ISRAEL CENTER SCHEDULE
"Regular" Israel Center classes & lectures - 15NIS for members, 20NIS for non-mem. Life members, free.•No one will be turned away for lack of ability to pay.

LEIL SHABBAT
Join the Shabbaton participants for davening (Early Shabbat) and/or the Friday night shiur - see tiyulim for schedule

SHABBAT
Join the Shabbaton participants for davening and Kiddush and/or shiurim, see tiyulim for schedule

5:00pm•Shiur in Pirkei Avot•Men and Women are invited •Different speakers weekly• This week: (4th Perek) Rabbi Neil Winkler•Cold drinks will be served•Mincha follows Shiur

MOTZA"SH
Motza'ei Shabbat, August 11th, 9:30pm, Special evening with Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis • 25NIS p.p.

DAF YOMI in English 3:00-4:00pm•Sunday-Thursday (resumes in Elul)

SUNDAY
Sunday, August 12t h & 19th •9:30am (women) •OVADYA: Destroying the Edom mentality within us: Studies in Tanach: Trei Asar: Ovadya with Zemira Baron
N'shei Library • 10:30-12:45pm
August 12th, 10:30am (men & women) •The Mitzva Explosion • Phil Chernofsky
11:30am •Parshat HaShavua •Shprintzee Herskovits
12:30pm • Great Jewish Stories •Rabbi David Zitter
Sunday, August 12th, 8:00pm• Practical Shmita Update: What to save, what to throw out, fruit schedules, some theory, loads of practicum•Rabbi Yaakov Fried

MONDAY
9:15am• Taamei Mitzvot U'Minhagim: Reasons for Jewish Laws and Customs•Rabbi Eliezer Grunbaum
10:30am•Rabbi Leff's shiur will resume IY"H on Monday, August 27th - 8 Elul
August 13th, 10:30pm 17+38=55; Lessons from (some of) R'ei's mitzvot•Phil Chernofsky
N'SHEI lending library 10:00-12:30
August 13th, 11:36am• Heralding Days of Peace and Consolation followed by open discussion•Aviva Nissim
Monday, August 13th, 8:00pm•Movietime at the Israel Center: Frequency; The dizzying story of a father and son who communicate over a "distance"of 30 years and change history a few times. A movie that will make you think! Preceded by an appropriate Dvar Torah.

TUESDAY
9:00-9:50•TORAH TOPICS•Speaking Favorably of the Jewish People•Dr. Hayim Abramson
9:55-10:45•SIDDUR TOPICS•In-depth study of ALEINU•Dr. Hayim Abramson
10:50-11:40•Parshat HaShavua•Rabbi Mordechai Spiegelman
10:12:00•The Israel Center and the Old City Free Loan Association Gemach - Free Loan Society to provide interest-free loans for people in financial distress. Interviews at the Center from 10:00-12:00 • Please bring ID
11:45am (women) •(will resume IY"H on August 21st)•Chassidic insights into Parshat HaShavua and the Actualia of Our Time based on Chabad teachings•Raizel Zisk
Tuesday, August 14th, 8:00pm• The Other Shmita; A look at Loans & Pruzbul • Rabbi Emanuel Quint

WEDNESDAY
8:30am•The Eshet Chayil Foundation in conjunction with the Israel Center, is pleased to announce a class on TEHILIM with Sara Wurtzel•Each session will begin with the reading of a chapter of Tehilim, followed by a study of the same perek.
9:30am•Meaning & Music of the Machzor•Dr. Joel Luber
Wednesdays during August, 10:30am •(Alan Romm will resume in September IY"H) PHANTOM BUSTING with Evelyn Haies•A book review workshop on FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL by Joan Peters which debunks the "Big Lie" of the so-called Palestinians
11:30am-1:00pm•Spiritual Intelligence in PIRKEI AVOT•Batya Yaniger
3:00pm•Women in Tanach•Pearl Borow•This class is open to men and women
4:00-5:30pm • (on Hold watch for further announcements) • Poetry Workshop with Shmuel Mann•Express your feelings, your view of the World, observations of every day... through the world of poetry. Each individual has a world of experiences within them.Written in any form, rhyme, free verse, any style, each member will work towards putting together his/her own collectionof poems •30NIS per session
August 15th, 8:00pm • From Anatevka to Jerusalem, scenes from Fiddler on the Roof followed by discussions led by Rabbi Avi Silverman, This week: "If I were a Rich Man..."
7:45pm •Rambam's approach to Korbonot •Jewish Philosophy with Rabbi Chaim Eisen 
8:00-10:00pm•Aliya Counseling•Miriam Bass

THURSDAY
10:30am•Shiur while you fold
10:30am•SLIM FOR LIFE•Group weight-loss program for women•Qualified Nutritional Advisor (BSC Hons) on hand•No obligation for the first session•Libby - 651-8061 • Elisheva - 999-6479
August 16th, 7:00pm •Jewish Values Education Institute • Witnessing the Holocaust with Breindel Lieba Swirsky, Filmmaker and Holocaust Scholar
8:00pm•Shir HaShirim•Reb Yosef Schreiber

FRIDAY
9:00-10:00am•In Depth Pirkei Avot with Rabbi Chaim Eisen
11:30am•HACHNASSAT SEFER TORAH in the presence of Rabbis,communal leaders, Israel Center members, and participants in the OU Israel Solidarity Mission. Sefer Torah donated by Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Newman and family, Monsey,NY•Writing of OTIYOT, Parade, Refreshments