Calendar for the week of June 10, 2011

June 11

On Common Ground
KULANU, located at 620 Central Avenue in Cedarhurst, is hosting TaShma Orchestra for its Saturday night teenage gathering. The $15 admission includes refreshments. For more information, contact Jonathan at 516-569-3083 ext. 135SH

June 12

Annual Siyum
YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY, located at 802 Hicksville Road in Far Rockaway, is holding its Seventeenth Annual Siyum, honoring the 109 talmidim who will complete tractate Kiddushin. The event begins at noon. Rabbi Aharon Kahn of Knesses Bais Avigdor in Brooklyn will be the guest speaker. For more information, contact 718-327-7600 or www.yofr.org

Three Cantors perform
SUBURBAN PARK JEWISH CENTER, located at 400 Old Westbury Road in East Meadow, is holding a concert featuring cantors Eitan Binet, David Krasner, and Steve Shor, who will perform cantorial, Israeli, hasidic, and popular songs. The general admission is $18. The event begins at 7 p.m. For sponsorship and information, call 516-520-5733 or visit www.suburbanparklevtorah.com

Kulanu Annual Fair
KULANU is holding its annual fair at Cedarhurst Park in Cedarhurst. The event begins at 12 p.m. and includes game booths, refreshments, pony rides, and prizes. The Jewish Star is a sponsor, and its editorial staff will be present at the event. Proceeds from the sponsorships will directly go to year-round programs for local families with special-needs children. For more information, call 516-569-3083.

June 13
Keeping our children safe
GREAT NECK SYNAGOGUE, located at 26 Old Mill Road in Great Neck is sponsoring a lecture by Barry Horowitz, coordinator of Ohel’s Long Island Adolescent Leadership Program. The topic will be “Summer vacation and beyond: minimizing the risks of child abuse.” The event is co-sponsored by Young Israel of Great Neck, Cherry Lane Minyan, NSHA, and Yeshiva Har Torah. The event begins at 8 p.m. For more information, contact 516-487-6100.

Agudah of Bayswater dinner
AGUDATH ISRAEL OF BAYSWATER is holding its annual dinner at Ateres Nachama Lieba Simcha Hall, located at 613 Beach 9th Street in Far Rockaway.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Scharf will be awarded for their hospitality. Rabbis Yosef Goldberg, Mordechai Sitorsky, Yekusiel Dembitzer, Moshe Dovid Goodman, Yossi Korngold, and Nachum Shapiro, will be honored for delivering weekly shiurim over the past year. The event begins at 6 p.m. For more information, call Jeff Waldman at 917-428-1165

June 15
Cantorial concert at Beth Sholom
CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM, located at 390 Broadway in Lawrence, is holding its annual Cantorial Concert featuring cantors Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, Binyamin Muller, David Berson, Joel Kaplan, Daniel Gildar, and the Beth Sholom Choir. Cantor Eric Freeman will conduct, accompanied by Mimi (Kaplan) Levison. The concert is sponsored by Lynda and Benjamin Brafman, and Sherry and Joel Wiener in memory of their parents. The event begins at 7:45 p.m. Tickets priced at $36 and $50 are on a first-come basis, and may be purchased online at http://bethsholom.us/cantorialconcert2011.html. For more information, call 516-569-3600

June 16
Valley Stream Chabad dinner
CHABAD OUTREACH CENTER is holding its annual Hand in Hand dinner, honoring its supporters on the center’s 17th year in Valley Stream. The dinner chairmen are Nassau County legislator Francis X. Becker and local Republican district leader John DeGrace. The dinner will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Colbeh at Temple Israel, located at 54-27 Little Neck Parkway in Little Neck. For more information, contact 516-825-5566.

Cholent Bowl III for Camp Nageela
JEP/CAMP NAGEELA is holding a Cholent Bowl fundraiser to benefit the scholarship fund of Camp Nageela in Lawrence. The four competing cholents are Hadar Guela of boro Park, Kold Kuts of Flatbus, Mr. Broadway of Manhattan, Aron’s Kissena Farms of Queens, and Gottlieb’s of Williamsburg. The men’s only event will begin at 8:45 p.m. at the home of Drs. Ari and Suri Weinreb, located at 310 Eastwood Road in Woodmere. The minimum donation per person is $50. For more information, contact 516-374-1528 or visit www.cholentbowl.com

June 19
Memorial hockey tournament
YESHIVA HAR TORAH, located at 250-10 Grand Central Parkway in Bellerose, will host the 2011 Martin Weiselberg Memorial Junior High Hockey Tournament. The tournament is dedicated in memory of Marty Weiselberg, father of HANC Junior High Hockey coach, Elliot Weiselberg. Six local school teams will play, including Yeshiva Har Torah, HANC. NSHA, and Yeshiva of Central Queens. The free event begins at 9:15 a.m. and runs to 5:30 p.m. For more information, contact Elliot Weiselberg at emw13@aol.com.

June 20
Ask Aviva speaks in KGH
YESHIVA OHEL SIMCHAH, located at 141-41 72 Avenue in Kew Gardens Hills, is hosting a Neve Ohr lecture with The Jewish Star columnist Aviva Rizel and her husband Meir. They will speak on the topic of “Finding the Right One without Losing Yourself.” The free women-only lecture begins at 9 p.m. For more information, contact AvivaRizelMFT@gmail.com

June 21
YILB Annual Dinner
YOUNG ISRAEL OF LONG BEACH is holding its annual dinner honoring members Chaim and Linda Neuman, and Charles Kindler. The dinner celebrates the history and members of this synagogue.
The event begins 6:30 p.m. at White Shul, located at 728 Empire Avenue in Far Rockaway. For more information, contact 516-431-2404.

June 26
Machane Chodosh anniversary banquet
CONGREGATION MACHANE CHODOSH of Forest Hills is holding its 72nd Anniversary Banquet at Rockwood Park Jewish Center, located at 156-45 84th Street in Howard Beach. The event will honor longtime member Jane Stiefel and Talmud Torah director Ricky Schneider on his efforts to provide free weekly Bar Mitzvah and Hebrew classes to public school students, resulting in hundreds of bnei mitzvah since his arrival in 1997. Schneider also lains the weekly parsha at the synagogue. For more information and sponsorships, contact 718-793-5656

Ongoing
Pictures of partisan resistance exhibit
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY, located at 100 Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove, is hosting “Pictures of Resistance. The exhibit runs through July 15. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday 12 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Suggested donation is $10.00 for adults, and $5 for students and seniors. For information and directions call 516 571-8040 ext. 100 or visit www.holocaust-nassau.org.

Community Bais Medrash
YOUNG ISRAEL OF QUEENS VALLEY, located at 141-55 77 Avenue in Kew Gardens Hills is hosting a weekly Torah learning event for men, where participants
may learn on any Torah topic of choice with a kollel member of Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim. The learning takes place every Wednesday from 8:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. For more information, contact Rabbi Noach Rabovsky at 561-702-9351 or noach.rabovsky@gmail.com

Sfas Emes on the Parsha
SH’OR YOSHUV INSTITUTE, located at One Cedar Lawn Avenue in Lawrence holds weekly lectures on the Sfas Emes commentary on the weekly parsha by Rabbi Naftali Jaeger in the Bais Medrash of the yeshiva. Rabbi Jaeger is the Rosh Yeshiva at Sh’or Yoshuv. The lecture takes place 20 minutes before mincha services every Friday. For more information on shiurim, contact Yitzchok Halpern at 516-239-9002 ext. 113 or yhalpern@shoryoshuv.org

Support group
THE JCC OF THE GREATER FIVE TOWNS will sponsor a new support group for the economically challenged as a result of the economic downturn. Key themes will include unemployment, financial issues, empowerment and support. Please join us on Thursday mornings at 10:15 a.m. at Temple Israel, 140 Central Ave, Lawrence until January 20th. This group is part of Connect to Care, an initiative funded by UJAFederation of NY. For further information and to pre-register, please contact Talia Rapps at 516-569-6733 x213.