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Israel Center Miscellany
Help young couples (evacuees and children of evacuees) from Gush Katif and N. Shomron get ready for the arrival of their babies - Tzedaka - Matan B’Seter; The money collected will be used to buy carriages, cribs, layettes... Make checks out to the Israel Center. Write on the envelope: Gush Katif - Baby Fund, Also collecting good second-hand baby items, For more info. call Sara 0505-444-397
Chesed Fund - Every agora in the Chessed Fund goes to help people in need who turn to us for help
Please contribute generously Make checks out to "Chesed Fund" and send to: Chesed Fund, Israel Center att. Menachem Persoff POB 37015 / Jerusalem 91370
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Sponsor a Shiur or a morning or a whole day's learning
Sponsorship can be in memory of a loved one...or in celebration of a birth, Bar/Bat mitzva, engagement, marriage, anniversary, special birthday, Aliya of family or friends...
The dedication will be included in Torah Tidbits, will be announced at the beginning of the shiur, and will be posted at the entrance to the room.
Obviously, we need advance notice to properly process your sponsorship.
Call us for further details: (02) 560-9125
Name: ________________________________ Phones: ____________________________
Dedication (circle one): Single Shiur (180NIS) What shiur? __________________________
Morning (360NIS) or full day (500NIS) Indicate which day: ________
In honor of _______________________________________
Occasion (birth, Bar/Bat Mitzva, graduation, engagement, marriage, anniversary, special birthday, recovery, Aliya), other - specify:_______________________________
In memory of _______________________________________
Occasion - yahrzeit, how many years; other: ____________________________________
We need your help! OU Israel Jack Gindi O'raita Program for unaffiliated youth Looking for support for Torah libraries.
The O'raita program provides a critical haven and recreational facilities for alienated teenagers on the verge of failure and criminal activity. O'raita centers are located in Tiberias, Acco, Naharia, Ariel, and Ramat Hasharon.
THE NEXT STEP: A Beit Midrash in each center to enable the dedicated staff to socialize with and teach the teenagers, in a friendly environment. You can make a difference! Please send tax deductible donation to "Israel Center D'oraita program" Or offer used sefarim (in good condition) For more details: Michal: (02) 560-9118 mkatz@ouisrael.org
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The Israel Center's Beth Din to adjudicate and arbitrate monetary disputes,
according to Jewish law Registration 200NIS per case, Call 566-7787 ext. 204
for further information and forms Yitzchak Fund, Esq. Rabbi Emanuel
Quint, Chairpersons Ita Rochel, Administrator
Kashrut Questions: If you find a discrepancy between the Hebrew labeling and
the original packaging... or if you have any other OU kashrut questions,
call this toll-free number (from Israel to NY) 1-809-490-123 From 4:00pm -
midnight, you get a human; other times, leave a voice- message OU Kashrut in
Israel office at the Center: 5667787
Israel Center Cafe - Delicious meals and snacks, soups, sandwiches,
salads...Located on the lower level of the Israel Center, Cafe and in-house
catering are under the supervision of OU Israel Mehadrin, Sun.-Thu.
10:00am - 3:00pm, plus... Catering for all occasions by Schocketino
Catering, on and off the premises, And...selection of beautiful platters,
Call Chaim: 052-855-1538
The Yair Landau Memorial Library (1st floor) is open all the hours the
Israel Center is open (except when a class is taking place there). Yaacov
Rosen, the book librarian is on duty: Sunday: 10:00am - 3:00pm, Wednesday:
10:00am - 1:30pm, Thursday: 10:00am - 2:30pm
FYI: Israel Center Libraries...
Yair Landau Memorial Library - English & Hebrew Judaica reference
Arnold Abroms Memorial Lending Library Mostly English Judaica - can be
borrowed
Book Family Memorial Library Sifrei Kodesh in the Ganchrow Beit Midrash
Yankel Winet zl Torah Tapes Library
Dr. Maurice E. Joseph Jewish Video Center
The Tzipporah Freilich Sanders Memorial Reference Library
The Israel Center Yair Landau Memorial Library is open when the building is
open. Books may be taken out of the Arnold Abroms Memorial Lending Library
only by library members. The Librarian, Yaakov Rosen, is on duty in the
library Sundays 10:00-15:00, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10:00-14:30 - PLEASE
JOIN THE LIBRARY
For your information: Over the years of Torah Tidbits, the typing and layout
have been done with several different programs. For more than a year now, TT
has been prepared with DavkaWriter, and the program just gets better and
better. Davkas contact in Israel: 991-2718.
Torah Tidbits Audio
www.israelnationalradio.com - First broadcast: THU 5:00pm, Thereafter
repeated several times, and available "on demand", Now also on RADIO OU,
That's www.OUradio.org
- Check it out - good shows, Daf, more
Besides the Israel Center, many shuls and hotels, Torah Tidbits is generally
available on Thursdays and Fridays at the following locations in Jerusalem:
Geula - Rechov Malchei Yisrael Big Deal Brooklyn Bakery Noam
Mea Shearim - Rechov Mea Shearim Or Hatzafon Bookstore Min HaStam
Rechov King George Moked Stationery store Eye World Belinda Dairy
Restaurant
Rechov Yafo Village Green Holy Bagel Coffee Time Bagel Big Deal, Luntz
Off Rechov Aggrippas - JBC Books, the Orthopedic Center
Keren Kayemet Heimishe Essen Levys Newsstand/Kiosk
Rechov Straus HaSofer Bikur Cholim Gift Shop
Bell Center - Rechov King George N/X Clothing, Medical Center
Talpiot - Big Deal
Ramot Eshkol - The Medical Center
Natural Bakery on Rechov Agrippas, Jerusalem
and in the Golan Heights
MEMBERSHIP
If you are a member of the Israel Center...Thank you; If you were a member
and your membership lapsed...Please renew; If youve never been a
member...Please join
Yearly membership for couples (even if one of the two does not frequent the
Center) is 250NIS. Membership for a single person is 180NIS per year. Life
membership remains at $500, with payments possible. Contact the Center for
details of membership benefits. Membership includes lower rates for all
Israel Center programs, tiyulim, etc. and a subscription to Jewish Action,
the Orthodox Unions popular quarterly magazine - You can cut and send this
form to us at P.O.B. 37015, Jerusalem 91370 or call us (566-7787 ext. 204)
with the details and arrange credit card payment by phone or email to trochel@netvision.net.il;
Special note to TT readers who do not regularly participate in Israel Center
activities (or never): You actually do participate in an Israel Center
activity... called: Torah Tidbits; Many people feel that just for Torah
Tidbits alone, its worth it to become members of the Israel Center. We
hope you feel that way too.
OU Israel Center Family Counseling Service, Professional religious
counselors helping religious individuals, couples and families, Free Initial
Phone Consultation, Sliding Fee Scale, For further information call: (02)
582-7956, Under the supervision of Dr. Michael Tobin
There is now a Gemach Box in the lower/café level of the Israel Center.
Clothes, household items, toys, and NON-PERISHABLE food may be placed in or
taken out as appropriate. Thank you for your cooperation and participation.
When much more has been given than taken, we distribute many of the contents
of the Gemach Box to needy individuals and families.
The Israel
Center clothing Gemach located on the café level is now seeking pots, pans,
and other kitchen items in addition to clothing. There are Israeli families,
specifically Ethiopian olim that desperately need these items. Either bring
them or, if you have a lot, call Mark 054-582-0517 to have them picked up.
Thank you and "Yasher Ko'ach" to the many people who brought in used clothes
and kitchen items for our G'mach. If... call Mark 054-582-0517
Israel Center Chesed Fund - In this holiday season, help is needed for
families whose breadwinners are incapacitated. Help us help them so that
they too will be able to celebrate the coming Yom Tovim. Special: Please
help two post-cancer patients in desperate need. Please send contributions
to: Sick Fund c/o Menachem Persoff - Israel Center, P.O.B. 37015 Jerusalem
91370
Sundry
Your support for the Malki Foundation / Keren Malki helps us enable quality
home-care for seriously disabled children in Israel. Ph. 058 853317
www.kerenmalki.org
In loving memory of Malka Chana Roth HY"D murdered in the Sbarro bombing, 9
Aug. 01, Donations are tax-deductible. Please check our website or call for
details.
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