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.

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

MOTZA"SH
Motza'ei Shabbat, August 18th, 9:30pm•Rosh Chodesh Shiur of the Month #238•Shofarot from Sinai •HaRav Yaakov Moshe Poupko Sunday

DAF YOMI in English 3:00-4:00pm•Sunday-Thursday

SUNDAY
Sunday, August 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
10:30am (women) •Let's Learn Chumash • Tonia Frohwein
Sunday, August 19th •11:30am •(men & women)•Mitzvot of Leadership•Kings, Prophets,Judges, Scholars•Phil Chernofsky
12:30pm • Great Jewish Stories •Rabbi David Zitter
Sunday,August 19th, 8:00pm•How Close Hitler Came to Conquering E. Yisrael, Egypt, Arabia... and Winning World War II, learn from history that DIDN'T happen! •Shepherd Levmore, Lecturer and Historian, formerly of the New School for Social Research, NYC

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
N'SHEI lending library 10:00-12:30
Monday, August 20th, 10:30am•Canada's Jews: English, French, Yiddish, Hebrew•Prof. Leo Davids, York University, Toronto
Monday, August 20, 11:36am (women)•The Jew and Self-Esteem Based on Rabbi Avraham Twersky's book Angels don't Leave Footprints•Aviva Nissim
Monday, August 20th, '01 4:00-9:00pm at the Center•ROOT & BRANCH ASSOCIATIONCOUNTER MISSIONARY CONFERENCE•THE 'MESSIANIC' MOVEMENT: SITRA ACHRA (DARK SIDE)OF THE TESHUVA MOVEMENT •Mr. Yehoshua Friedman, Founder & Chairman, Noahide Fellowship, R&B•MISSION LAUNDERING• Mr. Aryeh Gallin, Founder and President,R&B•TITLE TO BE ANNOUNCED•Mr. Moshe Kempinsky•MISSIONARY INFILTRATION OF CONVERSION PROGRAMS•Mrs. Michaela Lawson, Director, Counter Missionary Group,R&B•IS THERE A MISSIONARY PROBLEM?•Mr. Mark Powers, International Director, Jews for Judaism•MISSIONARY INFILTRATION OF SELF-HELP GROUPS •Mrs. Rebecca Weinberger
Sponsored by the Root & Branch Association Counter-Missionary Group•Mrs. Michaela Lawson, Director & Conference Chair•In English (except where specified) • 25¤ p.p.For information: 02-673-9013 • rb@rb.org.il

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) •Chassidic insights into Parshat HaShavua and the Actualia of Our Time based on Chabad teachings•Raizel Zisk
Tuesdays •2:00pm•Shiur in the Laws & Practices of Shabbat•"Talmidei Aharon"
Tuesday, August 21 •7:00pm•Witnessing the Holocaust with Breindel Lieba Swirsky, Filmmaker and Holocaust scholar •JEDWABNE: THE POLISH PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THEIR ROLE IN THE HOLOCAUST; Film of 60th anniversary memorial of how the non-Jewish half a small Polish town massacred the Jewishhalf during the Holocaust, followed by a discussion

WEDNESDAY
8:30am•resumes after Sukkot • 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
Wednesday, August 22, '01• 4:00-9:00pm •ROOT & BRANCH ASSOCIATION •GER TZEDEK CONFERENCE •(4:00pm)• THE REALITY OF BECOMING A JEW•Ahuvah Gray, African-American, former Pentecostal Minister; Author, My Sister, the Jew (Targum Press)•AHAVAT HA'GER, (LOVING THE PROSELYTE) •Yehoshua Friedman, Founder and Chairman, Noahide Fellowship,R&B•(5:00pm)• RUTH IN THE 21st CENTURY•Mrs. Michaela Lawson, Director, Ger Tzedek Fellowship
R&BProgram still developing•Sponsored by the Root & Branch Association Ger Tzedek Fellowship, Mrs. Michaela Lawson, Director & Conference Chair •In English (except where specified) • 25¤ p.p.For information: 02-673-9013 • rb@rb.org.il •PROGRAM & TIMING SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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 worktowards putting together his/her own collectionof poems •30NIS per session
Wednesday, August 15th, 8:00pm• Jewish Values Education Institute•Do You Love Me? - How do we communicate our values to our children and grandchildren? • led by Rabbi Avi Silverman
Wednesdays, 7:45-8:45pm•Jewish Philosophy Ramban on Torah 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
8:00pm•Shir HaShirim•Reb Yosef Schreiber

FRIDAY
9:00-10:00am•In Depth Pirkei Avot with Rabbi Chaim Eisen

UPCOMING at the Israel Center
Tuesday, August 28th, 8:00pm•Shiur in memory of Shmuel Samuels z"l •"Kabala & Reincarnation: Do our souls choose our parents?" - Rabbi Efraim Sprecher