Mazal Tov to the Horowitz family on the occasion of Shoshana s Bat Mitzvah

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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 7:10PM Candle lighting APRIL 8-9, 2016 PARSHAT TAZRIYA/ROSH CHODESH 1 NISSAN 5776 Mazal Tov to the Horowitz family on the occasion of Shoshana s Bat Mitzvah SHABBAT 7:30AM Hashkama Minyan (The Max and Marion Grill Beit Midrash) Please note earlier time 8:30AM Rabbi Israel Silverstein Mishnayot Class with Rabbi Yosie Levine 9:00AM Shacharit (3 rd floor) and lecture by Erica Brown, We Were Fruitful and We Multiplied: On Fertility and Freedom 9:15AM Hashkama Shiur with Rabbi Ari Lamm, Chodesh ha-aviv (5 th floor) 9:30AM Young Leadership Minyan (The Max Stern Auditorium) 9:42AM Sof Zman Kriat Shema 10:00AM Youth Groups, Under age 3 (drop off optional), 3-4-year-olds and 5-6-yearolds: Geller Youth Center; 2 nd -3 rd graders, 4 th -6 th graders: 7 th floor Kiddush Celebrating the Birth of Annaelle Berson (5 th floor) 12:45PM Young Professionals Social Action Fellowship Lunch with Erica Brown (The Max Stern Auditorium) WITH THANKS TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS: Lea & Ami Aharon in honor of the Rabbis, Chazan and the entire Jewish Center family for years of meaningful tefilla, outstanding learning and wonderful friendship Serena Wieder & Jonathan Blank in commemoration of the yahrzeit of his father, Herman Blank Susan & Arthur Degen in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Arthur's father, Robert J. Degen Esther & Steve Graber in commemoration of the 12 th yahrzeit, during Pesach, of Esther's mother, Ruth Jacobowitz (Rochel Leah Bat Rav Leib Halevi) Mindy & Charles Hercman in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Mindy's father, Bernard M. Grosser Mindy & Ami Horowitz in honor of Shoshana Tamar's Bat Mitzvah Gail Propp in commemoration of the yahrzeit of her mother, Goody Dane Suzanne & Allan Smith in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Suzanne's mother, Paulette Schauer, Perel bas Avraham Yeruchem See the Shabbat Bulletin insert for a complete list of sponsors for the Kiddush in honor of the birth of Annaelle Berson 3:45PM Bikkur Cholim/Bikkur in the Home (meet at 730 Columbus Ave.) 6:15PM 39 Melachot with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind 6:15PM Israel Friedman Daf Yomi 6:15PM Parent-Child Learning with Rabbi Ari Lamm, Who Knows Eight? WITH THANKS TO OUR SEUDAH SHLISHIT SPONSOR: Deborah de Winter & Philip Sussman in commemoration of the first yahrzeit of Philip's father, Sholom Sussman 7:00PM Minchah, Shabbat afternoon groups Seudah Shlishit Speaker: Erica Brown, Shir Ha-Shirim: Is Passover Really a Holiday of Love? 8:11PM Shabbat concludes Sun., April 10 Daf Yomi 7:45AM Shacharit 8:30AM Minchah 7:20PM DAILY SERVICES Mon., April 11 - Thur., April 14 Shach 7 & 8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 7:20PM Fri., April 15 Shach 7 & 8AM Daf Yomi 7:45AM Minchah 5:45/7:00PM Candle Lighting 7:17PM The Jewish Center - The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning 131 W. 86 th Street, New York, NY WELCOME TO OUR COMMUNITY SCHOLAR, ERICA BROWN, WHO IS JOINING US THIS SHABBAT SHABBAT MORNING: We Were Fruitful and We Multiplied: On Fertility and Freedom SEUDAH SHLISHIT: Shir Ha-Shirim: Is Passover Really a Holiday of Love? PLEASE JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL KIDDUSH CELEBRATING THE BIRTH פרומית ענאל OF FRUMIT ANNAELLE/ELIZABETH ANNE DAUGHTER OF CANTOR CHAIM DAVID & BATYA BERSON ROSH CHODESH NISSAN, SHABBAT, APRIL 9 Thank you to our growing list of sponsors. Please see the insert for a complete list. SHABBAT HAGADOL DRASHAH RABBI YOSIE LEVINE SHABBAT, APRIL 16 Korech Unwrapped: Hillel's Sandwich and the Curious Convergence of Orthodoxy and Religious Inclusivism This year, Rabbi Levine's talk will explore how an oft-overlooked stage of the Haggadah sheds light on one of the most relevant issues of our day: What's at stake in a conversation between those who adhere unabashedly to tradition and those who push that tradition's boundaries? Can the spirit of Orthodoxy and the spirit of inclusivism peacefully coexist? WOMEN'S TEHILLIM GROUP Monday, April 11 at 7:15PM. Contact Joyce Weitz for more information at

2 MAOT CHITTIM Help us help others enjoy and find meaning in the Passover holiday. Help our needy Jewish brothers and sisters observe Passover with dignity in their homes by fulfilling the mitzvah of Ma ot Chittim, money for wheat, by sending a generous donation. Make your check payable to the Rabbi Leo Jung Memorial Fund and mail it to The Jewish Center office. ONEG SHABBAT Please help provide Pesach meals for the less fortunate families in our community by sending your donation to Oneg Shabbat at 650 West End Ave., New York, NY or visit Cards are always available for donations to remember loved ones or to honor special occasions. PREPARING FOR PESACH HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE If you are available to host guests for Pesach meals or if you would like to be hosted, please contact the Hospitality Committee at dzirkind@jewishcenter.org. PESACH FOOD DRIVE Drop off Chametz items in The JC lobby through Monday, April 11. Collected foods benefit the Kosher Division of City Harvest. SALE OF CHAMETZ One way to avoid the prohibition of owning chametz on Pesach is to sell it to a non-jew. It is customary to appoint the Rabbi as one s agent to transact this sale. You may collect a Sale of Chametz form online or in the lobby of The JC in order to appoint Rabbi Levine as your agent. PESACH AT THE JC SEE THE SHABBAT BULLETIN INSERT FOR A LIST OF UPCOMING PROGRAMS PESACH HOUSE CLEANING NOTES To help The Jewish Center prepare for Pesach, members are asked to clean out any personal items from drawers in the Main Sanctuary and personal lockers in the lobby level kitchen. Absolutely no chametz should be brought into The JC building from Monday, April 18 through the conclusion of Pesach. WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS WHO JOINED DURING THE MEMBERSHIP WEEK REBOOT Claire & Eric Berkowitz Chaya & Adam Berkowitz Melissa & Abram Bohrer Tova Cohen Ethan Davis Joseph Dayan Elana Katz Hudi Grunwald & Daniel Krasna Josh Mitrani Rachel & Baruch Schaulewicz Dina & David Weinstein BLESSING OVER THE TREES TO WELCOME SPRING During the month of Nissan, as spring approaches, one may recite Birkat Ha'Ilanot which is a special Bracha for seeing fruit trees in blossom and can only be made once a year. The text of the Beracha is as follows: ברוך אתה ה' אלקינו מלך העולם, שלא חיסר בעולמו דבר,וברא בו בריות טובות ואילנות טובים ליהנות בהם בני אדם Blessed are You, Hashem, our Lord, King of the Universe, that His world is not lacking anything, and He created in it good creations and good trees for the pleasure of mankind. JEWISH CENTER UNIVERSITY PRE-PESACH MINI-MESTER THROUGH APRIL 16 DAILY (except Shabbat) Israel Friedman Daf Yomi with rotating JCU Faculty, 7:45AM MONDAY Never Say Never: Exploring the Laws and Lessons of Pesach Sheini with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind, 8:00PM TUESDAY Why are These Miracles Different from All Other Miracles?: The When and What of Pirsumei Nisa with Rabbi Noach Goldstein, William Fischman Rabbinic Intern, 7:45AM Nosh and Drash with Dr. Adena Berkowitz, 10:15AM Pesach: Text and Historical Context with Rabbi Ari Lamm, 7:15PM David, King of Israel: Sadye and Henry Bayer Chumash Class will resume next semester WEDNESDAY Women of the Bible with Rabbi Yosie Levine, 11:00AM Haggadah Shel Pesach with Rabbi Daniel Fridman, 7:15PM Rambam, Hilchot Chametz U'Matzah with Rabbi Daniel Fridman, 8:00PM 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 39 Melachot with Rabbi Dovid Zirkind Parent-Child Learning with rotating JCU Faculty; check the schedule for times To sponsor Kiddush or Seudah Shlishit or a JC event, please contact Aaron at astrum@jewishcenter.org

3 UPCOMING EVENTS YOUNG LEADERSHIP: DOROT PASSOVER PACKAGE DELIVERY SUNDAY, APRIL 10 FROM 10:00AM -12:00PM AT DOROT (171 WEST 85 TH STREET) Come share the joy and warmth of Passover with an elder in a meaningful way by delivering a package of traditional holiday foods and visiting for about an hour. The program will begin with a Young Professionals brunch, followed by an orientation and home visits. To join, please yl@jewishcenter.org. NOSH AND DRASH ANNUAL PRE-PESACH SHIUR WITH DR. ADENA BERKOWITZ TUESDAY, APRIL 12 AT NOON Discover new ways to enhance your seder and Pesach experience together with receiving exciting new recipes that will delight your guests. For more information and to register, eliane@jewishcenter.org. PRE-PESACH SHABBAT MEALS SHABBAT DINNER ON APRIL 15 AT 6:45PM, SHABBAT LUNCH ON APRIL 16 AT 12:30PM Don t want to prepare meals the Shabbat before Pesach? Let The JC help you! Sign up for our meals which cost $30 for adults and $18 for children. Visit our website for more information and to register. PESACH KASHERING AT THE JC SUNDAY, APRIL 17 FROM 9:30AM - 12:30PM SEDER PEARLS JC CLERGY: RABBI YOSIE LEVINE, RABBI DOVID ZIRKIND, RABBI DANIEL FRIDMAN, RABBI ARI LAMM AND CANTOR CHAIM DAVID BERSON MONDAY, APRIL 18 AT 8:00PM Join us for this perennial favorite, featuring presentations by The JC clergy, for fresh ideas and classic thoughts on the Pesach Seder. READING OF THE NAMES: UWS YOM HASHOAH COMMEMORATION WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 4 AT CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM (7 WEST 83 RD STREET) Once again we come together to commemorate Yom HaShoah in The Reading and Hearing of the Names of those killed during the Shoah. The Jewish Center reading will be from 4:00-4:20AM. A SPECIAL PRIVATE TOUR WITH RABBI YOSIE LEVINE IN COMMEMORATION OF YOM HASHOAH: ANTI-SEMITISM AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY THURSDAY, MAY 5 Join Rabbi Levine and the Advanced Leadership committee for a guided tour of this exhibit. Details to follow. Please direct questions to Batsheva, clergy assistant, at batsheva@jewishcenter.org. YOUTH DEPARTMENT PROGRAMS & UPDATES For more information contact jennandgaby@jewishcenter.org. ANNUAL "SHLISSEL" CHALLAH BAKING THURSDAY, MAY 5 AT 7:00PM, AT A PRIVATE RESIDENCE ON THE UWS All women and girls are invited to join us for this annual program featuring Rachel Ringler. Rachel, challah baker extraordinaire, will delight us with her demonstration of how to make the most delicious challah which we will all have a chance to make on our own and take home. In addition, Dr. Adena Berkowitz will share the various segulot (mystical traditions) connected with challah baking and the tradition of putting a key in the challah after Pesach. Please register on our website. YOM HA ATZMAUT FAMILY BBQ THURSDAY, MAY 12 TEEN MINYAN AND KIDDUSH SHABBAT, MAY 14 GIRLS BASKETBALL CLINIC SUNDAY, MAY 22 FROM 11:00AM - 1:00PM Get ready to improve your skills at a teen girls basketball clinic! Alexis Goldstein will lead a clinic covering various aspects of the game including passing, shooting, transitions, defensive stance and zone and communicating with your team. After the clinic we will have a delicious lunch! COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS MAZAL TOV Jennifer & Mark Smith on the birth of a girl. Mazal tov to the other siblings Katlin and Alexandra Smith. Mazel tov to grandparents, Suzanne & Allen Smith Danielle Druck & Daniel Dauber, Adar & Paul Hilbert on the Bar Mitzvah of Samuel Zachary. Mazal tov to grandparents, Beverly & Andrew Druck and stepgrandparents, Lorraine & Leonard Dauber Mindy & Ami Horowitz on the occasion of the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Shoshana Tamar COMMUNITY ACCOMPLISHEMENTS Congratulations to Eric Goldstein who will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Yeshiva of Central Queens at their Anniversary Dinner BEREAVEMENT We regret to inform you of the passing of Esther Bohrer, mother of Jewish Center member Abram Bohrer. Shivah will be observed at 115 West 86 Street, Apt. 11A. Visitors are welcome: Saturday evening, April 9, 8:30pm - 10:30pm; Sunday, April 10th, 1pm - 3pm and 5pm - 8:30pm. Minchah Sunday, 7:15pm. THANK YOU TO OUR USHERS Thank you to our ushers Ben Gadon, Marilyn Rothschild, Johnny Glaser and Joan Kagan. 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. MEET THE UWS YOATZOT HALACHA FOLLOWED BY A PRE-PESACH HAT SALE BY HEDY S HATS SUNDAY, APRIL 10 AT CONGREGATION RA- MATH ORAH (550 W. 110 St.) FROM 10:00AM-1:00PM Come hear Ilana Gadish and Julia Baruch speak followed by a hat sale. Breakfast included. AIPAC POLICY CONFERENCE 2017 Sunday Mar 26-28, 2017 at The Washington DC Convention Center Registration for the conference costs $599 but if you register below by April 13 you will pay $399 which is a $200 discount. Click here for more information and to purchase your ticket. To advertise or list an announcement in The Jewish Center Bulletin, please contact us at eliane@jewishcenter.org

4 The happy coincidence of Parashat Tazria with Parashat Ha-Chodesh allows for a brief reflection on the relationship between two cardinal mitzvot: korban pesah and brit milah. The third verse of Tazria commands circumcision, under normal circumstances, on the eighth day of life, even if it is Shabbat. The central motif of Parashat Ha-Chodesh is the korban pesah, which must also be offered on Shabbat if the fourteenth of Nissan falls on Shabbat. The relationship, however, goes much deeper than superseding Shabbat. These are the only two positive commandments which are associated with the penalty of karet, typically reserved for only the gravest of prohibitions. Moreover, the Torah explicitly links both of these commandments by ruling that the korban pesah cannot be consumed by anyone who is uncircumcised. The very obvious fact that both of these mitzvot are blood rituals deepens this connection. The Mechilta, in a stirring passage, understands that the verse in ואעבר עליך ואראך Seder, Yechezkel, recited at the you, I passed over מתבוססת בדמיך ואמר לך בדמיך חיי and I saw you wallowing in your blood, and I said to you, even in your blood, you shall live, refers to the blood of pesah, and the blood of milah, through which the Jewish people merited redemption. Yet, for all of these highly suggestive connections, there remains a striking distinction between korban pesah and brit milah. Circumcision, by its very nature, is private. It involves the most intimate part of the male anatomy, and, halakhically speaking, it can be performed in complete seclusion. Korban pesach, by contrast, is communal The Double Covenant: Milah and Pesah Rabbi Daniel Fridman, Resident Scholar in every sense of the term. It is eaten in the context of a chaburah, a grouping. The slaughtering and roasting of the korban pesah created a public scene through the streets of Jerusalem vividly portrayed in rabbinic literature. It is certainly not a mere anecdote that the halachic source of agency is derived from the verses commanding slaughtering the korban pesah; the halachic instrument of agency is the logical conclusion of a communal mitzvah par excellence. The very term used to describe the slaughtering of korban pesah by the Torah קהל עדת ישראל is the most full-throated term used anymore in the Torah to connote the national status of the Jewish people. Thus, milah and pesah appear to be as distinct as they are related. Perhaps we may resolve this tension by suggesting that milah and pesah are really parallel institutions, but which exist on different planes. In a word, milah is to the individual what pesah is to the collective, the tzibbur. A Jew, apparently, must identify at two levels; first, he must commit as an individual to the covenant of Abraham, to passionate service of Almighty God, replete with consistent acts of self-sacrifice. The commitment of the individual to God, while necessary, is insufficient. The individual must also commit himself to community. The Jew always relates to God on two parallel planes, as individual, and then, as member of the faith community. Every personal amidah is followed, immediately, by the communal prayer, the tefillat ha-tzibbur. With the Exodus, the Jew became party to both of these covenants simultaneously. In your blood, you will yet live- through the blood of milah, and the blood of pesah, as an individual, and as a member of the faith community. Advanced Leadership Tour of the Isaac Mizrahi Exhibit at The Jewish Museum followed by lunch at Russ & Daughters. 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

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6 Erica Brown, JC Community Scholar Shabbat, April 8-9 Join us for lectures, learning and leadership training sessions over the weekend. Seudah Shlishit Lecture on April 9: Shir Ha-Shirim: Is Passover Really a Holiday of Love? Young Leadership: Dorot Passover Package Delivery Sunday, April 10 from 10:00AM-12:00PM at DOROT (171 West 85th Street) Come share the joy and warmth of Passover with an elder in a meaningful way by delivering a package of traditional holiday foods and visiting for about an hour. The program will begin with a Young Professionals brunch, followed by an orientation and then home visits. To join the JC YL group, please yl@jewishcenter.org. Pesach Food Drive Through April 11 Drop off sealed Kosher-for-Passover or Chametz items in The JC lobby. Collected food benefits the Kosher Division of City Harvest. Pre-Pesach Shabbat Meals Shabbat, April Don t want to prepare meals the Shabbat before Pesach? Let The JC help you! Sign up for our meals which cost $30 for adults and $18 for children. Visit our website for more information and to register. Shabbat Hagadol Drashah Rabbi Yosie Levine Shabbat, April 16 Following 9:00AM services Korech Unwrapped: Hillel's Sandwich and the Curious Convergence of Orthodoxy and Religious Inclusivism Pesach Kashering at The JC Sunday, April 17 from 9:30AM-12:30PM Seudah Shlishit with Rabbi David Silber Shabbat, April 16 Insights into The Haggadah Founder and Dean of the Drisha Institute Seder Pearls Monday, April 18 at 8:00PM Join us for this perennial favorite, featuring presentations by The JC clergy, for fresh ideas and classic thoughts on the Pesach Seder. For complete information on Pesach classes and programs, visit