Chanukah Week - Packed

As is clear from the flurry of information in this week's newsletter, a lot is happening at Lander, particularly as relates to Lander Alumni.

• The Lander Discount Cards were released earlier this week. Many people have already received theirs; if you have not and would like to, please contact Aryeh Young at aryeh.young@touro.edu. Another post will be published with a listing of all the stores taking part so far and what the discounts are.
• Earlier tonight the Lander N'Shei (which includes current and alumni LCM wives) had another nice event, though the weather kept the crowd rather small. We'd like to strengthen the Lander N'Shei along with the Alumni, so if people have ideas for programming/fun, please send those ideas in. One person floated the idea of a game night - more ideas would be great!
  
• The annual LCM Chanukah Mesibah is this Tuesday night. R' Noach Oelbaum of K'hal Nachlas Yitzchok in Kew Gardens Hills will be coming in to speak after Ma'ariv, which is at 7:30, and the Mesibah will follow his remarks, keyed by the Lander College Band and the annual dreidel contest.
  
• On Wednesday night, R' Bamberger will be hosting a Chanukah va'ad and tisch at 8:30pm in the room next to the Beis Medrash; of course, all alumni are invited and welcomed.
• Finally, we're already starting preparations for the Alumni Shabbaton which will be taking place in Lander the weekend of February 20-21 - all the details will be in another post very shortly.
  

LCM Alumni Newsletter

Lander College for Men Alumni Newsletter Kew Garden Hills Shabbos Zmanim Parshas Vayeishev Candle Lighting 4:12 PM Shkiah 4:30 PM Tzeis (3 Stars) 5:17 PM Tzeis (Rabeinu Tam) 6:00 PM LCM Shabbos Davening Mincha (Friday) - 4:15 PM Shabbos Shachris - 8:30 AM Shabbos Mincha - 3:52 PM Maariv - 5:20 PM The following stores are currently participating in the Lander College for Men Community Discount Card program (valid through 12/31/09). Barber Men's Famous Barber Shop (10% discount on all haircuts) 72-60 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-263-2171 Bakery Mendy's Bakery (10% discount on minimum purchases of $10) 72-22 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-544-7836 Candy Main Sweet (5% discount on purchases under $36, 10% discount on purchases above $36) 72-54 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-261-3917 Clothing J & Z Couture Fine Men and Kid's Clothing (10% discount on all purchases) 72-56 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-261-2452 Dentistry Gentle Dental - Dr. Maybruch (15% discount) 144-32 68th Rd. Flushing, NY 11367 718-263-8300 Dry Cleaning David's Cleaners (10% discount on all service) 71-42 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-544-7500 U.N. Cleaners (20% discount on all service) 79-27 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-969-0207 S. Kohan French Cleaners (15% discount on all service) 73-17 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-544-8866 Florist Lilac's Florist (10% discount on all in-store purchases - this does not include discounts on events, parties etc.) 72-12 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 1-800-35-LILAC Food Ramat Gan Fruit and Vegetables (5% discount on minimum purchases of $10) 71-30 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-544-2774 Wasserman's Supermarket (10% discount on purchases except select items) 72-68 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-544-7413 Judaica (Seforim) Gift World (5% discount on all cash purchases $36 or more and on credit card purchases $100 or more. No discounts on CD's.) 72-20 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-261-0233 Optometry Schrier Optometric (15% discount) 72-63 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-263-6754 Pharmaceutical Products Shalom Pharmacy (10% discount on all cash purchases; 5% discount on all credit card purchases above $10. No discounts on sales or discounted items. Please present the discount card to the cashier before checking out.) 72-22 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-544-7836 Pizza Benjy's Pizza (10% discount on all purchases) 72-72 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-268-0791 Pizza Professor (5% discount on all credit card purchases; 10% discount on all cash purchases) 141-25 Jewel Ave Flushing, NY 11367 718-261-6666 Shimon's Pizza (5% discount on all purchases) 71-24 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 Restaurants Dougie's (10% discount on all cash purchases) 73-27 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-793-4600 Grill Express (10% discount on all purchases) 72-28 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-793-2266 Kosher Korner (15% discount on purchases above $50; 10% discount on purchases below $50) 73-01 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-263-1177 Subway (10% discount on all purchases) 141-24 Jewel Ave Flushing, NY 11367 718-544-SUBS Shatnez Hat to Toe (10% discount on shatnez-checking only) Two doors down from Wasserman's Wine HaKerem (10% discount on all purchases) 141-22 Jewel Ave. Flushing, NY 11367 718-261-9463 Variety Store Towne Variety (5% discount on all purchases) 72-34 Main St. Flushing, NY 11367 718-263-9090 LCM ALUMNI WEBSITE COME CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR UP-TO-DATE JOB POSTINGS, MAZEL TOV'S, AND OTHER IMPORTANT LCM NEWS AND EVENTS. THE SITE IS UPDATED REGULARLY AND IS QUICKLY BECOMING A GREAT NETWORKING SERVICE FOR THE LANDER COMMUNITY. SO, PLEASE CONTINUE TO CHECK US OUT AT LCMalumni.blogspot.com. IF YOU KNOW ANY LCM ALUMNI PERSONAL NEWS, JOB OPENINGS, OR WOULD JUST LIKE TO GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT SOMETHING, PLEASE EMAIL THE SITE ADMINISTRATOR, EZZIE GOLDISH, AND HE WILL BE HAPPY TO POST THE INFORMATION ON YOUR BEHALF. LCM Alumni Council LCM Alumni Affairs Aryeh Young Faculty Member Dean Dr. Moshe Sokol Chair Moshe Ornstein Vice Chair - Programming Suchi Hornung Vice Chair - Communications Ezzie Goldish Secretary David Manheim Assistant Secretary Yosef Lerhman Council Members Michoel Bodenheimer Jon Burg Yehuda Hammer Evan Honigsfeld Ariel Kopitnikoff Ari Lasker Ari Lustig Elie Mendelson Elie Norowitz Dovid Rubin Ari Shore Gabi Shull Dovid Zigun Quick Link... We would like to encourage all of our alumni to check out the new Lander Shiurim Website, where you can access audio shiurim from your former Rebbeim and Roshei Yeshiva. Enjoy! Lander Shiurim Good Shabbos! Aryeh Young Director of Alumni Affairs aryeh.young@touro.edu 718-820-4883 (work) 516-512-4494 (cell) LCM COMMUNITY DISCOUNT CARDS RELEASED It is with great excitement that we have released the new Lander College for Men Community Discount Card. A tremendous amount of work has been put into the production of the card and we hope that it will benefit our entire LCM community. Many of our alumni, kollel members, rebbeim, and talmidim have already expressed appreciation for the money they have saved in the past forty-eight hours since the card's release. Twenty-five vendors have already agreed to participate in this program, and we anticipate several more will be joining in the upcoming weeks. (Please see the left column of the newsletter for all participating vendors). We have attempted to create a network of discount-providing stores in most of the major industries that our community members regularly frequent. If you are a member of the LCM Alumni Society and still waiting to receive your card, (or plan on joining the society and would like to receive a card), please email the Office of Alumni Affairs ASAP at aryeh.young@touro.edu. In order to maintain the success of this new program, there are several requests that we would like to make to all cardholders. First, it is absolutely imperative that cardholders do not give this card to anybody besides their spouse - this includes, but is not limited to, parents, siblings, friends, kallahs, children etc. The card may only be used by the individual listed on the card. Violation of this agreement is sufficient grounds to terminate the card and constitutes a definite violation of halacha, according to the p'sak received from one of our LCM Roshei Yeshiva. (You are purchasing this card with the agreement it will not be given to others). Second, we kindly request that all cardholders please be patient with store owners and cashiers as the program gets off the ground. Remember, that every time you swipe the LCM card, you represent Lander College for Men/Beis Medrash L'Talmud and it is of tremendous importance that our community is portrayed favorably. Lastly, please attempt, whenever possible, to frequent the stores listed below in order to maintain and further the mutual relationship between LCM and the particular vendor. If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Enjoy and save! Have a wonderful Shabbos, Aryeh Young Director of Alumni Affairs Lander College for Men 718-820-4883 (office) 516-512-4494 (cell) aryeh.young@touro.edu A BLAST FROM THE PAST - SHABBATON REUNION TWO MONTHS AWAY! SAVE THE DATE FEB. 20-21 The LCM Alumni Council is currently preparing to host its first ever alumni Shabbaton. The Shabbaton will be a terrific opportunity to reunite with former friends, rebbeim, and faculty members. It will be taking place at Lander College for Men in Kew Garden Hills, and housing will be arranged for all alumni coming from outside the neighborhood. We are anticipating approximately seventy participating alumni with their families, and we are very excited for our kick-off event featuring An AWESOME FAMILY-ORIENTED REUNION with old chaveirim, rebbeim, and faculty members Three terrific, CATERED SHABBOS SEUDOS A FRIDAY NIGHT ONEG with a thought-provoking Q and A session with former Rebbeim BABYSITTING (included in shabbaton price) A WOMEN'S ONLY SHALOSH SEUDOS And of course... our first ever, Alumni Melave Malka, to get you into the Purim spirit, featuring a video presentation of the BEST MOMENTS IN LANDER PURIM SHPIEL HISTORY! Ariel Kapitnikoff, David Manheim, Sochi Hornung, and Moshe Orenstein will serve as this year's Shabbaton committee. Please RSVP to aryeh.young@touro.edu and indicate if you will be needing housing accommodations. We will be charging $35 for a single alumnus, $60 for a couple, and $65 for a family with children. Please make all checks payable to Lander College for Men, and specify "alumni shabbaton" in the memo line. The checks can be sent to: Attn: Aryeh Young Lander College for Men 7531 150th St. Flushing, NY 11367 LCM CHANUKAH MESIBAH THIS TUESDAY NIGHT This Tuesday night, Lander College for Men will be hosting its annual chanukah mesiba. The festivities will begin Ma'ariv at 7:30 PM, followed by a stimulating, half hour shiur by HaRav Noach Oelbaum shlit"a in the LCM Beis Medrash. Following the shiur, everyone will head up to the fourth floor for a festive concert by the newly established, Lander College Band, as well as, a delicious seudas chanukah. As always, the evening will also feature the annual LCM dreidel contest. Please come with your entire family and join other students, alumni, and rebbeim for this fun-packed event. No RSVP necessary. All Alumni are Warmly Invited to a... Chanukah Vaad & Tisch with the Mashgiach, Rav Moshe Bamberger shlit"a When? Wednesday, December 24th, 8:30 PM Where? LCM, Room #120 (next to the Beis Medrash) THOUGHTS ON THE PARSHA By HaRav Dovid Mirsky shlit"a The pasuk calls Yosef a ben z'kunim. We usually translate this to mean "a son of his old age". Rashi a different p'shat from Onkelos that it means bar chachim - that Yaakov Avinu taught Yosef all the Torah that he learnt from Yeshivas Shem and Aver. At first glance this seems difficult; we can understand favoring Yosef with a Kesones Pasim that the brothers did not receive, but would Yaakov really deny the other brothers of the Torah Ha'kdosha? Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky answers based on the following idea. At the end of Parshas Toldos, Yitzchak and Rivka tell Yaakov to go to Lavan. Instead he decides to first take 14 years to learn in Yeshivas Shem and Aver. How could Yaakov do this when his parents told him to go to Lavan? Furthermore, this was not exactly like deciding to stay a shana betin Israel. He was 63 years old and had been learning Torah from Avraham and Yitzchak since he was a small child! Why then was there such an urgency to go to Yeshiva? Rav Yaakov explains that Avraham and Yitzchak taught Torah on the highest level, but in an environment removed from the people around them. Shem and Aver were different. Shem grew up during the dor hamabul and Aver lived through the dor haflagah. Yet they were able to learn even in the midst of those difficult environments. Therefore, Yaakov needed to go there before he went to Lavan so that he could learn the special toras hagalus of survival. Now we can better understand our Rashi. Certainly Yaakov Avinu taught all of the sh'vatim the Torah that he learned from Avraham and Yitzchak. It was only the unique Torah of Shem and Aver that he sensed Yosef would need to survive in Mitzrayim. Based on this we can suggest the following. In Parshas Vayigash Yosef sent Yaakov wagons to remind him of the last thing they had learned together, the sugya of eglah arufah.This mitzvah says that if an unidentifiable corpse is found, the closest city mustachieve a kapara for not paying more attention to this wandering soul. This no longer seems to be a random sugya which they happened to be holding at, rather an example of the Torah of Galus, demonstrating that Hashem made a special Mitzvah for the sake of the lone individual in a place far from home. Surely we can understand how this could give Yosef the strength to maintain his service of Hashem in Mitzrayim. Of course this is not only for Yaakov by Lavan or Yosef in Mitzrayim. We are all in Galus and must keep this in mind when we find ourselves challenged to keep the Torah in it's kedusha until we can get out of our present Galus, bim'heira b'yameinu. Good Shabbos, Rabbi Mirsky N'Shei Lander Pre-Chanukah Event This Motzei Shabbos, Dec. 20th This Motzei Shabbos, December, 20th, the N'Shei Lander will be hosting an interactive writing workshop, presented by Susie Garber, an author and member of our community. She will share with us how to use writing as a tool to hold onto the memorable moments in our lives. There will also be refreshments and inspirational divrei torah in memory of the kedoshim in Mumbai. Come and meet new friends! No RSVP necessary. (This event is open to women only). Alumni Hashkafa Shiur Continues Come enjoy a shiur on the parsha and its timeless lessons and reunite with the Mashgiach and former chaveirim. The shiur is held every Wednesday at 9:15 PM (culminating with Maariv at 10:00) and will continue every Wednesday evening unless otherwise notified by email. The location will be on the 4th floor in the President's conference room of Lander College for Men, 75-31 150th St., Kew Gardens Hills, NY. If possible, please RSVP if you plan on attending.

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