‫בס"ד‬ ‫ תשע"ה‬, ‫ כסלו‬- ‫חשון‬ November, 2014 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 ‫שבת יוֹם ו יוֹם ה יוֹם ד יוֹם ג יוֹם ב יוֹם א‬ Of Woodmere Rabbi Shaya Richmond ‘‫ט‬ ‘‫י‬ ‫י"א‬ ‫י"ב‬ ‘‫ז‬ ‘‫ח‬ ‫י"ג‬ ‫י"ד‬ ‫ט"ו‬ ‫ט"ז‬ ‫י"ז‬ ‫י"ח‬ ‫י"ט‬ ‘‫כ‬ ‫כ"א‬ ‫כ"ב‬ ‫כ"ג‬ ‫כ"ד‬ ‫כ"ה‬ ‫כ"ו‬ ‫כ"ז‬ ‫כ"ח‬ ‫כ"ט‬ ‘‫א‬ ‘‫ב‬ ‘‫ג‬ ‘‫ד‬ ‘‫ה‬ ‘‫ו‬ ‘‫ז‬ For the week of October 31 - November 6, 2014 / ‫ תשע"ה‬, ‫ י"ג מר חשון‬- ‘‫ז‬ This Shabbat ‫פרשת לך לך‬ November 1, 2014 ‫ תשע"ה‬,‫ח' מר חשון‬ Erev Shabbat: Youth Department Youth House Opens ....................... 9:00 am Groups Begin ................................. 9:15 am Groups End .................................. 11:30 am Sponsorships  Candle Lighting .................... 5:34 pm Mincha .................................. 5:39 pm ‫ר' מאיר בן רפאל ארי׳ ז"ל‬ Shabbat: Hashkama.............................. 7:10 am Shacharit ............................... 9:00 am ‫סוֹף זמן קריאת שמע‬.................. 10:01 am Daf Yomi .............................. 4:50 pm Mincha .................................. 5:35 pm Followed by Seudah Shlishit Maariv ................................... 6:35 pm Shabbat Ends......................... 6:33 pm  Mazel Tov to Ellen and Steve Lavner and Sol Basch on the birth of a grandson, born to their children, Rabbi Chaim and Alison Basch. Mazal Tov to the great grandmothers, Sonia Bialy and Ann Lavner. Mazal Tov to the great aunt and uncle, Dr. Steve and Carol Krauss. Remember to set clocks back one hour and to change smoke alarm and carbon monoxide batteries Rabbi Richmond’s shiur in ‫מסכת‬ ‫ ברכות‬continues Tuesday evenings at 9:00 pm  Rabbi Etengoff’s women’s shiur on Tefilah continues Tuesday evenings at 8:20 pm.  Rabbi Richmond’s shiur on ‫מסילת‬ ‫ ישרים‬continues Wednesday nights at 9:00 pm.  Rabbi Cinamon’s shiur continues Thursdays at 7:45 pm.  The Breakfast Shiur in Halacha continues Sunday morning after the 8:30 am minyan. Don’t Forget to Vote Election day is this coming Tuesday, November 4th. Shalom Zachar in shul at 8:30 pm. Sunday Earliest Tallit......................... 6:24 am Shacharit ................... 7:30 & 8:30 am Daf Yomi .............................. 8:00 am Mincha/Maariv...................... 4:35 pm Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by Carole and Moish Gasner to commemorate the 25th Yartzheit of Moish’s father Shiurim   Mazal Tov to Shlomo and Carole Blisko and Teena and Stu Rubinfeld on the engagement of their children, Josh and Elizabeth. Dinner Committee If you are interested in joining the Dinner Committee, please see or contact Jay Fuchs. Monday - Friday Shacharit ................... 6:20 & 7:15 am Daf Yomi: Mon, Tue, Wed ................... 8:00 pm Thursday ............................. 7:00 pm Maariv ................................... 8:50 pm Membership Meeting There will be a membership meeting in the shul on Sunday, November 2nd at 7:30 pm. Best wishes to Gina and Josh Mallin who are leaving for Israel. Next Shabbat ‫פרשת וירא‬ November 8, 2014 ‫ תשע"ה‬,‫ט״ו מר חשון‬ Erev Shabbat: Candle Lighting ............... 4:26 pm Mincha ............................. 4:31 pm Shabbat: Hashkama ........................ 7:10 am Shacharit .......................... 9:00 am ‫ סוֹף זמן קריאת שמע‬.............. 9:05 am Daf Yomi ......................... 3:40 pm Mincha ............................. 4:25 pm Followed by Seudah Shlishit Maariv .............................. 5:25 pm Shabbat Ends ................... 5:25 pm Earliest Tallit, Sunday 11/9 .... 5:39 am ‫בס"ד‬ Of Woodmere Shul Dedications Support For Israel If you made prior dedications to the shul, please contact Dr. Joe Rozenbaum or Jay Fuchs so that nobody is overlooked when the new dedications for the shul and youth house are sponsored. Page 2 By Allan Mosak This week, an article in the Atlantic Magazine quoted an unnamed senior Obama administration official as calling Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu a “chickens**t.” Apparently, the official is oblivious to the irony of profanely referring to Netanyahu as a coward while he himself stays behind the safety of anonymity. Administration officials, including White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, did not deny the quote. They also did not signal that there would be any major effort to find out who said it. The unnamed official goes on to describe why he considers Netanyahu a coward, referring to Iran’s nuclear ambitions: “It’s too late for [Netanyahu] to do anything. Two, three years ago, this was a possibility. But ultimately he couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger. It was a combination of our pressure and his own unwillingness to do anything dramatic. Now it’s too late.” Chutzpah has often been defined as killing your parents and then begging for mercy as an orphan. The White House suggests a new definition. They begged Israel not to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, while promising to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Now they are settling for a bad deal that allows Iran to become a threshold state, and are keeping the deal out of Congress so Israel's supporters there can't kill it. To literally add insult to injury, they have now publicly insulted Israel's Prime Minister as a coward for doing as they asked and for being naïve enough to believe that White House promises actually stand for something. The Obama administration wouldn’t dream of speaking this way to Ayatollah Khamenei to pressure him destroy his 23,000 centrifuges before next month’s nuclear negotiating deadline. It has not pressured the Emir of Qatar to stop being the paymaster of terrorists. Nor has it scolded Turkey's President Erdoğan to stop acting like a regional bully. It seems that this administration only insults its allies, never its enemies. House Speaker John Boehner condemned the "disrespectful rhetoric used time and again by this administration with respect to the special relationship the United States has with the state of Israel." He added: "The President sets the tone for his administration. He either condones the profanity and disrespect used by the most senior members of his administration, or he does not. It is time for him to get his house in order and tell the people that can't muster professionalism that it is time to move on." Dan Gillerman, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said of the quotes: “I think it’s shameful...This is not the way you speak about your only ally, about the only democracy in the Middle East, especially not when the Middle East is so volatile”. Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, called on President Obama to "name, apologize for, and repudiate" the anonymous, boorish official who called Prime Minister Netanyahu a "Chickens**t Hockey Tickets Join the shul for 2 fun nights as we say good bye to the Nassau Coliseum New York Islanders vs New Jersey Devils Monday December 15, 2014 7pm puck drop New York Islanders vs New York Rangers Tuesday January 27, 2015 $75 dollars gets you a ticket for both games. Contact Gordon Rich for more information. FYI There will be a fire prevention day Sunday November 2 at the Woodmere Fire Department from 12pm to 4 pm , 20 Irving place Woodmere. Please write to the White House at www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments and tell them (in your own words) that you join with Rabbi Marvin Hier in calling on President Obama to "name, apologize for, and repudiate" the anonymous, boorish official who called Prime Minister Netanyahu a "Chickens**t".            To reach the Rabbi for any questions or concerns: e-mail- [email protected] Home Phone- (516) 569-4809 Cell Phone- (516) 941-8222 To put items in this newsletter, contact Franklin Berke 569-9640 or [email protected] To check the eruv, please call 295-4242 To sponsor Kiddush in shul please contact Jay Fuchs at 374-1268 (home), 313-6196 (cell) or [email protected] To sponsor Daf Yomi please contact Jay Fuchs, until further notice To sponsor Seudah Shlishit or to reserve the shul social hall for your next simcha please contact Marvin Wertentheil at 295-2593 or [email protected] To Layn in shul, contact Gary Weiss at (718) 551-8981) To sponsor the Sunday Morning Breakfast Shiur on Contemporary Issues in Halacha, contact Mel Grossman at [email protected] or (516) 374-1376 To register your kids for the youth program, please contact Gordon Rich To be added to the Bais Tefilah e-mail list, send an email to Jeff Grunstein at [email protected] or contact Jay Fuchs  To contact our Youth Director, Gordon Rich, call 284-6288 or email [email protected]