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January 2012

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1	2 Legal Holiday Legal Holiday Community Events Mon. January 1 Location: Central Synagogue Offices The Central Synagogue offices will be closed in observance of the legal holiday	3 Advanced Hebrew For Beginners Advanced Hebrew For Beginners Adult Education Events Tues. January 3, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location: Community House, Room 801 Beginners will continue to study the foundations of the Hebrew language. Knowledge of the alefbet and present tense conjugation is required. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Religious School & Nursery School Resumes Religious School & Nursery School Resumes Community Events Tues. January 3 Location: Central Synagogue	4 Torah Study Torah Study Adult Education Events Wed. January 4, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Location: Community House, Room 602 Led by Rabbi Mo Salth Each week, the Torah offers us a teaching through its historic characters, narrative and themes. How can we relate these ancient lessons to our modern selves? This weekly exploration offers new thought on old text. No previous background or Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Pirkei Avot: The Sayings of Our Sages Pirkei Avot: The Sayings of Our Sages Adult Education Events Wed. January 4, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Location: Community House, Room 602 We will study the wisdom from Pirkei Avot and determine the relevance of these maxims to our lives today. No Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005	5 Bible & Bagels Bible & Bagels Adult Education Events Thurs. January 5, 8:15 am - 9:00 am Location: Community House, Rooms 503 Led By Rabbi Michael Friedman Experience a line by line look at our sacred text from many perspectives. Participants bring with them an eagerness to understand the Bible in history, as the rabbis read it, as literature or drama, and for what it has to say to us today. No knowledge of Hebrew is necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005	6 Alper Talmud Study Alper Talmud Study Adult Education Events Fri. January 6, 8:15 am - 9:15 am Location: Community House, Room 503 What does the Talmud have to say about our everyday business dealings? How should we handle lost property, deposits, sales, loans, rentals, hiring, and laws of interest? This fall, we will explore these and other related topics through the text of the Talmudic tractate Bava Metzia. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Book Group Book Group Adult Education Events Fri. January 6, 9:30 am - 11:00 am Location: Community House, Room 602 Led by Patti Sayre, LCSW, Parenting Center Facilitator Reading takes us away from home, but more important it finds homes for us everywhere. Come find a home with other book lovers on Friday mornings at 9:30am in room 602. Discussions are always interesting, stimulating, and guaranteed to evoke lots of thoughts and feelings. Group leader Patti Sayre, LCSW and parenting center facilitator is less interested in whether or not you have read the book than in your participation in each week’s lively discussion. For more information please contact Patti at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Shabbat Worship Shabbat Worship Worship Events Fri. January 6, 6:00 pm Location: Main Sanctuary	7 Torah Study Torah Study Adult Education Events Sat. January 7, 8:45 am - 9:45 am Location: Community House, Room 502 Led by Rabbi Hiat Each week, the Torah offers us a teaching through its historic characters, narrative and themes. How can we relate these ancient lessons to our modern selves? This weekly exploration offers new thought on old text. No previous background or Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Shabbat Worship Shabbat Worship Worship Events Sat. January 7, 9:30 am Location: Main Sanctuary Va-y’chi, Gen. 47:28 - 50:26 Haftarah: I Kings 2:1 - 12 Tot Shabbat Tot Shabbat Worship Events Sat. January 7, 9:30 am Location: Community House, 9th Floor Tot Shabbat occurs twice a month: either on Friday night or Saturday morning. We hold Tot Shabbat services for families with pre-school age children. For many of us, we have warm memories of experiencing Shabbat as children, and we hope to encourage similar memories in your children. All Tot Shabbats are visited by a member of the clergy, along with Cantorial Intern Sheera Ben David or musician Joanie Leeds. Join us for songs, stories and words of prayer. Snacks are served at the conclusion of every session.
8	9	10 Organ Concert Organ Concert Community Events Tues. January 10, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Location: Main Sanctuary Jan Kraybill of Community of Christ in Kansas City, Missouri will be performing. Advanced Hebrew for Beginners Advanced Hebrew for Beginners Adult Education Events Tues. January 10, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location: Community House, Room 801 Beginners will continue to study the foundations of the Hebrew language. Knowledge of the alefbet and present tense conjugation is required. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Biblical Models of Leadership Biblical Models of Leadership Adult Education Events Tues. January 10, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Location: Community House, Room 801 With the presidential election just 12 months away, our thoughts turn to the qualities of leadership. What do we seek in a leader? What makes a leader good—or great? The Bible is awash with instructive, insightful and inspiring lessons in leadership. Join us as we unpack some of the Bible’s most engaging tales of leadership, seeing leaders at their best—and their worst. Taught by Rabbi Marion Lev-Cohen. Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm. Jan 10, Feb 7, March 6, April 17, May 8. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005	11 How to Raise a Mensch How to Raise a Mensch Adult Education Events Wed. January 11, 9:15 am - 10:30 am Location: Community House, Room 502 How can we raise our children to be good people with good values? To address this compelling question, we will explore the wisdom in our sacred texts, and examine our sources of deep meaning. Along the way we will learn how Shabbat, holidays and Jewish life cycle milestones help provide rich family environments and provide the framework and structure of Jewish time and values. Join us at the place where values, Judaism and parenting all intersect. Taught by Rabbi Marion Lev-Cohen. Five Wednesdays 9:15-10:30am, Jan 11, Jan 18, Jan 25, Feb 1, Feb 8. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Torah Study Torah Study Adult Education Events Wed. January 11, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Location: Community House, Room 602 Led by Rabbi Mo Salth Each week, the Torah offers us a teaching through its historic characters, narrative and themes. How can we relate these ancient lessons to our modern selves? This weekly exploration offers new thought on old text. No previous background or Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Pirkei Avot: The Sayings of Our Sages Pirkei Avot: The Sayings of Our Sages Adult Education Events Wed. January 11, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Location: Community House, Room 602 We will study the wisdom from Pirkei Avot and determine the relevance of these maxims to our lives today. No Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005	12 Bible & Bagels Bible & Bagels Adult Education Events Thur. January 12, 8:15 am - 9:00 am Location: Community House, Room 503 Led By Rabbi Michael Friedman Experience a line by line look at our sacred text from many perspectives. Participants bring with them an eagerness to understand the Bible in history, as the rabbis read it, as literature or drama, and for what it has to say to us today. No knowledge of Hebrew is necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005	13 Alper Talmud Study Alper Talmud Study Adult Education Events Fri. January 13, 8:15 am - 9:00 am Location: Community House, Rooms 502 What does the Talmud have to say about our everyday business dealings? How should we handle lost property, deposits, sales, loans, rentals, hiring, and laws of interest? This fall, we will explore these and other related topics through the text of the Talmudic tractate Bava Metzia. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Book Group Book Group Adult Education Events Fri. January 13, 9:30 am - 11:00 am Location: Community House, Room 602 Led by Patti Sayre, LCSW, Parenting Center Facilitator Reading takes us away from home, but more important it finds homes for us everywhere. Come find a home with other book lovers on Friday mornings at 9:30am in room 602. Discussions are always interesting, stimulating, and guaranteed to evoke lots of thoughts and feelings. Group leader Patti Sayre, LCSW and parenting center facilitator is less interested in whether or not you have read the book than in your participation in each week’s lively discussion. For more information please contact Patti at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Shabbat Worship - Martin Luther King Jr. Service Shabbat Worship - Martin Luther King Jr. Service Worship Events Fri. January 13, 6:00 pm Location: Main Sanctuary We will pay tribute to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday during this shabbat service.	14 Torah Study Torah Study Adult Education Events Sat. January 14, 8:45 am - 9:45 am Location: Community House, Room 502 Led by Rabbi Hiat Each week, the Torah offers us a teaching through its historic characters, narrative and themes. How can we relate these ancient lessons to our modern selves? This weekly exploration offers new thought on old text. No previous background or Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Shabbat Worship Shabbat Worship Worship Events Sat. January 14, 9:30 am & 11:30 am Location: Main Sanctuary Sh’mot, Exod. 1:1 - 6:1 Haftarah: Isaiah 27:6 - 28:13, 29:22-23
15 God’s Love We Deliver God’s Love We Deliver Community Events Sun. January 15, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Location: 166 Sixth Avenue at Spring Street Once a month, Social Justice volunteers are invited to participate in a special “hands-on” opportunity preparing meals for seriously ill New Yorkers. Organized by congregant Andrew Bart, Central Synagogue is a present force at God’s Love We Deliver, a Lower East Side organization dedicated to improving the lives of New Yorkers who struggle with life-threatening health conditions. Your commitment to this important project is needed: one Sunday per month. RSVPs are always required. Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)	16 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Community Events Mon. January 16 Location: Central Syanagoue The Offices, Nursery and Religious Schools are closed in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday	17 Advanced Hebrew For Beginners Advanced Hebrew For Beginners Adult Education Events Tues. January 17, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location: Community House, Room 801 Beginners will continue to study the foundations of the Hebrew language. Knowledge of the alefbet and present tense conjugation is required. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005	18 How to Raise a Mensch How to Raise a Mensch Adult Education Events Wed. January 18, 9:15 am - 10:30 am Location: Community House, Room 502 How can we raise our children to be good people with good values? To address this compelling question, we will explore the wisdom in our sacred texts, and examine our sources of deep meaning. Along the way we will learn how Shabbat, holidays and Jewish life cycle milestones help provide rich family environments and provide the framework and structure of Jewish time and values. Join us at the place where values, Judaism and parenting all intersect. Taught by Rabbi Marion Lev-Cohen. Five Wednesdays 9:15-10:30am, Jan 11, Jan 18, Jan 25, Feb 1, Feb 8. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Torah Study Torah Study Adult Education Events Wed. January 18, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Location: Community House, Room 602 Led by Rabbi Mo Salth Each week, the Torah offers us a teaching through its historic characters, narrative and themes. How can we relate these ancient lessons to our modern selves? This weekly exploration offers new thought on old text. No previous background or Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Pirkei Avot: The Sayings of our Sages Pirkei Avot: The Sayings of our Sages Adult Education Events Wed. January 18, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Location: Communitty House, Room 602 We will study the wisdom from Pirkei Avot and determine the relevance of these maxims to our lives today. No Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005	19 Bible & Bagels Bible & Bagels Adult Education Events Thur. January 19, 8:15 am - 9:00 am Location: Community House, Room 503 Led By Rabbi Michael Friedman Experience a line by line look at our sacred text from many perspectives. Participants bring with them an eagerness to understand the Bible in history, as the rabbis read it, as literature or drama, and for what it has to say to us today. No knowledge of Hebrew is necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005	20 Alper Talmud Study Alper Talmud Study Adult Education Events Fri. January 20, 8:15 am - 9:15 am Location: Community House, Room 503 What does the Talmud have to say about our everyday business dealings? How should we handle lost property, deposits, sales, loans, rentals, hiring, and laws of interest? This fall, we will explore these and other related topics through the text of the Talmudic tractate Bava Metzia. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Book Group Book Group Adult Education Events Fri. January 20, 9:30 am - 11:00 am Location: Community Huse, Room 602 Led by Patti Sayre, LCSW, Parenting Center Facilitator Reading takes us away from home, but more important it finds homes for us everywhere. Come find a home with other book lovers on Friday mornings at 9:30am in room 602. Discussions are always interesting, stimulating, and guaranteed to evoke lots of thoughts and feelings. Group leader Patti Sayre, LCSW and parenting center facilitator is less interested in whether or not you have read the book than in your participation in each week’s lively discussion. For more information please contact Patti at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Tot Shabbat Tot Shabbat Worship Events Fri. January 20, 5:00 pm Location: Community House, 9th Floor Tot Shabbat occurs twice a month: either on Friday night or Saturday morning. We hold Tot Shabbat services for families with pre-school age children. For many of us, we have warm memories of experiencing Shabbat as children, and we hope to encourage similar memories in your children. All Tot Shabbats are visited by a member of the clergy, along with Cantorial Intern Sheera Ben David or musician Joanie Leeds. Join us for songs, stories and words of prayer. Snacks are served at the conclusion of every session. Shabbat Worship Shabbat Worship Worship Events Fri. January 20, 6:00 pm Location: Main Sanctuary	21 Torah Study Torah Study Adult Education Events Sat. January 21, 8:45 am - 9:45 am Location: Community House, Room 502 Led by Rabbi Hiat Each week, the Torah offers us a teaching through its historic characters, narrative and themes. How can we relate these ancient lessons to our modern selves? This weekly exploration offers new thought on old text. No previous background or Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Shabbat Worship Shabbat Worship Worship Events Sat. January 21, 9:30 am Location: Main Sanctuary Va-eira, Exod. 6:2 - 9:35 Haftarah: Ezekiel 28:25 - 29:21
22	23	24 Advanced Hebrew for Beginners Advanced Hebrew for Beginners Adult Education Events Tues. January 24, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location: Community House, Room 801 Beginners will continue to study the foundations of the Hebrew language. Knowledge of the alefbet and present tense conjugation is required. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Organ Concert Organ Concert Community Events Tues. January 24, 12:30 - 1:30 Location: Main Sanctuary A Student from Curtis Institute of Music will be performing.	25 How to Raise a Mensch How to Raise a Mensch Adult Education Events Wed. January 25, 9:15 am - 10:30 am Location: Community House, Room 502 How can we raise our children to be good people with good values? To address this compelling question, we will explore the wisdom in our sacred texts, and examine our sources of deep meaning. Along the way we will learn how Shabbat, holidays and Jewish life cycle milestones help provide rich family environments and provide the framework and structure of Jewish time and values. Join us at the place where values, Judaism and parenting all intersect. Taught by Rabbi Marion Lev-Cohen. Five Wednesdays 9:15-10:30am, Jan 11, Jan 18, Jan 25, Feb 1, Feb 8. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Torah Study Torah Study Adult Education Events Wed. January 25, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Location: Community House, Room 602 Led by Rabbi Mo Salth Each week, the Torah offers us a teaching through its historic characters, narrative and themes. How can we relate these ancient lessons to our modern selves? This weekly exploration offers new thought on old text. No previous background or Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Pirkei Avot: The Sayings of Our Sages Pirkei Avot: The Sayings of Our Sages Adult Education Events Wed. January 25, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Location: Community House, Room 602 We will study the wisdom from Pirkei Avot and determine the relevance of these maxims to our lives today. No Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005	26 Bible and Bagels Bible and Bagels Adult Education Events Thur. January 26, 8:15 am - 9:00 am Location: Community House, Room 503 Led By Rabbi Michael Friedman Experience a line by line look at our sacred text from many perspectives. Participants bring with them an eagerness to understand the Bible in history, as the rabbis read it, as literature or drama, and for what it has to say to us today. No knowledge of Hebrew is necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Life After Life Life After Life Community Events Thur. January 26, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Location: Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at 7 West 55th Street This interfaith panel will explore the theories of the afterlife in the world’s three major religions, and will be moderated by the Rev. Charlene Han Powell, associate pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. The panelists will include our own Rabbi Rubinstein, Rev. Dr. Scott Black Johnston of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and Imam Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood. Contact: Carole White at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by January 22nd	27 Alper Talmud Study Alper Talmud Study Adult Education Events Fri. January 27, 8:15 am - 9:15 am Location: Community House, Room 503 What does the Talmud have to say about our everyday business dealings? How should we handle lost property, deposits, sales, loans, rentals, hiring, and laws of interest? This fall, we will explore these and other related topics through the text of the Talmudic tractate Bava Metzia. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Book Group Book Group Adult Education Events Fri. January 27, 9:30 am - 11:00 am Location: Community House, Room 602 Led by Patti Sayre Reading takes us away from home, but more important it finds homes for us everywhere. Come find a home with other book lovers on Friday mornings at 9:30am in room 602. Discussions are always interesting, stimulating, and guaranteed to evoke lots of thoughts and feelings. Group leader Patti Sayre, LCSW and parenting center facilitator is less interested in whether or not you have read the book than in your participation in each week’s lively discussion. For more information please contact Patti at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Young Professionals Warehouse Shabbat Young Professionals Warehouse Shabbat Community Events Fri. January 27, 5:30 pm Location: The Delancey (168 Delancey Street, NYC - J/M/Z to Essex Street or F to Delancey) 5:30 pm pre-Shabbat gathering: hors d’oeuvres and drinks 6:30 pm Shabbat worship TheWarehouseNYC, The Josh Nelson Project and Central Synagogue invite you to a new Shabbat experience. TheWarehouse, an alternative Shabbat experience, provides a point of reentry for underserved and unaffiliated young Jews in major metropolitan areas. Currently in a pilot phase in New York City, TheWarehouse is a fresh model of contemporary worship, a groundbreaking experience held in an unconventional physical space, utilizing innovative music and new media. By creating a worship event that meets the aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual needs of this demographic, TheWarehouse offers an opportunity for reengagement that feels organic, inspired and relevant. Preview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7JO1D6hMGw RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/events/274153569310651/ Warehouse Shabbat is supported by Central Synagogue and is open to the entire community. Contact: RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/events/274153569310651/ Shabbat Worship Shabbat Worship Worship Events Fri. January 27, 6:00 pm Location: Main Sanctuary	28 Torah Study Torah Study Adult Education Events Sat. January 28, 8:45 am - 9:45 am Location: Community House, Room 502 Led by Rabbi Hiat Each week, the Torah offers us a teaching through its historic characters, narrative and themes. How can we relate these ancient lessons to our modern selves? This weekly exploration offers new thought on old text. No previous background or Hebrew knowledge necessary. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005 Shabbat Worship Shabbat Worship Worship Events Sat. January 28, 9:30 am & 11:30 am Location: Main Sanctuary Bo, Exod. 10:1 - 13:16 Haftarah: Jeremiah 46:13 - 28
29	30	31 Advanced Hebrew for Beginners Advanced Hebrew for Beginners Adult Education Events Tues. January 31, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location: Community House, Room 801 Beginners will continue to study the foundations of the Hebrew language. Knowledge of the alefbet and present tense conjugation is required. Contact: Shari Edwards at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 212-838-5122, ext. 4005	1	2	3	4