Shabbos Bamidbar & Shavuos
The Youngest Shul in Manhattan

YP Upstairs Metchik Hall Kiddush 
 is the Place
on the UWS to Meet & Greet, See & Be Seen!!

Young Israel of the West Side is proud to welcome Nick Muzin next shabbos May 30th. Nick is Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategy to the Junior Senator from Texas & Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Nick earned a bachelor's degree from Yeshiva University, an M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. 
        This Shabbos-Bamidbar May 23
YIWS Welcomes Special Guest Speaker Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, a political adviser, writer and activist. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with her two children and is making Aliya this summer.  Annika will speak at the conclusion of services about the rising tide of anti-semitism in Europe.

This year we again have the great privilege of teaming up with Congregation Ramath Orah (CRO) for Tikkun Leil Shavuos to be hosted again at YIWS.  I'd like to take this opportunity to wish a hearty mazel tov to my dear colleague Rabbi Moshe Grussgott who just got married this past Sunday in Denver, Colorado.  

                        Tikun Leil Shavuos Schedule

12am-1:15am - Panel Discussion: " Modern Day Antisemitism: Will Eisav Always Hate Yaakov?" with Rabbi Dovid Cohen, Rabbi Moshe Grussgott, and Annika Hernroth-Rothstein

Shiurim

1:30am-2:30am - Rabbi Dovid Cohen: "The Union of David Goldberg z'l & Sheryl Sandberg-Marital & Other Communication Re-Visited"

Hot Food Break in memory of Vivian Fine z'l including meatballs, stuffed cabbage & kugels

3am-4am-Dr. Ricky Goldfarb (YIWS): "Shavuot YQ (Yediot Quotient) Test" 

4am-5am - Hayyim Obadyah (CRO): "God's Revelation and Israel's Four Acceptances" 

5am - Vasikin Shacharis                                                            
5:32 - Sunrise                  

See Entire Yom Tov Schedule at yiws.org         
On 2nd Day of Shavuos & Memorial Day (Monday 5/25) we have the privilege of hearing a Yizkor Drasha from Rabbi Josh Strulowitz formerly of the West Side Institutional Synagogue (WSIS)


Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen

Shlock Rock & the Macabeats!!
New Movie in Theaters 
When a High School educator in Chicago asked Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt'l several years ago to autograph a baseball, he put his pen to the baseball and wrote: "Aharon Lichtenstein, who strives for stardom in another league"
We are having 2 fleishig and 2 milchig meals over Shavuos and bezras hashem many guests.
What does your menu look like?


Special Flowers Also!

A stereotype-yet still what to aspire toward.

Shavuos Bonus Question:

Why dance with the Torah on Simchas Torah and quietly study the Torah on Shavuos??