but not the Temple! They would leave that for the future still to come, when the son of David, shall purify the holy mountain and rebuild the Temple upon its historical site, where it always stood. And so, in fact, should a person turn to the Jews of the Pale of Settlement with that burning question What would you choose? Would you rather continue living in poverty, or be free citizens in a flowering Land of Israel, albeit one in which the Temple is not built on the Temple Mount? their reply will not be It s obvious, isn t it? but rather, to scoff at [Herzl s] Sabbatical Year and Sinai book, which assumes that it is somehow impossible for there to be a flowering Land of Israel, with Jewish citizenship, but without an immediately rebuilt Temple!...Ahad Ha am s point is that had Herzl truly valued Jewish culture s nuanced richness, he would have understood that a rebuilt State and a rebuilt Temple have as little to do with each other, at least in an immediate, political sense, as the Sabbatical Year and Sinai. But of course, only those sufficiently steeped in Jewish tradition to know that ultimately the Sabbatical year and Sinai are related will get the reference Clergy & Staff Yosie Levine Rabbi Dovid Zirkind Assistant Rabbi Chaim David Berson Cantor Daniel Fridman Resident Scholar Ari Lamm Resident Scholar Erica Brown Community Scholar Noach Goldstein William Fischman Rabbinic Intern Aaron Strum Executive Director Eliane Dreyfuss Glassman Director of Programming and Communications Jenn & Gaby Minsky Youth Directors OFFICERS Avi Schwartz President Andrew Borodach First Andrew Kaplan Mark Segall Rose Lynn Sherr Michael Jacobs Assistant Yaron Kinar Treasurer Len Berman Assistant Treasurer Miri Lipsky Secretary Phone Numbers Yoetzet Halacha Ilana Gadish nycyoetzet@gmail.com Jewish Center Chevra Kadisha x555 UWS Mikvah Hatzalah Eruv Status x4

5 The Jewish Center cordially invites you to its TÇÇâtÄ ZtÄt W ÇÇxÜ Shira Orenstein & Daniel Kahn Guests of Honor Yael Kahn Pinto & Tony Pinto Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung Memorial Award Rabbi Dovid & Ariella Zirkind Community Service Award Tuesday evening, the Seventh of June Two Thousand and Sixteen Guastavino s 409 East 59 th Street A Special Shiur with Rabbi Daniel Fridman from 5:30PM-6:30PM Black Tie Optional Dinner: 6:30PM Couvert: $500 per person Program: 8:15PM Brauna & Marvin Fortgang Susan Kensky & Samuel Goldman Rachel Lurie Honorary Dinner Chairs Michelle Chrein Scroll of Honor Chair Elan Ariel Lori Zeltser & Leonard Berman Rachel Wolf & Andrew Borodach Dina Burcat Gilda & Irving Chodosh Ben Cooper Rena Englander Sam Englander Judith & Robert Grauman Samuel Grossman Esther & Michael Jacobs Aliza Kahn Chaviva & Andrew Kaplan Bosi & Yaron Kinar Dinner Committee Amy Kohen Dinah & Andy Mendes Paulette & David Meyer Ephraim Reinhard Miriam Lipsky & Joshua Schainker Avi Schwartz Chani & Mark Segall Menashe Shapiro Ron Shapiro Rose Lynn Sherr Nancy & Joseph Sklarin Rona & Andrew Steinerman Jessica & Noam Zeffren

6 MAZAL TOV TO OUR 2016 DINNER HONOREES Shira Orenstein & Daniel Kahn, Guests of Honor Yael Kahn Pinto & Tony Pinto, Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung Memorial Award Rabbi Dovid & Ariella Zirkind, Community Service Award YAEL KAHN PINTO & TONYT PINTO Yael grew up on the Upper West Side, and is a third generation member of The Jewish Center. She spent her childhood as an active member of the shul, from helping out at the clothing drive to being a group leader. After graduating from Rutgers University Magna Cum Laude, she earned her M.S.Ed. in Early Childhood General and Special Education from Bank Street. She has always loved working with children, and has a strong commitment to progressive Jewish education. Yael spent many years teaching and as a Camp Director at JCC Manhattan and is now an early childhood consultant with the Jewish Education Project. Tony grew up in Venezuela before moving to the New York area as a teenager. He first became active in synagogue life as a high schooler at Temple Zion in Long Beach. He was also very much involved with NCSY and the Bach Jewish Center. From there, he attended Yeshiva University and earned his Master's Degree in Biotechnology from Columbia University. Tony currently works in pharmaceutical compliance for Regeneron. Yael and Tony enjoy and appreciate the vibrant and multi-generational community at The Jewish Center. Inspired by Shira and Danny s and Margie and Hugo s (z l) involvement and commitment to the shul, together, Yael and Tony serve as the co-chairs of the Young Couples and Families committee. They love being able to introduce The Jewish Center to newcomers in the community. They have also run the Shabbat afternoon youth program for the last seven years, and truly value the relationships it has allowed them to build with children and their families. They are thrilled to be receiving this honor alongside Yael s parents and are proud to be raising a fourth generation Jewish Center member, their daughter Rozzie. & T The Jewish Center Annual Gala Dinner Tuesday, June 7, 2016 Guastavino s 409 East 59 th Street