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NEXT WEEK - Book Talk: How the Wise Men Got to Chelm

01/11/2017 04:16:21 PM

Jan11

How the Wise Men Got to Chelm:
Book Talk with Dr. Ruth von Bernuth

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

 


Stories of the limitlessly foolish Wise Men of Chelm are a staple of European and American Jewish literature. Dr. Ruth von Bernuth's new book How the Wise Men Got to Chelm provides a comprehensive survey of this Chelm literature and its Yiddish—and German—antecedents from the late Middle Ages through the Enlightenment and 19th-century nationalism. Please join us on Tuesday, January 17 at 7 PM as Dr. von Bernuth will discuss how literary Chelm has enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems, a function that it continues to fulfill to this day.

Pizza and Beer will be served.
The event is free but please register on the event page if you plan to attend.

About Dr. Ruth von Bernuth

Since 2008, Dr. Ruth von Bernuth has taught Medieval and early modern German and Yiddish literature and culture in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is also the director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. For a research project on Yiddish literature she was awarded a visiting fellowship in Jewish Studies from Yad Hanadiv and Beracha Foundation in Israel in 2011/12. In 2013 she was a Junior Fellow at Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald. Her second book, How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition, examines the multiple ways in which the Jewish story tradition of the “Wise Men of Chelm” came into being.

 

Classes Tonight!

01/11/2017 12:09:16 PM

Jan11

Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Theology, and the class on Sufi Jews, will all meet tonight, Wednesday, January 11.

6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Shabbat
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism

Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.

LAST CALL to RSVP!! Community Shabbat Dinner with Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

01/10/2017 09:23:19 AM

Jan10

This Shabbat, Parashat Vayechi, January 13-14, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. See the JOFA website for more details.

Please join us over Shabbat for a stimulating series of talks and discussions on the state of contemporary American Judaism (see schedule below). And please join us as well on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner.

Registrations for the dinner should be made by today, Tuesday, January 10th!
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180

Following dinner, at 7:30 PM, Dr. Fishman will talk with us about:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"

This Shabbaton includes:

  • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:35 PM
  • Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required),
  • Lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome),
  • Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
  • Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 4:40 PM

Speaking Schedule & Topics

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: 
"Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
"Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman"

Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph & Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books, including "Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution", and numerous articles on Jewish life, education and culture.

Professor Fishman received The Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014; she received the Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Washington University, where she earned her Ph.D., and received the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater.

 

TOMORROW NIGHT! Bereishit and Creativity with Richard Borah & Richard McBee

01/09/2017 04:45:20 PM

Jan9

Bereishit and Creativity

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 • 12 Tevet 5777

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Please join us tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 10, as we welcome Rabbi Richard Borah, who will help us explore the central role of creativity in the Book of Genesis, in Torah law and practice, and in the decisions and actions of the Patriarchs.
Richard McBee, a contemporary painter of Jewish art, will provide an analysis of his Biblical paintings on Genesis, with guidance on how to look at a painting and how to encounter art in an enjoyable and impactful manner.

The program will draw from discussions, poems and paintings found in Rabbi Borah's new book “Creativity and the Jewish Soul”, which draws on ideas from scholars such as the Rambam, Rashi and Rabbi Soloveitchik, poetry from a broad spectrum including Yehuda HaLevi to Robert Frost and Rilke, and features contemporary paintings and annotations by Richard McBee, all contributing to a unique exploration of creativity and art from a Torah perspective.

Pizza and Beer will be served.
The event is free, but please register on the event page if you plan to attend.

About Richard Borah

Rabbi Richard Borah received smicha in 1991 from Rabbi Yisrael Chait, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Bnei Torah, located in Far Rockaway, New York. Rabbi Borah was the principal of the Torah Academy of Suffolk County in Commack, Long Island for ten years and has taught Torah subjects at various education institutions in the New York area. He is the founder and president of the Observant Artist Community Circle, a non-profit organization focused on developing the nexus between Jewish artists and Jewish scholars. Rabbi Borah recently published 3 books:

  1. “Yad on the Yad: 14 Essays on Maimonides Laws of Repentance”
  2. “Understanding the Lonely Man of Faith”- a Guide to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Essay”
  3. “The Rambam and the Rav on the 54 Portions of the Torah”.

All three texts are available through Amazon.com.

Rabbi Borah’s most recent effort is “Creativity and the Jewish Soul - An Analysis of the 12 Torah Portions of Genesis”. In this text, Rabbi Borah collaborates with Richard McBee, a contemporary artist whose paintings are featured in each of the book’s 12 essays on the weekly Genesis Torah portion. This book explores the central place of creativity within Judaism and Jewish thought.

About Richard McBee

Richard McBee is a painter of Biblical subject matter and writer on Jewish Art. From 2000 until 2014 he wrote about the Jewish Arts for the Jewish Press and continues to exhibit paintings, lecture and curate Jewish art exhibitions. He is a founding member of the Jewish Art Salon. His website, richardmcbee.com, exhibits over 300 of his artworks and 250 of his Jewish Art reviews.

2 Days Left to RSVP! Community Shabbat Dinner with Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

01/08/2017 09:56:19 PM

Jan8

This Shabbat, Parashat Vayechi, January 13-14, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. See the JOFA website for more details.

Please join us over Shabbat for a stimulating series of talks and discussions on the state of contemporary American Judaism (see schedule below). And please join us as well on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner.

Registrations for the dinner should be made by Tuesday, January 10th.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180

Following dinner, at 7:30 PM, Dr. Fishman will talk with us about:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"

This Shabbaton includes:

  • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:35 PM
  • Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required),
  • Lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome),
  • Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
  • Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 4:40 PM

Speaking Schedule & Topics

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: 
"Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
"Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman"

Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph & Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books, including Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution, and numerous articles on Jewish life, education and culture.
Professor Fishman received The Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014; she received the Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Washington University, where she earned her Ph.D., and received the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater.

 

Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayigash 5777

01/05/2017 10:33:45 PM

Jan5

 


Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayigash 5777

Bereshit

 
 
 

Shabbat Information

 

This week's Friday Night Kiddush

has been sponsored by
Adina & Henry Frank
in celebration of Rebecca Belle's birthday.
Expect Franks in Blankets.

 

This week's delicious Meat Kiddush

and Shabeer Supply

have been sponsored by

Cariline Berti & Elliot Knapp
in celebration of Elliot's Ufruf.

 

Seudah Shelishit

has been provided by

The House.


 

.

 

Shabbat Times

Candle-lighting Before

4:25 PM

Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat

4:25 PM

Repeat Shema After

5:30 PM

Daf Yomi

 8:15 AM

Shacharit

 9:00 AM
Shema Before 9:41 AM
Sermon 10:30 AM
Mincha 4:10 PM
Seudah Shelishit 4:30 PM
Maariv

5:20 PM
Musical Havdalah

5:30 PM

 

See the shul calendar for davening times during the week and schedule of events.

 
 


Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - this week at 4:25 PM - is held shortly after candle-lighting time. Please join us and enjoy a beautiful davening, wonderful community, as well as a delicious Friday night Kiddush.

 

Our Children's Shabbat Program (Kommunity Kinderlach) will meet this shabbat. The program will once again be led by the dynamic Sara Fliegelman. The Program is geared toward children 2-5 years of age. Children younger than 2 are welcome to join but must be accompanied by a parent. The group will begin at 10:15 AM and go until the end of services. For more information, please contact sixthstreetparents@gmail.com.

 

 

News

In these tragic and scary times we stand with all those victimized by senseless hatred and fanaticism, at home, in Israel, and abroad. We pray for safety, healing, and peace.

 

We are grateful to Dr. Samuel Fleischacker, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois-Chicago and currently a Berggruen Fellow at NYU, who delivered the sermon this past Shabbat.

 

Rabbi Bellino's Wednesday night classes have resumed. The next class is on Wednesday, January 11.

 

Please continue to assist our weekday morning Minyan. Consider increasing your commitment to community and synagogue by attending.

 

Our plentiful and delicious Kiddushes on Sixth Street greatly enhance our synagogue and community. To sponsor or co-sponsor a Friday night Kiddush, a Shabbat Kiddush, a Shabbocktail, our Shabbat Shabeer supply, or a Seudah Shelishit, contact Rabbi Bellino. The next available Kiddush for co-sponsorship is next week, Shabbat Vayechi - 1/14/2017.
 

 

Classes

 

FOUNDATIONS OF JUDAISM: A sensitive and sophisticated introduction to Judaism, intended for beginners, and focusing on many of the ritual, legal, linguistic, and philosophical basics of our faith. Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 PM.

 

SUFI JEWS: JUDAISM’S ENCOUNTER WITH ISLAMIC MYSTICISM: Approximately 400 years after the birth of Islam, some Jewish sages recommended Sufic ritual and thought. Rabbi Bellino will present the Medieval sages, Bahye Ibn Paquda and Abraham son of Maimonides, as well as Jewish-Sufic material from 16th Century Safed Pietism and Hassidut. Wednesdays 8:00-9:00 PM.

 

SHACHARIT: Miriam Kaplan will begin teaching a class on Shacharit, the daily morning prayer. Shabbat, following Kiddush.

 

THE BERDITCHIVER: Rabbi Bellino will present the Hasidic folklore and writings of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. Shabbat, Seudah Shelishit.

 

 

Events

 

 

Bereishit and Creativity with Richard Borah and Richard McBee - January 10, 7 PM

Rabbi Richard Borah will explore the role of creativity in the Book of Genesis, in Torah law and practice, and in the decisions and actions of the Patriarchs. Richard McBee, a contemporary painter of Jewish art, will provide an analysis of his Biblical paintings on Genesis, with guidance on how to look at a painting and how to encounter art in an enjoyable and impactful manner.
Please visit the event page for more info and to register.

 

 

Please join us next week, Shabbat Vayechi (January 13-14), as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. Please visit the JOFA website for more details.

 

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?

Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman

 

There will be a delicious Friday night community dinner in the Social Hall.  
RSVP and payment are required by Tuesday, January 10.

Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180


Please email info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org if you need financial assistance.


 

Chessed on Sixth Street - Several of us utilize our Synagogue's kitchen to prepare meals for the Trinity Place Shelter. The shelter's mission is to help LGBTQ youth and young adults in New York City to safely transition out of the shelter system and grow into independent, positive, and productive adults. To financially support our efforts, please consider donating to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund (Be sure to specify Shelter Meals in the note). The next meal will be prepared after the holidays. If you are interested in cooking, schlepping, or starting your own Chessed initiative, please contact Rabbi Bellino or Tali Zilberman.

 

 

SAVE THE DATES

January 8 - Interfaith Play Date

January 10 -  Bereshit and Creativity with Richard McBee and Rabbi Richard Borah

January 13-14 - Scholar-in-Residence: Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

January 17 - How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: Book Launch with Ruth von Bernuth and Jonathan Boyarin

February 4 - Cholentfest!!

February 5 - Challah Bake

 

 

Downtown Community

 

Please join Rabbi Bellino in his fundraising for the Downtown Eruv. The suggested amount per family is $180. (Obviously every bit helps!). To make a payment, please do so on the synagogue page, or send a check to: The Sixth Street Community Synagogue, 325 East Sixth Street, New York NY 10003. Be sure to specify that this donation is for the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund and for the Eruv. To see maps, click to the Manhattan Eruv website, or, check out facebook.com/DowntownNYCEruv

 

We are thrilled to have Ilana Gadish as the Yoetzet Halacha for the downtown community. Yoetzet Ilana is available to answer questions related to Toharat Hamishpacha and may be reached by phone at (646) 598-1080 and by email. Click here to read the Va'ad's recent letter about her appointment.

 

There are several Kosher options in our neighborhood including:

Bagel Boss at 263 First Avenue

Murray's Falafel at 261 First Avenue

Mocha Burger at 496 Laguardia Place.

The Promenade Sports Bar, 344 Third Avenue.

 

We are proud to be a member synagogue of The Downtown Va'ad, an Orthodox rabbinic network intended to advance the welfare and flourishing of the Downtown community. Check out the Va'ad on Facebook for more information.

 

 

 

Feedback

 

We encourage your participation and insight. Feedback to Elie Yudewitz, Rabbi Bellino or the Shul Office would be most appreciated. Please contact us with any suggestions and/or concerns, or most importantly, to volunteer. You can also make suggestions here.

 

We like to have fun and be creative on social media. Like us on Facebook to see more updates!

 
 

Sixth Street Community Synagogue

We like to think we're different. Everyone from the traditionally Orthodox to the occasionally observant feels at home here - 365 days a year. We hope you do too.

 

Contact Us

 

325 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003

info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

(212) 473-3665

Like us on Facebook

 

Upcoming Children's Events

01/04/2017 05:54:03 PM

Jan4



UPCOMING CHILDREN'S EVENTS


Children's Shabbat Program

We're happy to announce that the next Children's Shabbat Program will be held this week, Shabbat Vayigash, January 7th, 2017. The program will once again be led by the dynamic Sara Fliegelman.


The Children's Shabbat Program is geared toward children 2-5 years of age. Children younger than 2 are welcome to join but must be accompanied by a parent. The group will start at 10:15 AM and go until the end of services.


For more information, please contact sixthstreetparents@gmail.com.

 

Interfaith Play Date

Children in Kindergarten through 5th grade are invited to an Interfaith Play Date this Sunday, January 8th, 2017. The play date is a chance to play, do art and eat together with kids from a wide range of religious congregations in the area, including Orthodox & Conservative, Catholic & Protestant, and Muslim.

The program takes place at the Medina Masjid, located at 401 East 11th Street (corner of 1st Avenue and E. 11th Street), and runs from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

For more information, please contact the synagogue: info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

 

Request for Children's Books

If anyone has children's books they no longer need (either religious or secular), please consider donating them to the synagogue.

Please contact the synagogue office to arrange the donation.

 
 

 

 

 

Classes Tonight!

01/04/2017 12:48:14 PM

Jan4

Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Theology, and the class on Sufi Jews, will all meet tonight, Wednesday, January 4.

6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Shabbat
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism

Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.

IN ONE WEEK! Our Next Shabbat Scholar (January 13-14): Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

01/03/2017 01:18:21 PM

Jan3

Please join us next week, on Shabbat Vayechi, January 13-14, 2017, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. Please visit the JOFA website for more details.

This Shabbaton includes:

  • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:35 PM
  • Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required),
  • Lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome),
  • Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
  • Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 4:40 PM

RSVP for the dinner by Tuesday, January 10.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
 

Speaking Schedule & Topics

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: 
"Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
"Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman"

Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph & Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books, including Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution, and numerous articles on Jewish life, education and culture.
Professor Fishman received The Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014; she received the Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Washington University, where she earned her Ph.D., and received the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater.

 

Weekly Update: Shabbat Miketz 5777

12/30/2016 12:23:06 PM

Dec30

 


Weekly Update: Shabbat Miketz 5777

Bereshit

 
 
 

Shabbat Information

 

A delicious Kiddush

has been provided by

The House

 

 

Seudah Shelishit

has been provided by

The House


 

.

 

Shabbat Times

Candle-lighting Before

4:20 PM

Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat

4:20 PM

Repeat Shema After

5:20 PM

Daf Yomi

 8:15 AM

Shacharit

 9:00 AM
Shema Before 9:40 AM
Sermon 10:30 AM
Mincha 4:05 PM
Seudah Shelishit 4:25 PM
Maariv

5:14 PM
Musical Havdalah

5:25 PM

 

See the shul calendar for davening times during the week and schedule of events.

 
 


Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - this week at 4:20 PM - is held shortly after candle-lighting time. Please join us and enjoy a beautiful davening, wonderful community, as well as a delicious Friday night Kiddush.

 

We are grateful to Dr. Samuel Fleischacker, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois-Chicago and currently a Berggruen Fellow at NYU, who will deliver the sermon
this Shabbat.

 

 

News

In these tragic and scary times we stand with all those victimized by senseless hatred and fanaticism, at home, in Israel, and abroad. We pray for safety, healing, and peace.


The Children's Chanukah Puppy Party this past Monday evening was terrific fun. We thank everyone who came, and we thank Cori Robinson and Alexia Marks for their help in arranging the party. Please click here to see photos. In addition, we raised $350 for Social Tees Animal Rescue!

 

The next Children's Shabbat Program will be on Shabbat Vayigash, January 7th. 
For more information, please contact sixthstreetparents@gmail.com.

 

Rabbi Bellino's Wednesday night classes will resume next week on Wednesday, January 4.

 

As 2016 rapidly comes to a close, you may be planning your end-of-the-year charitable contributions. Please consider including the Sixth Street Synagogue in your year-end giving. To make a contribution, please go the synagogue’s donate page.This is also a great time to honor your open commitments to the synagogue and to pay any outstanding balances. To see if you have an outstanding balance, please check your account on the synagogue website. Please remember that in order to maximize your 2016 tax benefits, contributions must be made or sent by Saturday, December 31st.
If you have any questions about your account balance or can not access it online, please click here to email our office.
 

Please continue to assist our weekday morning Minyan. Consider increasing your commitment to community and synagogue by attending.

 

Our plentiful and delicious Kiddushes on Sixth Street greatly enhance our synagogue and community. To sponsor or co-sponsor a Friday night Kiddush, a Shabbat Kiddush, a Shabbocktail, our Shabbat Shabeer supply, or a Seudah Shelishit, contact Rabbi Bellino. The next available Kiddush for sponsorship is Shabbat Vayechi - 1/14/2017.
 

 

Classes

 

FOUNDATIONS OF JUDAISM: A sensitive and sophisticated introduction to Judaism, intended for beginners, and focusing on many of the ritual, legal, linguistic, and philosophical basics of our faith. Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 PM.

 

SUFI JEWS: JUDAISM’S ENCOUNTER WITH ISLAMIC MYSTICISM: Approximately 400 years after the birth of Islam, some Jewish sages recommended Sufic ritual and thought. Rabbi Bellino will present the Medieval sages, Bahye Ibn Paquda and Abraham son of Maimonides, as well as Jewish-Sufic material from 16th Century Safed Pietism and Hassidut. Wednesdays 8:00-9:00 PM.

 

SHACHARIT: Miriam Kaplan will begin teaching a class on Shacharit, the daily morning prayer. Shabbat, following Kiddush.

 

THE BERDITCHIVER: Rabbi Bellino will present the Hasidic folklore and writings of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. Shabbat, Seudah Shelishit.

 

 

Events

 

 

Bereishit and Creativity with Richard Borah and Richard McBee - January 10, 7 PM

Rabbi Richard Borah will explore the role of creativity in the Book of Genesis, in Torah law and practice, and in the decisions and actions of the Patriarchs. Richard McBee, a contemporary painter of Jewish art, will provide an analysis of his Biblical paintings on Genesis, with guidance on how to look at a painting and how to encounter art in an enjoyable and impactful manner.
Please visit the event page for more info and to register.

 

 

Please join us on Shabbat Vayechi (January 13-14) as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. Please visit the JOFA website for more details.

 

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?

Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman

 

There will be a delicious Friday night community dinner in the Social Hall.  
RSVP and payment are required by Tuesday, January 10.

Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180


Please email info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org if you need financial assistance.


 

Chessed on Sixth Street - Several of us utilize our Synagogue's kitchen to prepare meals for the Trinity Place Shelter. The shelter's mission is to help LGBTQ youth and young adults in New York City to safely transition out of the shelter system and grow into independent, positive, and productive adults. To financially support our efforts, please consider donating to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund (Be sure to specify Shelter Meals in the note). The next meal will be prepared after the holidays. If you are interested in cooking, schlepping, or starting your own Chessed initiative, please contact Rabbi Bellino or Tali Zilberman.

 

 

SAVE THE DATES

January 8 - Interfaith Play Date

January 10 -  Bereshit and Creativity with Richard McBee and Rabbi Richard Borah

January 13-14 - Scholar-in-Residence: Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

January 17 - How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: Book Launch with Ruth von Bernuth and Jonathan Boyarin

February 4 - Cholentfest!!

February 5 - Challah Bake

 

 

Downtown Community

 

Our community's yearly financial Eruv obligation is $36k. This is not a burden that falls unto synagogues or institutions, but rather upon the many individuals and families that make use of the Eruv. As you consider your year-end charitable donations, won't you please consider a gift for the Eruv? The suggested amount per family is $180. (Obviously every bit helps!).

 

To make a payment, please do so on the synagogue page, or send a check to: The Sixth Street Community Synagogue, 325 East Sixth Street, New York NY 10003. Be sure to specify that this donation is for the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund and for the Eruv.

 

To be clear, were it not for the Eruv, we would not be allowed to push our children to synagogue, nor could we bring dessert and wine to the homes that we visit. I am fairly confident that the thought of a Shabbat without babies, cookies, or alcohol should inspire your generosity.

 

To see maps, click to the Manhattan Eruv website.

Or, check out facebook.com/DowntownNYCEruv

 

We are thrilled to have Ilana Gadish as the Yoetzet Halacha for the downtown community. Yoetzet Ilana is available to answer questions related to Toharat Hamishpacha and may be reached by phone at (646) 598-1080 and by email. Click here to read the Va'ad's recent letter about her appointment.

 

There are several Kosher options in our neighborhood including:

Bagel Boss at 263 First Avenue

Murray's Falafel at 261 First Avenue

Mocha Burger at 496 Laguardia Place.

The Promenade Sports Bar, 344 Third Avenue, is now completely Kosher (not just sushi). Please check them out ASAP.

 

We are proud to be a member synagogue of The Downtown Va'ad, an Orthodox rabbinic network intended to advance the welfare and flourishing of the Downtown community. Check out the Va'ad on Facebook for more information.

 

 

 

Feedback

 

We encourage your participation and insight. Feedback to Elie Yudewitz, Rabbi Bellino or the Shul Office would be most appreciated. Please contact us with any suggestions and/or concerns, or most importantly, to volunteer. You can also make suggestions here.

 

We like to have fun and be creative on social media. Like us on Facebook to see more updates!

 
 

Sixth Street Community Synagogue

We like to think we're different. Everyone from the traditionally Orthodox to the occasionally observant feels at home here - 365 days a year. We hope you do too.

 

Contact Us

 

325 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003

info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

(212) 473-3665

Like us on Facebook

 

IN TWO WEEKS: Our Next Shabbat Scholar (January 13-14): Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

12/28/2016 12:01:22 PM

Dec28

Please join us in two weeks, on Shabbat Vayechi, January 13-14, 2017, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. Please visit the JOFA website for more details.

This Shabbaton includes:

  • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:35 PM
  • Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required),
  • Lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome),
  • Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
  • Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 4:40 PM

RSVP for the dinner by Tuesday, January 10.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
 

Speaking Schedule & Topics

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: 
"Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
"Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman"

Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph & Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books, including Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution, and numerous articles on Jewish life, education and culture.
Professor Fishman received The Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014; she received the Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Washington University, where she earned her Ph.D., and received the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater.

 

Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayeshev 5777

12/22/2016 10:56:53 PM

Dec22

 


Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayeshev 5777

Bereshit

 
 
 

Shabbat Information

A delicious meat Kiddush

has been sponsored by
Suzanne Dance & Andrew Obin

in memory of Andrew's mother,
Suzana Obuvalina,
and in memory Andrew's grandmother,
Nina Levitina.

 

Seudah Shelishit has been
sponsored by
Ellen Cherrick
in memory of her grandfather,
Maurice Katz, z'l,
whose yahrzeit will be observed
on the first night of Chanukah.
 

.

 

Shabbat Times

Candle-lighting Before

4:15 PM

Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat

4:15 PM

Repeat Shema After

5:20 PM

Daf Yomi

 8:15 AM

Shacharit

 9:00 AM
Shema Before 9:37 AM
Sermon 10:30 AM
Mincha 4:00 PM
Seudah Shelishit 4:20 PM
Maariv

5:09 PM
Musical Havdalah

5:20 PM

 

See the shul calendar for davening times during the week and schedule of events.

 
 


Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - this week at 4:15 PM - is held shortly after candle-lighting time. Please join us and enjoy a beautiful davening, wonderful community, as well as a delicious Friday night Kiddush.

 

Please join us for Seudah Shelishit as we discuss some of the laws of Chanukah.

 

News

In these tragic and scary times we stand with all those victimized by senseless hatred and fanaticism, at home, in Israel, and abroad. We pray for safety, healing, and peace.

 

We wish a Mazal Tov to our friends, Dr. Sara & Michael Aingorn, upon the birth, Brit, and naming of their son Zachary Joel (זכריה יואל).

 

The Children's Program last Shabbat was a great success. We thank the many parents for their help in making this. The next program will be in early January. Please stay tuned for an exact date. For more information on their efforts and plans, contact sixthstreetparents@gmail.com.

 

Rabbi Bellino's Wednesday night classes will not meet this week, December 28. Classes will resume next week on Wednesday, January 4.

 

As 2016 rapidly comes to a close, you may be planning your end-of-the-year charitable contributions. Please consider including the Sixth Street Synagogue in your year-end giving. To make a contribution, please go the synagogue’s donate page.This is also a great time to honor your open commitments to the synagogue and to pay any outstanding balances. To see if you have an outstanding balance, please check your account on the synagogue website. Please remember that in order to maximize your 2016 tax benefits, contributions must be made or sent by Saturday, December 31st.
If you have any questions about your account balance or can not access it online, please click here to email our office.
 

Please continue to assist our weekday morning Minyan. Consider increasing your commitment to community and synagogue by attending.

 

Our plentiful and delicious Kiddushes on Sixth Street greatly enhance our synagogue and community. To sponsor or co-sponsor a Friday night Kiddush, a Shabbat Kiddush, a Shabbocktail, our Shabbat Shabeer supply, or a Seudah Shelishit, contact Rabbi Bellino. The next available Kiddush for sponsorship is Shabbat Vayechi - 1/14/2017.
 

 

Classes

 

FOUNDATIONS OF JUDAISM: A sensitive and sophisticated introduction to Judaism, intended for beginners, and focusing on many of the ritual, legal, linguistic, and philosophical basics of our faith. Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 PM.

 

SUFI JEWS: JUDAISM’S ENCOUNTER WITH ISLAMIC MYSTICISM: Approximately 400 years after the birth of Islam, some Jewish sages recommended Sufic ritual and thought. Rabbi Bellino will present the Medieval sages, Bahye Ibn Paquda and Abraham son of Maimonides, as well as Jewish-Sufic material from 16th Century Safed Pietism and Hassidut. Wednesdays 8:00-9:00 PM.

 

SHACHARIT: Miriam Kaplan will begin teaching a class on Shacharit, the daily morning prayer. Shabbat, following Kiddush.

 

THE BERDITCHIVER: Rabbi Bellino will present the Hasidic folklore and writings of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. Shabbat, Seudah Shelishit.

 

 

Events

 

 

Light Up with Laughter: Modi's Chanukah Show -  December 24, 7 PM & 9 PM

Join Modi on Saturday, December 24th at Gotham Comedy Club for his annual Christmas Eve show. Tickets available at the Gotham website. There is a discount code for Synagogue members.

 

Children's Chanukah Party - December 26, 3:30 PM - 6 PM
Join us on the third night of Chanukah for a children's party, featuring puppies, music, puppies, latkes, puppies, candles, and puppies!  Come sing Chanukah songs, eat Chanukah treats, and help us raise money for our neighbors, Social Tees Animal Rescue.

 

Bereishit and Creativity with Richard Borah and Richard McBee - January 10, 7 PM

Rabbi Richard Borah will explore the role of creativity in the Book of Genesis, in Torah law and practice, and in the decisions and actions of the Patriarchs. Richard McBee, a contemporary painter of Jewish art, will provide an analysis of his Biblical paintings on Genesis, with guidance on how to look at a painting and how to encounter art in an enjoyable and impactful manner.

 

 

Please join us on Shabbat Vayechi (January 13-14) as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. Please visit the JOFA website for more details.

 

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?

Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman

 

There will be a delicious Friday night community dinner in the Social Hall.  
RSVP and payment are required by Tuesday, January 10.

Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180


Please email info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org if you need financial assistance.


 

Chessed on Sixth Street - Several of us utilize our Synagogue's kitchen to prepare meals for the Trinity Place Shelter. The shelter's mission is to help LGBTQ youth and young adults in New York City to safely transition out of the shelter system and grow into independent, positive, and productive adults. To financially support our efforts, please consider donating to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund (Be sure to specify Shelter Meals in the note). The next meal will be prepared after the holidays. If you are interested in cooking, schlepping, or starting your own Chessed initiative, please contact Rabbi Bellino or Tali Zilberman.

 

 

SAVE THE DATES:
December 24 - Light Up with Laughter: Modi's Chanukah Show

December 26 - Children's Chanukah Party

January 10 -  Bereshit and Creativity with Richard McBee and Rabbi Richard Borah

January 13-14 - Scholar-in-Residence: Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

January 17 - How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: Book Launch with Ruth von Bernuth and Jonathan Boyarin

 

 

Downtown Community

 

Our community's yearly financial Eruv obligation is $36k. This is not a burden that falls unto synagogues or institutions, but rather upon the many individuals and families that make use of the Eruv. As you consider your year-end charitable donations, won't you please consider a gift for the Eruv? The suggested amount per family is $180. (Obviously every bit helps!).

 

To make a payment, please do so on the synagogue page, or send a check to: The Sixth Street Community Synagogue, 325 East Sixth Street, New York NY 10003. Be sure to specify that this donation is for the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund and for the Eruv.

 

To be clear, were it not for the Eruv, we would not be allowed to push our children to synagogue, nor could we bring dessert and wine to the homes that we visit. I fairly confident that the thought of a Shabbat without babies, cookies, or alcohol.

 

To see maps, click to the Manhattan Eruv website.

Or, check out facebook.com/DowntownNYCEruv

 

We are thrilled to have Ilana Gadish as the Yoetzet Halacha for the downtown community. Yoetzet Ilana is available to answer questions related to Toharat Hamishpacha and may be reached by phone at (646) 598-1080 and by email. Click here to read the Va'ad's recent letter about her appointment.

 

There are several Kosher options in our neighborhood including:

Bagel Boss at 263 First Avenue

Murray's Falafel at 261 First Avenue

Mocha Burger at 496 Laguardia Place.

The Promenade Sports Bar, 344 Third Avenue, is now completely Kosher (not just sushi). Please check them out ASAP.

 

We are proud to be a member synagogue of The Downtown Va'ad, an Orthodox rabbinic network intended to advance the welfare and flourishing of the Downtown community. Check out the Va'ad on Facebook for more information.

 

 

 

Feedback

 

We encourage your participation and insight. Feedback to Elie Yudewitz, Rabbi Bellino or the Shul Office would be most appreciated. Please contact us with any suggestions and/or concerns, or most importantly, to volunteer. You can also make suggestions here.

 

We like to have fun and be creative on social media. Like us on Facebook to see more updates!

 
 

Sixth Street Community Synagogue

We like to think we're different. Everyone from the traditionally Orthodox to the occasionally observant feels at home here - 365 days a year. We hope you do too.

 

Contact Us

 

325 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003

info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

(212) 473-3665

Like us on Facebook

 

Our Next Shabbat Scholar (January 13-14): Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

12/21/2016 05:47:19 PM

Dec21

Please join us on Shabbat Vayechi, January 13-14, 2017, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. Please visit the JOFA website for more details.

This Shabbaton includes:

  • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:35 PM
  • Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required),
  • Lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome),
  • Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
  • Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 4:40 PM

RSVP for the dinner by Tuesday, January 10.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
 

Speaking Schedule & Topics

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: 
"Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
"Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman"

Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph & Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books, including Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution, and numerous articles on Jewish life, education and culture.
Professor Fishman received The Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014; she received the Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Washington University, where she earned her Ph.D., and received the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater.

 

Classes Tonight!

12/21/2016 12:44:17 PM

Dec21

Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Theology, and the class on Sufi Jews, will meet tonight, Wednesday, December 21.

6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Chanukah
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism

Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.

Please note that the classes will not meet next week, Wednesday, December 28.
Classes will resume on Wednesday, January 4.

Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayishlach 5777

12/15/2016 09:15:57 PM

Dec15

 


Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayishlach 5777

Bereshit

 
 
 

Shabbat Information

A delicious dairy Kiddush

has been sponsored by:

 Zipporah & Jason Nagel
in celebration of
the birth of their daughter, Maya,
and in honor of the first
Community Kid's Shabbat programming

by Phoebe & Richard McBee,
in observance of the Yahrzeit
of Richard's mother, Ruth McBee

 

and by The House,
to welcome and in celebrate of

Evelina Grezak

.

 

Shabbat Times

Candle-lighting Before

4:11 PM

Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat

4:10 PM

Repeat Shema After

5:14 PM

Daf Yomi

 8:15 AM

Shacharit

 9:00 AM
Shema Before 9:34 AM
Sermon 10:30 AM
Mincha 4:00 PM
Seudah Shelishit 4:20 PM
Maariv

5:06 PM
Musical Havdalah

5:16 PM

 

See the shul calendar for davening times during the week and schedule of events.

 
 


Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - this week at 4:10 PM - is held shortly after candle-lighting time. Please join us and enjoy a beautiful davening and wonderful community.

 

This Shabbat we will offer children's programming. The supervised play will be geared toward children 2-5 years of age.  Children younger than 2 are welcome to join but must be accompanied by a parent. The group will start at 10:15 AM and go until the end of services.

News

In these tragic and scary times we stand with all those victimized by senseless hatred and fanaticism, at home, in Israel, and abroad. We pray for safety, healing, and peace.

 

We wish a Mazal Tov to our friends, Dr. Sara & Michael Aingorn, upon the birth of their son.

 

Last week's Scholar-in-Residence Shabbaton was well attended and a wonderful experience. We are especially thankful to our hardworking Education Committee, our generous dinner sponsors, as well as to the inimitable Rabbi Steve Greenberg for his scholarship and kindness.

 

We are grateful to Daniela Sirotti and Lori Leifer for their work in bringing us Yiddishfest this past Tuesday night.

 

We are grateful to the parents of young children who have organized our children's programming.For more information on their efforts and plans, contact sixthstreetparents@gmail.com.

 

Rabbi Bellino's Wednesday night classes will meet this week: Hebrew Foundations at 6:30 PM, Foundations of Jewish Law at 7:00 PM, and Sufi Jews at 8:00 PM.

 

 

Please continue to assist our weekday morning Minyan. Consider increasing your commitment to community and synagogue by attending.

 

Our plentiful and delicious Kiddushes on Sixth Street greatly enhance our synagogue and community. To sponsor or co-sponsor a Friday night Kiddush, a Shabbat Kiddush, a Shabbocktail, our Shabbat Shabeer supply, or a Seudah Shelishit, contact Rabbi Bellino. The next available Kiddush for sponsorship is Shabbat Vayigash - 1/7/2017.
 

 

Classes

 

FOUNDATIONS OF JUDAISM: A sensitive and sophisticated introduction to Judaism, intended for beginners, and focusing on many of the ritual, legal, linguistic, and philosophical basics of our faith. Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 PM.

 

SUFI JEWS: JUDAISM’S ENCOUNTER WITH ISLAMIC MYSTICISM: Approximately 400 years after the birth of Islam, some Jewish sages recommended Sufic ritual and thought. Rabbi Bellino will present the Medieval sages, Bahye Ibn Paquda and Abraham son of Maimonides, as well as Jewish-Sufic material from 16th Century Safed Pietism and Hassidut. Wednesdays 8:00-9:00 PM.

 

SHACHARIT: Miriam Kaplan will begin teaching a class on Shacharit, the daily morning prayer. Shabbat, following Kiddush.

 

THE BERDITCHIVER: Rabbi Bellino will present the Hasidic folklore and writings of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. Shabbat, Seudah Shelishit.

 

 

Events

 

 

Light Up with Laughter: Modi's Chanukah Show -  December 24, 7 PM & 9 PM

Join Modi on Saturday, December 24th at Gotham Comedy Club for his annual Christmas Eve show. Tickets available at the Gotham website. There is a discount code for Synagogue members.

 

Children's Chanukah Party - December 26, 3:30 PM - 6 PM
Join us on the third night of Chanukah for a children's party, featuring puppies, music, puppies, latkes, puppies, candles, and puppies!  Come sing Chanukah songs, eat Chanukah treats, and help us raise money for our neighbors, Social Tees Animal Rescue.

 

Bereishit and Creativity with Richard Borah and Richard McBee - January 10, 7 PM

Rabbi Richard Borah will explore the role of creativity in the Book of Genesis, in Torah law and practice, and in the decisions and actions of the Patriarchs. Richard McBee, a contemporary painter of Jewish art, will provide an analysis of his Biblical paintings on Genesis, with guidance on how to look at a painting and how to encounter art in an enjoyable and impactful manner.

 

 

Please join us on Shabbat Vayechi (January 13-14) as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. Please visit the JOFA website for more details.

 

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?

Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman

 

There will be a delicious Friday night community dinner in the Social Hall.  
RSVP and payment are required by Tuesday, January 10.

Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180


Please email info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org if you need financial assistance.


 

Chessed on Sixth Street - Several of us utilize our Synagogue's kitchen to prepare meals for the Trinity Place Shelter. The shelter's mission is to help LGBTQ youth and young adults in New York City to safely transition out of the shelter system and grow into independent, positive, and productive adults. To financially support our efforts, please consider donating to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund (Be sure to specify Shelter Meals in the note). The next meal will be prepared after the holidays. If you are interested in cooking, schlepping, or starting your own Chessed initiative, please contact Rabbi Bellino or Tali Zilberman.

 

 

SAVE THE DATES:
December 24 - Light Up with Laughter: Modi's Chanukah Show

December 26 - Children's Chanukah Party

January 10 -  Bereshit and Creativity with Richard McBee and Rabbi Richard Borah

January 13-14 - Scholar-in-Residence: Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

 

 

Downtown Community

 

All of Lower Manhattan has been joined to the larger Manhattan Eruv.
To read the letter from the Va'ad, click here.

To see maps, click to the Manhattan Eruv website.

Or, check out facebook.com/DowntownNYCEruv

 

We are thrilled to have Ilana Gadish as the Yoetzet Halacha for the downtown community. Yoetzet Ilana is available to answer questions related to Toharat Hamishpacha and may be reached by phone at (646) 598-1080 and by email. Click here to read the Va'ad's recent letter about her appointment.

 

There are several Kosher options in our neighborhood including:

Bagel Boss at 263 First Avenue

Murray's Falafel at 261 First Avenue

Mocha Burger at 496 Laguardia Place.

The Promenade Sports Bar, 344 Third Avenue, is now completely Kosher (not just sushi). Please check them out ASAP.

 

We are proud to be a member synagogue of The Downtown Va'ad, an Orthodox rabbinic network intended to advance the welfare and flourishing of the Downtown community. Check out the Va'ad on Facebook for more information.

 

 

 

Feedback

 

We encourage your participation and insight. Feedback to Elie Yudewitz, Rabbi Bellino or the Shul Office would be most appreciated. Please contact us with any suggestions and/or concerns, or most importantly, to volunteer. You can also make suggestions here.

 

We like to have fun and be creative on social media. Like us on Facebook to see more updates!

 

Sixth Street Community Synagogue

We like to think we're different. Everyone from the traditionally Orthodox to the occasionally observant feels at home here - 365 days a year. We hope you do too.

 

Contact Us

 

325 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003

info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

(212) 473-3665

Like us on Facebook

 

Classes Tonight!

12/14/2016 12:17:21 PM

Dec14

Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Theology, and the class on Sufi Jews, will meet tonight, Wednesday, December 14.

6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Theology
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism

Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.

TONIGHT! - Yiddish Songfest with Lori Leifer & Jack Feldstein

12/13/2016 11:10:24 AM

Dec13

YIDDISH SONGFEST
with
Lori Leifer & Jack Feldstein

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 • 13 Kislev 5777

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM


Please join us tonight, Tuesday, December 13,
as Lori Leifer & Jack Feldstein present: 

'THE LOSER WHO WON'

Come be taken on a fabulous journey through a most fortuitous moment
in the simple life of John Brinkman, the protagonist of 'THE LOSER WHO WON'.

The play, written by Jack Feldstein, features musical
accompaniment (in Yiddish!) by Lori Leifer.

There will be pizza, beer, a Yiddish sing-along - and maybe some Erev Chanukah
songs - following the story. But most of all, it will be fun!

For more info and to register, please visit the event page.

For more info about the performers:
www.lorileifer.com
www.jackfeldstein.com 

Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayetsei 5777

12/08/2016 08:20:46 PM

Dec8

 


Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayetsei 5777

Bereshit

 
 
 

Shabbat Information

Friday Night Kiddush

has been sponsored by

Jeff Katz

in honor of

Rabbi Steven Greenberg.

 

A delicious meat Kiddush

has been sponsored by

David Neuhaus and Friends

in celebration of the birthday of
Tali Zilberman.

 

Seudah Shelishit
has been provided by

The House

in honor of

Rabbi Steven Greenberg.

.

 

 

 

Shabbat Times

Candle-lighting Before

4:10 PM

Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat

4:10 PM

Repeat Shema After

5:14 PM

Daf Yomi

 8:15 AM

Shacharit

 9:00 AM
Shema Before 9:29 AM
Sermon 10:30 AM
Mincha 3:55 PM
Seudah Shelishit 4:15 PM
Maariv

5:04 PM
Musical Havdalah

5:14 PM

 

See the shul calendar for davening times during the week and schedule of events.

 
 


Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - this week at 4:10 PM - is held shortly after candle-lighting time. Please join us and enjoy a beautiful davening, frigay night Kiddush and community.

 

We welcome Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of ESHEL and a Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL, as our Shabbat Scholat.. Join us as we hear from one of the leading progressive voices in the Jewish world today

 

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"New Voices and Bold Visions: Intimations of an Emergent Orthodoxy"

 

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
"Exclusive Inclusivity: The Audacious Demands of Hachnassat Orhim (Welcoming the Stranger)"

 

Seuda Shelishit, 4:20 PM:
"The Limits of Progressivism": Q & A with Rabbi Greenberg

 

News

In these tragic and scary times we stand with all those victimized by senseless hatred and fanaticism, at home, in Israel, and abroad. We pray for safety, healing, and peace.

 

We wish a Mazal tov to Lindsey & Rabbi Aviad Bodner (of Stanton Street Shul) upon the birth, brit, and naming of their son Yonah David.

 

Please continue to assist our weekday morning Minyan. Consider increasing your commitment to community and synagogue by attending.

 

Rabbi Bellino's Wednesday night classes will meet this week: Hebrew Foundations at 6:30 PM, Foundations of Jewish Law at 7:00 PM, and Sufi Jews at 8:00 PM.

 

We will shortly begin children's programming. For more information contact sixthstreetparents@gmail.com.

 

Our plentiful and delicious Kiddushes on Sixth Street greatly enhance our synagogue and community. To sponsor or co-sponsor a Friday night Kiddush, a Shabbat Kiddush, a Shabbocktail, our Shabbat Shabeer supply, or a Seudah Shelishit, contact Rabbi Bellino. The next available Kiddush for sponsorship is Shabbat Vayeshev - 12/24/2016.
 

 

Classes

 

FOUNDATIONS OF JUDAISM: A sensitive and sophisticated introduction to Judaism, intended for beginners, and focusing on many of the ritual, legal, linguistic, and philosophical basics of our faith. Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 PM.

 

SUFI JEWS: JUDAISM’S ENCOUNTER WITH ISLAMIC MYSTICISM: Approximately 400 years after the birth of Islam, some Jewish sages recommended Sufic ritual and thought. Rabbi Bellino will present the Medieval sages, Bahye Ibn Paquda and Abraham son of Maimonides, as well as Jewish-Sufic material from 16th Century Safed Pietism and Hassidut. Wednesdays 8:00-9:00 PM.

 

SHACHARIT: Miriam Kaplan will begin teaching a class on Shacharit, the daily morning prayer. Shabbat, following Kiddush.

 

THE BERDITCHIVER: Rabbi Bellino will present the Hasidic folklore and writings of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. Shabbat, Seudah Shelishit.

 

 

Events

 

Yiddish Songfest - Tuesday, December 13, 7-9 PM

Come be taken on a 30-minute journey through a most fortuitous moment in the simple life of John Brinkman, the protagonist of THE LOSER WHO WON. Written by Jack Feldstein with musical accompaniment (in Yiddish!) by Lori Leifer. There will be pizza, beer, and a Yiddish folk music sing-along - and maybe some Erev Chanukah songs - to follow the story. For more info and to register, please see the event page.

 

Light Up with Laughter: Modi's Chanukah Show -  December 24, 7PM & 9PM
Join Modi on Saturday, December 24th at Gotham Comedy Club for his annual Christmas Eve show. Tickets available at the Gotham website. There is a discount code for Synagogue members.

 

Chessed on Sixth Street - Several of us have begun to utilize our Synagogue's kitchen to prepare meals for the Trinity Place Shelter. The shelter's mission is to help LGBTQ youth and young adults in New York City to safely transition out of the shelter system and grow into independent, positive, and productive adults. To financially support our efforts, please consider donating to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund (Be sure to specify Shelter Meals in the note). The next meal will be prepared after the holidays. If you are interested in cooking, schlepping, or starting your own Chessed initiative, please contact Rabbi Bellino or Tali Zilberman.

 

 

SAVE THE DATES:
December 13 - Yiddish Songfest with Lori Leifer and Jack Feldstein

December 24 - Light Up with Laughter: Modi's Chanukah Show

January 10 -  Bereshit and Creativity with Richard McBee and Rabbi Richard Borah

January 13-14 - Scholar-in-Residence: Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

 

 

Downtown Community

 

All of Lower Manhattan has been joined to the larger Manhattan Eruv.
To read the letter from the Va'ad, click here.

To see maps, click to the Manhattan Eruv website.

Or, check out facebook.com/DowntownNYCEruv

 

We are thrilled to have Ilana Gadish as the Yoetzet Halacha for the downtown community. Yoetzet Ilana is available to answer questions related to Toharat Hamishpacha and may be reached by phone at (646) 598-1080 and by email. Click here to read the Va'ad's recent letter about her appointment.

 

There are several Kosher options in our neighborhood including:

Bagel Boss at 263 First Avenue

Murray's Falafel at 261 First Avenue

Mocha Burger at 496 Laguardia Place.

The Promenade Sports Bar, 344 Third Avenue, is now completely Kosher (not just sushi). Please check them out ASAP.

 

We are proud to be a member synagogue of The Downtown Va'ad, an Orthodox rabbinic network intended to advance the welfare and flourishing of the Downtown community. Check out the Va'ad on Facebook for more information.

 

 

 

Feedback

 

We encourage your participation and insight. Feedback to Elie Yudewitz, Rabbi Bellino or the Shul Office would be most appreciated. Please contact us with any suggestions and/or concerns, or most importantly, to volunteer. You can also make suggestions here.

 

We like to have fun and be creative on social media. Like us on Facebook to see more updates!

 

Sixth Street Community Synagogue

We like to think we're different. Everyone from the traditionally Orthodox to the occasionally observant feels at home here - 365 days a year. We hope you do too.

 

Contact Us

 

325 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003

info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

(212) 473-3665

Like us on Facebook

 

Classes Tonight!

12/07/2016 01:12:22 PM

Dec7

Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Theology, and the class on Sufi Jews, will meet tonight, Wednesday, December 7.

6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Theology
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism

Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.

LAST CALL to RSVP!! Shabbat Scholar Dinner with Rabbi Steven Greenberg

12/06/2016 12:09:20 PM

Dec6

Please join us this Shabbat, Parashat Vayetzei, December 9-10, as we welcome our Shabbat Scholar, Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of ESHEL, and Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL. This Shabbaton includes:

  • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - 4:15 PM
  • Friday night dinner in shul - 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required)
  • Lecture at 7:30 PM (Free – all are welcome)
  • Shabbat morning sermon - 10:30 AM
  • Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit - 4:35 PM


Friday Night Dinner

Please enhance our community by joining our Friday night Shabbat Dinner.
You'll enjoy a delicious dinner and time spent with friends - some you know and some you don't yet know.

Reservations for the dinner must be made by today, Tuesday, December 6!
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
 

Speaking Schedule

Friday Night, 7:30 PM: "New Voices and Bold Visions: Intimations of an Emergent Orthodoxy"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: "Exclusive Inclusivity: The Audacious Demands of Hachnassat Orhim (Welcoming the Stranger)"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:35 PM: "The Limits of Progressivism": Q & A with Rabbi Greenberg
 

Rabbi Steven Greenberg

Rabbi Steven Greenberg is the Co-Director of Eshel, a support, education and advocacy organization for LGBT Orthodox Jews and their families. As well, he is on the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. In 2001 he appeared in Trembling Before G-d, a documentary about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews, and joined the film maker, Sandi DuBowski, carrying the film across the globe as a tool for dialogue. He is the author of the award winning book, Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, (University of Wisconsin Press) and currently lives with his partner Steven Goldstein and daughter Amalia in Boston.

 

One Day Left to RSVP!! Shabbat Dinner with Rabbi Steven Greenberg

12/05/2016 12:40:23 PM

Dec5

Please join us this Shabbat, Parashat Vayetzei, December 9-10, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of ESHEL, and Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL. This Shabbaton includes:

  • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - 4:15 PM
  • Friday night dinner in shul - 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required)
  • Lecture at 7:30 PM (Free – all are welcome)
  • Shabbat morning sermon - 10:30 AM
  • Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit - 4:35 PM


Friday Night Dinner

Please enhance our community by joining our Friday night Shabbat Dinner.
You'll enjoy a delicious dinner and time spent with friends - some you know and some you don't yet know.

Registration for the dinner must be made by tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
 

Speaking Schedule

Friday Night, 7:30 PM: "New Voices and Bold Visions: Intimations of an Emergent Orthodoxy"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: "Exclusive Inclusivity: The Audacious Demands of Hachnassat Orhim (Welcoming the Stranger)"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:35 PM: "The Limits of Progressivism": Q & A with Rabbi Greenberg
 

Rabbi Steven Greenberg

Rabbi Steven Greenberg is the Co-Director of Eshel, a support, education and advocacy organization for LGBT Orthodox Jews and their families. As well, he is on the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. In 2001 he appeared in Trembling Before G-d, a documentary about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews, and joined the film maker, Sandi DuBowski, carrying the film across the globe as a tool for dialogue. He is the author of the award winning book, Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, (University of Wisconsin Press) and currently lives with his partner Steven Goldstein and daughter Amalia in Boston.

 

IN ONE WEEK! Our Next Shabbat Scholar: Rabbi Steven Greenberg (December 9-10)

12/02/2016 12:15:21 PM

Dec2

Please join us next week, on Shabbat Vayetzei, December 9-10, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of ESHEL, and Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL. This Shabbaton includes:

  • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - 4:15 PM
  • Friday night dinner in shul - 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required)
  • Lecture at 7:30 PM (Free – all are welcome)
  • Shabbat morning sermon - 10:30 AM
  • Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit - 4:35 PM

RSVP for the dinner by Tuesday, December 6.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
 

Speaking Schedule

Friday Night, 7:30 PM: "New Voices and Bold Visions: Intimations of an Emergent Orthodoxy"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: "Exclusive Inclusivity: The Audacious Demands of Hachnassat Orhim (Welcoming the Stranger)"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:35 PM: "The Limits of Progressivism": Q & A with Rabbi Greenberg
 

Rabbi Steven Greenberg

Rabbi Steven Greenberg is the Co-Director of Eshel, a support, education and advocacy organization for LGBT Orthodox Jews and their families. As well, he is on the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. In 2001 he appeared in Trembling Before G-d, a documentary about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews, and joined the film maker, Sandi DuBowski, carrying the film across the globe as a tool for dialogue. He is the author of the award winning book, Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, (University of Wisconsin Press) and currently lives with his partner Steven Goldstein and daughter Amalia in Boston.

 

Weekly Update: Shabbat Toledot 5777

12/01/2016 11:24:49 PM

Dec1

 


Weekly Update: Shabbat Toledot 5777

Bereshit

 
 
 

Shabbat Information

A delicious meat Kiddush

has been sponsored by

Amy Reichert &
Dr. Samuel Fleishhacker

in observance of the Yahrzeit
of Sam's mother,

and by

Dr. Elana & Jonathan Sichel
in celebration of the birth
of their son, Gavriel.

 

This week's Shabbocktail

- The Matanhattan -

has been sponsored by

Ashira Lubkin & Alan Feder
in celebration of
the first birthday of their son,
Matan Yehoshua.

 

Shabbat Times

Candle-lighting Before

4:10 PM

Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat

4:10 PM

Repeat Shema After

5:14 PM

Daf Yomi

 8:15 AM

Shacharit

 9:00 AM
Shema Before 9:25 AM
Sermon 10:30 AM
Mincha 3:55 PM
Seudah Shelishit 4:15 PM
Maariv

5:04 PM
Musical Havdalah

5:14 PM

 

See the shul calendar for davening times during the week and schedule of events.

 
 


Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - this week at 4:10 PM - is held shortly after candle-lighting time. Please join us and enjoy a beautiful davening and wonderful community.

 

 

News

In these tragic and scary times we stand with all those victimized by senseless hatred and fanaticism, at home, in Israel, and abroad. We pray for safety, healing, and peace.

 

We wish a Mazal Tov to Lindsey & Rabbi Aviad Bodner upon the birth a boy.

 

We wish a Mazal Tov to Shahla & Barry Weiner upon the engagement of their daughter, Roya, to Ari Frankel.

 

We are grateful to Rabbi Andrew Scheer who delivered the sermon this past Shabbat. To read more about his important work, click here.
 

 

Please continue to assist our weekday morning Minyan. Consider increasing your commitment to community and synagogue by attending.

 

Rabbi Bellino's Wednesday night classes will meet this week: Hebrew Foundations at 6:30 PM, Foundations of Jewish Law at 7:00 PM, and Sufi Jews at 8:00 PM.

 

We are looking for a Youth Leader to run a Shabbat morning program for children ages 2-5. This is a paid position; experience with children / education is a plus. This is a unique leadership opportunity to create, develop, and maintain a children's program through working with community leadership. Please contact sixthstreetparents@gmail.com if you are interested.

 

Our plentiful and delicious Kiddushes on Sixth Street greatly enhance our synagogue and community. To sponsor or co-sponsor a Friday night Kiddush, a Shabbat Kiddush, a Shabbocktail, our Shabbat Shabeer supply, or a Seudah Shelishit, contact Rabbi Bellino. The next available Kiddush for sponsorship is Shabbat Vayeshev - 12/24/2016.
 

 

Classes

 

FOUNDATIONS OF JUDAISM: A sensitive and sophisticated introduction to Judaism, intended for beginners, and focusing on many of the ritual, legal, linguistic, and philosophical basics of our faith. Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 PM.

 

SUFI JEWS: JUDAISM’S ENCOUNTER WITH ISLAMIC MYSTICISM: Approximately 400 years after the birth of Islam, some Jewish sages recommended Sufic ritual and thought. Rabbi Bellino will present the Medieval sages, Bahye Ibn Paquda and Abraham son of Maimonides, as well as Jewish-Sufic material from 16th Century Safed Pietism and Hassidut. Wednesdays 8:00-9:00 PM.

 

SHACHARIT: Miriam Kaplan will begin teaching a class on Shacharit, the daily morning prayer. Shabbat, following Kiddush.

 

THE BERDITCHIVER: Rabbi Bellino will present the Hasidic folklore and writings of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. Shabbat, Seudah Shelishit.

 

 

Events

 

 

Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence– Please join us next week on Shabbat Vayetsei (December 9-10) as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of ESHEL and a Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL.

 

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"New Voices and Bold Visions: Intimations of an Emergent Orthodoxy"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
"Exclusive Inclusivity: The Audacious Demands of Hachnassat Orhim (Welcoming the Stranger)"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:20 PM:
"The Limits of Progressivism": Q & A with Rabbi Greenberg

 

There will be a delicious Friday night community dinner in the Social Hall. 
RSVP and payment are required by Tuesday, December 6.

Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180

Please email info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org if you need financial assistance.

 

Yiddish Songfest - Tuesday, December 13, 7-9 PM

Come be taken on a 30-minute journey through a most fortuitous moment in the simple life of John Brinkman, the protagonist of THE LOSER WHO WON. Written by Jack Feldstein with musical accompaniment (in Yiddish!) by Lori Leifer. There will be pizza, beer, and a Yiddish folk music sing-along - and maybe some Erev Chanukah songs - to follow the story. For more info and to register, please see the event page.

 

Light Up with Laughter: Modi's Chanukah Show -  December 24, 7PM & 9PM
Join Modi on Saturday, December 24th at Gotham Comedy Club for his annual Christmas Eve show. Tickets available at the Gotham website. There is a discount code for Synagogue members.

 

Chessed on Sixth Street - Several of us have begun to utilize our Synagogue's kitchen to prepare meals for the Trinity Place Shelter. The shelter's mission is to help LGBTQ youth and young adults in New York City to safely transition out of the shelter system and grow into independent, positive, and productive adults. To financially support our efforts, please consider donating to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund (Be sure to specify Shelter Meals in the note). The next meal will be prepared after the holidays. If you are interested in cooking, schlepping, or starting your own Chessed initiative, please contact Rabbi Bellino or Tali Zilberman.

 

 

SAVE THE DATES:
 

December 9-10 - Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Steven Greenberg

December 13 - Yiddish Songfest with Lori Leifer and Jack Feldstein

December 24 - Light Up with Laughter: Modi's Chanukah Show

January 10 -  Bereshit and Creativity with Richard McBee and Rabbi Richard Borah

January 13-14 - Scholar-in-Residence: Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

 

 

Downtown Community

 

All of Lower Manhattan has been joined to the larger Manhattan Eruv.
To read the letter from the Va'ad, click here.

To see maps, click to the Manhattan Eruv website.

Or, check out facebook.com/DowntownNYCEruv

 

We are thrilled to have Ilana Gadish as the Yoetzet Halacha for the downtown community. Yoetzet Ilana is available to answer questions related to Toharat Hamishpacha and may be reached by phone at (646) 598-1080 and by email. Click here to read the Va'ad's recent letter about her appointment.

 

There are several Kosher options in our neighborhood including:

Bagel Boss at 263 First Avenue

Murray's Falafel at 261 First Avenue

Mocha Burger at 496 Laguardia Place.

The Promenade Sports Bar, 344 Third Avenue, is now completely Kosher (not just sushi). Please check them out ASAP.

 

We are proud to be a member synagogue of The Downtown Va'ad, an Orthodox rabbinic network intended to advance the welfare and flourishing of the Downtown community. Check out the Va'ad on Facebook for more information.

 

 

 

Feedback

 

We encourage your participation and insight. Feedback to Elie Yudewitz, Rabbi Bellino or the Shul Office would be most appreciated. Please contact us with any suggestions and/or concerns, or most importantly, to volunteer. You can also make suggestions here.

 

We like to have fun and be creative on social media. Like us on Facebook to see more updates!

 

Sixth Street Community Synagogue

We like to think we're different. Everyone from the traditionally Orthodox to the occasionally observant feels at home here - 365 days a year. We hope you do too.

 

Contact Us

 

325 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003

info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

(212) 473-3665

Like us on Facebook

 

NEXT WEEK! Our Next Shabbat Scholar: Rabbi Steven Greenberg (December 9-10)

11/28/2016 02:03:21 PM

Nov28

Please join us next week on Shabbat Vayetzei, December 9-10, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of ESHEL, and Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL. This Shabbaton includes:

  • Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - 4:15 PM
  • Friday night dinner in shul - 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required)
  • Lecture at 7:30 PM (Free – all are welcome)
  • Shabbat morning sermon - 10:30 AM
  • Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit - 4:35 PM

RSVP for the dinner by Tuesday, December 6.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
 

Speaking Schedule

Friday Night, 7:30 PM: "New Voices and Bold Visions: Intimations of an Emergent Orthodoxy"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: "Exclusive Inclusivity: The Audacious Demands of Hachnassat Orhim (Welcoming the Stranger)"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:35 PM: "The Limits of Progressivism": Q & A with Rabbi Greenberg
 

Rabbi Steven Greenberg

Rabbi Steven Greenberg is the Co-Director of Eshel, a support, education and advocacy organization for LGBT Orthodox Jews and their families. As well, he is on the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. In 2001 he appeared in Trembling Before G-d, a documentary about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews, and joined the film maker, Sandi DuBowski, carrying the film across the globe as a tool for dialogue. He is the author of the award winning book, Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, (University of Wisconsin Press) and currently lives with his partner Steven Goldstein and daughter Amalia in Boston.

 

LAST CALL! - Book Discussion with Miri Kubovy

11/27/2016 08:35:15 PM

Nov27



BOOK DISCUSSION
with
MIRI KUBOVY

Tuesday, November 29, 2016
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Please join us in two days, this Tuesday night, November 29, as we welcome Miri Kubovy, Professor of  Israeli Literature at Hunter College, who will lead a discussion of the first part (Momik) of David Grossman's powerful novel See Under: Love.

Light Refreshments will be served.
The event is free, but if you plan to attend, please register on the event page so that we can order food properly.

About SEE UNDER: LOVE
In this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents' history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi "beast" from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him―the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp―Momik, too, becomes "infected with humanity." Grossman's fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work.

About MIRI KUBOVY
Miri Kubovy teaches Cultural Studies, and Israeli literature and cinema at Hunter College. She  was the director of Modern Hebrew Studies at Harvard and a Professor of Near Eastern Civilizations for 20 years, and she taught at Yale University for 17 years. She has translated three books and published numerous articles on modern Hebrew literature, especially on S.Y. Agnon, on avant-garde Israeli poetry (Yona Wollach & Maya Bejerano), on David Grossman, on the young writers of the last 20 years - Etgar Keret, Orly Castel- Bloom, Sami Berdugo - and on post-modernism and post-Zionism. Professor Kubovy received the 1990 Yale University Excellence Teaching Prize, as one of the five best professors in the entire university, and she received 5 teaching prizes at Harvard as well.

 

 

 

Weekly Update: Shabbat Chayei Sara 5777

11/25/2016 10:12:47 AM

Nov25

 


Weekly Update: Shabbat Chayei Sara 5777

Bereshit

 
 
 

Shabbat Information

A delicious cake Kiddush

has been provided by

The House

 

 

 

 

Seudah Shelishit
has been provided by

The House


 

 

Shabbat Times

Candle-lighting Before

4:13 PM

Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat

4:15 PM

Repeat Shema After

5:16 PM

Daf Yomi

 8:15 AM

Shacharit

 9:00 AM
Shema Before 9:20 AM
Sermon 10:30 AM
Mincha 4:00 PM
Seudah Shelishit 4:20 PM
Maariv

5:05 PM
Musical Havdalah

5:16 PM

 

See the shul calendar for davening times during the week and schedule of events.

 
 


Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - this week at 4:15 PM - is held shortly after candle-lighting time. Please join us and enjoy a beautiful davening and wonderful community.

 

We are grateful to Rabbi Andrew Scheer who will deliver the sermon this Shabbat. To read more about his important work, click here.

 

 

News

In these tragic and scary times we stand with all those victimized by senseless hatred and fanaticism, at home, in Israel, and abroad. We pray for safety, healing, and peace.

 

Our hearts and prayers are with Israel, especially with those who are fighting fires and the many who have been displaced.

 

We are grateful to the Education Committee for all their work in organizing last week’s Scholar-in-Residence Shabbaton and Community Dinner.

 

Please continue to assist our weekday morning Minyan. Would you consider increasing your commitment to community and synagogue by attending?

 

Rabbi Bellino's Wednesday night classes will resume this week: Hebrew Foundations at 6:30 PM, Foundations of Theology at 7:00 PM, and Sufi Jews at 8:00 PM.

 

We are looking for a Youth Leader to run a Shabbat morning program for children ages 2-5. This is a paid position; experience with children/education is a plus. This is a unique leadership opportunity to create, develop, and maintain a children's program through working with community leadership. Please contact sixthstreetparents@gmail.com if you are interested.

 

Our plentiful and delicious Kiddushes on Sixth Street greatly enhance our synagogue and community. To sponsor or co-sponsor a Friday night Kiddush, a Shabbat Kiddush, a Shabbocktail, our Shabbat Shabeer supply, or a Seudah Shelishit, contact Rabbi Bellino. The next available Kiddush for sponsorship is Shabbat Vayishlach - 12/17/2016.
 

 

Classes

 

FOUNDATIONS OF JUDAISM: A sensitive and sophisticated introduction to Judaism, intended for beginners, and focusing on many of the ritual, legal, linguistic, and philosophical basics of our faith. Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 PM.

 

SUFI JEWS: JUDAISM’S ENCOUNTER WITH ISLAMIC MYSTICISM: Approximately 400 years after the birth of Islam, some Jewish sages recommended Sufic ritual and thought. Rabbi Bellino will present the Medieval sages, Bahye Ibn Paquda and Abraham son of Maimonides, as well as Jewish-Sufic material from 16th Century Safed Pietism and Hassidut. Wednesdays 8:00-9:00 PM.

 

BLESSINGS: Miriam Kaplan has begun a class on Berachot, the extraordinary practice of sourcing pleasures and experience in the Divine. Shabbat, following Kiddush.

 

JEWISH POETIC LITURGY: Rabbi Bellino will present ancient, medieval, and early-modern religious poetry. Special attention will be paid the Biblibal, Talmudic, Midrashic, and often Kabbalist references contained therein. Shabbat, Seudah Shelishit.

 

 

Events

 

Book Discussion with Miri Kubovy– Come join us on Tuesday, November 29, as Miri Kubovy leads a discussion of the first part (Momik) of David Grossman’s powerful Holocaust-themed novel See Under: Love. Miri teaches Cultural Studies, and Israeli literature and cinema at Hunter College. She  was the director of Modern Hebrew Studies at Harvard and a Professor of Near Eastern Civilizations for 20 years, and she taught at Yale University for 17 years.
 

If you plan to attend, please register for the event.

 

 

 

 

Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence– Please join us in two weeks on Shabbat Vayetsei (December 9-10) as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of ESHEL and a Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL.

 

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"New Voices and Bold Visions: Intimations of an Emergent Orthodoxy"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
"Exclusive Inclusivity: The Audacious Demands of Hachnassat Orhim (Welcoming the Stranger)"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:20 PM:
"The Limits of Progressivism": Q & A with Rabbi Greenberg

 

There will be a delicious Friday night community dinner in the Social Hall. 
RSVP and payment are required by Tuesday, December 6.

Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180

Please email info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org if you need financial assistance.

 
 

Chessed on Sixth Street - Several of us have begun to utilize our Synagogue's kitchen to prepare meals for the Trinity Place Shelter. The shelter's mission is to help LGBTQ youth and young adults in New York City to safely transition out of the shelter system and grow into independent, positive, and productive adults. To financially support our efforts, please consider donating to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund (Be sure to specify Shelter Meals in the note). The next meal will be prepared after the holidays. If you are interested in cooking, schlepping, or starting your own Chessed initiative, please contact Rabbi Bellino or Tali Zilberman.

 

 

SAVE THE DATES:
 

November 29 - Book Discussion with Miri Kubovy

December 9-10 - Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Steven Greenberg

December 13 - Yiddish Songfest with Lori Leifer and Jack Feldstein

January 10 -  Bereshit and Creativity with Richard McBee and Rabbi Richard Borah

January 13-14 - Scholar-in-Residence: Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

 

 

Downtown Community

 

All of Lower Manhattan has been joined to the larger Manhattan Eruv.
To read the letter from the Va'ad, click here.

To see maps, click to the Manhattan Eruv website.

Or, check out facebook.com/DowntownNYCEruv

 

We are thrilled to have Ilana Gadish as the Yoetzet Halacha for the downtown community. Yoetzet Ilana is available to answer questions related to Toharat Hamishpacha and may be reached by phone at (646) 598-1080 and by email. Click here to read the Va'ad's recent letter about her appointment.

 

There are several Kosher options in our neighborhood including:

Bagel Boss at 263 First Avenue

Murray's Falafel at 261 First Avenue

Mocha Burger at 496 Laguardia Place.

The Promenade Sports Bar, 344 Third Avenue, is now completely Kosher (not just sushi). Please check them out ASAP.

 

We are proud to be a member synagogue of The Downtown Va'ad, an Orthodox rabbinic network intended to advance the welfare and flourishing of the Downtown community. Check out the Va'ad on Facebook for more information.

 

 

 

Feedback

 

We encourage your participation and insight. Feedback to Elie Yudewitz, Rabbi Bellino or the Shul Office would be most appreciated. Please contact us with any suggestions and/or concerns, or most importantly, to volunteer. You can also make suggestions here.

 

We like to have fun and be creative on social media. Like us on Facebook to see more updates!

 

Sixth Street Community Synagogue

We like to think we're different. Everyone from the traditionally Orthodox to the occasionally observant feels at home here - 365 days a year. We hope you do too.

 

Contact Us

 

325 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003

info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

(212) 473-3665

Like us on Facebook

 

ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT! - Book Discussion with Miri Kubovy

11/22/2016 10:48:15 PM

Nov22



BOOK DISCUSSION
with
MIRI KUBOVY

Tuesday, November 29, 2016
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Please join us one week from tonight, next Tuesday night, November 29, as we welcome Miri Kubovy, Professor of  Israeli Literature at Hunter College, who will lead a discussion of the first part (Momik) of David Grossman's powerful novel See Under: Love.

Please register on the event page if you plan to attend (the event is free).

About SEE UNDER: LOVE
In this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents' history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi "beast" from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him―the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp―Momik, too, becomes "infected with humanity." Grossman's fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work.

About MIRI KUBOVY
Miri Kubovy teaches Cultural Studies, and Israeli literature and cinema at Hunter College. She  was the director of Modern Hebrew Studies at Harvard and a Professor of Near Eastern Civilizations for 20 years, and she taught at Yale University for 17 years. She has translated three books and published numerous articles on modern Hebrew literature, especially on S.Y. Agnon, on avant-garde Israeli poetry (Yona Wollach & Maya Bejerano), on David Grossman, on the young writers of the last 20 years - Etgar Keret, Orly Castel- Bloom, Sami Berdugo - and on post-modernism and post-Zionism. Professor Kubovy received the 1990 Yale University Excellence Teaching Prize, as one of the five best professors in the entire university, and she received 5 teaching prizes at Harvard as well.

 

 

 

Our Next Shabbat Scholar (December 9-10): Rabbi Steven Greenberg

11/21/2016 10:24:17 PM

Nov21

Please join us on Shabbat Vayetzei, December 9-10, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of ESHEL. This Shabbaton includes Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:15 PM, a Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required), a lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome), Shabbat morning sermon, and a discussion at Seudah Shelishit.

RSVP for the dinner by Tuesday, December 6.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
 

Speaking Schedule

Friday Night, 7:30 PM: "New Voices and Bold Visions: Intimations of an Emergent Orthodoxy"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: "Exclusive Inclusivity: The Audacious Demands of Hachnassat Orhim (Welcoming the Stranger)"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:35 PM: "The Limits of Progressivism": Q & A with Rabbi Greenberg
 

Rabbi Steven Greenberg

Rabbi Steven Greenberg is the Co-Director of Eshel, a support, education and advocacy organization for LGBT Orthodox Jews and their families. As well, he is on the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. In 2001 he appeared in Trembling Before G-d, a documentary about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews, and joined the film maker, Sandi DuBowski, carrying the film across the globe as a tool for dialogue. He is the author of the award winning book, Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, (University of Wisconsin Press) and currently lives with his partner Steven Goldstein and daughter Amalia in Boston.

 

Join Us for a Book Discussion with Miri Kubovy- November 29

11/20/2016 11:38:18 AM

Nov20



BOOK DISCUSSION
with
MIRI KUBOVY

Tuesday, November 29, 2016
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Please join us next Tuesday night, November 29, as we welcome Dr. Miri Kubovy, Professor of  Israeli Literature at Hunter College, who will lead a discussion of the first part (Momik) of David Grossman's powerful novel See Under: Love.

Please register on the event page if you plan to attend (the event is free).

About SEE UNDER: LOVE
In this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents' history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi "beast" from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him―the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp―Momik, too, becomes "infected with humanity." Grossman's fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work.

About MIRI KUBOVY
Miri Kubovy teaches Cultural Studies, and Israeli literature and cinema at Hunter College. She  was the director of Modern Hebrew Studies at Harvard and a Professor of Near Eastern Civilizations for 20 years, and she taught at Yale University for 17 years. She has translated three books and published numerous articles on modern Hebrew literature, especially on S.Y. Agnon, on avant-garde Israeli poetry (Yona Wollach & Maya Bejerano), on David Grossman, on the young writers of the last 20 years - Etgar Keret, Orly Castel- Bloom, Sami Berdugo - and on post-modernism and post-Zionism. Professor Kubovy received the 1990 Yale University Excellence Teaching Prize, as one of the five best professors in the entire university, and she received 5 teaching prizes at Harvard as well.

 

 

 

Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayera 5777

11/18/2016 12:11:48 AM

Nov18

 


Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayera 5777

Bereshit

 
 
 

Shabbat Information

A delicious meat Kiddush

has been sponsored by

Elly Kramer

in honor of the yahrtzeit

of her grandfather
Abe Getzler,
and in honor of her new cousins
AJ, Ace, and Abe,
all named for her grandfather

 

 

Seudah Shelishit
has been provided by

The House

in honor of Rabbi Harcsztark
 

 

Shabbat Times

Candle-lighting Before

4:17 PM

Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat

4:20 PM

Repeat Shema After

5:23 PM

Daf Yomi

 8:15 AM

Shacharit

 9:00 AM
Shema Before 9:10 AM
Sermon 10:30 AM
Mincha 4:00 PM
Seudah Shelishit 4:20 PM
Maariv

5:08 PM
Musical Havdalah

5:19 PM

 

See the shul calendar for davening times during the week and schedule of events.

 
 


theMincha/Kabbalat Shabbat - this week at 4:20 PM - is held shortly after candle-lighting time. Please join us and enjoy a beautiful davening and wonderful community.



Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence
 

 

This Shabbat, we welcome our first Shabbat Scholar of 5777, Rabbi Naftali Harcsztark, Principal of SAR High School. Come join us as we hear from one of the Jewish world's leading educators.

 

"Teaching Jewish Sexual Ethics in a Media-Driven World"

Friday Night Lecture, 7:30 PM

 

"How Jewish Nationalism Helped Make America Great"
Shabbat Sermon, 10:30 AM
 

“Next Generation Modern Orthodoxy”
Q & A with Rabbi Harcsztark

Seudah Shelishit, 4:20 PM

 

 

 

 

News

In these tragic and scary times we stand with all those victimized by senseless hatred and fanaticism, at home, in Israel, and abroad. We pray for safety, healing, and peace.

 

Please continue to assist our weekday morning Minyan. Would you consider increasing your commitment to community and synagogue by attending?

 

Rabbi Bellino's Wednesday night classes have begun, but will not meet this week. All source sheets are available on the website.

 

We are looking for a Youth Leader to run a Shabbat morning program for children ages 2-5. This is a paid position; experience with children/education is a plus. This is a unique leadership opportunity to create, develop, and maintain a children's program through working with community leadership. Please contact sixthstreetparents@gmail.com if you are interested.

 

Our plentiful and delicious Kiddushes on Sixth Street greatly enhance our synagogue and community. To sponsor or co-sponsor a Friday night Kiddush, a Shabbat Kiddush, a Shabbocktail, our Shabbat Shabeer supply, or a Seudah Shelishit, contact Rabbi Bellino. The next available Kiddush for sponsorship is Shabbat Vayishlach - 12/17/2016.
 

 

Classes

 

FOUNDATIONS OF JUDAISM: A sensitive and sophisticated introduction to Judaism, intended for beginners, and focusing on many of the ritual, legal, linguistic, and philosophical basics of our faith. Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 PM.

 

SUFI JEWS: JUDAISM’S ENCOUNTER WITH ISLAMIC MYSTICISM: Approximately 400 years after the birth of Islam, some Jewish sages recommended Sufic ritual and thought. Rabbi Bellino will present the Medieval sages, Bahye Ibn Paquda and Abraham son of Maimonides, as well as Jewish-Sufic material from 16th Century Safed Pietism and Hassidut. Wednesdays 8:00-9:00 PM.

 

BLESSINGS: Miriam Kaplan has begun a class on Berachot, the extraordinary practice of sourcing pleasures and experience in the Divine. Shabbat, following Kiddush.

 

JEWISH POETIC LITURGY: Rabbi Bellino will present ancient, medieval, and early-modern religious poetry. Special attention will be paid the Biblibal, Talmudic, Midrashic, and often Kabbalist references contained therein. Shabbat, Seudah Shelishit.

 

 

Events

 

Book Discussion with Miri Kubovy– Come join us on Tuesday, November 29, as Miri Kubovy leads a discussion of the first part (Momik) of David Grossman’s powerful Holocaust-themed novel See Under: Love. Miri teaches Israeli literature at Hunter College and was formerly Director of Modern  Hebrew Studies at Harvard.

 

 

 

 

Chessed on Sixth Street - Several of us have begun to utilize our Synagogue's kitchen to prepare meals for the Trinity Place Shelter. The shelter's mission is to help LGBTQ youth and young adults in New York City to safely transition out of the shelter system and grow into independent, positive, and productive adults. To financially support our efforts, please consider donating to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund (Be sure to specify Shelter Meals in the note). The next meal will be prepared after the holidays. If you are interested in cooking, schlepping, or starting your own Chessed initiative, please contact Rabbi Bellino or Tali Zilberman.

 

 

SAVE THE DATES:

November 29 - Book Discussion with Miri Kubovy

December 10 - Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Steven Greenberg

December 13 - Yiddish Songfest with Lori Leifer and Jack Feldstein

January 10 -  Bereshit and Creativity with Richard McBee and Richard Borah

January 13-14 - Scholar-in-Residence: Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

 

 

Downtown Community

 

All of Lower Manhattan has been joined to the larger Manhattan Eruv.
To read the letter from the Va'ad, click here.

To see maps, click to the Manhattan Eruv website.

Or, check out facebook.com/DowntownNYCEruv

 

We are thrilled to have Ilana Gadish as the Yoetzet Halacha for the downtown community. Yoetzet Ilana is available to answer questions related to Toharat Hamishpacha and may be reached by phone at (646) 598-1080 and by email. Click here to read the Va'ad's recent letter about her appointment.

 

There are several Kosher options in our neighborhood including:

Mocha Burger at 496 Laguardia Place.

The Promenade Sports Bar, 344 Third Avenue, is now completely Kosher. (Not just sushi). Please check them out ASAP.

 

We are proud to be a member synagogue of The Downtown Va'ad, an Orthodox rabbinic network intended to advance the welfare and flourishing of the Downtown community. Check out the Va'ad on Facebook for more information.

 

 

Feedback

 

We encourage your participation and insight. Feedback to Elie Yudewitz, Rabbi Bellino or the Shul Office would be most appreciated. Please contact us with any suggestions and/or concerns, or most importantly, to volunteer. You can also make suggestions here.

 

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Sixth Street Community Synagogue

We like to think we're different. Everyone from the traditionally Orthodox to the occasionally observant feels at home here - 365 days a year. We hope you do too.

 

Contact Us

 

325 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003

info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

(212) 473-3665

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