Talmud Torah - 2010-2011
June 25, 2010
The GNS Talmud Torah (www.gnstt.org) serves member families and students from grades one through 8 through a varied Jewish curriculum delivered by experienced Jewish educators.
Our after school program is dedicated to excellence in an engaging and respectful learning environment in which our children can become proud, caring, responsible, and dedicated members of the Jewish people and American society. Our goal is to create lifelong learners who can identify with their heritage and for whom Judaism is a central part of their lives.
Click Here to register for 2010-2011 semester.
Summer Learning Program: 2010 & Sponsors
June 22, 2010
Sally & Seymour Olshin Adult Education Program
Great Neck Synagogue Summer Learning Program
Roshei Yeshiva Lecture Series
On Various Topics of Jewish Learning
Jewish Professional Lecture Series
Focusing on the interface of Halacha with Science, and Economy.
July 6, 2010 at 8:25 pm
(following Mincha at 8:15 pm)
Rabbi Shmuel Maybruch
“Dating ourselves: Issues in Using the Secular Calender”
Rabbi Maybruch is a rebbi and a sgan mashgiach at Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan in New York. His shiurim on Gemara, Halacha, Tanach, and Machshava have been enjoyed by the bnei haYeshiva as well as many communities in the United States and Canada. During the past six years, he has devotedly taught a weekly interactive halacha shiur for women in New York City.Torah and Halacha to enable them to observe the mitzvos properly and appreciate the beauty of a Torah life.
July 13, 2010 at 8:35 pm
(following Mincha at 8:10 pm)
Rabbi Dovid Hirsch
“What Can I Say & When Can I Say It:
When Lashon Harah Is Permissable”
Rabbi Hirsch is a 1990 graduate of Yeshiva College, where he majored in computer science. Upon graduation from YC, Rabbi Hirsch received the Rothman Award for Excellence in Talmud. He earned his M.S. degree in Jewish Education from Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration in 1993. That same year, he was ordained at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). After Rabbi Hirsch was granted semikhah (rabbinic ordination) from RIETS, he was named a fellow of the Gruss Kollel Elyon. Rabbi Hirsch has taught Talmud and halakhah (Jewish law) and Jewish Thought in the Stone Beit Midrash Program at YU and was appointed Rosh Yeshiva on June 7,2000. A native of Peoria, Illinois, he is married to Miriam Hirsch. The couple has three children, Esther, Rochel, and Rivka.
July 27, 2010 at 8:35 pm
(following Mincha at 8:00 pm)
Rabbi Baruch Simon
“Can’t We Just Eat: Laws of Blessing on Foods”
Rabbi Simon, the Colonel Jehiel R. Elyachar Professor of Talmud at the Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies, received his semikha (rabbinic ordination) from Yeshiva University’s affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) in 1988. A graduate of Yeshiva University’s High School, Rabbi Simon earned his B.A., magna cum laude, in Judaic Studies from Yeshiva College Rabbi Simon was a fellow of the prestigious Caroline and Joseph Gruss Kollel Elyon and a fellow of the Katz Kollel. Before teaching in the Yeshiva Program, Rabbi Simon was a member of the Halakha faculty at the Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies at Yeshiva University.
Jewish Professional Lecture Series
August 10, 2010 at 8:15 pm
(following Mincha at 7:45 pm)
Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman
“If Maimonides was alive today:
Contemporay Medical Ethics Trough the Eyes of the Rambam”
Edward Reichman is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Professor of Philosophy and History of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) of Yeshiva University, where he teaches Jewish medical ethics. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and writes and lectures widely in the field of Jewish medical ethics. He is the recipient of a Kornfeld Foundation Fellowship and the Rubinstein Prize in Medical Ethics. He is a past member of the advisory board of the Institute for Genetics and Public Policy. His research is devoted to the interface of medical history and Jewish law.
August 17, 2010 at 8:00 pm
(following Mincha at 7:35 pm)
Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine
“Love your neighbor as yourself and The market Place”
Aaron Levine is the Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics at Yeshiva University. A Phi Beta Kappa at Brooklyn College, he earned his Ph.D. at New York University. He was ordained in Jewish civil and ritual law at the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School and is the spiritual leader of Brooklyn’s Young Israel of Ave. J. A noted authority on Jewish commercial law, Professor Levine’s research specialty is the interface between economics and Halakhah, especially as it relates to public policy and modern business practices. He has published widely on these issues, including five books and numerous monographs. His books include Free Enterprise and Jewish Law (1980); Economics and Jewish Law (1987); Economic Public Policy and Jewish Law (1993); Case Studies in Jewish Business Ethics (2000); and Moral Issues of the Marketplace in Jewish Law (2005). An Associate editor of Tradition, Rabbi Levine also serves on an ad hoc basis on the Bet Din (rabbinical court) of the Rabbinical Council of America for disputes in monetary matters. Dr. Levine is a member of the World Jewish Academy of Science and the recipient of the Irving M. Bunim Prize for Jewish Scholarship. In 1982, he was respondent to Milton Friedman in the Liberty Fund symposium on Morality of the Market.
SUMMER LEARNING PROGRAM
Dear Friends,
Each year our Summer Learning Program is run through the generosity of sponsors. It is to the credit of our sponsors that the voice of Torah is strengthened each summer.
Sponsorship is one hundred dollars. Please call the office to be included in this noble effort.
We will once again be including a sponsor’s list in the Shabbat Announcements. If you would like to sponsor a “Day of Learning” at an additional cost, in honor or in memory of someone, please call Mark Twersky and let him know.
Thank you for helping support Torah.
Very cordially yours,
Rabbi Dale Polakoff
Rabbi Shalom Axelrod
Philip Machnikoff, Chair
SPONSOR LIST (IN FORMATION)
Gilbert Aronowitz
Carol Buckmann in memory of Mayer Siegel, z”l
Debbie & Hal Chadow
Debbie Wang Etzion & Gloria Wang Miller for Fay Saltzman
Lorraine & Harold Domnitch
Marc Epstein
Tina & Philip Machnikoff in memory of Rabbi Michol Scholar
Alisa & Michael Hoenig
Barbara & Gedale Horowitz
Joan & Henry Katz
Ruth & Milt Mitzner
Carol & Jeff Kaufman
Gloria & Harvey Kaylie in memory of Lorraine White
Sam Levitt in memory of his brother Milton Levitt
Cindy & Glenn Ludwig
Sydelle & Robert Knepper
Sonia & Sam Movsas
Jolanta & Frank Rosenstein in memory of and honor of our parents
Karen & Robert Spitalnick in memory of Jonas Steigman
Gisela Steigman in memory of Jonas Steigman
Melissa & Sam Toledano in memory of his father
Hadassah & Jacob Wachstock
Great Neck Scholars Kollel: June, 2010
June 1, 2010
Great Neck Scholars Kollel
Schedule for June
| 05/31/10 | 06/01/10 | 06/03/10 |
| Laws of Emes: The truth about lying | Laws of Emes: The truth about lying | Laws of Emes: The truth about lying |
| Pirkei Avos: Timeless ethics | Pirkei Avos: Timeless ethics | Parsha |
| 06/07/10 | 06/08/10 | 06/10/10 |
| Laws of Emes: The truth about lying | Laws of Emes: The truth about lying | Laws of Emes: The truth about lying |
| Pirkei Avos: Timeless ethics | Pirkei Avos: Timeless ethics | Parsha |
| 06/14/10 | 06/15/10 | 06/17/10 |
| Cholov Yisrael: Haagen-Daaz vs. Kleins | Cholov Yisrael: Haagen-Daaz vs. Kleins | Cholov Yisrael: Haagen-Daaz vs. Kleins |
| Pirkei Avos: Timeless ethics | Pirkei Avos: Timeless ethics | Parsha |
| 06/21/10 | 06/22/10 | 06/24/10 |
| Cholov Yisrael: Haagen-Daaz vs. Kleins | Cholov Yisrael: Haagen-Daaz vs. Kleins | Cholov Yisrael: Haagen-Daaz vs. Kleins |
| Pirkei Avos: Timeless ethics | Pirkei Avos: Timeless ethics | Parsha |
Includes Breakfast
Monday Night Class with Rabbi Axelrod
May 10, 2010
CONTEMPORARY HALACHA WITH RABBI AXELROD
Starting Monday, May 10th the class will begin a new series called The Goldman Sachs Inquiry a Halachic Analysis.
Memorial Lecture: Wednesday, May 12
May 4, 2010
A Memorial Lecture on topics from Rabbi Yehuda Lieb Movsas’ book will take place on Wednesday evening, May 12, 8:30 pm in the Braun Youth Center.
Participating in the discussion will be Rabbi Dale Polakoff, Rabbi David Movsas and Rabbi Dovid Rhodes.
All are welcome.
Rabbi Axelrod on the Haggadah 2010
March 25, 2010
Classes
March 24, 2010
All classes will resume after Passover.
Chag Sameach!
Tikun Lail Shavout 2010
March 13, 2010
JOINT GNS-YIGN
TIKUN LAIL SHAVUOT PROGRAM - 5770
May 18, 2010 at YIGN
11:30 - 12:30
GREAT NECK GOES TO JERUSALEM: SO WHAT’S THE STORY
WITH THE SECOND DAY OF YOM TOV?
Rabbi Yaacov Lerner
12:40 - 1:40
ARE THE WINDS OF CHANGE BLOWING?: WOMEN IN
COMMUNAL ROLES
Rabbi Dale Polakoff
1:40 - 2:00 Refreshments
For the remainder of the evening, there will be two choices of shiurim during each time period.
2:00 - 2:50
MY TORAH OR YOUR LIFE: UNDERSTANDING “KAFA
ALEIHEM HAR K’GIGIS”
Rabbi Shalom Axelrod (Main Sanctuary)
G-D’S RESPONSE TO RABBINIC SCANDAL AND ITS LESSONS
FOR JEWISH LEADERSHIP (AND LAYMANSHIP)
Rabbi Shmuel Ismach (Beit Midrash)
3:00 - 3:50
FROM AMERICAN TO SWISS: WHAT’S SO HOLY ABOUT
KOSHER CHEESE?
Michael Bleicher, Rabbinic Intern (Main Sanctuary)
THE CURIOUS DEATHS OF NADAV AND AVIHU: SEVENTY
FACES TO THE TORAH? MAYBE EVEN ONE HUNDRED!
Dr. Efraim Weinblatt (Beit Midrash)
4:00 - 4:50
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN RABBIS OF THE MISHNA CONFRONT
PAGAN ART?
Rabbi Ben Skydell (Main Sanctuary)
TECHELET - DO I NEED TO GO OUT AND BUY A NEW TALIT?
Dr. Avi Goldberg (Beit Midrash)
5:05 SCHACHARIT
5:35 NETZ HACHAMAH
Great Neck Scholars Kollel: March, 2010
March 8, 2010
Great Neck Scholars Kollel
Schedule for March
| 03/01/10 | 03/02/10 | 03/04/10 |
| Laws of Pesach: Passover the Bracha | Laws of Pesach: Passover the Bracha | Laws of Pesach: Passover the Bracha |
| Hagada insights | Hagada insights | Parsha |
| 03/08/10 | 03/09/10 | 03/11/10 |
| Laws of Pesach: Passover the Bracha | Laws of Pesach: In search of chometz | Laws of Pesach: In search of chometz |
| Hagada insights | Hagada insights | Parsha |
| 03/15/10 | 03/16/10 | 03/18/10 |
| Laws of Pesach: In search of chometz | Laws of Pesach: In search of chometz | Laws of Pesach: In search of chometz |
| Hagada insights | Hagada insights | Parsha |
| 03/22/10 | 03/23/10 | 03/25/10 |
| Laws of Pesach: In search of chometz | Laws of Pesach: In search of chometz | Laws of Pesach: In search of chometz |
| Hagada insights | Hagada insights | Parsha |
Includes Breakfast
Women’s Chumash, Thursday January 29, 2010
March 4, 2010
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