Please join us as we host Rabbi David Toledano on Shabbat, August 3rd. Rabbi Toledano hails from a tradition of Toledano family Rabbis spanning 800 years. He was born in Israel and attended the illustrious Ponovitz Yeshiva in Bnei Brak , under the late Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Menachem Man Shach. Rabbi Toledano subsequently attended the Hari Fishel Rabbinical School and received hissemicha from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. Having immigrated to the United States in 1996 along with his wife Sari and four children, Rabbi Toledano has held teaching positions in Seattle, WA and Memphis, TN; as well as pulpit positions at Congregation Magen David of Beverly Hills and Ohr Letzion Congregation. His soon to be published book, “Get Married-Not Buried” focuses on Rabbi Toledano’s specialty in marriage counseling. Rabbi Toledano will be at Shaare Shalom on Friday Night and at YMJC on Saturday. For more information contact Afshin Bassali efibee@gmail.com.

Join us for the first event of TLC’s 5th year! Special Performance by famous Jewish Rapper as well as a special speaker all the way from South Africa! Open for all Jewish public school girls, grades 8 to 12! Free all you can eat sushi, pizza, etc. Save the date- Sunday, August 4th, 2013 at 7:30 pm. At the Liviem Residence- 24 Franklin Place, Great Neck. For more information: Shayna Liviem (516) 589-4253 or shaynayaffa@aol.com.

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Supervisor Jon Kaiman and The North Hempstead Town Board in Partnership with the Great Neck Park District Presents: KAMYAR – Sun, Aug 11, 2013. North Hempstead Beach Park, 175 West Shore Rd, Port Washington. Free Bus Transportation. Concert Begins at 8:00 pm. Shiraz will be serving fresh barbecue on sight plus other foods and drinks.

For more information please contact Mehran Hakimian.

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Due to popular demand the MYC has been working hard to bring to your homes our Mashadi calendar this Rosh Hashana. The MYC is looking for the support from our dear members of the community.With a $260 sponsorship your name will be printed in the calendar. For more information please contact Jonathan LeVian (516) 906-3333, Monica Livian 917-592-2457, Mahtab Zar (516) 448-8330 or Sandy Mordekhai (516) 410-9996

Every year few High School graduates go for on year study in Israel before their college. Next week 13 Mashadi boys are going to Israel. I honor of these boys, we have a Kiddush in the Early Minyan. Rabbi Ben Haim will give them a special blessing before their trip. Submitted by Louis Ebrani

The Young Mashadi Jewish Center would like to welcome Rabbi Joshua Maroof this Shabbat, July 26-27th. Rabbi Maroof is a native Long Islander who has been the Rabbi of Magen David Sephardic Congregation in Rockville, MD for the past eight years. Rabbi Maroof received his BA in Psychology from SUNY Stony Brook and an MA in Educational Psychology from CUNY. Rabbi Maroof has authored many essays/papers addressing the fundamental issues related to Judaism and maintains four online blogs, including a Dafi Yomi class.Rabbi Maroof will deliver the derasha at Shaare Shalom on Friday night and at YMJC on Shabbat morning and afternoon.

Rabbi Hayyim J. Angel is the National Scholar of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals (www.jewishideas.org). He teaches advanced Bible courses to undergraduates and rabbinical students at Yeshiva University, and lectures widely. He has published over 100 scholarly articles, primarily in Bible, and is author or editor of ten books. He previously served for seventeen years as Rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel of New York. He lives in New York with his wife and twin daughters. He attended Yeshivat HaKotel in Jerusalem, Israel and received a B.A summa cum laude in Jewish Studies from Yeshiva College, an M.A. in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School, and an M.S. in Jewish Education from the Azrieli School of Jewish Education atYeshiva University in New York City. In 1995 he Received semicha from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. For more info please contact Johnny Hazghiyan.

Rabbi Hayyim Angel’s Speaking Schedule

Fri Night at MJC (Rabbi BenHaim’s Minyan)

– 7:00 pm – “Insights into the Shema”

Shabbat Morning at YMJC:

 –  9:00 am – Shiur “Coffee and the Halakhic Process”

– 11:45 – Derasha in Main Minyan “The Sephardic Inclusive Communal Model”

– 12:00 – Derasha in Singles Minyan

– 12:30 pm – Special Shabbat Lunch and Mingle in Social Hall with Rabbi Angel (Open and free to all singles and young couples)

“Ten Commandments, Two Tablets”

– 7:30 – Micha followed by Seudah Shlishi and Arvit

“Rabbi Haim David Halevi and Religious Zionism: Hashkafah and Halakhah”

Dear Friend

We are very happy to inform you that on Friday July 19 the Friends of Israel Bonds & Israel stamps & Israel Flag will having the yearly trip to ” Black Sour Cherry farms ”  We have buses that will leave to black sour cherry farms in catskill area of NY from the parking lot of Shaare Shalom synagogue in Great Neck at 4:45 AM and will return the same day at 5:00 PM.

All those individual  who would like to come must pay for their ticket in advance and confirm their seat in the bus ! Here blow for your information are the prices for the bus .

1- front two row     $40.00 per seat

2- middle of the bus $30.00

3- back of the bus    $25.00

This farm is about 2 1/2 hours drive from great neck ( exit 21 on interstate highway 87)

We are free to eat as much sour cherry  as we want but we must pay $2.00 for each pound that we bring back home. Please bring your own sandwich , water and empty cardboard boxes to place your sour cherry !

Please forward this e-mail to all your friends and family! You can research the “Fix Brothers Farm” online.

For more information please call Albert Bassal (917) 771-3865.

We would like to encourage all men to bring their own Tzitzit and Tefilin.