Newcomers
to Lincoln Square will find an array of programs that touch on nearly
every area of spiritual and personal growth. Youth groups, Singles
Programs, Young Couple Events and a Senior Citizens Program cater
to all age and stage-of-life segments of our population. Please
check out our weekly newsletter, the Shabbat
Echod, or our bi-monthly calendar
or see below for highlights and upcoming events.
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ISRAEL AT 60
Join Lincoln Square Synagoge on Thursday, May 8th at 7:30 pm as we celebrate ISRAEL AT 60 with our "PANOPOLY" Game night - A fun night of competitive gamesmanship complete with a wide “array” of trivia.
Players will be divided up into teams of eight. Teams will compete for prizes based on questions on sixty years of Israeli history, sites and trivia.
Admission ($19.48) includes appetizers and drinks, catered by Fig & Palm. Register online
The Game night will follow our Kollel BBQ (6 PM)
(A separate admission fee applies to the BBQ - details to follow)
Visit lss.org to register for these events, and come celebrate Israel with LSS!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Join the Upper West Side at Manhattan Day School (310 W 75th) for a community-wide Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration on May 7th at 7:30 PM
• Wednesday, May 7th, following Mincha: Join LSS and the TMTZ Kollel for our Yom HaZikaron Program, featuring personal stories of our Kollel felows, a presentation, and Hatikvah
• Next Saturday May 10 - 9:00 a.m.,
The Women's Tefillah Group meets in the LSS Annex
• A women’s Tehillim group meets at the home of Karin Feldhamer every Monday evening at 8 p.m. Tehillim are recited for sick people, for proper shiduchim & for the welfare of Israeli soldiers. 441 West End Avenue, apt. 6A @ 81 Street.
• Please be respectful of your fellow congregants, and do not leave coats on seats in the Main Sanctuary. All coats should be checked in the coatroom or placed under your seat. Thank you for your courtesy and cooperation.
THE JOSEPH SHAPIRO INSTITUTE
CLASSES
• 9:15 AM - Sunday morning Breakfast and Learn (Hilchot Shabbat) Rabbi Shaul Robinson
MONDAY
• 8:15 PM - Rav Harel Gordin’s weekly Hebrew Gemarah Shiur - Masechet Berachot (open to both men and women.) No Class
TUESDAY
• 10:30 AM - The Marilyn & Sam Isler Studies in the Weekly Portion- Rabbi Shaul Robinson
• 8:15 PM - The Shabbat Mitzvot- Lechem Mishne Rabbi Shalom Morris
WEDNESDAY
• 6:00 - 7:30 PM - Tanach Bashanah I • 8:00 - 9:30 PM - Tanach Bashanah II No Class - Classes Resume 5/14
• 8:45 PM LSS Rav Moshe Feinstein Chavura - at the home of Miryam & Amos Alter
THURSDAY
• 10:00 AM - Torah@10: The 5 Megillot - “The Book of Ruth”
Refreshments served; Toddler care available Rebbetzin Sarah Robinson
• 7:30 PM - Jacob Adler Parsha Class - Rabbi Shaul Robinson(No class - resumes 5/15)
FRIDAY
• 8:45 AM - Women's Study Group on Tefillah - Shuki Weissbart, LSS/TMTZ Kollel fellow
LSS BOOK CLUB
Monday, May 19th, 8:15 PM
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
At the Home of Gale and Steven Spira
TUESDAY TALKS
THE VANISHING OF AMERICAN JEWRY
Dr. Steven Bayme Dr. Bayme deals with Jewish family issues, Jewish education, Israel-Diaspora relations,
Jewish identity and continuity, and intra-Jewish relations for the American Jewish
Committee.
Tuesday, May 13, 7:30 PM
LEARN WITH THE LSS/TMTZ KOLLEL!
• Friday morning- 8:45 am- Shuki - Women's Study Group on Tefillah
• Shabbat afternoon, following Mincha - Eliram - Hebrew shiur on“ Machshevet Yisrael"
• Monday evening 8:15 PM- Rav Harel Gordin - Hebrew Gemara shiur "Sugyot in Masechet Brachot"(resumes 2/27)
• Wednesday evening, 8:45 PM - Rav Harel Gordin - Hebrew shiur on "Iggrot Moshe"
• Shabbat Morning, 8:30 am - Bi-weekly Chumash Shiur with Matania
• Shabbat Afternoons with B'nai Akiva (meets at LSS every other week))
• Shabbat im Shuki - between Mincha & Ma’ariv, on weeks without Bnei Akiva
• Shabbat Mornings in the Teen Minyan (9:45 am)
• Please contact Rabbi Robinson to request a Kollel Chavruta and contact Rabbi Morris to find out about all the Kollel "Chavura" learning opportunities this year.
• If you would like to have the pleasure of hosting a Kollel fellow
for Shabbat meals, please contact Rachel Neumark Herlands at
212-799-2176, or email rnherlands@gmail.com
BEGINNERS ANNOUNCEMENTS
• New sessions of the Hebrew Reading Crash Course Level I and the One Day Review will begin on Monday, May 5th. Hebrew Reading Crash Course Level II will begin Monday, May 12th. All classes meet at 6:30 pm. • Everyone is invited to a Gala Dessert Sheva Brachot for Shira and Naphtali Buchwald on Wednesday, May 7th at 7:45 pm in the LSS Ballroom.
• Please note: This Monday’s Beginners Schmooze has been cancelled.
Melanie Ross
Youth Center
YOUTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Check out the “Echod Mi Yodea?” the new LSS Youth weekly newsletter for youth updates, games, contests, and prizes! Available in the lobby.
• LSS’s "Gan Shabbat" program includes Shabbat stories & songs for toddlers 3 and under. Meets from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. in the Toddlers' room.
• For more information on our upcoming events, contact Binyamin Lehrfield at (847)703-0242 or youth@lss.org
• If you would like to have the pleasure of hosting our Youth Director Binyamin Lehrfield for Yom Tov or Shabbat meals, please contact Nyla Kamlet: at (212) 799-5234 or by e-mail at nylakamlet@yahoo.com.
IMPORTANT REMINDER:
LSS is a “Nut-Free” environment. As a courtesy to those children with allergies, all snacks served in Shabbat groups and MRYC events are nut-free. Outside food may not be brought into groups. In addition, please be courteous to those joining us and refrain from sending your children with candy or food containing nuts or made in a facility that processes nuts.
Rabbi Saul J. Berman
TORAH REFLECTIONS ON IMMIGRATION POLICY June 14
Rabbi Berman is Director of Continuing
Rabbinic Education at Yeshivat Chovevei
Torah, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies
at Stern College for Women and adjunct
Professor at Columbia University School of
Law where he teaches a seminar in Jewish
Law. He is a former rabbi of LSS. Sponsored by the Rotter and Katz families
in commemoration of the tenth yahrzeit of
Sandy Rotter z”l
