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"Regular" Israel Center classes & lectures - 20NIS for members, 25NISfor non-mem. Life members, 5NIS (except for programs of/with other organizations). No one will be turned away for lack of ability to pay. (Membership is 225NIS per year)

Many Israel Center programs are partially funded by the Jewish Agency for Israel

Friday
Candle lighting for Shabbat & Chag (combined) is 6:03pm • Mincha - abridged Kabbalat Shabbat - Maariv at 6:23pm

Shabbat Yom Tov
Shabbat-Yom Tov morning davening - 8:00am • Shabbat (and Yom Tov) afternoon shiur at 4:30pm by David Markowitz, Mincha at 5:30pm
Note: the davenings over Shabbat are for people who live in Israel and those visiting from abroad. No difference. Not so for Maariv on Motza’ei Shabbat There will be a Maariv for the Second night of Sukkot(Yom Tov Sheni) at 7:15pm

Sunday
8:00am - Yom Tov Sheni davening for students and visitors from Chutz LaAretz who are holding two days
10:30am - Shiur in the Sukka on “Timely Topics” by Phil Chernofsky
5:45pm - Mincha for “two day people”
7:15pm - Maariv
September 22nd, 8:30pm • “She who has not been to a Tofa’ah Simchat Beit HaShoeiva
has not seen JOY in her life” • music by women, for women, 25NIS students & members; others 30NIS

Monday
8:00am - Shacharit, etc. for Chol HaMoed(only slight differences between one-day and two day people; all invited)
10:30am - Shiur in the Sukka on “Timely Topics” with Phil Chernofsky
8:00pm - Curing the Jewish Heart • AM SEGULA Lecture series on Lessons from History & Zionism, Speaker: Eli Yosef

Tuesday
The Israel Center and the Old City Free Loan Association (14th year • over 3000 loans given ) Gemach - Free Loan Society to provide interest-free loans for people in financial distress. Interviews at the Center on Tuesdays from 10:00-12:00 • Please bring ID
10:30am - Shiur in the Sukka on “Timely Topics” with Phil Chernofsky
Tuesday Chol Hamoed, September 24, 9:30am - 9:00pm • A Sukkot Colloquium on Spirituality Today featuring speakers: Mrs. Shira Smiles; Rabbi Avraham Sutton' Rabbi Yosef Wolicki; Prof. Nathan Aviezer; Rabbi Zvi Blobstein; Rabbi Zev Leff and Rabbi David Aaron. Call 5667787 x 261 for further details

Wednesday
10:30am - Shiur in the Sukka with Dr. Joel Luber
Chol Hamoed Succot, Wednesday, September 25th, 8:00pm • The David Cardozo Academy Machon Ohr Aaronin conjunction with the OU Israel Center • Sigmund Freud and the Lubavitcher Rebbe: Between January and April, 1903, the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe,Rabbi Shalom Dov-Ber Schneersohn came to consult Sigmund Freudfor treatment of lowness of spirit. What happened between these two great minds who were worlds apart in their outlook on life? What made a deep religious Chassidic leader see a secular Jew for help? What does this say about the relationship between religious and secular Jews? Join us for a fascinating talk byDr. Joseph Berke and Professor Stanley Schneiderinternational known religious psychotherapists, Moderator: Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Wednesday, Chol HaMoed, 8:00-10:00pm • Visiting for the Chagim? Visit our Aliya counselor, Miriam Bass -

Thursday
10:30am - Shiur in the Sukka on “Timely Topics” with Phil Chernofsky
Leil Hoshana Rabba • Thursday, Chol HaMoed, September 26th
6:00pm Festive Reception in the Sukka-on-the-Roof
7:10pm Maariv
Leil Hoshana Rabba Shiurim
7:30pm The Last Eight P’sukim of the Torah, Rabbi Reuven Aberman
8:30pm Rabbi Sholom Gold
9:30pm How Jewish is Capital Punishment? A Shiur with sources, Rabbi Nachum Amsel
10:30pm Feminism: The Tent of Meeting and a Women’s Minyan, Rabbi Dr. Natan Lopes Cardozo
11:30pm Why the U.N. will Celebrate Sukkot when Mashiach Comes, Rabbi Efraim Sprecher

Friday, Hoshana Rabba
Candle lighting for Shabbat & Chag (combined) is 5:54pm • Mincha - abridged Kabbalat Shabbat - Maariv for people holding two days at 6:14pm

Shabbat Yom Tov
Shabbat-Yom Tov morning davening - 8:30am for people holding two days • Shabbat (and Yom Tov) afternoon shiur at 4:30pm (men & women, locals & visitors - all invited) with Rabbi Max N. Schreier, Mincha at 5:30pm

Motza'ei Shabbat
Read carefully to avoid confusion! 7:00pm - Maariv for Simchat Torah (Yom Tov Sheni)with Hakafot, Students and visitors who are holding two daysare invited to join

Sunday
8:00am - Shacharit etc.for students & visitors holding two days • 5:30pm - Mincha • 7:00pm - Maariv (almost the same for all)
10:30am - Shiur with Phil Chernofsky on CHAGIM ARE OVER - NOW WHAT?
11:30am • Parshat HaShavua with Shprintzee Herskovits
Sunday, Sep. 29, 9:00pm • Mercaz Menucha Serenity Center in conjuction with Young Olim United and the Israel Center proudly presents: “Problem Solving Theater”Improv with a twist, starring the Mother & Son TeamChana Cohen & Yosef Simcha: Next theme: GETTING HIGH IN JERUSALEM • Our holiday gift to you - FREE ADMISSION (this time only!); "I brought my shiduch date and we had a blast!" - Yoel; "They helped me see my problem in a whole new light." - Netanya; "It's always so original and clever, I've been back three times!" - Jaime; For more information contact women613@aol.com
Sunday, September 29, 2002, 8:30pm • Shearim College of Jewish Studies for Women and the Israel Center cordially invite you to participate in INSPIRING OURSELVES, EMPOWERING OUR SOULS; An Interactive Dating and Relationshop Building Workshopfor single and married women developed and conducted by: Shaya Ostrov, Author of "The Inner Circle: 7 Gates to Marriage"• 30NISCall about this program and/or our full or part-time programs (02) 651-4240

Men who are looking to do some serious learning...
Shiur in Minchat Chinuch by Rabbi David Zitter, 10:00am, SUN-THU
Daf Yomi in English with Rabbi Shmuel Halpern, 3:00pm, SUN-THU
Shiur in Makot 3rd perek by Rabbi Hillel Ruvel, 4:30pm, SUN-THU
All shiurim take place in the Israel Center's Ganchrow Beit Midrash one flight up

Monday
9:15am • (men & women) • Excursions into the world of Nevi'im with Mrs. Pearl Borow
N'SHEI LIBRARY 10:00-12:30
10:30am • (men &women) • Rambam’s 13 Principles of Faith with Rabbi Zev Leff
11:36am, SEP 30 • (men & women) • Jewish History - Bayit Sheni period; The 30's C.E. On the Way to Agrippa I with Dr. Henry Goldblum
Mondays (and Wednesdays) 3:00-5:00pm • Women’s Beit Midrash; Acquire study skills and knowledge crucial to your life as a Jew - join us! Guided Chavruta study with Pearl Borow; NEW TOPIC: Shiur on “The Life of Avraham”In-Depth study of Chumash B’reishit... with Rashi with Rabbi David Derovan • Fees for the Shiurim only! 20NIS members/25NIS non-members
Monday, SEP 30, 4:00-10:00pm (Part Two -- Monday, October 7, 2002, 4:00-10:00pm) • Fifth Root & Branch Association Jerusalem Conference onthe Noahide Covenant and Laws (Part 1 of 2)
4:00-5:15pm "Can B'nai Noach Perform Mitzvot in Which They Are not Commanded?", by Rabbi Yehoshua Friedman, Yeshivat Ma'alei Efraim; Chairman, Noahide Fellowship
5:15-6:30pm "Israel, Light to the Nations, Must First Become a Light to Itself" by Rabbi Yechiel Sitzman, Yeshivat Dvar Yerushaliyim
6:30-7:45pm "Jewish Nationalism and Noahide Universalism Go Hand in Hand" by Eliezer Wasserman, Yeshivat Nahalat Zvi
7:45pm "Establishing the Noahide Nations Organization", (Replacing Today's "United Nations" which worships a Pagan Trinity of Oil, Drugs and Weapons with a Noahide Nations Organization based on Fear of G-d and Observance of His Noahide Covenant and Laws) by Mr. Aryeh Gallin, Founder & President, Root & Branch
8:00pm "Jews Who Influenced World Economic Thinking" by Rabbi Aharon Shapiro, PhD., St. John's University; Pulpit Rabbi for 43 years • nis25 per person • Information: rb@rb.org.il
Mondays at 7:30pm • New at the Center: Parshat HaShavua with Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Mondays and Thursdays • 8:00pm, Curing the Jewish Heart; AM SEGULA Lecture series on Lessons from History & Zionism, Speaker: Eli Yosef
Monday, SEP 30th - 8:00-9:30pm • MASK - Mothers & Fathers Aligned Saving Kids, J'lem Chapter at the OU Israel Center • Dr. Judy Belsky, PhD - Group Facilitator; Are you troubled by your child's behavior? Join us at our next bi-weekly meeting

Tuesday
Dr. Hayim Abramson’s classes will resume IY”H on Tuesday, OCT 8th
10:50am • Parshat HaShavua with Rabbi Mordechai Spiegelman
Watch for announcement of resumption of Raizel Zisk’s class
Avrom Silver Jerusalem College for Adults • 9:00am - Rabbi Aaron Adler on The World of Mishnah: Halacha, Hashkafa and History • 10:15am - Rabbi Sholom Gold on Parshat HaShavua
Oct. 1, 8:00pm • Coping Better with the In-Laws with Leah Shifrin Averick, AM ACSW, Author of How In-Laws Relate - It's all Relative

Wednesday
Avrom Silver Jerusalem College for Adults • 9:00am - Rabbi Macy Gordon on The Messianic Era and the World to Come in the thought of Maimonides • 10:30am - Dr. Avivah Gottliev Zornberg on Parshat Hashavua
9:30am • Towards More Meaningful Davening with Dr. Joel Luber
10:30am • Break the Fear Habit... and LIVE! with Alan Romm
Women’s Beit Midrash • Wednesdays (and Mondays) 3:00-5:00pm
Women in Tanach , Guided Chavruta study with Pearl Borow, Fees for the Shiurim only! 20NIS members/25NIS non-members
7:30pm • alternating topics, Jewish Philosophy; Road map to the Prophets - Rambam's Guide for the Perplexed; Now studying: Ordering the Mitzvot and their "reasons"
Ramban's Commentary on the Torah and its Wellsprings; Now studying: "The Tree of Knowing Good and Evil and the Yetzer HaRa" with Rabbi Chaim Eisen
8-10pm • Aliya Counseling with Miriam Bass

Thursday
Shiurim while you fold, Parshat HaShavua and/or the Calendar
10:15am SLIM FOR LIFE Group weight-loss program for women • No obligation for the first sessionQualified nutritional advisor on hand • Elisheva 999-6479
Watch for announcement of resumption of The Men's & Boys' Choir led by Yisrael Shwarzstein
8:00pm Reb Yosef Schreiber • Stories from the Gemara
Thursdays 8:00pm (see Monday 8:00pm) • Curing the Jewish Heart

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

The Yad Yaakov Center for Jewish Education classesat the Israel Center will resume IY”H Tuesday, October 8th; The Unfolding Redemptive History of Israel in Biblical Texts; Rav Yosef Leibowitz's new weekly course will take placeon Tuesday mornings, 9:00-10:30am Call (02) 652-4601 for further information

Upcoming at the Israel Center
Sun. OCT 6, 8:30pm • Talking to your teenager with Rachel Frumin MSW, Director, Meor Aynayim Therapy Center
Starting after Sukkot - 8 sessions Tuesdays at the Israel Center, Writing Your Personal Memoirs Call 566-7787 ext. 204 for details
Rosh Chodesh Luncheon, MON, Oct. 7, 1:00pm • Sarah Shapiro, author, A Gift Passed Along, A Woman looks at the World around her, daughter of Norman Cousins, will speak on Health and Happiness. Reserve ASAP

Interested in buying or renting an apartment in Ramat Beit Shemesh or Beit Shemesh? Beautiful 4-6 room apartments available. Call Lemkin Realty at 02-9995727