Announcements April 27

Shabbat Announcements April 27

Sponsorships: April 20, 2013

Kiddush and Seudah Shlishit are sponsored

By Great Neck Synagogue in

Honor of Rabbi Polakoff’s 25th Anniversary

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Bima Flowers are sponsored by

the Sponsors of the

25^th Anniversary Shabbat

and by

Pia & Michael Shlomo & Family

in honor of Rabbi Polakoff’s 25th year at Great Neck Synagogue

and in honor of Pia & Matt’s Birthdays

Sponsorships: Dec 1 and Dec 8: 2012

December 1

Kiddush is sponsored by Great Neck Synagogue

Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by Charlotte and Perry Schneider in memory of his mother Sandra Schneider and by GNS in honor of Rabbi Sacks.

Bima Flowers are sponsored by Renee & Abe Krieger in memory of his father Nathan Krieger, z”l.

Sunday Breakfast is sponsored by Renee & Abe Krieger in memory of his father Nathan Krieger, z”l.

December 8

Kiddush is sponsored by Great Neck Synagogue with a herring table sponsored by Eddie & Sonia Weiss in memory of his father Chaim Sender Yosef ben Chaim

Sunday Breakfast is sponsored by Mark & Adina Abraham in memory of his mother Malka bat Sara and Yaakov Hakohen and by Orly and Alan Steinberg in honor of their son Ira putting ontefillin for the first time.

Mother’s Day Books & Bagels ~ Sunday, May 13

Books & Bagels

Sunday, May 13 ~ 10:00am
Braun Youth Center

The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

by Lucette Lagnado

Breakfast will be served
Babysitting will be provided

Book sale and signing will follow author presentation.

Complimentary Admission
No RSVP Required

The Arrogant Years ($15) is available for pre-order through the synagogue office

The author of the award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit—hailed by the New York Times book review as a “crushing, brilliant book”—returns with this, the extraordinary follow-up memoir

In The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, Lucette Lagnado offered a heartbreaking portrait of her father, Leon, a successful Cairo boulevardier who was forced to take flight with his family during the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, and of her family’s struggle to rebuild a new life in a new land.

In this much-anticipated new memoir, Lagnado tells the story of her mother, Edith, coming of age in a magical old Cairo of dusty alleyways and grand villas inhabited by pashas and their wives. Then Lagnado revisits her own early years in America—first, as a schoolgirl in Brooklyn’s immigrant enclaves, where she dreams of becoming the fearless Mrs. Emma Peel of The Avengers, and later, as an “avenging” reporter for some of America’s most prestigious newspapers. A stranger growing up in a strange land, when she turns sixteen Lagnado’s adolescence is further complicated by cancer. Its devastating consequences would rob her of her “arrogant years”—the years defined by an overwhelming sense of possibility, invincibility, and confidence. Lagnado looks to the women sequestered behind the wooden screen at her childhood synagogue, to the young coeds at Vassar and Columbia in the 1970s, to her own mother and the women of their past in Cairo, and reflects on their stories as she struggles to make sense of her own choices.

“The Arrogant Years [is] a paragon of memoir writing, a story about the complex swirl of people and events and forces out of which individual lives are made — some, like Ms. Lagnado’s, more painfully, but also more fully, than others.” (New York Times )

“Lagnado is at her best when she plumbs her own psyche to sort out her life’s ups and downs…a rewarding journey.” (Washington Post)

“Lagnado is a gifted storyteller who spins ordinary family experiences into enchanting fairy tales, complete with magical backdrops…nasty villains and dashing heroes…. Vivid and evocative…tender and heartfelt.” (Kirkus)

“Lyrical…[Lagnado’s] memoir is a fully fleshed, moving re-creation of once-vibrant Jewish communities.” (Publishers Weekly )

Sisterhood News

SISTERHOOD MEETING & PESACH BAKING DEMONSTRATION

Please join us on Wednesday evening, March 14th at 7:00pm for a Sisterhood meeting in the Braun Youth Center to plan and organize upcoming events. Immediately following the meeting at 7:45pm, we are pleased to have Cindy Hodkin teach us how to make Passover truffles. She is dedicating her baking demonstration in memory of her father Bernard Korman on the occasion of his 36th yahrzeit. RSVP is required to attend the baking demonstration - please email Cindy Hodkin at koshercookinggn@gmail.com

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

The Sisterhood would like to thank everyone who generously donated to the Florence Shaffer Memorial Fund over the last few weeks. We are grateful to our anonymous donor who matched all these donations and helped Sisterhood raise a significant amount of money to be used for need-based scholarships for college women.

Sponsorships

Week of Feb 25

Kiddush is sponsored by Serge Fischler in honor of the upcoming marriage of Steven to Raina Miller.

Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by Donna & Leon Schwechter in memory of his father Yisrael ben Menachem Mendel and byMalka Gad & Donna & Joseph Hecht in memory of  David Gad, z”l.

Sunday Midrash and Breakfast is sponsored by Milton Mitzner in memory of his siblings Chana Rochel bas Alexander Zushe, Pinya bas Alexander Zushe and Moshe Dovid ben Alexander Zushe.

Week of March 3

We thank the following families for their sponsorship of this weeks Kiddush in honor of

Yaffa Leba Lichter

Dani & Marcy Aharon

Bart & Emma Baum

Jeff & Lisa Benjamin

Brett & Judy Blatter

Mark & Linda Bunim

Hal & Debbie Chadow

Elie & Laura Cohen

Scott & Laura Danoff

Tommy & Debbie Furst

Matt & Olga Gartenhaus

Mark & Robyn Gelberg

Abe & Lynn Glasman

Sharon Goldwyn

Sol & Talia Goldwyn

Isaac & Ina Greszes

Charlie & Doreen Hadid

Natan & Dina Hamerman

Joseph & Donna Hecht

Erica & Elliot Heisler

Robert & Debbie Hollander

Adam & Didi Hutt

Joe & Lauren Hyman

Mark & Amy Kalter

Nick & Vivian Kron

Annie & Robert Mendelson

Myles & Rona Mittleman

Zach & Yifat Mittleman

Avery & Ellen Modlin

Jon & Daniella Muller

Jon & Dina Ohebshalom

Jared & Liz Ort

Brenda & Ed Parver

Alan &  Louisa Prawer

Murray & Marci Rabinowitz

Grant & Galit Reichlin

David & Diane Rein

Jonathan & Amy Reiss

Mikey & Aviva Rosenberg

Dov & Aliza Sassoon

Ezra & Susan Sheena

Evan & Jessica Shusterman

Mitch & Ellen Siegel

Seth & Lauren Silberstein

Robert & Karen Spitalnick

Sam & Melissa Toledano

Howard & Michele Wolf

Ed & Karen Wydra

Adam & Karen Zalta

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Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by Louise & Leonard Kahn

in memory of her mother Sarah Tuch, z”l

and in honor of their granddaughter Liora Sarah.

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HASHKAMA MINYAN KIDDUSH

Kiddush is sponsored by Gil Aronowitz in memory of his wife

Florence,z”l and his mother Fannie,z”l.

YOUTH SNACKS

Snacks are sponsored by Erica & Eliot Heisler in honor of

James’ 11th birthday.

SUNDAY BREAKFAST

Breakfast is sponsored by Gil Aronowitz in memory of his wife

Florence,z”l and his mother Fannie,z”l, and by Paul Brody &

Family as a Seudat Hodaya, with thanks to Hashem for his recovery.

Women’s Chumash, Thursday, December 15, 2011

The shiur ends abruptly when the recorder shut off.

GNS to host Member of Kenesset Yaakov “Katzela” Katz

Great Neck Synagogue is privileged to host Member of Kenesset Yaakov “Katzela” Katz, who will address the congregation following 4:45pm Mincha. He will share with us a unique perspective on the issues facing the government of Israel during these days.

Born in 1951, MK Katz is a 5^th generation Israeli who graduated a Bnei Akiva High School and studied at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva. He served as a member of an elite commando unit and was almost killed in a battle with Egyptian commandoes during the 1973 Yom Kippur war. He was one of the first 10 families to live in Beit El and established the Arutz Sheva radio station. He currently serves as Chairman of the National Union Alliance.

Youth Basketball

Here are the schedules and teams for the first season of Tuesday night basketball.

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Men’s Club Cooking Class for Men

Monday, August 22

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