CLOTHING DRIVE FOR ISRAEL

Women’s League of Cong. Ahavas Yisroel will again be collecting used clothing to ship to Israel. The shipment will go to Kiryat Sefer and the distribution will be overseen by Bracha (Pearl) Silberstein.
Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Time: 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Place: Congregation Ahavas Yisroel,
corner 73rd Avenue & 147th Street
The shipping is done in egg boxes and the cost is approximately $18/box.
1. Clothing for infants & toddlers
2. Shabbos and everyday clothing (in very good condition) for children 5-12
Boys: Long pants / shorts - dark colors
Polo shirts with buttons
Shirts - white / plaids / stripes
Girls: Dresses, skirts and jumpers
Blouses with appropriate sleeves
3. Shabbos clothing for teens
Donations towards shipping costs would be greatly appreciated.
Checks can be made out to Congregation Ahavas Yisroel Women’s League.

For information, or to volunteer to sort, pack or drive,
please contact Sunni Pearl, 718 544-9206.

Shiva for R' Avraham Shechter

Shivah is being observed at 147-20 72 Drive, Kew Gardens Hills, until Thursday morning, November 2.



Shacharis 7:45

Minchah 2:45

Maariv 6:30

Shiur Schedule

Shabbos – Parshas Noach - October 28, 2006 - 3:50 PM
Shiur for Women By Rabbi Yaakov Finestone
“Can We Fix the Spiritual Ozone Layer?”
At the Home of Rochel Graubard 136-84 71st Road

Sunday Morning Learning Program
R' Yakov Haber will be giving his weekly shiur at 8:45 AM on a topic related to Rosh Hashanah. R' Yechezkel Rosenberg will be leading the Chavrusa program at 9:30 AM.

Tuesday 10/31 at 8:30 - Rabbi Welcher will be giving a Shiur on Mitzvah of Kiddush: Hashkafa, Halacha & Lomdus from Sefer Minchas Chinuch

Second Daily Shacharis Minyan will resume on Monday, October 30th at 7:35 AM - Monday thru Friday.

Monday 10/30 at 7:30 - JBFCS Program in the Shul
Motivating Our Children: Understanding Their Individual Learning Styles Dr David Pelcovitz and Dr Marsha Winokur

Wednesday 11/1 at 8:30
Worldwide Video for Women on the Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu
The Power of Our Compassion: How Can We Make a Difference. Rebbetzin Tehila Jaeger and Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller

Rabbi Welcher will be giving a shiur on "Insights into Hoshana Rabah” - Thursday – October 12, 2006, 9:45 PM

Rabbi Welcher will be giving a shiur on "Insights into Hoshana Rabah”
Thursday – October 12, 2006, 9:45 PM –After Maariv

Bais Yaakov D'Rav Meir's Production of "The Lost Song" 10/11/2006, at 8:00 PM at AY

On Chol Hamoed, Wednesday 10/11/2006, at 8:00 PM at AY, the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation will present "The Lost Song", an audio visual production of the highly acclaimed Bais Yaakov D'Rav Meir.

The event is for women only. The charge for women is $12 and for students is $10.

Learn How To Lain Megilas Esther

If there is enough interest, Ruby Ginsberg has offered to teach the laining for Megilas Esther in the shul between Mincha and Maariv on Shabbos afternoon. Those interested please contact Ruby or Leon. The class would begin Shabbos B’reishis, October 21.

A Daily Dose of KindnessMonday, September 25, 2006

A Daily Dose of KindnessMonday, September 25, 2006---------------------------------------
* We flew to Israel on El Al a few weeks ago for the Holidays. My sister and I had been separated. We saw an observant woman sitting alone and we asked if she wouldn't mind trading, and she said, "my pleasure" and moved to my seat, which was a window and she was glad to have the window she said. Someone then asked if she would trade so two friends can sit together. She cheerfully did so, although she gave up a window for another aisle. Then a husband and wife had been separated, and they asked if she would change so they could sit together. Smiling, she did so. The passengers all began to laugh when another couple approached her! She gathered her belongings and moved yet again!!!This woman kept gathering her belongings and moving, always with a smile. Most of us would have been very aggravated, but her calm demeanor made us all feel good.

Rabbi Welcher on Tekias Shofar on Shabbos - mp3

Rabbi Welcher's shiur on "Tekias Shofar on Shabbos" can be downloaded here.

A MESSAGE FROM AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA

The scheduled visit to New York of the Iranian President – a man who
has described the Holocaust as "a myth" and called for Israel to be
wiped off the map," a man who pursues destructive nuclear capacity in
defiance of the entire world community, a man who sponsors terror and
mayhem in the Middle East and beyond – should fill every civilized
heart with revulsion.

And it should fill every Jewish heart with something more.
The arrival of this would-be heir to Hitler should remind all Jews how
little has truly changed since millions of Jews were last targeted for
destruction, r"l. And it should remind us, no less, of the uniquely
vulnerable position of Yisroel bein ho'amim, Jewry among the nations,
and of the fact that ein lonu al mi lehishoein ela al Avinu
She'baShomayim – We can depend on no one but Our Father in Heaven.
Therefore, at this critical time, and during this season of
introspection and repentance, we call upon all Jews to return to our
sacred heritage, with tefillah and renewed allegiance to Torah, our
eternal wellspring of life, the source of our strength to withstand all
our enemies.
Along with our supplications, we feel it is our duty as well to express
to the world our deep anguish over the presence in our midst of a
vicious ruler who threatens genocide against Jews.
A number of Jewish groups are planning to gather outside the United
Nations headquarters, at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza (2nd Avenue and 47th Street in Manhattan)
to present a collective Jewish expression of outrage at the General
Assembly's hosting of the Iranian leader, of support for Israel's
security and soldiers, and of solidarity in the fight against the
global scourge of terrorism.
Whatever differences may separate us from some of those groups, we
stand united here with all Jews.
Therefore, after consultation with the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and following the precedent of the previous generation's Gedolim in similar circumstances, we urge all who are able to do so to participate in the planned gathering. We have been assured that a special section will be made available for men and women to gather in separate areas, and we will lift our voices in tefillah to Hashem, secure in the knowledge that
Bechol dor vodor omdim aleinu lechaloseinu veHakodosh Boruch Hu
matzileinu miyodom.

In every generation, there are those who stand against us to annihilate
us, but Hashem saves us from their hand.

Rally Reminder

Just a reminder regarding the major national Israel Solidarity Rally in New York City on Wednesday, September 20th at 12 noon organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Please note that the gathering point will be in front of the United Nations in the presence of world leaders who will hear our unified message that we stand with Israel, we stand against global terrorism and its state sponsors, and we demand the release of the Israeli hostages Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser, and Eldad Regev. We urge you to encourage your membership to attend this rally.

R' Moshe Schwerd on "How Can We Survive the Year Without the Shofar?

R' Moshe Schwerd on "How Can We Survive the Year Without the Shofar? can be downloaded here.

Funeral & Shiva Notice

We are saddened to report the passing of Malka Benedek, mother of Yisroel Benedek. The funeral will take place on Friday, September 15 and 10:15 AM at Sinai Chapel. The burial will take place at Beth David cemetery in Elmont.
Shiva will be observed at 138-43 77Th Avenue.


Minyan Schedule:

Sunday: 8:00AM
Mon. & Thurs.: 5:55 AM (Selichos followed by Shacharis)
Tues. & Weds.: 6:05 AM (Selichos followed by Shacharis)

Minchah: 6:45 PM

Those who can attend Minyan, please contact Yossi Orbach at joseph.c.orbach@citigroup.com

Rabbi Welcher on Tekias Shofar - mp3

Rabbi Welcher's shiur on Tekias Shofar can be downloaded here.

R' Yechezkel Rosenberg on Bentching for an Onein - mp3

R' Yechezkel Rosenberg on "Bentching for an Onein" can be downloaded here

R' Yechezkel Rosenberg on Can an Onein Do Mitzvos - mp3

R' Yechezkel Rosenberg on "Can an Onein Do Mitzvos " can be downloaded here

PRAY FOR WOUNDED & MISSING SOLDIERS updated 15.8.06

>
>Pray for the safe return of all our soldiers and pilots who are
>still in southern Lebanon and Gaza. 10 katushya rockets were fired
>on our soldiers yesterday in south Lebanon, in spite of the cease
>fire, but our soldiers did not respond as none of the katushyas
>reached Israel.
>
>Please pray for all the wounded soldiers. Obviously many of them
>are not on this list. 22 soldiers are in very serious condition.
>Two soldiers are critical and their lives are in danger.
>
>If anyone has names of more wounded soldiers or knows mothers'
>names, or knows name of young soldier who lost both legs, and said
>from his hospital bed, that if somehow he managed to help his
>country, then he didn't regret losing both of his legs- Please send
>them to me and we'll ad them to this list:
>singingsandy2004@yahoo..com
>
>HaShem Yerachem (May G-d have mercy)
>
>First of all we want to thank G-d:
>
>for the miraculous recovery of Shabitai Maoz who was critically
>wounded (enosh) in Lebanon, and is now recovered.
>
>Miraculous recovery of Tomer Bochadana who was very seriously
>injured. He regained consciousness on Shabbat but still couldn't
>speak. He is now able to speak.
>
>Wounded soldiers:
>
>Yitzhak ben Rivka seriously wounded Tyre.
>One of the navy commandos seriously wounded in the incursion into
>Tzur (Tyre), Lebanon, is still in serious condition.
>
>Assaf ben Lillian –survived an anti-tank missile attack and is in
>very serious condition
>
>Idan ben Yonah – very seriously injured
>
>Amit ben Nava- very critically wounded
>
>Netanel Mordechai ben Hinda Fayga- paratrooper with 3 kids & another
>on the way
>
>Nadav ben Esther Malka
>Yiftach Bezalel ben Leah
>
>Yonatan ben Rachel
>Yoav ben Yehudit
>Dror ben Esther
>Eran Perry – has lost a leg and needs months of rehabilitation Arik
>Dayan has lost leg & needs months of rehabilitation Ron Naveh
>Carmel ben Sarah Harrari
>Dimitri Kalman
>Jacques bar Lev
>Nimrud Salbin
>Shai Shem Tov
>
>Tsafrir Goldberg
>
>Shai ben Bat Sheva
>Moshe ben Hana
>Aviv Saroussi
>Naftali Boaz Mordechai ben Menucha Chana
>Ariel ben [son of] JanetteSha'ul ben Shulamit
>Gal ben Shoshana
>Yuval ben Yehudit
>Guy Yosef ben Ela
>Amichai ben Orah
>Gideon ben Yehudit
>Elro'i Rafael ben Galia Glynis
>Tzur Pinchas ben Sarit Sara Rivka
>Yogev Menashe ben Bruriah
>
>Please keep up your prayers for our missing soldiers especially in
>light of fact that our government accepted UN agreement that didn't
>call for their unconditional release:
>Gilad ben Aviva (Shalit), captured just outside Gaza on June 25 of
>this year;
>
>Ehud ben Malka (Goldwasser) and Eldad ben Tova (Regev), captured on the
>Israeli-Lebanese border July 12 of this year;
>
>Israel has 5 other missing soldiers:
>
>Guy ben Rina (Hever), disappeared near the Syrian-Israeli border in the
>Golan Heights in August 1997;
>
>Ron ben Batya (Arad), captured when his plane was downed over Lebanon
>in Oct. 1986;
>
>and Tzvi ben Pninah (Feldman), Yekutiel Yehuda Nachman ben Sarah
>(Katz), and Zecharia Shlomo ben Miriam (Baumel), all captured at the
>Sultan Yaaqub battle in Lebanon on June 11, 1982.
>

Rabbi Yisrael Herczeg - Scholar In Residence - Parshas Re'eh

All Men and Women in the Community are Invited to a

Scholar-in-Residence Program - Parshas Re’eh


Rabbi Yisrael Herczeg
Translator, Annotator, and Elucidator of Art Scroll’s Saperstein Edition of the Chumash with Rashi


“Eizehu Chochom HaRoeh es HaNolad: Focusing Our Thoughts”
Friday Night, August 18, 2006 - 9:30 PM


“HaRotzeh BiSeshuvah:
No Time Like the Present”
Shabbos Morning Drasha


“Kedushas HaBechor:
The Sanctity of the Firstborn”
Shalosh Seudos - Mincha at 6:00 PM


Congregation Ahavas Yisroel 147-02 73rd Avenue

Frightening News from France

Once again, the real news in France is conveniently not being reported
as it should.

To give you an idea of what's going on in France where there are now
between
5 and 6 million Muslims and about 600,000 Jews, here is an email that
came from a Jew living in France. Please read! Will the world say
nothing - again - as it did in Hitler's time?

He writes, "I AM A JEW -- therefore I am forwarding this to everyone on
all my e-mail lists. I will not sit back and do nothing." Nowhere have
the flames of anti-Semitism burned more furiously than in France:

In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire. In
Montpellier, the Jewish religious center was firebombed; so were
synagogues in Strasbourg and Marseilles; so was a Jewish school in
Creteil - all recently.

A Jewish sports club in Toulouse was attacked with Molotov cocktails,
and on the statue of Alfred Dreyfus in Paris , the words "Dirty Jew"
were painted.
In Bondy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish footbal team with sticks
and metal bars. The bus that takes Jewish children to school in
Aubervilliers has been attacked three times in the last 14 months.

According to the Police, metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12
anti-Jewish incidents PER DAY in the past 30 days. Walls in Jewish
neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming "Jews to the
gas chambers" and "Death to the Jews."

A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the
butcher) in Toulouse, France; a Jewish couple in their 20s were beaten
up by five men in Villeurbanne, France. The woman was pregnant; a Jewish
school was broken into and vandalized in Sarcelles, France. This was
just in the past week.

So I call on you, whether you are a fellow Jew, a friend, or merely a
person with the capacity and desire to distinguish dece ncy from
depravity, to do, at least, these three simple things:


First, care enough to stay informed. Don't ever let yourself become
deluded into thinking that this is not your fight. I remind you of what
Pastor Neimoller said in World War II: "First they came for the
Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then
they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a
Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me".

Second, boycott France and French products. Only the Arab countries are
more toxically anti-Semitic and, unlike them, France exports more than
just oil and hatred. So boycott their wines and their perfumes. Boycott
their clothes and their foodstuffs. Boycott their movies. Definitely
boycott their shores. If we are resolved we can exert amazing pressure
and, whatever else we may know about the French, we most certainly know
that they are like a cobweb in a hurricane in the face of well directed
pressure.

Third, send this along to your family, your friends, and your
co-workers.
Think of all of the people of good conscience that you know and let them
know that you and the people that you care about need their help.


The number one best selling book in France is "September 11: The
Frightening Fraud," which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon.

Computer Virus alert

Emails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent and the moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and you will not be able to fix it!

If you get an email along the lines of "Osama Bin Laden Captured"
or "Osama Hanged" don't open the attachment.
This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the globe, but mainly in the US and Israel.
Be considerate & send this warning to whomever you know.


PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:

Help Israel with matching funds

On behalf of the Mincha Minyan at 320 Park Avenue:



Please take advantage of this unparalleled opportunity to triple the value of your support for our brethren in Israel, with donations to the vital organizations below.

Subject: From Zev Wolfson : Israel Humanitarian Emergency Challenge Grant

We are all aware of the unfolding human crisis facing the reported million people displaced in Northern Israel. Their terror, anguish and grief cause within us an indescribable soul-searing pain. We cannot be silent as blood spills and despair rages on. We cannot feel the comfort of our environs when over one million Israelis live the lives of refugees- in their own land.

Act we must: and act we will.

This is not a solicitation, but rather our effort to share with our friends the channels we have developed in responding to the massive relief effort required to address this unfolding tragedy, and to offer you the opportunity to leverage your contribution by our providing a dollar for dollar match.

We have focused our efforts on the three immediate areas of need--- in short, what we would need were we refugees:

a) Shelter b) Food c) Sustenance of Life: Clothing and Emergency Funds

Through the years, we have marveled at the ability of two Israeli based social service organizations that have mastered the challenge of caring for those in critical need.

American Friends of Migdal Ohr has relocated away from harm's way almost six thousand refugees, mostly women and children. With our help, they will double that number immediately.

In His Image, working in conjunction with several humanitarian organizations, renown for financing all requisite needs of the neediest among us, has established makeshift kitchens offering thousands of meals to the local refugees and the many soldiers passing through the North.
Furthermore, there is an immediate humanitarian need of an additional 10,000 families; some with needs as basic as baby formula.

We have committed to match all contributions made in response to this letter to a maximum of five million dollars. Inasmuch as these charities have identified additional matching opportunities from other sources, our matching program, will, to a great extent, create a triple leverage of your contribution.

In short your $100,000 contribution will have the sustaining impact of a $300,000 contribution.

These are tragic yet historic times for the people of Israel and the civilized world. History will reflect upon how we in the United States responded to this human tragedy created by forces that aim to destroy our way of life. Many of us were drawn to aid those impacted by the tragedies of 9/11, the wrath of Katrina and the human devastation of the tsunami. The world appreciated that the country of impact needed universal support. Relative to the size of the State of Israel, the human impact of this crisis is far too great for the country to bear alone.

Feel free to pass this offer along to your friends and associates.

We pray that our united efforts be rewarded with peace.

Zev Wolfson

Please make your check(s) payable to American Friends of Migdal Ohr and/or In His Image and mail to:

Zev Wolfson
Wolfson Group
1 State Street Plaza
29th Floor
New York, New York 10004





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Associate Director

Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.

320 Park Ave

New York, New York 10022

Ph. (212) 272-4339

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