Calendar for the week of June 17, 2011

June 17-18
Rabbi Hershel Schachter speaks
BEIS HAKNESSES OF NORTH WOODMERE, located at 649 Hungry Harbor Road in North Woodmere, is hosting Rabbi Hershel Schachter as its scholar-in-residence. Friday night will be devoted to question-and-answer. For Shabbos morning, Rabbi Schachter will speak on the parsha. A special shiur for women on family planning will be held at 5:45 p.m. The shalosh seudat lecture for men deals with “pertinent halachos in the workplace.” For more information, contact Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz at 516-295-1491 or www.bknw.org.

June 18
MK Yaakov Katz speaks at YILC
YOUNG ISRAEL OF LAWRENCE-CEDARHURST, located at 8 Spruce Street in Cedarhurst, is hosting Knesset Member Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz, who will be speaking about his work in the Knesset to promote Jewish construction in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. A veteran of the Yom Kippur War, Katz went on to become a founder of the Gush Emunim movement and heads the Knesset Committee on Foreign Workers. For more information, contact Marvin Shenker at 516-569-3324

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 and Meir Rizel speak
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, who is the Director of Men's Education at Shalom Task Force and Deputy Director of The SHALOM Workshop. 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 litehouseinfo@gmail.com.