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.

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

MOTZA"SH
Motza'ei Shabbat, August 25th, 9:30pm•Chasidic Approaches to T'shuva•Rabbi David J. Derovan, Director, Jewish Values Education Institute, Israel Center

DAF YOMI in English 3:00-4:00pm•Sunday-Thursday •RESUMES AFTER THE CHAGIM

SUNDAY
9:30am (women) •Mystical Insights into the Yamim Nora'im•Golda Warhaftig
N'shei Library • 10:30-12:45pm
10:30am (women) •The Rosh HaShana Machzor, please bring a machzor• Tonia Frohwein
11:30am •(men & women)•Parshat HaShavua • Shprintzee Herskovits
12:30pm • Great Jewish Stories •Rabbi David Zitter
Sundays, Aug. 26 & Sep. 2, 7:30pm• 2-part NLP workshop with Rabbi Shlomo Kory• GETTING RESULTS; How to decide upon, formulate, and follow through on your goals• Both sessions: 50NIS members / 60NIS non-mem

MONDAY
9:15am• Taamei Mitzvot U'Minhagim: Reasons for Jewish Laws and Customs•Rabbi Eliezer Grunbaum
10:30am•Rabbi Leff's shiur 
N'SHEI lending library 10:00-12:30
Monday, August 27, 11:36am (women)•The Gift of Elul•Aviva Nissim
Monday, August 27th, 8:00pm• Jewish Values Education Institute ; What is Ecology? With Rabbi Zalman Cohen (This will be the final lecture of the Ecology Conference, See below
Monday, August 27th, '01, 4:00-9:00pm at the Center •ROOT & BRANCH ASSOCIATION ECOLOGY CONFERENCE: Conference Program (partial listing) • "HEALING & TRANSFORMATION", Mrs. Shoshana Harari• "ECOLOGY: A PRIMARY CONCERN OF THE TORAH", Rabbi Prof. Yehudah Levi•8:00pm• "ECOLOGY & TORAH" , Rabbi Zalman Cohen •Sponsored by the Root & Branch Association Ecology Fellowship• In English (except where specified) • 25NIS 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 28th, 8:00pm• Shiur in memory of Shmuel Samuels z"l•Kabala & Reincarnation: Do our souls choose our parents?•Rabbi Efraim Sprecher

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 (please bring a 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
Wednesday, August 29th, 8:00pm• From Anatevka to Jerusalem, Scenes from Fiddler on the Roof followed by discussion led by Rabbi Avi Silverman Director of NESTO at the Israel Center, and of the Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, Bar Ilan Univ.•The Closing Scene; The value of personal histories and life transitions 15NIS nis members / 20NIS non-members•Presented by the Jewish Values Education Institute
Wednesdays, 7:45-8:45pm•Jewish Philosophy Rambam on Korbanot with Rabbi Chaim Eisen
8:00-10:00pm•Aliya Counseling•Miriam Bass
Wed. August 29th• 7:30-9:30pm•ROOT & BRANCH ASSOCIATION COUNTER MISSIONARY CONFERENCE, part 2: 7:30pm• HOW I FOUND MY WAY HOME, Mr. Moshe Ish Tov, Former "Co-laborer in Messiah", Jews for J, Inc. in Arizona and the southwest U.S. former Baptist Pastor in Arizona•8:30pm•THE HEBREW-CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT: A WORLD OVERVIEW, Mr. Mark Powers, International Director, Jews for Judaism; Mark comes to us in Israel from the Ukraine, where Jews for Judaism has been working with local Ukranian Jewish organizations to counter Christian missionary activities among Jews•Sponsored by the Root & Branch Association Counter-Missionary Group• Mrs. Michaela Lawson, Director & Conference Chair• In English (except where specified) • 25NIS p.p.•For information: 02-673-9013 • rb@rb.org.il

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, September 4th, 8:00pm•Using Music Technology to Lose Weight, Improve Emotions, Stress, Relationships, Behavior, Physical Health...and Succeed by Rabbi Immanuel Yosef Legomsky, M.A. Neurotherpist