Hebrew Institute of Riverdale ~ בד רבד ד טתדת אדט ב הדMay 22 - 29, 2015 4 -11 Sivan 5775 Hebrew Institute of Riverdale ~ The Bayit 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway Bronx, NY 10463 www.thebayit.org E-mail: [email protected]Phone: 718-796-4730 Fax: 718-884-3206 R’ Avi Weiss: [email protected]/ x102 R’ Sara Hurwitz: [email protected]/ x107 R’ Steven Exler: [email protected]/ x108 R’ Ari Hart: [email protected]/ x124 Kiddush Sponsored by David & Shani Schwartz in honor of Mike's upcoming Bar Mitzvah. To sponsor a future Kiddush, please contact Seth Aronson - [email protected]. The Bayit BULLETIN Mazal Tov To: Ayelet & Jonathan Wiener on the engagement of their daughter, Dayna, to Michael Fleisch of Larchmont, NY Welcome New Members: Sherry Marcus & Neil Cohen. Ruth Loebmann. This Week Parshat Bamidbar Erev Shavuot Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm Candle Lighting: 7:55pm Shalom Bayit: 7:00am Shacharit Main Tefillah: 8:30am Learning Service: 9:30am (Rm 3-7) Sof Zman Kriat Shema: 9:12am Listening Room: 6:25pm (LL BM) Parsha Shiur: Not Taking Place Mincha (Main/Sephardic): 7:40pm Candle Lighting: 8:56pm Maariv: 8:59pm Weekday Times Shacharit: Tues/Wed/Fri: 6:45, 8:15am Thur: 6:40, 8:15am Mincha/Maariv: Sun-Thur: 8:00pm Next Week Parshat Nasso Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm Candle Lighting: 8:01pm Shacharit Main Tefillah: 8:30am Mincha (Main/Sephardic): 7:45pm Maariv/Shabbat Ends: 9:04pm 41st Annual Journal Dinner Please join us on June 7th, 2015 at 5:00pm at the Hebrew Institute. This year’s honorees: Toby & Rav Avi Weiss for over 40 years of service to the HIR and the larger community. To purchase tickets or place an ad in the journal visit www.thebayit.org/journal. Deadline June 1st. To share a personal story about Rav Avi and Toby to be included in a tribute book visit www.thebayit.org/tribute. Deadline June 1st 40+ years of Leadership 40+ years of Torah 40+ years of Community 40+ years of Song 40+ years of Inspiration 40+ years of Spirituality 40+ years of Engagement 40+ years of Growth 40+ years of Family CLASSICAL CONCERT Sunday, May 31st: 5:00pm - 6:30pm: Social Hall Join us for a classical concert in honor of Rav Avi & Toby Weiss. Featuring an 18 piece orchestra, the concert will be conducted by Maestro Samuel Marder. All are welcome. Program will include: MENDELSSOHN - Youth Symphony #1 MOZART - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik BARBER - Adagio for Strings TCHAIKOVSKY - Serenade for Strings To learn more and to register visit www.thebayit.org/sm. This Shabbat @ The Bayit 6:50pm: Pre-Shavuot Yiddish Song Chabura (Final one this year!) with Rabbinic Intern Avram Mlotek 8:10-8:55pm - “Did R. Akiva and R. Yishmael Receive the Same Torah?” with Rav Steven SHAVUOT WITH SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE RABBI DR. DOV WEISS: For a comprehensive Shavuot Schedule see pg. 2. For information about youth and teen programming see pg. 5. For a comprehensive Shavuot Schedule, see page 2. SHAVUOT GRADUATION CELEBRATION Mazal tov to this year’s graduates and to their families. Join us on the second day of Shavuot, May 25 at 8:15pm in the Social Hall, as we celebrate your milestone accomplishments. All are welcome! This year’s graduates include: Ateret Frank, Dini Hirschfield, Shayna Langer, Emuna Langer, Modi Goldstein-Rosenfeld, Hadassah Kestenbaum, Hanna Kestenbaum, Raffaella Kestenbaum, Avigail Hirschfield, Avidan Grossman, Aminadav Grossman, Ethan B. Schorr, Jake Wax, Josh Shaw.
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Hebrew Institute o f Riverdale ~ ה׳ד׳ ׳ב׳ ׳ א׳ד׳ט׳ט׳ת׳ד׳ת׳ ׳ ׳ ד׳ר׳ב׳ד׳ ׳ב׳ד׳ ׳
Ayelet & Jonathan Wiener on the engagement of their daughter, Dayna, to Michael Fleisch of
Larchmont, NY
Welcome New Members: Sherry Marcus & Neil Cohen. Ruth Loebmann.
This Week
Parshat Bamidbar
Erev Shavuot Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm
Candle Lighting: 7:55pm
Shalom Bayit: 7:00am
Shacharit Main Tefillah: 8:30am
Learning Service: 9:30am (Rm 3-7)
Sof Zman Kriat Shema: 9:12am
Listening Room: 6:25pm (LL BM)
Parsha Shiur: Not Taking Place
Mincha (Main/Sephardic): 7:40pm
Candle Lighting: 8:56pm
Maariv: 8:59pm
Weekday Times
Shacharit:
Tues/Wed/Fri: 6:45, 8:15am
Thur: 6:40, 8:15am
Mincha/Maariv:
Sun-Thur: 8:00pm
Next Week
Parshat Nasso Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm
Candle Lighting: 8:01pm
Shacharit Main Tefillah: 8:30am
Mincha (Main/Sephardic): 7:45pm
Maariv/Shabbat Ends: 9:04pm
41st Annual Journal Dinner Please join us on June 7th, 2015 at 5:00pm
at the Hebrew Institute.
This year’s honorees: Toby & Rav Avi Weiss for over 40 years of
service to the HIR and the larger community.
To purchase tickets or place an ad in the journal visit www.thebayit.org/journal. Deadline June 1st.
To share a personal story about Rav Avi and Toby to be
included in a tribute book visit www.thebayit.org/tribute. Deadline June 1st
40+ years of Leadership 40+ years of Torah
40+ years of Community 40+ years of Song
40+ years of Inspiration 40+ years of Spirituality
40+ years of Engagement 40+ years of Growth
40+ years of Family
CLASSICAL CONCERT Sunday, May 31st: 5:00pm - 6:30pm: Social Hall Join us for a classical concert in honor of Rav Avi & Toby Weiss. Featuring an 18 piece orchestra, the
concert will be conducted by Maestro Samuel Marder. All are welcome.
Program will include: MENDELSSOHN - Youth Symphony #1
MOZART - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
BARBER - Adagio for Strings
TCHAIKOVSKY - Serenade for Strings
To learn more and to register visit www.thebayit.org/sm.
This Shabbat @ The Bayit
6:50pm: Pre-Shavuot Yiddish Song Chabura (Final one this year!) with Rabbinic Intern Avram Mlotek
8:10-8:55pm - “Did R. Akiva and R. Yishmael Receive the Same Torah?” with Rav Steven
SHAVUOT WITH SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE RABBI DR. DOV WEISS:
For a comprehensive Shavuot Schedule see pg. 2.
For information about youth and teen programming see pg. 5.
For a comprehensive Shavuot
Schedule, see page 2.
SHAVUOT GRADUATION CELEBRATION
Mazal tov to this year’s graduates and to their families.
Join us on the second day of Shavuot, May 25 at 8:15pm in the Social Hall,
as we celebrate your milestone accomplishments. All are welcome!
This year’s graduates include:
Ateret Frank, Dini Hirschfield, Shayna Langer, Emuna Langer, Modi Goldstein-Rosenfeld,
Hadassah Kestenbaum, Hanna Kestenbaum, Raffaella Kestenbaum, Avigail Hirschfield,
HIR GIFT CARDS - Support our Bayit by purchasing Gift Cards - Buy it for the Bayit! For more information on volunteering or to place an order, email [email protected] or call Shira Gordon at 718-549-5280.
NOTE: Purchases do not cost you anything extra.
Shabbat
8:05am - Midrash Hashavua with Rav Steven (Main Sanctuary).
6:25pm - Listening Room with Myra Estelle (LL BM)
6:50pm - Pre-Shavuot Yiddish Song Chabura
After Mincha - Mila baParasha at Beth Aharon: Understanding
a word in our parsha. This week: ”דם ִ֛ ְ עִׁ “ ְ שִׁ why is it so special,
what's the connection to swearing הדש ע and what other
numbers have to say about it? Basic (and love of) Hebrew is
sufficient.
8:10-8:55pm - “Did R. Akiva and R. Yishmael Receive the Same
Torah?” with Rav Steven
Shavuot
See column to right.
Tuesday
10:00am - Book of Exodus with Rav Avi (Lobby)
11:00am - Meeting the Tannaim: The Heroes of the Talmud with Rav
Ari (Lobby) - NOT TAKING PLACE 5/26 OR 6/2.
7:30pm - Foundations of Judaism: Jewish History 1 with Rav Ari
(Room 3-7)
Wednesday 7:30pm - Intermediate Hebrew Ulpan with Sara Kinberg* (Lobby)
Thursday
10:00am - Book of Shmuel with Rav Steven (LL BM)
7:30pm - Biblical Hebrew and Siddur Study with Sara Kinberg* (Lobby)
Shavuot Schedule
Saturday Night Learning, May 23 Classes in Lower Level Beit Midrash unless otherwise noted
(Fresh Sushi Available All Night Long)
11:00pm - "Receiving the Torah: Teachings of the Netivot
Shalom” Around the Tisch with Dr. Elli Kranzler (RHSH)
11:30pm-1:15am - Tikun Leil Shavuot at Beth Aharon (2nd
Floor BM)
12:15-1:00am - “God in the Bible and Rabbinic
Literature” with Rabbi Dr. Dov Weiss
1:15-2:00am - "Between the 'Betweens’: The Interface of Bein
Adam LaMakom & Bein Adam LaChaveiro" with Rav Avi
2:15-3:00am - “Six Days or 13.7 Billion years? Yes. Ramban and
Einstein" - with Daniel Langer
3:10-4:00am - “Rape, Incest and the Unlikely Roots of
Redemption" with Rabbinic Intern Daniel Silverstein
4:10-4:50am - “What is the Torah? Exploring the Torah
Before the Torah” with Rabbinic Intern Avram Mlotek
5:05am - Shacharit
Sunday, May 24 - Shavuot Day 1 8:30am - Shacharit
11:30am-12:15pm - “God in Jewish Philosophy” with
Rabbi Dr. Dov Weiss
6:40pm: “Shabbat For Us or Shabbat For God? An Analysis of
the Talmudic Literature” with Rabbinic Intern Dr. Anat Sharbat
7:25pm - Mincha
7:45pm - “God in Jewish Mysticism” with Rabbi Dr. Dov
Weiss
7:45pm - Daf Yomi with Michael Wachsman
8:30pm - Maariv
8:56pm - Candle Lighting After This Time
Monday, May 25 - Shavuot Day 2 7:00am - Shalom Bayit
8:30am - Shacharit with Megillat Ruth (Male Readers)
9:30am - Teen Tefillah followed by teens-only BBQ
9:40am-12:00pm - Youth Groups (cheesecake baking)
10:30am (approx.) - Yizkor
After Musaf - Megillat Ruth (Male & Female Readers)
4:30-6:00pm - Youth open play, cheesecake eating, story time
6:55pm - Daf Yomi with Charles Hall
7:00pm - “Reflections on the Rabbinate Between
Father and Son” with Rabbi Avi Weiss and Rabbi Dr. Dov
Weiss
7:55pm - Mincha
8:15pm - Graduation/Siyum Program including siyum on
Masechet Ketubot with Michael Wachsman, and words from
THE MA'AYANOT CONTINUING EDUCATION COMMITTEE is pleased to present a shiur series presented jointly by
Mrs. Rivka Kahan, Principal, and Dr. Rayzel Yaish, Director of Guidance, on the topic: Bekhol Levavkha Uvekhol Nafshekha:
The Interplay of Torah and Psychology. The series will take place at 11:00 a.m. in the Ma’ayanot Library on the following
Thursdays: 5/28/2015, 6/4/2015, and 6/11/2015. Ma’ayanot is located at 1650 Palisade Avenue, Teaneck.
For information please contact Pam Ennis at 201-833-4307, ext. 265. Men and women welcome.
JEWISH WAR VETERANS POST 69 invites everyone to their annual Memorial Day Program being held this year on
5/29/2015 at 1pm. It will be held at the Flagpole of the Bronx Historical Society, 3309 Bainbridge Ave, Bronx, NY 10467. For
more information visit www.jwv.org.
TRIUMPH THROUGH CHALLENGE: Join us for a special women’s event of hope, inspiration, and connection as three
women from the Riverdale community will be sharing their personal journeys in dealing with personal difficulties including
infertility, difficult pregnancy, losing a spouse, dating 2nd time around, and having a child born with a medical condition. They will
share their moving experiences as well as suggestions on how to be helpful and supportive. Shabbat afternoon, 5/30/2015, at
5:00pm. Riverdale Jewish Center, 3700 Independence Ave.
CELEBRATE ISRAEL PARADE: Sunday, 5/31/2015, 11:00am-4:00pm. Marching up 57th-74th St. on Fifth Ave., NYC.
Join us at the 51st Annual CELEBRATE ISRAEL PARADE, the world’s largest public gathering in celebration of Israel. Featuring:
GRAMMY Award-winning violinist Miri Ben-Ari, Golem, SOULFARM, Derrick Sharp from Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball, Peri
Smilow, SHI 360 and championship marching bands, along with many other special guests. Learn more at
www.celebrateisraelny.org.
SKATERS AND BLADERS: Do you have plans for the Celebrate Israel Parade on 5/31/2015? Please join our group of singles,
couples, and families as we bring joy to onlookers, salute Israel, and honor the memory of JJ Greenberg. Visit the Skaters and
Bladers Facebook event page and join the Skaters and Bladers Facebook group to start interacting with other participants. We'll
be ordering the t-shirts very soon. If you haven't let us know your t-shirt size yet, email [email protected] ASAP with
your name (and include whether you'll be walking or which wheels you'll be rolling on). T-shirts are free to participants (and
participation is free, too). Please help spread the words and grow our great group!
SHOLEM ALEICHEM CULTURAL CENTER: Please join us for our lecture “Yiddish Literature After the Holocaust” pre-
sented in Yiddish by Professor Jan Schwarz (Lund University, Sweded). Featuring singer Phyllis Berk. Sunday, 5/31/2015 at
1:30pm. Contribution: $3.50. Members free. 3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx. 917-930-0295.
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT: Our very own Anina and Raphy Jasper-Brody and
Yiskah Freidenberg-Sharbat, along with many other children from the Riverdale and Bronx communities, are performing in the
spectacular production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, by the Riverdale Children’s Theater. Retelling the
Biblical story of Joseph, his eleven brothers and the coat of many colors, this magical musical is full of unforgettable songs including
Any Dream Will Do and Close Every Door. All performances are at the Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy located at 660 West
237th Street. Tickets are available to purchase at www.riverdaletheatre.org. Show times are: Sunday, 5/31/2015 (2:00pm and
6:00pm), Monday, 6/1/2015 (7:00pm), Thursday, 6/4/2015 (7:00pm), Sunday, 6/7/2015 (2:00pm and 6:00pm). When purchasing
tickets, please note that there are 2 casts and our very own Anina, Raphy and Yiskah are in the Technicolor cast and are
performing in 3 out of the 6 performances.
YIDDISH FARM: Want to learn Yiddish but can't take off for the summer? Join our 1-week or 2-week program at Yiddish Farm
in Goshen, NY. Beginner, intermediate and advanced programs available. Space is limited - Register today. Beginner: 6/1-11/2015. Intermediate/Advanced: 7/13-24/2015 and 7/27/2015 - 8/7/2105.
For more info: https://yiddishfarm.org/programs.html
BRONX JEWISH HISTORICAL INITIATIVE AND BRONX BOROUGH PRESIDENT RUBEN DIAZ JR. invite you
to the launch of the Bronx Jewish Historical Initiative Website and Celebration of Induction of the Inaugural Class of the Bronx
Jewish Hall of Fame. Tuesday, 6/2/2015, 5:30-7:00pm. The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse (165th St.) RSVP
required. Email name, e-mail, phone #, and number of reservations to [email protected].
