Tefillah and the Siddur Ha-tefillah Prayer and the Prayer Book
What Do We Say and Why Do We Say It?
by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Every Thursday at at 12:30pm (EST) starting February 24th
Each shiur will last approximately 30 minutes
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Candle Lighting: 5:24
Mincha Friday: 5:32
Mincha Shabbos: 5:20
Maariv Motzai Shabbos 6:28
Pirchei groups (at the Agudah) 2:00
Sunday Shacharis: 8:00 & 9:00
Mincha/Maariv 5:34
Maariv only Monday - Thursday 8:00
The Daf Yomi Commission is pleased to announce, that due to overwhelming demand, the Jacob Javits Convention Center, located on 11th Avenue and 34th Street, will be made available to the public for a live hookup to Madison Square Garden and the Continental Arenas for the 11th Siyum Hashas of Daf Yomi. The price is $20 per seat. Tickets can be purchased at the following locations: Read More
MANHATTAN: Agudath Israel of America National Headquarters 42 Broadway, 14th Floor (888) Siyum-11
BROOKLYN: Eichler's 5004 13th Avenue (718) 633-1505, 1401 Coney Island Avenue (718) 258-7643
Torah Treasures 3005 Avenue L (718) 677-3089
MONSEY: Five Star Judaica 457 Route 306 Wesley Hills Plaza (845) 354-3033
FAR ROCKAWAY: Ki Tov 1847 Mott Avenue (718) 471-0963
PASSAIC, NJ: Z. Berman Books 110 Van Houten Avenue (973) 471-1765
QUEENS: Gift World 72-20 Main Street (718) 261-0233
We hope that all those who are interested, will still be able to partake in this monumental Kiddush Hashem.
Candle Lighting: 5:16
Mincha Friday: 5:24
Mincha Shabbos: 5:150
Maariv Motzai Shabbos 6:20
Pirchei groups (at the Agudah) 2:00
Motzai Shabbos Learning program (in our shul) 7:00
Sunday Shacharis: 8:00 & 9:00
Mincha/Maariv 5:26
Maariv only Monday - Thursday 8:00
Monday legal Holiday (TBD)
Wednesday & Thursday are Purim Katan
The shul's annual Malava Malka will IY"H be held on March 5th at Yeshiva Ohr Hachaim. It will begin at 9:00 PM. This year's guest speaker will be Rabbi Yosef Viener (Rov of Agudath Israel of Flatbush).
Please show your hakaros ha'tov to the Rov and our Beis Medraesh and join us for this enjoyable evening.
The Vaad L'Chizuk HaTorah invites the men and women of our community to the Fourth Annual Queens SIYUM HATORAH on Motzoei Shabbos, Parshas Tetzaveh February 19, 2005 at 8:30 in the evening at the Rabbinical Seminary of America 76-01 147th Street
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The siyum is being sponsored in memory of the six million kedoshim and the kedoshei Eretz Yisroel and Joan Maybruch by her family and friends
We will be privleged to be addressed by HaRav Uren Reich, Rosh Hayeshiva Yeshiva of Woodlake Village, Lakewood, New Jersey
R.S.V.P.
phone: (718) 670-1544
e-mail: SiyumQueens@Kehillah.com
Minimum contribution:
$25.00 per person
Yeshivas Ohr HaChaim will be holding it's dinner on March 6th where they will be honoring the new Musmachim.
Amongst the new Musmachim are: Rabbi Mendy Barth and Rabbi Ophie Nat.
If you would like to contribute to a shul ad in their honor, please see Steve Weissman.
The OU Calls on its Synagogues Across North America to Set Aside February 5 Sabbath Service to Implement Elimination of ‘Kiddush Clubs’ for more information (i.e. why) click here
Latest issue of the Agudath Israel's Inside Track.
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***A record-breaking number of American baaleibatim gathered for what has become for many a “must-attend” Torah event – the Annual Yerushalayim Yarchei Kallah. Sponsored by Agudath Israel’s Torah Projects Commission, the Yarchei Kallah — held January 10-14 at the Jerusalem Renaissance Hotel — featured shiurim, divrei machshava and divrei chizuk by some of Eretz Yisroel’s most prominent roshei yeshiva, rabbonim and admorim. The Gedolei Yisroel who delivered divrei chizuk at this year’s Yarchei Kallah were (in order of appearance) Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, Rosh HaYeshiva, Yeshivas Mir, Yerushalayim; Harav Don Segal; Harav Shmuel Auerbach, Rosh HaYeshiva, Yeshiva Maalos HaTorah; the Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe and Rabbi Yaakov Hillel, the Rosh Yeshiva of Mechon Ahavat Shalom in Yerushalayim. Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe and Rosh Agudath Israel, delivered the hakdama shiur.
***Delegates from cities throughout North America, South America, Europe, Israel and Mexico were on hand for Agudath Israel of America’s 82nd national convention, held at the Stamford Westin Hotel over the weekend of November 25-28. The four-day gathering focused on the theme “Living Among the Nations: Part of the World, Apart From the World.” Audio-tapes of all convention plenary sessions, concurrent symposia, and roundtable forums are now available from the Agudah office. See enclosed tape brochure and order form.
***In reaction to reports that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was planning a media blitz based on surreptitiously filmed videotapes harshly depicting the slaughter of animals at the nation’s largest glatt kosher processing plant, delegates to Agudath Israel’s recent convention adopted a resolution condemning PETA’s attack on Jewish religious practice. In the weeks since the story broke, Agudath Israel executive vice president for government and public affairs Chaim Dovid Zwiebel helped craft a widely publicized statement by 12 rabbinic representatives of U.S. kashrus certifying agencies responding to the allegations set forth by the video and has worked with numerous rabbinic authorities and kashrus agencies in coordinating a strategy to deal with the crisis.
***Am Echad Resources, Agudath Israel’s syndication service for Jewish media, disseminated an essay by Agudath Israel director of public affairs Rabbi Avi Shafran on the controversy, explaining the danger PETA’s campaign poses to religious liberty in the U.S., and Agudath Israel’s Washington office director Rabbi Abba Cohen has been active in dealing with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the federal governmental issues involved.
***Daf Yomi participants around the world are now learning Meseches Nidah — the last mesechta in Shas. Meanwhile, preparations proceed apace for the greatly anticipated 11th Siyum HaShas celebrations at Madison Square Garden and Continental Airlines Arena (for seating availability call 1-888-SIYUM-11) and in scores of locations in cities around the globe. The Commission marked the beginning of Meseches Nidah with a campaign urging prospective Daf Yomi learners to participate in this final phase of the 11th cycle and “come to the simcha as a mechuten.”
***More than 400 shuls across the country participated in the first annual National Tefilla Initiative, sponsored by Agudath Israel’s Commission on Kedushas Beis Haknesses. Throughout the inaugural four-week program, which ran from Parshas Vayeishev through Parshas Vayechi, participating shul rabbonim devoted their shiurim and droshas to the history, halachos and meaning of our tefillos.
***A bid to overturn a Housing Ministry ruling nullifying the results of a tender for purchasing lots in the Ramat Beis Shemesh neighborhood because the awardees were chareidim has been overturned thanks to the efforts of Rabbi Mordechai Green, director of BeZedek – the Agudath-Israel affiliated Center for the Advancement of Justice in Israel. In the year since BeZedek was established, the office has scored numerous victories benefiting Israel’s chareidi community.
***Agudath Israel filed a friend of the court brief with the NYS Supreme Court Appellate Division in support of a group of non-Jewish agencies’ challenge of a law requiring them to provide health care insurance for procedures they regard as religiously objectionable. Although Agudath Israel does not itself object to providing its employees with such coverage, it sees the precedent the law establishes – “by preventing some religious groups from freely exercising their faiths” – as alarming.
***Chaim Dovid Zwiebel was among a small number of Jewish leaders who had an off-the-record meeting with Secretary of State designate Condoleeza Rice at the White House several weeks ago to discuss issues pertaining to the Middle east, global anti-Semitism and Dr. Rice’s plans regarding her new position.
***In a letter to The New York Times published on November 12, Mr. Zwiebel corrected a mistaken impression given by a news story that Orthodox Jews are, unlike some other religious groups, not opposed to abortion.
***Agudath Israel’s Washington Office played a key role in streamlining the provision of benefits for disabled private school students under the reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), enacted into law by President Bush. Legal requirements regarding identification of disabled children, consultation with parents and private school authorities and accountability on the part of the local school districts have been expanded and strengthened. The office will continue to be active in working with the Department of Education during the all-important regulatory phase.
***In a letter in the New York Jewish Week published on December 3, Rabbi Avi Shafran responded to an earlier letter from an Orthodox writer who expressed disdain for non-Orthodox Jews. Characterizing the writer’s sentiments as “profoundly disturbing and, frankly, un-Jewish,” Rabbi Shafran asserted that while “like the letter writer, I believe that the Jewish future lies in the return by all Jews to the Jewish past,” the only feeling for fellow Jews that responsible Orthodox Jews have are “kinship and love.”
***On December 25, The New York Sun published a letter by Rabbi Shafran in response to a column by Hillel Halkin taking the Israeli Orthodox community to task for accepting government subsidies for its yeshivos and poor. Rabbi Shafran noted that, while there are certainly Israelis who resent supporting Jewish scholarship, there are others who regard religious institutions and scholars “much as many Americans regard universities and humanities scholars.” He further pointed out that most Americans favor providing “safety-net services for the inner-city underclass, whose poverty often stems from adult activities considerably less sublime than dedication to study and religious piety.”
***NYS Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was the special guest at a recent 42 Broadway meeting of Agudath Israel’s national officers and Vaad Hanhala. Items on the agenda included a summary of the role played by Agudath Israel in dealing with the shechita issue, a status report on the upcoming Siyum HaShas, and an update of developments in the Jewish communities of South America.
***In a strongly worded letter, Agudath Israel of America executive vice president Rabbi Shmuel Bloom lodged a protest with World Jewish Congress president Edgar M. Bronfman over statements attributed to Mr. Bronfman in the London Jewish Chronicle on the subject of intermarriage. A week later, Rabbi Bloom received a response from the WJC leader in which he appeared to retreat from the quotes, characterizing them as “both regrettable and misrepresented.”
***Introduced in 2002 and reintroduced in 2004, a bill codifying New York City’s obligation to provide nursing services on an equitable basis to children in public and nonpublic schools was enacted this month. The bill had been passed by the City Council in October after a number of hearings and press conferences at which Mr. Zwiebel presented the Orthodox community’s perspective, but the Mayor vetoed the measure, saying that he would instead allocate up to $8 million to restore some of the nursing services in nonpublic schools. In December, the City Council overrode the veto, thus ensuring that the services would be an entitlement for nonpublic elementary and intermediate schools and not subject to budgetary considerations.
***In late November, Congress passed a year-end spending bill that includes $200 million for Title V of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, thus restoring the program the House and Senate appropriations committees had earmarked for elimination. Agudath Israel had strongly advocated for restoration of Title V, which has been a major source of federal assistance to all schools for almost 40 years and which yeshivos have strongly relied upon to acquire computer hardware and software, textbooks, library books and other vital educational materials.
***Rabbi Reuven Drucker, rav of Agudath Israel of Highland Park (Edison), was among a group of rabbis and Jewish educators who met privately with President George W. Bush on the second day of Chanukah. He and four Agudath Israel organizational representatives — Washington office director Rabbi Abba Cohen, Rabbi Avi Shafran, and Agudath Israel regional directors Rabbi Yehiel Kalish (Midwest) and Rabbi Moshe Matz (Florida) — joined the President and First Lady for a White House Chanukah gathering later that night.
***Agudath Israel of America’s COPE Institute is gearing up for a new cycle of full-day junior accounting classes for men. Classes, which will run approximately 13 weeks beginning February 14, will be held Monday through Thursday, 9am to 4pm at 225 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. For more information or to register, call 212.809.5935, ext. 102.
***Awareness regarding the work of Agudath Israel’s Professional Career Services (PCS) continues to be raised — and many volunteers recruited — by a Community Poster Program, through which PCS posters are distributed to shuls throughout the city. Most recently, the agency, which matches job seekers with individuals in a position to offer jobs or who are aware of job openings, hired a director for its new computer/information technology division and developed a search engine to assist job-seekers in the IT industry.
***Over 100 girls, grades 6-8, participated in the inaugural event of Bnos Agudath Israel’s new “Agudah Clubs” program, which is designed to encourage healthy physical exercise in a fully supervised environment.
***More than 100 yeshivos around the country have already signed up for Pirchei Agudath Israel’s Kesser Torah program, which encourages 5th-8th grade yeshiva students to collectively complete Mishnayos in time for the 11th Siyum HaShas. The program, which involves thousands of students nationwide, is being sponsored by the Katlowitz/Wassner families l’zecher nishmas Mrs. Nava Katlowitz.
***Pirchei’s popular Kesser Mishnayos program held its annual Torah auction in December, awarding exciting prizes to boys who learned extra mishnayos in their free time during the past year.
***Agudath Israel’s Fresh Start Training Program, which provides intensive computer and job readiness training to displaced homemakers planning to re-enter the workforce, has been awarded a grant by the Independence Community Foundation. To register, please call 718.338.9200.
***Agudath Israel Midwest, together with community activist Mr. Gershon Bassman, is working with Illinois State officials on a large tax-free bond issue that will enable area mosdos to refinance school debts at a significantly lower interest rate. A similar effort is underway in Missouri.
***Agudath Israel of South Florida’s sixth annual convention was held over the weekend of January 6th. The opening session took place at the Yeshiva Beis Moshe Chaim Talmudic University and featured an address by Rabbi Baruch Diamond of Far Rockaway, NY, and messages from Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah member Rabbi Aharon Feldman, Rabbi Yochanan Zweig and Rabbi Benyomin Luban. The Motzoei Shabbos keynote session featured addresses by the Bostoner Rebbe, Rabbi Feldman, Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Rabbi Shmuel Klein and Rabbi Eli Mansour.
***A division of Agudah Women of America, N’shei C.A.R.E.S, which is dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of Jewish women and their families, is sponsoring yet another health seminar for women. To take place Tuesday, February, 8, at Congregation Gvul Yaavetz in Flatbush, the seminar will address the topic, “Stroke and Behavioral Problems of Neurological Disorders.” Speakers include Dr. Todd Feinberg, who heads the division of neurobehavior at Beth Israel Hospital and specializes in the neurobehavioral aspects of Alzheimers; Dr. Steven Rudolph, the newly appointed director of Maimonides Stroke Center; and Rabbi Dovid Ozeiry, who will offer a Torah perspective on the topic.
***Project YES, Agudath Israel’s highly effective program for pre-risk teens has expanded its services to include mentoring training sessions in Staten Island and Monsey, enabling the agency to better meet the needs of clients in those communities. An informative article by Project YES clinical mentoring assistant Miss Yocheved Weiss entitled “Mentoring: Your Role in Their Lives” appears in the current issue of The Jewish Observer.
***On December 19, the Agudath Israel of New England sponsored a healthcare conference on cancer screening at the Young Israel of Brookline. Medical presenters included Dr. Nahum Goldberg, Dr. Steven Tennenberg, Dr. M. Dror Michaelson, Dr. Anne-Renee Hartman, Dr. Sarah Feldman, and Dr. Geoffrey Girnun. Rabbi Mordechai Willig, Rosh Yeshiva and Rosh Kollel at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and Rav of the Young Israel of Riverdale, N.Y., was the keynote speaker. Concluding remarks were delivered by the Bostoner Rebbe.
***Talmidim of Yeshiva Tashbar of Lakewood, pictured here with principal Rabbi Mordechai Zions, are among the thousands of students nationwide participating in the Kesser Torah Program.
Emperor's Garden located at 251-15 Northern Blvd.Little Neck, NY 11362 has changed ownership and is no longer certified kosher.
The public is advised to check for a valid kashrus certificate when visiting any food establishment. Do not rely on an outdated certificate!
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