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: (3rd Perek) Rabbi Nachum Bronznick•Cold drinks will be served•Mincha follows Shiur

MOTZA"SH
Motza'ei Shabbat Nachamu, 9:30pm• Games Night: When was the last time you played...Trivial Pursuits, Monopoly, Scrabble, Balderdash, Charades for Dummies, Careers, Initialize, Sets, Abalone, hess, Checkers, Backgammon, Boggle, Rummikub, Dominoes, Quiddler... and bring-your-own! Or how about trying your hand at an old-fashion jigsaw puzzle, or a challenging logic puzzle, such as Rush Hour, Safari, Lunar Lockout... Challenge, camaraderie, fun

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

SUNDAY
Sunday, August 5th •9:30am •Towards Better Benching (Birkat HaMazon) with Phil Chernofsky
N'shei Library • 10:30-12:45pm
10:30am (women) •Let's Learn Chumash •Tonia Frohwein
11:30am •Parshat HaShavua •Shprintzee Herskovits
12:30pm • Great Jewish Stories •Rabbi David Zitter
Sunday, August 5th, 8:00pm• PHANTOM BUSTING with Evelyn Haies• A book review workshop on "From Time Immemorial" by Joan Peters debunking the "Big Lie" of Palestinian-ism

MONDAY
9:15am• New Series: 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 6th, 10:30pm Jewish Perspectives on the Animal Kingdom with Rabbi Nosson Slifkin, "The Zoo Rabbi"
N'SHEI lending library 10:00-12:30
August 6th, 11:36am• In honor of T"U B"Av: Emunah and Song followed by an open discussion and songs with our special guest, Bluma •Aviva Nissim
Monday, August 6th, 8:00pm•Have American Jews Abandoned Israel? with Rabbi Avi Weiss

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 7th, 8:00pm• Discover the Temple within you, The physical Beit HaMikdash may have been destroyed, but the inner Temple continues to dwell in your own heart and mind. Come to this exciting lecture & experiential journey using guided imagery with Mendel Weinberger

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•Towards a more Meaningful Davening Experience•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 •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 collection of poems •30NIS per session
August 6th, 8:00pm • From Anatevka to Jerusalem, scenes from Fiddler on the Roof followed by discussions led by Rabbi Avi Silverman
Jewish Philosophy Rabbi Chaim Eisen will resume IY"H on August 15th
8:00-10:00pm•Aliya Counseling•Miriam Bass

THURSDAY
10:30am•Shiur while you fold
10:30am•resumes Thursday August 16th •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 9th, 7:00pm •Jewish Values Education Institute • Witnessing the Holocaust with Breindel Lieba Swirsky, Filmmaker and Holocaust Scholar
8:00pm•Stories from the Gemarra•Reb Yosef Schreiber
August 9th, 4:00-9:00pm •Root & Branch Association Islam-Israel Conference • 25 NIS p.p. with: Mr. Nabil Abu Salman, Prof. Yirmiyahu Branover, Mr. Bruce Brill, Dr. Asher Eder. Ms. Mori Glaser, Mr. Zuhair Hamdan, Mrs. Evelyn Haies, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, Mr. Itamar Marcus. Mr. Yisrael Medad, Mr. William Mehlman, Mr. Zvi Raviv and Sheikh Imam Professor Abdul Hadi Palazzi, for more info. call 02-673 9013

FRIDAY
9:00-10:00am•Brachot and Pirkei Avot with Phil Chernofsky

Upcoming at the Israel Center
Motza'ei Shabbat, August 11th, 9:30pm, Special evening with Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis • 25NIS p.p.

Hold this Date: Friday, August 17th •HACHNASAT SEFER TORAH in the presence of Rabbis, communal leaders, Israel Center members, and participants in the 
OU Israel Solidarity Mission. Sefer Torah donated by Harvey Newman and family, Monsey, NY