Mother’s Day Books & Bagels ~ Sunday, May 13
April 30, 2012
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 )
Shabbat Guest Speaker Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
April 30, 2012
Shabbat, May 12
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Internationally acclaimed author and lecturer
Shabbat Morning Address
following services in the Goldwyn Sanctuary
“Hillel: Seven Lessons From a Two Thousand Year Old Rabbi” (Part I)
Shabbat Afternoon Shiur
one hour before Mincha
“Pirkei Avot: Eternal Ethics For Contemporary Times”
Seudah Shlishit Presentation
following Mincha
“Hillel: Seven Lessons From a Two Thousand Year Old Rabbi” (Part II)
To purchase personalized copies of Rabbi Telushkin’s Hillel: If Not Now, When?, please contact the synagogue office: 516.487.6100
May 5, 2012
April 30, 2012
Ambassador Efraim HaLevy: Wednesday, May 9, 8:00pm
April 30, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 8:00pm
GUEST SPEAKER Ambassador Efraim HaLevy, former Director of the Mossad, in honor of the publication of Israel’s Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence.
Co-sponsored by GNS Men’s Club & Jewish Political Education Foundation. Refreshments will be served. To pre-order books, please contact the synagogue office.
Within Our Family: May 5, 2012
April 30, 2012
Mazal Tov to Jacqueline & Stanley Fischer on the birth of a grandson, born to their children Rachel & David Fischer.
Mazal Tov to Nadine & Josh Shatzkes on the birth of a son. Mazal Tov to grandparents Karen & Robert Spitalnick and great-grandmother Gisella Steigman.
Mazal Tov to Yifat & Zachary Mittleman on the birth of twins, a boy and a girl, and Mazal Tov to grandparents Rona & Myles Mittleman.
Sponsorships: May 5, 2012
April 30, 2012
Kiddush is sponsored by GNS with a Herring Table sponsored by Lisa & Michael Aryeh in honor of Raffi Farzan Kashani and Sean Sedaghatpour who layned their Bar Mitzvah parshas.
Sunday Breakfast is sponsored by Shirley & Aaron Eliach in memory of his mother, Chana Eliach, z”l.
April 28, 2012
April 26, 2012
April 28 Shabbat Announcements
Within Our Family: April 28, 2012
April 24, 2012
Mazal Tov to Joan & Henry Katz on the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson Eric Zucker, son of Linda & Jay Zucker and on the Bat Mitzvah of their granddaughter Gabrielle Sadinoff, daughter of Sara & Kenneth Sadinoff.
Mazal Tov to Arlette & Rafi Shaya on the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson Jake son of Limor & Michael Rosenberg.
Mazal Tov to Dan & Meredith Bachrach on the birth of a son. Mazal Tov also to grandparents Eva & Frank Bachrach.
Mazal Tov to Lillian & Al Leiderman on the engagement of their granddaughter Jenna Lee Statfeld daughter of Beth & Martin Statfeld to Aaron Kenneth Harris, son of Dr. Michael & Frieda Harris of Englewood, NJ.
Mazal Tov to Tricia Moslin for being honored by UJA Federation for volunteering at Parker Institute. This is a Special Volunteer Recognition Ceremony.
Mazal Tov to Betsy Leiberman on her marriage to Judge Herbert Altman of NY.
Mazal Tov to Sandy & Mark Gold on the birth of a grandson, Born to their children Nikki and Matan Shoshani.
GNS Film Series - Monday, May 14
April 24, 2012
Great Neck Synagogue JEWISH Film Series
in cooperation with the Great Neck Arts Center
The Jewish Film Series will present a sophisticated cross-section of powerful and thought-provoking films with Jewish themes and/or featuring Jewish artists and filmmakers.
$65/per series subscription (Special price for GNS members!)
$15/individual films | $20 at the door
Limited Seating
Films DO sell out. Make your reservations today!
To order tickets or for more information Contact GNAC - 516.829.2570, online @ www.greatneckarts.org/jewishfilm.htm
NEXT FILM ~ Monday, May 14, 7:30pm
A Matter of Size
followed by discussion with Dean Movshovitz, Director of Film and Media,
Office for Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York
An Israeli comedy (yes, comedy!) like nothing you’ve seen before! A hilarious and heart-warming tale about about a coming out of a different kind: four overweight guys who learn to love themselves through the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling!
Herzl (Itzik Cohen) has been struggling with his weight ever since he was young, and his overbearing mother made it no easier on him. His friends Aharon (Dvir Benedek) and Gidi (Alon Dahan) struggle with the issue of weight in their personal lives as well; from fear of losing a spouse to a “thinner” man, to coming out as a gay bear.
When Herzl loses his job as a cook and starts washing dishes in a Japanese restaurant, he discovers the world of Sumo, where large people such as himself are honored and appreciated. Through the restaurant owner Kitano (Togo Igawa), a former Japanese Sumo coach (supposedly hiding from the Yakuza in Israel) , Herzl and his friends fall in love with a sport involving “two fatsos in diapers and girly hairdos”. However, Herzl’s dedication to this demanding men-only sport threatens his budding relationship with Zehava (Irit Kaplan), a plus-size social worker.
Sponsorships: April 28, 2012
April 23, 2012
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