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Rabbi Uri Goldstein President Steven Winchester

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WEEKDAY DAVENING INFORMATION

שבת פרשת קרחSHABBAT PARSHAT KORACH

3 TAMMUZ/JUNE 20Haftorah is Samuel I 11:14-12:22. Chapter 4 of Pirkei Avot.

FRIDAY NIGHTEARLIEST CANDLES- 6:57 PMMINCHA - 7:05 PMCANDLE LIGHTING - 8:13 PMTZAIT - 9:16 PM

SATURDAYSHACHARIT YOUTH - 8:20 AM SHACHARIT MAIN - 8:45 AMLAST KRIAT SHEMA - 9:12 AMGEMARA SHIUR - 7:00 PM MINCHA - 8:00 PMSHKIA - 8:32 PM MAARIV/HAVDALAH - 9:17 PM

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BULLETIN INFORMATIONTO REQUEST A BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENT (BY 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY) OR DEDICATE A BULLETIN FOR $36 ($54 W/PHOTO), EMAIL SEPLOTNICK@GMAIL.COM.

CONGREGATION AHAVAT ACHIM18-25 SADDLE RIVER ROADFAIR LAWN, NJ 07410-5909201-797-0502WWW.AHAVATACHIM.ORG

Kiddush is sponsored by Ilana & Nate Schwitzer in honor of Jason’s Aufruf and upcoming wedding to Alicia Cohen. A special welcome to Alicia’s mother Linda Cohen & father Randall Cohen. Mazel to all the family and guests.

Graduation Kiddush is Shabbat, June 27. Sponsor at $36 per graduate. Email seplotnick@gmail.com with each graduate’s name, school,  and  her or  his degree and major if  graduating from college. 2015 Graduates (so far) are: Josh Agress (Brandeis University, BS in Economics, Neuroscience & Biology, Magma Cum Laude), Joseph Baron (Yeshivat Noam), Sadie Becker (Chabad Pre-K), Willa Becker (Yavneh Academy Kindergarten), Bezalel Bernstein (H.B. Milnes School), Helene Brenenson (The Frisch School), Chaim/Harris Brenenson (Yavneh Academy Kindergarten), Keren Farajun (Yavneh Academy, with Midot Award), Mikey Finkelstein (Yavneh Academy), Andy Freund (The Frisch School), Uri Garfunkel (Yavneh Academy), Julie Goldstein (NYU, Ph.D.), Lielle Goldstein (Leah Sokoloff Nursery School Pre-K), Dr. Kele Kirschenbaum, (Yeshiva University Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology). Lauren Kirschenbaum, (Fordham University, School of Social Work, MSW). Rachel Kor (Rutgers University, BS in Communications, minors in Business & Art History), Anny Safier (Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey), Justin Safier (The Frisch School), Dr. Jonathan Schwitzer, (Mount Sinai, MD) Dr. Susannah Smedresman, (LIU Post, Psychology), Dr. Esti Sonnenblick, (University of Maryland School of Dentistry, DDS). [Note that bulletin sponsorship announcing a graduation is only available if this Kiddush is also sponsored in honor of the graduate.]

Mazel tov to Cary & Marty Reichart on the birth of a grandson to Dina and Corey! May the family be zoche to see his Brit Milah in its proper time and raise him to Torah, chupah, u’masim tovim!

Shirley Vann has dedicated this week’s Covenant & Conversation (used with permission of the Office of Rabbi Sacks) in memory of her beloved mother Necha bat Yitzchokע”ה.

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Kiddush InformationKiddush cleanup for the month of

June is Goldman, Greenbaum, Greene, Halpern, Heller, Infield, Kempin, Kestler, Kirschenbaum, Komet, Kor, Kustanowitz Kiddush setup for this Shabbat is

Schachter, Spier, Dworkis Kiddush setup for next Shabbat is

Greene, Weinraub, Banner To sponsor a Kiddush

($1000/$613/$318 plus scotch) send an email to gplotnick@aol.com.

Adult Education

GEMARAH SHIUR - Rabbi's Shabbat afternoon gemarah shiur takes place one hour before Mincha. CHUMASH CLASS - Gerry

Halpern’s Class - Shabbat morning before Shacharit.

Numbers & InfoERUV UPDATE – 201-797-0502 MIKVAH – 201-796-0350. At

Shomrei Torah, weekdays 9:00 PM–10:30 PM, Motzei Shabbat from 11/4 hours after Shabbat ends for 1.5 hours. Kaylim Mikvah: Sunday 10 AM-3 PM TWITTER: @AhavatAchimFL FACEBOOK: facebook.com/

groups/ahavat.achim/

Gita Cooperwasserע”ה

Youth ProgramThis Shabbat the

youth leaders are: Andy Freund (Floater), Hannah

Levine & Oren Oppenheim (Beit Midrash - Aleph), and Jacob Levine (Purple Room - Group Bet).

Upcoming EventsJune 23 - General Membership Meeting June 27 - Graduation Kiddush June 27 - Sisterhood Summertime

Shabbat Tea; featuring Rebbitzin Julie June 28 - A Day of Discovery July 5 - Dr. David Pelcovitz shiur in

memory of Cheryl Wigodע”ה July 18 - Kiddush sponsored by the Kor

family in honor of the upcoming marriage of Rachel to Yoni Edelman July 25 - Ben Greenbaum Bar Mitzvah Aug. 1 - Kiddush in honor of Andrew

Wigod’s Aufruf, and upcoming wedding to Kira Batist Aug. 29 - Suedah Shlishit sponsored by

Seymour Wigod for Andrew & Kira’s Sheva Brachot. Oct. 3 - Hadassah & Hadar Schachter

B'Not Mitzvah Feb. 13 - Ben Wechsler Bar Mitzvah Feb. 20 - Yachad Shabbaton

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Ahavat Achim Orthodox Congregation of Fair Lawn

18-25 Saddle River Road Fair Lawn, New Jersey 07410

www.ahavatachim.org (201) 797-0502

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Notice of General Meeting The annual General Membership meeting will be held on June 23, 2015 at 8:30 PM. The agenda for the General Meeting is as follows:

1. Proposed Budget (7/1/15 - 6/30/16) including the 7/1/14-6/30/15 Projected Actual financial statements and expenditures.

3. Proposed slate of Officers and Trustees

Officers First year President Stephen Agress 7/1/15 Vice President Jonathan Schachter 7/1/15 Treasurer Elliot Greene 7/1/13 Gabbai Marty Sonnenblick Corresponding Secretary Aryeh Brenenson 7/1/15 Financial Secretary Steven Plotnick 7/1/15 Recording Secretary Renee Freund 7/1/13 Past President Steven Winchester Board of Trustees 2016 Expirations 2017 Expirations 2018 Expirations ** Jack Bickel Sara Levine Ron Dworkis Greg Riskin Betsy Sonnenblick Elfie Eisman Ilana Schwitzer Michael Stock Yehuda Goldgur Steve Wechsler Avi Vann Robert Lewissohn

"RESERVE THE DATE” - JUNE 28 - "A DAY OF DISCOVERY- FAIR LAWN- FIND OUT WHY THE GRASS IS GREENER". DETAILS TO COME.

COMMEMORATING THE 12TH YAHRZEIT OF

CHERYL WIGODע”ה , DR. DAVID PELCOVITZ WILL

SPEAK TO THE COMMUNITY BETWEEN MINCHA & MAARIV ON

SHIVAH ASAR B’TAMMUZ. DETAILS TO COME

SUPPORT YOUR SHUL

Donate a Sefer, etc. The shul has Siddurim & Machzorim ($36) and Chumashim ($54) available to be donated.  Please contact Jeff Safier at rjsafier@optonline.net for details.

Yahrzeit Plaques Memorialize a loved one and receive written notice of your upcoming yahrzeit every year. In addition, your loved one’s name will be mentioned during the public Yizkor we recite on Yom Kippur and in the Bulletin. Plaques are $300 for members and $350 for non-members. For more information, contact Sophie Infield at 791-5518.

ScripScrip is available from Men’s email by emailing David at dmgarfunkel@gmail.com. at Paypal at treasurer@ahavatachim.org or by Discover, MasterCard or Visa - email treasurer@ahavatachim.org for details.

MishebayrachIf you’ve made a Mishebayrach you’ve pledged to give Tzedakah on behalf of those for whom you asked Hashem's blessing. Contributions to the shul are appropriate and can be made via Paypal to treasurer@ahavatachim.org, or via MasterCard, Visa or Discover by sending the information to Elliot Greene (contact him at treasurer@ahavatachim.org). If paying by check please indicate on its face “Aliyah Donation.”  Thank you for your generosity.

David Schwitzerע”ה Social HallPlease contact Steven Winchester at swinchman1@gmail.com to book the David Schwitzerע”ה Social Hall for an event or special occasion. $250 per simcha (members) / $500 paid in advance for non-members, plus the cost of any additional clean up (plus a $150 security deposit refunded when the social hall is returned in the condition it started in). Private caterers must be approved in advance by the Rabbi.

Sisterhood & Men’s Club Please contact Elliot Greene at egreene@acm.org to join the Men’s Club. To join Sisterhood, please contact Lori Garfunkel at garfmom@gmail.com.

Honoraria Contributions to acquire honoraria in memory or honor of a loved one are welcome. The available Honoraria list will be provided upon request by contacting Steven Plotnick at seplotnick@gmail.com.

Mitzvah CardsWant mitzvah cards, contact Eita Latkin at 791-8940 or parentsof3@aol.com. Cost is $3 per card. Also can be ordered in bulk - ten cards for $25, which you send out yourself privately.

SUPPORT YOUR SHUL

IN TAMUZ WE REMEMBER , , ,

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NAMEHEBREW

DATECANDLE

EVENING OF DEDICATOR RELATIONSHIP

Harry Kirchenbaum 1 June 17 Hyman Kirchenbaum Father

Sophie Stanger 3 June 19 Sarah Stanger Mother-In-Law

Ida Wigod 7 June 23 Seymour Wigod Grandmother

Jacob Epstein 7 June 23 Martin Epstein Father

Sima Zuckerberg 16 July 2 Sophie Infield Grandmother

Leib Zuckerberg 16 July 2 Sophie Infield Grandfather

Harry Shimoff 17 July 3 Melanie Kwestel Father

Gladys Kustanowitz 18 July 4 Al Kustanowitz Mother

Cheryl Wigod 19 July 5 Seymour Wigod Wife

Cheryl Wigod 19 July 5 Ron Sokoloff Sister

Kandi Brown 24 July 10 Harold Brown Wife

Kiva Wigodsky 25 July 11 Seymour Wigod Uncle

Sylvia Latkin 27 July 13 Richard Latkin Mother

Jacob Kustanowitz 28 July 14 Al Kustanowitz Father

Betty Lee Schechter 28 July 14 Joyce Heller Sister

Max Bickel 28 July 14 Jack Bickel Grandfather

Jason H. Schechter 29 July 15 Joyce Heller Nephew

MISCELLANEOUS

Rabbi Goldstein’s Hours Rabbi Goldstein is available to the membership by contacting him at UriG77@aol.com or by phone at 201-703-2458. For those who wish to contact him during office hours, he is available to be at the shul Wednesday evenings after Ma’ariv until approximately 10:00 pm.  Please note that the Rabbi's e-mails are forwarded to his home PC and to his mobile phone.

Become a Member of Ahavat AchimIf you are not yet a member; please contact Aryeh Brenenson abrenenson@gmail.com for details on membership.

Bikkur Cholim/Chesed If anyone could use a visit/assistance from the Bikkur Cholim/Chesed Committee, contact the Rabbi at UriG77@aol.com or Sara Levine at saralevine06@gmail.com or (201)797-9286. Contact Sara to join the committee and offer Biker Cholim assistance in the manner that’s most conducive to your schedule. You may find yourself in a position to spend time visiting a homebound shul member, give them a call and see if they require any special assistance or might even decide to cook or purchase a special meal for them. No offer will be refused and all are most appreciated.

Personal AnnouncementsVarious life cycle events related to members are announced in the shul’s weekly bulletin (e.g., births, bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings and deaths), and the bulletin acknowledges travel to/from Israel for study. We also welcome new members and those who’ve moved into the community and express interest in our shul. Other personal announcements generally are not appropriate for inclusion in the bulletin, except as part of the bulletin’s dedication (a $36 cost - $54 with photo). Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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Shirley Vann has dedicated this week’s Covenant & Conversation (used with permission of the Office of Rabbi Sacks) in memory of her beloved mother Necha bat Yitzchokע”ה.

The Sisterhood of Ahavat Achim~ Invites You to ~

With Our Own

Rebbetzin Julie GoldsteinShabbat – June 27, 2015

At 5:00 pmAt the home of Randi Spier40-04 Terhune Place

Julie’s topic will be" Flower Power:

Leadership, Authority and a Glimpse into Paradise."

When truth is sacrificed to power Korach - 20 June 2015 / 3 Tammuz 5775

What was wrong with Korach and his fellow rebels? On the face of it, what they said was both true and principled. “You have gone too far,” they said to Moses and Aaron. “The whole community is holy, every one of them, and God is with them. Why then are you setting yourselves above God’s congregation?” They had a point. God had summoned the people to became “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation,” (Ex. 19: 6), that is, a kingdom every one of whose members was in some sense a priest, and a nation every one of whom was holy. Moses himself had said, “Would that all God’s people were prophets, that He would place His spirit upon them” (Num. 11: 29). These are radically egalitarian sentiments. Why then was there a hierarchy, with Moses as leader and Aaron as High Priest? What was wrong was that even at the outset it was obvious that Korach was duplicitous. There was a clear disconnection between what he claimed to want and what he really sought. Korach did not seek a society in which everyone was the same, everyone a priest. He was not, as he sounded, a utopian anarchist, seeking to abolish hierarchy altogether. He was, instead, mounting a leadership challenge. As Moses’ later words to him indicate, he wanted to be High Priest himself. He was Moses’ and Aaron’s cousin, son of Yitzhar, the brother of Moses’ and Aaron’s father Amram. He felt it unfair that both leadership positions had gone to a single family within the clan. He claimed to want equality. In fact what he wanted was power. That was Korach the Levite. But what was happening was more complex than that. There were two other groups involved: the Reubenites, Datham and Aviram, and “250 Israelites who were men of rank within the community, representatives at the assembly, and famous.” They too had their grievances. The Reubenites were aggrieved that as descendants of Jacob’s firstborn, they had no special leadership roles. According to Ibn Ezra, the 250 “men of rank” were upset

“Korach claimed to want equality. In

fact what he wanted was power.”

that, after the sin of the Golden Calf, leadership had passed from the firstborn within each tribe to the single tribe of Levi. This was an unholy alliance, and bound to fail, since their claims conflicted. If Korach achieved his ambition of becoming High Priest, the Reubenites and “men of rank” would have been disappointed. Had the Reubenites won, Korach and the “men of rank” would have been disappointed. Had the “men of rank” achieved their ambition, Korach and the Reubenites would be left dissatisfied. The disordered, fragmented narrative sequence in this chapter is a case of style mirroring substance. This was a disordered, confused rebellion, whose protagonists were united only in their desire to overthrow the existing leadership. None of this, however, unsettled Moses. What caused him to become angry was something else altogether: the words of Datan and Aviram: “Isn't it enough that you brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert! And now you want to lord it over us! What is more: you have not brought us to a land flowing with milk and honey or given us a inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think that you can pull something over our eyes? We will definitely not come!” The monumental untruth of their claim – Egypt, where the Israelites were slaves and cried out to God to be saved, was not “a land flowing with milk and honey” – is what finally made Moses angry. What is going on here? The sages defined it in one of their most famous statements: “Any dispute for the sake of heaven will have enduring value, but every dispute not for the sake of Heaven will not have enduring value. What is an example of a dispute for the sake of heaven? The dispute between Hillel and Shammai. What is an example of one not for the sake of heaven? The dispute of Korach and all his company” (Mishnah Avot 5: 21). The rabbis did not conclude from the Korach rebellion that argument is wrong, that leaders are entitled to unquestioning obedience, that the supreme value in Judaism should be – as it is in some faiths – submission. To the contrary: argument is the lifeblood of Judaism, so long as it is rightly motivated and essentially constructive in its aims. Judaism is a unique phenomenon: a civilization all of whose canonical texts are anthologies of argument. In Tanakh, the heroes of faith – Abraham, Moses, Jeremiah, Job – argue with God. Midrash is founded on the premise that there are “seventy faces” – seventy legitimate interpretations – of Torah. The Mishnah is largely constructed on the model of “Rabbi X says this, Rabbi Y says that.” The Talmud, far from resolving these arguments, usually deepens them considerably. Argument in Judaism is a holy activity, the ongoing internal dialogue of the Jewish people as it reflects on the terms of its destiny and the demands of its faith. What then made the argument of Korach and his co-conspirators different from that of the schools of Hillel and Shammai. Rabbenu Yona offered a simple explanation. An argument for the sake of Heaven is one that is about truth. An argument not for the sake of Heaven is about power. The difference is immense. If I argue for the sake of truth, then if I win, I win. But if I lose, I also win, because being defeated by the truth is the only defeat that is also a victory. I am enlarged. I learn something I did not know before. In a contest for power, if I lose, I lose. But if I win, I also lose, because in diminishing my opponents I have diminished myself. Moses could not have had a more decisive vindication than the miracle for which he asked and was granted: that the ground open up and swallow his opponents. Yet not only did this not end the argument, it diminished the respect in which Moses was held: “The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. ‘You have killed the Lord’s people,’ they said.” (Num. 17: 41). That Moses needed to resort to force was itself a sign that he had been dragged down to the level of the rebels. That is what happens when power, not truth, is at stake.

“Argument is the lifeblood of Judaism, so long as it is rightly

motivated and essentially constructive

in its aims.”

One of the aftermaths of Marxism, persisting in such movements as postmodernism and post-colonialism, is the idea that there is no such thing as truth. There is only power. The prevailing “discourse” in a society represents, not the way things are, but the way the ruling power (the hegemon) wants things to be. All reality is “socially constructed” to advance the interests of one group or another. The result is a “hermeneutics of suspicion,” in which we no longer listen to what anyone says; we merely ask, what interest are they trying to advance? Truth, they say, is merely the mask worn to disguise the pursuit of power. To overthrow a “colonial” power, you have to invent your own “discourse,” your own “narrative,” and it does not matter whether it is true or false. All that matters is that people believe it. That is what is now happening in the campaign against Israel on campuses throughout the world, and in the BDS movement in particular. Like the Korach rebellion it brings together people who have nothing else in common. Some belong to the far left, a few to the far right, some are anti-globalists, while some are genuinely concerned with the plight of the Palestinians. Driving it all, however, are people who on theological and political grounds are opposed to the existence of Israel within any boundaries whatsoever, and are equally opposed to democracy, free speech, freedom of information, religious liberty, human rights and the sanctity of life. What they have in common is a refusal to give the supporters of Israel a fair hearing – thus flouting the fundamental principle of justice, expressed in Roman law in the phrase Aude alteram partem, “Hear the other side.” The flagrant falsehoods it sometimes utters – that Israel was not the birthplace of the Jewish people, that there never was a Temple in Jerusalem, that Israel is a “colonial” power, a foreign transplant alien to the Middle East – rival the claims of Datan and Aviram that Egypt was a land flowing with milk and honey and that Moses brought the people out solely in order to kill them in the desert. Why bother with truth when all that matters is power? Thus the spirit of Korach lives on. All this is very sad indeed, since it is opposed to the fundamental principle of the university as a home for the collaborative search for truth. It also does little for the cause of peace in the Middle East, for the future of the Palestinians, or for freedom, democracy, religious liberty and human rights. There are real and substantive issues at stake, which need to be faced by both sides with honesty and courage. Nothing is achieved by sacrificing truth to the pursuit of power: the way of Korach through the ages.

“Nothing is achieved by sacrificing truth to the pursuit of power:

the way of Korach through the ages.”