On the calendar

Mar 1

YOUNG ISRAEL OF HEWLETT/CONGREGATION AHAVAT YISRAEL

PARTICIPATES IN THE 17th ANNUAL

SHABBAT ACROSS AMERICA AND CANADA PROGRAM

-- Participants Join Over 70,000 North American Jews in Major Effort to Revitalize Sabbath Observance

Conceived and organized by NJOP in 1997, SHABBAT ACROSS AMERICA AND CANADA represents a united effort by the entire Jewish community to renew interest in the fourth of the Ten Commandments – observing a weekly day of rest.

Mar 2

Cong Beth Sholom Annual Dinner

THE 61ST ANNUAL TESTIMONIAL DINNER OF CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013—8:15PM GUESTS OF HONOR MELODIE & MARTY SCHARF

Dinner Chair: Lester Henner Lhenner@graubard.com

Dinner Co-Chair: Rob Satran rob@leiberts.com

Journal Co-Chairs: Annette Satran & Monica Glaubach

Jewels & Dividends Co-Chairs:

Nancy Hain, Estee Kornblum & Carrie Oliner

Raffle Co-Chairs: Mordy Lent & Rony Oved

Call Shul Office for Info/Reservations: 569-3600 x 21 Or visit our website: www.bethsholomlawrence.org. The office will be open this Sunday from 9:15—11AM to take your reservations & dinner ads & to purchase raffle tickets.

Mar 3

The ASKOU OUTREACH program of OU Kosher

will present its first OU Kashrut Shiurim Weekend when it visits Washington Heights on Shabbat, March 2, Parshat Ki Tisa, and Sunday, March 3. Usually when ASKOU OUTREACH visits a community, it is for one session, which may have several speakers. This program will expand to cover the entire weekend.

All sessions will be held at the Mt. Sinai Jewish Center, 135 Bennett Avenue. They will feature Rav Hershel Schachter, Halachic Consultant for OU Kosher and Rosh Yeshiva and Rosh Kollel, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University; Rabbi Chaim Loike, OU Kosher Rabbinic Coordinator and bird expert; and Rabbi Yosef Eisen, Rabbinic Administrator of the Vaad HaKashrut of the Five Towns and Rockaway.

There is free admission and the program is open to both men and women.

Mar 9

2nd Annual Dinner for Gush Katif Museum of Jerusalem 2013

“ALWAYS REMEMBER, NEVER FORGET”

8 PM

Razag Ballroom, Crown Heights

Keynote Speaker, Gov. Mike Huckabee. Event Chairman, Dr. Joe Frager; Committee Chairman, Dr. Paul Brody. Guests of Honor: Rabbi David Algaze, Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Helen Freedman of AFSI and Rabbi Sholom Ber Drizin. For Reservations: 718-2081-770 or www.gushkatifmuseum.org