Weekly Brief

​​​​​​​Shiur Series with Rabbi Ozer Glickman— continues TONIGHT, 
Tuesday: Dec 5, at 8:00pm in Classroom G
Topic: Legal Fictions or the Pursuit of Coherence: Devices that Permit Avoidance of Torah  Law
We will examine halakhic institutions that appear to lessen the impact of Torah law:
1. היתר עסקא ואיסור ריבית 
2. עירוב תחומים ותחום שבת
3. עירוב תבשילין והכנה דרבה
עירוב חצירות טלטול בשבת 4
מכירת חמץ ובל יראה ובל ימצא  5

Parasha shiur: Thursday, December 7 at 8:30pm. Rabbi Wiener will be speaking on: Yosef, His Brothers and Free Will.

Youth Dept:

6th Grade Parent & Child Minyan THIS Shabbat, December 9 at 9:00am
Parents and children in 6th grade are invited to a special fun minyan followed by a hot kiddush.

Rabbi Moshe Taragin is giving a shiur on Sunday morning December 10 

​​​​​​​after the 8:00am Shacharit (approximately 8:45am) 
Topic: Torah of HaRav Amital for Chanukah.

Children's Book Drive December 10, 9:00am – 3:00pm, Classroom D-E
To support Houston families affected by Hurricane Harvey.  We will be collecting gently used books (Pre-K to 5th grade) for "Books Between Kids," an organization that will distribute these books to Houston’s at-risk children. Please bring any empty boxes you have that we can use for shipping. Volunteers needed to help receive and pack books. Please email socialaction@rinat.org to volunteer, and go to https://www.rinat.org/socialaction ​​​​​​​ for more information.

CHANUKAH TOY DRIVE

2017 Chanukah Toy Drive Deadline has been EXTENDED!
Please drop off new, unwrapped toys by Shira Grosser, 1190 West Laurelton Parkway by SUNDAY December 10th.  Take advantage of ongoing Holiday sales and help children in need to get Chanukah gifts.  Tizku Lemitzvot.

Yoetzet Halacha Shoshana Samuels is in Israel from December 5 - 12.  In her absence, questions can be referred to Yoetzet Halacha Tova Warburg Sinensky at (201)-315-3492 or yoetzet@koheletyeshiva.org . This information is also on Shoshana's voicemail and in the auto-reply from her email.

The Adult Education Committee of Rinat Yisrael Presents an exciting and unique multimedia lecture by David Zvi Kalman
Saturday night, December 23, 2017 at 8:30PM in the Social Hall
"Jewish Ritual as Depicted in the Movies"
Hollywood has been incorporating Jewish rituals into both television and movies for more than a century—sometimes as kitsch, sometimes as an ethnic flourish, sometimes for dramatic effect, and sometimes even as comedy. In this multimedia presentation, we'll look at a number of the most fascinating examples and discuss trends in representation, whether the rituals get botched, and—most importantly—the function of these foreign-language prayers in American entertainment.