Shabbat Shalom Newsletter No. 154
"A little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness"
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Saturday, February 22, 2020 27 Shevat 5780
Mishpatim - Shabbat Shekalim
Birkat HaChodesh
Torah Reading: Exodus 21:1-24:18, 30:11-16
Haftarah: II Kings 12:1-11
We welcome the new month of Adar
Rosh Chodesh is Tuesday and Wednesday, February 25 and 26
No Third Meal November – February
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Friday, February 21 - 26 Shevat
5:00 PM - Mincha/Kabbalat
Shabbat/Maariv
5:19 PM - Candle Lighting
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Saturday, February 22 - 27 Shevat
5:00 PM - Mincha/Shiur/Cake
and Tea/Maariv
6:19 PM - Shabbat ends
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Rabbi Manes Kogan
of Hillcrest Jewish Center on
Mishpatim
Exodus 21:1-24:18,
30:11-16
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Saturday, February 22 – 27 Shevat
8:30 AM - Starting Shabbat with Torah
9:00 AM - Shacharit
Sunday, February 23 – 28 Shevat
8:30 AM - Morning Service
7:00 PM - Evening Minyan at HJC
Monday, February 24 – 29 Shevat
6:45 AM - Morning Minyan
12:30 PM - Sisterhood “How to Get Organized” program
4:00 PM - Stories with a Twist ( Resumes March 23)
6:30 PM - Mussar (Jewish Ethics) with Rabbi Kogan
7:00 PM - Evening Minyan
7:30 PM - Israeli Dance
Tuesday, February 25 – 30 Shevat - Rosh Chodesh
6:45 AM - Morning Minyan
7:00 PM - Evening Minyan
7:30 PM - Moonlights A Rosh Chodesh Gathering for Women
Wednesday, February 26 – 1 Adar - Rosh Chodesh
6:45 AM - Morning Minyan
7:30 AM - Mindfulness Meditation with Gary Baker
10:00 AM - Simon & Roslyn Gold Senior Center
12:00 PM - Su-Casa Collage and Awesome Assemblage Program
6:30 PM - Open Beit Midrash—Bible with Michael Brofman
7:00 PM - Evening Minyan
7:30 PM - Torah for Today and Tomorrow
Thursday, February 27 – 2 Adar
6:45 AM - Morning Minyan
10:00 AM - Hebrew Class
6:30 PM - Mishna beginning Perkei Avot with Ilan Kogan
7:00 PM - Evening Minyan
Friday, February 28 – 3 Adar - Shabbat Across America
6:45 AM - Morning Minyan
7:30 AM - Talmud-Tractate Bava Kamma
5:27 PM - Candle Lighting
5:30 PM - Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv
6:30 PM - Shabbat Across America Dinner ( By reservation only)
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Mowshowitz Library Hours
Library Hours:
Wednesday 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, Saturday during Kiddush,
Sunday 10:00 am to 12:00 noon
kaddish.com by Nathan Englander
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The celebrated Pulitzer finalist and prize-winning author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank delivers his best work yet, a streamlined comic masterpiece about a son’s failure to say Kaddish for his father.
Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it’s his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses—imperiling the fate of his father’s soul. To appease her, Larry hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the prayer and shepherd his father’s soul safely to rest.
Sharp, irreverent, hilarious, and wholly irresistible, Englander’s tale of a son who makes a diabolical compromise ingeniously captures the tensions between tradition and modernity—a book to be devoured in a single sitting whose pleasures and provocations will be savored long after.
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Happy Birthday to Our Members
and their Families
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Gary Baker
Gary Darche
Barbara Finger
Sophia Hoffman
Mimi Kagel
Joseph Kessel
Jamey Kohn
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Ethel Levine
Phyllis Orlikoff Flug
Ashtin Reich
Ryin Reich
Ilana Rothstein
Emily Schweitzer
Leslie Sufrin
Robert Zuckerman
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Hillcrest Acknowledges the Following
Yahrzeits and Fondly Remembers
May They Be Remembered in the Tree of Life
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February 22 - 27 Shevat
Frieda Bissinger
Lucille Brander
Sol Denbaum
Morris Finkelstein
Max Krohn
Louis Leffler
Celia Mintzer
Stanley Jay Rosenthal
Barry Weinberg
February 23 - 28 Shevat
Morton Greenberg
Gerson Heinflink
Arthur Kornick
February 24 - 29 Shevat
Rachel Freida
Ann Nemser
Stanley Nussbaum
Rose Silverstein
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February 25 - 30 Shevat
Eli Manes Katz
Saul Weprin
Eleanor Wolff
February 26 - 1 Adar
Molly Avin
Arthur Braude
Phyllis Brofman
February 27 - 2 Adar
Henry Essig
Arthur Kent
Hertha Straus
Arthur Weisser
February 28 - 3 Adar
Sylvia Apfelroth
Irving Goldrus
Mack Goldstein
Melvin Hosansky
Bela Witt
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Day Camp Office Hours:
Sundays 9 am to 11 am
from January 5 through June 28
Tuesdays 6 pm to 8 pm from April 7 through June 23
The first day of camp is Monday, June 29
Last day of camp is Friday, August 21
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Purim Packages for College Students
If you are a college student and member of HJC,
contact Carol Kantro at Kantro2@gmail.com to
update your mailing address if it has changed.
HJC members who would like to send their grandchildren in college a Purim package for $18.00 contact Carol Kantro at
718 969-7784 or e-mail by Thursday, February 20
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Sisterhood of Hillcrest Jewish Center
Proudly presents
Moonlights
A Rosh Chodesh Gathering for Women of all ages
Tuesday, February 25 at 7:30 PM
#MeToo In Megillat Esther
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Hillcrest Youth and Family Book Club
The Little Old Lady Who
Broke All the Rules
By Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Wednesday, February 26 at 7:30 PM
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Shabbat Across America
Friday, February 28
Services at 5:30 PM
Dinner at 6:30 PM
Deadline has past
Call to see if space is available
Adults $36 per person
Children and Teens (5-18) $18 per person
Children 4 and under free
Sponsorship Opportunities Available
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Men's Club presents
Movie Nite:
Defiance
Starring Daniel Craig. Based on the true story of four brothers who protected over 1,000 Jewish refugees during World War II.
Saturday, March 7
at 7:30 PM
Light Refreshments
Free; RSVP requested.
Click the image to see the flyer.
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H2I Youth Group
invites H2I members to their annual
Purim Carnival
Fun Games, Moonbounce, Face Painting, Meet your Favorite Character, Balloon Twisting, Food,
Raffles and more!
Game Ticket Prices:
5 for $3 or 18 for $10
Sunday, March 8
12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
In the Moreida
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PURIM PARTY
at HJC
Monday, March 9
6:15 PM - PJ Library Pizza Party
for ages 2-7
Clown, magician, face painting games
Free but registration requested.
7:00 PM - Megillah Reading
Pick up your Sisterhood Shalach Manot Purim Bag
Stay for the after-party!
with a DJ, dancing, and hamantaschen
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Hillcrest Jewish Center
General Membership Meeting
Sunday, March 15 at 10:00 AM
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Youth & Family
Family Fun Day
Sunday, March 15 at 1:00 PM
$5 per person or $15 per family
(teens interested in coming without parents, contact us)
RSVP by March 12 to family@hillcrestjc.org or by calling Esther or Raina - see flyer.
Youth and Family events are fun for everyone but are targeted to young adults, young couples and families with children high school age and younger.
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Hillcrest Hadassah &
Hillcrest Sisterhood present
the new and improved
Women's Seder
Tuesday, March 17 at 11:00 AM
$25 per person
Make checks payable to Hillcrest Hadassah
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Hillcrest Jewish Center Adult Education, and Rabbi Manes Kogan
present
The Modern Passions of Marc Chagall
Sunday, March 22 at 10:00 AM
Open to the Public
Bagel Breakfast will be served.
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Hillcrest Jewish Center's
Mental Health Initiative
presents
Mental Wellness: Talking About the Health of Our Body AND Mind
Talking about the Taboo: How best to converse about suicide, mental wellness and Judaism's voice on the topic
with Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner
Sunday, March 29 at 7:30 PM
Join us before the program for pizza at
6:30 pm and minyan at 7:00 pm
Please RSVP to 718-380-4145 or
melissa@hillcrestjc.org
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Hadassah Book Club
Book of the Month:
People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
Tuesday, March 3
11:00 AM
In the Hillcrest Jewish Center
Mowshowitz Library
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Reminder
2020 Scholarship Applications are now available in the HJC main office.
Please submit your application no later than
April 6, 2020
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Hillcrest Jewish Center
Passover Food Drive
March 2 - April 6, 2020
Help City Harvest feed our kosher neighbors in need during Passover.
All canned, non-perishable, sealed or packaged items must be kosher.
Most needed kosher foods are:
Tuna, Salmon, Sardines, Gefilte fish, Oils, Grape Juice, Matzoh, Peanut Butter
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Shop at the Sisterhood Gift Shop
Jewelry, Ceramics, Kippot, Children’s Games, Doormats, and so much more!
Open every Shabbat during Kiddush
Please call Barbara Resnick at (718) 591-6074
to make an appointment for other times
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Youth & Family
presents
the 2020 schedule of
upcoming events!
Click flyer for more details.
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Simon & Roslyn Gold Senior Center
Join us on
Wednesdays at 10:00 AM
Suggested Contribution $3 for
Kosher light refreshments
For more information please call
Brenda Superfine (917) 880-4378.
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Hillcrest Jewish Center and
the Gold Senior Center present
Cool Collage &
Awesome Assemblage!
Wednesdays, January 29 to June 24
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Join us for fun and exciting free art workshops!
Presented by Artist/Educator, Gail Meyers
This program will introduce a variety of art making possibilities using collage, decoupage, acrylic paint, simple bookbinding, print-making and more!
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H2I Youth Group
where Judaic Enrichment Meets Fun!
H2I Youth Group is a program of Hillcrest Jewish Center, Hollis Hills Bayside Jewish Center and Israel Center of Conservative Judaism. H2I provides Jewish youth in Grade 2 through 12 a vibrant environment in which they can socialize have fun and learn!
See calendar for more details.
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Mindfulness Meditation
At Hillcrest Jewish Center
Led by Gary Baker
Wednesdays at 7:30 AM
After morning services in the Ferkauf Chapel
Also on the 1st Sunday of each month at 7:30 PM
Next Sunday Meeting: March 1st
(Ferkauf Chapel)
This activity is free of charge and open to the community. For more information,
contact Rabbi Kogan or Gary Baker at gbaker@thehackettgroup.com or 917-796-2391
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JOIN US FOR DAILY MINYAN!
YOU can choose a Minyan time that is convenient for you:
Monday through Friday mornings at 6:45 AM
Sunday through Thursday evenings at 7:00 PM
Sunday and Holiday mornings at 8:30 AM
Friday and Saturday evening Minyan is indicated by the weekly sunset time.
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING
at Hillcrest
Individual class starting dates are in
September unless noted otherwise
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Eliezer Lewis Cohen,
Ellen Miller, Cheryl Schack
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Monday - Thursday: 7:45 PM - 9:45 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM
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Hakshivu, Hakshivu Na (Announcements)
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Clergy and Staff
Rabbi Manes Kogan
Ginger Schulman, President
Rose Sigler, Executive Director
Howard Seidman, Day Camp Director
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Newsletter Staff
Joan Hausmann, Editor
Juana Meythaler-Santos, Editor
Robert Zuckerman, Advertising
Contact Us
Hillcrest Jewish Center
183-02 Union Turnpike
Flushing, NY 11366
(718) 380-4145
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