JANUARY SCHEDULE

Tevet/Shevat 5772

6:30 am Daily Minyan. Followed by Talmud Study (Ketubot) with Rabbi Herzfeld

8:30 am Sundays & Legal Holidays

Sunday Minchah and Maariv: 15 minutes before sunset

Maariv: Monday - Thursday - 7:30 pm

Kiddush Lunch every Shabbat. The Shabbat lunch is FREE and OPEN to the entire community. But we do seek sponsors….

Sunday, January 1

8:30 am Shacharit

4:40 pm Mincha/Maariv

Monday, January 2

8:30 am Shacharit

4:40 pm Mincha/Maariv

Thursday, January 5 - Fast of Asarah Betevet/Tenth of Tevet

6:15 am Fast Begins

6:30 am Shacharit

4:30 pm Mincha/Maariv

Friday, January 6

4:43 pm Candles

4:50 pm Minchah & Kabbalat Shabbat

Saturday, January 7 - Vayechi

We welcome Ben Elton as our Scholar-in-Residence

Ben Elton was educated at Queens' College Cambridge (MA) and Birkbeck College London (PhD). His doctoral thesis was published as Britain's Chief Rabbis and the Religious Character of Anglo-Jewry, 1880-1970. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is spending 2011-12 writing A Religious History of the Jews of Britain since 1066 as a Visiting Scholar at NYU, and learning and teaching at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.

8:45 am Communal Torah Study

9:15 am Shacharit with a Dvar Torah by Dr. Ben Elton - Jacob On His Deathbed: A Vision of Jewish History

9:15 – chapel Please join your fellow OSTNS women and girls this Shabbat morning for Shacharit and Torah reading!

We are proud to feature a group of women who have been studying for several months to read Torah for the first time. Come help them celebrate this milestone and join together for a spiritually uplifting tefillah. We will begin Shacharit promptly at 9:15 am and start the Torah service at 10:00. Miriam Rieger and Rachel Milner Gillers, coordinators of the new leyner project, will serve as gabbaot for the service. Rachel will lead Shacharit.

The service is open to women and girls of all ages. For more information on how the women's Shacharit and Torah service will operate, see http://www.hir.org/women.html. We will join the main service for Mussaf + D'var Torah, so will end the women's tefillah after the Torah is put away.

Please feel free to contact Miriam <mrradj@mac.com> or Rachel <rachelmilner1@yahoo.com> with any questions.

10:00 am Women’s Torah Reading (see above)

10:30 am Shabbat Youth Groups: Tot Shabbat (3 & under), Shabbat Club (4 & 5), JMinyan (6, 7 & 8)

4:30 pm Mincha followed by Seudah Shelishit with a Dvar Torah by Dr. Ben Elton: Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Philosophy of History?

5:46 pm Shabbat Ends

Sunday, January 8

9:30 am Bekiut Nach class

4:50 pm Mincha/Maariv

Monday, January 9

12-1 pm Rally for Freedom for Alan Gross

The rally will be held outside the Cuban Mission at 2630 16th Street. Alan Gross is a local Jew who has been imprisoned in Cuba for over two years. To learn more about Alan’s plight click here: http://www.jcouncil.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Alan_Gross_Petition

Friday, January 13

4:49 pm Candles

4:55 pm Minchah & Kabbalat Shabbat

Saturday, January 14 - Shemot

We Celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of Jonah Messinger

8:45 am Communal Torah Study.

9:15 am Shacharit with a Dvar Torah by Jonah Messinger

10:30 am Shabbat Youth Groups: Tot Shabbat (3 & under), Shabbat Club (4 & 5), JMinyan (6, 7 & 8)

4:35 pm Mincha followed by Seudah Shelishit with a Dvar Torah by Rabbi Herzfeld.

5:53 pm Shabbat Ends

Sunday, January 15

9:30 am Bekiut Nach class

4:50 pm Mincha/Maariv

Monday, January 16

Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

8:30 am Shacharit

12:30 pm A class by Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: The Exodus Story and the sermons of Dr. King. This class will discuss how the biblical Exodus story served as inspiration for Dr. King’s struggle for freedom. Class is open to all.

4:55 pm Minchah/Maariv

Tuesday, January 17

7:00 pm Commemorate Dr King’s legacy with the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes. Pizza and dinner will be served. All are welcome and encouraged to attend this festive party.

Friday, January 20

4:57 pm Candles

5:05 pm Minchah & Kabbalat Shabbat

Saturday, January 21 -- Vaera

8:45 am Communal Torah Study.

9:15 am Shacharit with a Dvar Torah about Tu Beshvat by Rabbi Herzfeld.

10:30 am Shabbat Youth Groups: Tot Shabbat (3 & under), Shabbat Club (4 & 5), JMinyan (6, 7 & 8)

4:45 pm Mincha followed by Seudah Shelishit and a class from Rabbi Mintz

6:02 pm Shabbat Ends

6:15 pm Horim v’Yeladim (Parents & Children) Parents and their children (ages Pre-K and up) are invited to learn together about "Stories from the Talmud” and other texts. Pasta and ice cream served at 7 pm.

Sunday, January 22

9:30 am Bekiut Nach class

2:15 pm Youth Flag Football League Begins!

5:05 pm Mincha/Maariv

7:30 pm Book Club meets: The Rav Joseph Soloveitchik Siddur -- discussed by Rabbi Ben Mintz

Wednesday, January 25 - Rosh Chodesh Shevat

Friday, January 27

5:05 pm Candles

5:10 pm Minchah & Kabbalat Shabbat

Saturday, January 28 - Bo

Celebrating the 99^th Birthday of Anna Yuter

8:45 am Communal Torah Study.

9:15 am Shacharit with a Dvar Torah by Shlomit Cohen

10:30 am Shabbat Youth Groups: Tot Shabbat (3 & under), Shabbat Club (4 & 5), JMinyan (6, 7 & 8)

4:55 pm Mincha followed by Seudah Shelishit and a Dvar Torah with Shlomit Cohen.

6:10 pm Shabbat Ends

Sunday, January 29

9:30 am Bekiut Nach class

10 am – 3 pm BLOOD DRIVE for Children’s Hospital

5:10 pm Mincha/Maariv

YOUTH PROGRAM REGISTRATION NOW OPEN:

Shorashim Torah Enrichment Program (Winter 2012 Session)

11 Thursdays starting January 12, 3:45-5 pm

$120 (Pre-K & K), $150 (1^st-3^rd grade)

Pre-registration required, email ostnsyouth@gmail.com

For children in Pre-K through 3^rd grade, Shorashim provides Supplementary Torah and Judaic learning that is fun, interactive and educational. For more info, visit http://goo.gl/kWqTK.

Flag Football League

10 Sundays starting January 22, 2:15-3:45 pm

$50 (includes jersey)

Pre-registration required, email ostnsyouth@gmail.com

Co-ed for ages 6-12. Bundle up and join our Flag Football League, open to the entire community. For more info, visit http://goo.gl/ugTiX. For registration packet, visit http://goo.gl/gdiKK.

SAVE THE DATES:

Camp Kibbutz 2012

Session 1 (Day Camp): June 25-29
Session 2 (Day Camp): July 2-6 (no camp on July 4th)
Session 3 (Day Camp): July 9-13
Session 4 (Away Camp): July 16-20
Session 5 (Arts & Drama Camp): August 13-17

For more info, contact ostnsyouth@gmail.com.

Tefillin Challenge: Come thirty times in sixty days to our morning service and earn your first pair of tefillin for FREE. Estimated value: priceless!

Ongoing Class Schedule

Mondays, 12:30-1:30 pm Rabbi Herzfeld’s Parshah Class for Women

Wednesdays, 12:30-1:30 pm Rabbi Herzfeld’s Downtown Class:

Hudson Institute (1015 15th Street, NW, 6th Floor)

Wednesdays, 8:00 pm Beit Midrash Night (with dinner).

Thursdays, 7:45 pm Talmud Study with Rabbi Herzfeld.

Shabbat Mornings, 8:45 am Group Torah Study of the Parshah

Shabbat Afternoons, 1:30 pm Rabbi Herzfeld’s Class

TO SPONSOR OUR FREE KIDDUSH LUNCH

CALL CAROL AT (202) 882-7225 or email cvaloris@gmail.com

Email Rabbi Herzfeld at rabbiherzfeld@yahoo.com

Email our Executive Director, Carol Valoris at cvaloris@gmail.com