| Kew Garden Hills Shabbos Zmanim Candle Lighting 4:14 PM Shkiah 4:32 PM Tzeis (3 Stars) 5:16 PM Tzeis (Rabeinu Tam) 6:58 PM LCM Shabbos Davening Mincha (Friday) - 4:17 PM Shabbos Shachris - 8:30 AM Shabbos Mincha - 3:56 PM Maariv - 5:22 PM | WOMEN'S TEHILLIM
BREAKFAST THIS SUNDAY This Sunday, November 23rd, the LCM Alumni Society will team up with N'shei Lander to host its second Tehillim Breakfast of the year. Back by popular demand, this event gives a chance for women in the Lander community to socialize, enjoy a hot, catered breakfast, and join together to complete sefer tehillim. This is the fourth women's event of the year. Following successful women's shiurim and breakfasts, we are looking to expand our women's programming. If anybody would like to suggest potential new programs to service the growing N'shei Lander community, please email aryeh.young@touro.edu. The breakfast will take place at 10:00 AM in room 210.
| SAVE THE DATE FEB. 20-21 LCM ALUMNI COUNCIL PREPARES
TO HOST FIRST ANNUAL ALUMNI SHABBATON !!!
The LCM Alumni Council has decided to organize an Alumni Shabbaton catered to all LCM alumni. The Shabbaton will take place in Kew Garden Hills at LCM, and housing will be arranged for all alumni, including families.
Rebbeim and faculty members will also participate in the shabbaton, which will feature exciting programming, seudos, fun for the kids, and an exciting melave malka. Ariel Kapitnikoff, David Manheim, Sochi Hornung, and Moshe Orenstein will serve as this year's Shabbaton committee.
|  | LCM Alumni CouncilLCM 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 College is currently cleaning out the storage garage in apartment 2-2 where many alumni have left their old belongings, as well as, the personal sefarim that have been left behind in the Beis Medrash. Please come and claim your old belongings, or call the Office of Alumni Affairs to have them be set aside for you. | |
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| NEW ALUMNI WEBSITE CREATES JOB NETWORKING AND UP-TO-DATE LCM NEWS
Do you know somebody who is looking for a job? Did you hear who just got engaged? Do you know about the next LCM alumni event or women's shiur? Find out all the LCM alumni news and find excellent employment opportunities through the new LCM alumni network. Many job opportunities are already posted, so come check it out now at LCMalumni.blogspot.com.
The website is updated several times a week, so check regularly for the latest LCM news and job postings. The Touro alumni research databases and LCM Shiurim can also be accessed from the website. We appreciate all of those who have contributed to make the website a reality, and we ask all alumni to email any job availabilities or noteworthy mazel tovs to Ezzie Goldish, Vice-Chair of Communications, at serandez@gmail.com to assist in making this website an ongoing reality. Thank you, Ezzie! | | "Economics and the Talmud" A Community Lecture by Robert J. Aumann, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences, 2005 Professor Robert J. Aumann, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences, 2005, will be speaking at LCM, Tuesday, December 2, 2008, at 8:00 PM. The lecture will be open to the entire community and all alumni are warmly invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. The event is hosted by Touro College and the Orthodox Union. LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP FOR LCM COMMUNITY DISCOUNT CARD The LCM Community Discount Cards have finally been ordered! If you have not yet signed up to become a member of the LCM Alumni Society, please sign-up immediately, and a personalized card will be ordered on your behalf. The cards are expected to arrive in two weeks, and will be valid until 12/31/2009. The card will enable LCM alumni, students, and faculty to receive significant discounts at many vendors in the Kew Garden Hills community. Discounts will be offered for groceries, dry cleaning, restaurants, shatnez checking, dentistry, optometry, pizza, flowers, candy, wine, and more. A full list of participating vendors will be released in the next LCM Alumni Newsletter. Sign up and save hundreds of dollars!!! Membership in the LCM Alumni Society also enables alumni unlimited access to the brand new, state-of-the-art LCM fitness center, discounts at LCM alumni events, half-price yamim noraim seating, and access to the LCM library. The yearly fee is $72 for alumni who are currently employed and $36 for those alumni who are still pursuing their education. Checks can be made out to Lander College, with "alumni society" written in the memo line. Checks can be mailed to: Attn: Aryeh Young Lander College for Men 7531 150th St Flushing, NY 11367
| | By Rabbi Yehuda Parnes Shlit"a Last week I had the privilege of attending my grandson's wedding in Eretz Yisroel. He has been studying in Yeshivas Kol Torah for a number of years and has become very popular amongst talmidim and rebbeim alike. Therefore, it was not surprising that most of the yeshiva, including the roshei yeshiva were in attendance at the chasanah. Among the many members of the yeshiva in attendance, was an older bochur in a wheel chair, who I later found out, lives in the yeshiva. The bochur is in his 30's and unfortunately has Lou Gehrig's disease, which is of course, degenerative. I noticed that many of the talmidim were pushing the wheel chair around, enabling the bochur to take part in the dancing. It was clear that this was very meaningful to both him, as well as the bochurim assisting him.
Why am I sharing you with this? Well, when the shidduch between my grandson and his kallah was taking place, the kallah's father decided to check out my grandson. He went down to Yeshivas Kol Torah and asked, "Tell me about a good bochur here," to which several bochurim pointed out my grandson. The girl's father continued probing, asking, "What more can you tell me?" The bochurim replied: "That bochur is among those who care for a young man in a wheel chair, but he does so in a very special way. When he needs to go to the bathroom, he needs to be taken and helped in a very significant way. Only three or four people are willing to do this." When the father of the kallah heard this, he readily agreed to the shidduch.
In the recent parshios we learn about the chessed of Avraham Avinu. Avraham is portrayed as the amud hachessed, the pillar of good deeds. The Rambam explains in Hilchos Tzedakah that this is the midah that defines Klal Yisroel. Although we see chessed among the goyim as well, our chessed is unique and special. Although the Christain countries do engage in chessed, this it is not surprising at all since they, too, share our mesorah of chessedderived through Avraham Avinu via the Torah.
Let us take a closer analysis of this. Where does this chessed come from? There are two basic aspects of Avraham Avinu. He's the amud hachessed and he is also the rosh ha'ma'aminim. In fact, the Rambam named his son Avraham, specifically because Avraham Avinu was the rosh ha'ma'aminim. These two midos of chessed and emunah go together both philosophically and logically. This duality is easily understood as follows: without emunah in Hashem's creation, there is no purpose in chessed. Animals only have capacity for chessed when survival of the race is dependent on it. Why would, or should, a person do chessed philosophically if he is an atheist? Although people will sometimes adopt the approach of "I'll do for you," "You'll do for me," and "We won't kill each other," such a lifestyle is done only for pragmatic and functional reasons, and will not last. On the other hand, if we have emunah, we are all brothers. There is an intrinsic brotherhood shared by all of Klal Yisroel - I identify with the Ribono Shel Olam and you identify with the Ribono Shel Olam. Therefore, because we identify with each other, you are really doing a chessed to yourself. Thus, chessed and emunah are interdependent with one another. Without emunah, there is no philosophic basis for chessed.
Jews are very much into chessed. There are so many Jewish hospitals. Mount Sinai, Maimonides, this hospital, that hospital; many are Jews who left all significant observance back in Europe. Yet, there is a mesorah about the value of chessed. How long will it last? Unfortunately, their children and grandchildren don't get the same mesorah or desire for chessed that their parents had.
That is why I raised this issue. It had tremendous impact upon me at the chassanah, when I watched how the b'nei hayehsiva took care of this young man with special needs, as they tried to make life meaningful for him and give him some moments of happiness and joy. A goy, b'etzem, often does not understand this and if he does, it is only because he too, has this mesoras hatorah from Avraham Avinu. May we be a light unto the nations and continue to spread this mesorah for many years to come. Good Shabbos, Rabbi Parnes Transcribed by Ari Blavin
| | | 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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