Donations are appreciated (not required).

All services will be at the Youth Hostel.

Rosh Hashanna

Yom Kippur

Donations:

Ramath Orah on 110th St will be holding Mincha at 8:10 and Ma’ariv at 8:30.

Other zmanim to keep in mind:

Monday night information:
Fast begins: 8:24 pm
Maariv and Kinot: 8:55 (it can be earlier – but not before 8:30)

Tuesday information:
Chatzot Yom: 1:02 pm
Mincha/Maariv: 7:55 pm
Fast Ends: 8:54 pm

2nd Day: at the Youth Hostel, Board Room, at 9am. Kiddush to follow.

KOE Schedule for Shavuot:
Tuesday, May 18, 2010: Joint leil Shavuot event at Congregation Ramath Orah on 110th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam, sponsored by CRO, Kol Haneshama, and KOE in memory of Abba Tzvi ben Chaim Pinchas:

7:51 PM: Candle Lighting
8:00 PM: Mincha
8:15 PM: Rosh Kehilah Dina Najman on “Acceptance of the Torah: Lifnim M’Shurat HaDin”
9:00 PM: Maariv
9:30 PM: Dinner (Dairy, by Reservation through Ramath Orah)
11:10 PM: Birkas Hamazon
Beit Midrash learning or Speakers – You Choose
11:15 PM: Dr. Adena Berkowitz on “Am I My Body: What Jewish Medical Ethics Teach Us About Self Determination”
12:15 AM: Dessert
1:00-1:50 AM: Yonatan Reich on TBA
2:00-2:50 AM: Yehuda Gershom on TBA
3:00-3:50 AM: Ben Sales on “Fill Out Your Census: Taking Money, Counting Jews and the Evolution of Machatzit-Hashekel”
4:00-4:50 AM: Eric Fishman on “The 50 Gates of Wisdom and Yirat Shamayim”
4:55 AM: First Morning Service
5:35 AM: SUNRISE
9:00 AM: Second Morning Service

Thursday, May 20, 2010: KOE Morning Service (including Yizkor and Megillat Rut) at the Youth Hostel (Amsterdam at 103rd) in the Board Room, 9 AM. Kiddush to follow.

Chag Sameach from KOE!

On Saturday night, Ma’ariv and Megillah reading will begin at 7:15, also at the Youth Hostel. There will be an opportunity to fulfill the mitzvah of machazit hashekel.

KOE will not be meeting on Sunday morning.

We hope to see you there!

Dr. Paul Frank will talk about “Torah In the Age of Empire: Lessons From Purim and Chanukah”.

Dr. Paul Franks was appointed the inaugural holder of the Senator Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 2008. He lives in Thornhill, Ontario, with his wife, Hindy Najman, and their children, Marianna (10) and Ezra (8).

After learning at Gateshead Yeshiva, Paul was awarded the Brackenbury Scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford in 1983. He then moved to Harvard, where he earned his PhD in philosophy in 1993. After a Junior Fellowship at the Michigan Society of Fellows, Paul taught at Indiana University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago, before moving to the University of Toronto in 2004.

Paul has been a Lady Davis Fellow at Hebrew University, a Whiting Humanities Fellow at Harvard, and a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. This year, he is a Fellow at the Jackman Institute for the Humanities at the University of Toronto.

Paul specializes in the German-Jewish tradition from Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig and beyond, and he is also interested in the Lithuanian tradition of Jewish thought stemming from the Vilna Gaon.

He has published widely in the areas of Kantian and post-Kantian metaphysics and epistemology, and Jewish philosophy. He has been Associate Editor of the International Yearbook of German Idealism since its inception in 2003. In addition to many articles, he has published two books: Franz Rosenzweig: Philosophical and Theological Writings (Hackett Publishing, 2000); and All or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism (Harvard University Press, 2005). He is currently working on an introduction to modern Jewish philosophy, to be published by Cambridge University Press, and a monograph on Kant’s legacy in metaphysics and epistemology, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Friday Night: Kabbalat Shabbat & Dinner, w/ N’ranena

On Friday night, January 29th, join us for Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:55 PM, followed by a communal dinner with musical entertainment by a capella group N’ranena. Cost: $36 per adult, $20 per child.

Donate to KOE’s Honor Roll

Please give generously to support KOE and honor Dr. Aronson’s immeasurable contributions to the community. Donate and be listed in our journal.

Shabbos Morning: Davening, Lecture by Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Chelst

Saturday, January 30th, Davening (9 AM) followed by a lecture by Rabbi Dr.
Kenneth Chelst, author of Exodus and Emancipation: Biblical and
African-American Slavery and a festive Tu B’Shevat Kiddush.

Events will take place at the Youth Hostel on Amsterdam Ave at West 103rd St.

As a special incentive, donors who give $180 will get one free dinner ticket. Donors who give $360 and up will get two free dinner tickets!

For more information, email 18thAnniversary@koe.org

See you there!

This Week: Parshat Vayichi

TW@KOE

This Week/Upcoming Events
Volunteering
Kiddush
Hospitality
R.K. Dina Najman’s Talmud Shiur
KOE Klassifieds

THIS WEEK/UPCOMING EVENTS
Friday, January 2, 2010: Shabbat candle lighting: 4:21 pm.
Saturday, December 26, 2009: Havdalah, not before 5:24 pm

Plans are under way for KOE’s 18th anniversary on Shabbat Shira on the weekend of January 30. Further details TBA

VOLUNTEERING
KOE needs two volunteers to staff its homeless shelter shift. The commitment is for one Monday evening, 7-9 p.m., every month or two. The shelter is in Ansche Chesed’s building on West End Avenue, entrance on West 100th Street. To sign-up or for more information, please email Rob at shelter@koe.org
KIDDUSH: If you would like to sponsor kiddush, please email kiddush@koe.org at least a week in advance.

HOSPITALITY
If you need a place for a Shabbat meal or if you have a spot at your table and would like 1 or 2 guests, please email Hospitality@KOE.org.

R.K. DINA NAJMAN’S TALMUD SHIUR: For more information, please email rk@koe.org.

KOE KLASSIFIEDS
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Your own large, sunny room w/garden view, 3rd floor apt on 100th & Broadway available for friendly, kosher, shomer Shabbos male. $1060/month including utilities. 24-hour doorman, sundeck, elevator, just 1 roommate. 1 block from Riverside Park, 3 blocks from Central Park. Cable TV & internet access available at extra charge. Available starting January. Contact Stanley by phone (preferred) at 212-316-0033 or e-mail snachamie@yahoo.com

Yeshivat Hadar, North America’s 1st full-time egalitarian yeshiva, is now accepting applications for Summer 2010 & Full-Year 2010-2011 programs in NYC. Men & women looking for intense traditional text study, egalitarian prayer, and social action, with a special focus on personal religious growth, are invited to download applications at (http://www.mechonhadar.org/apply). Fellows receive full tuition remission & stipend. Deadline is Feb. 1, 2010. See http://www.mechonhadar.org/yeshivat-hadar1 for more info & tentative schedule & course descriptions.

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Shabbat Shalom and happy 2010 from KOE!

KOE will meet at the Hostel for regular Shabbat morning services at 9 AM on the FIRST SATURDAY of the SECULAR MONTH. The next one is scheduled for Saturday, January 2, 2010

Plans are under way for KOE’s 18th anniversary on Shabbat Shira on the weekend of January 30. Further details TBA