www.ahavatachim.org
Uri Goldstein, Rabbi
Arnie Spier, President
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Parshat Shmini Parshat Parah |
March 29, 2008
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Friday 3/28 |
Shabbat 3/29 |
Friday 4/4 |
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Shiur |
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8:00
am |
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Shacharit |
6:25
am |
8:45
am |
6:25
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Shiur |
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5:55
pm |
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Candles |
7:00
pm |
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7:07
pm |
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Mincha |
7:05
pm |
6:55
pm |
7:00
pm |
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Ma’Ariv/Havdalah |
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8:04
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Please be respectful. Do not enter or leave
the shul sanctuary during the d’var torah.
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Mazal Tov to Deborah and Mitchell Kempin
on Arielle’s becoming a Bat Mitzvah. The
Kempins invite the entire shul to Kiddush in the David Schwitzer Social Hall
after Davening.
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Condolences to Eita Latkin on the
passing of her cousin Bernard Page. May
the family be comforted among the mourners for
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Throughout the course of the year people
from all over the area and
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Please note that the Rabbi will be
available to sell your Chametz as of April 6.
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As we approach Yom Ha’atzmaut
and
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As per the constitution I have appointed
a Nominating Committee to be chaired by Amy Agress. Joining the committee are
Rose Dworkis, Eli Greenbaum, Sam Racenstein, Jonathan Schachter and Betsy
Sonnenblick. Thanks to the committee for volunteering and if you have any
suggestions please feel free to contact any member of the committee. – Arnie Spier.
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It's a great time to purchase Food
Showcase scrip before Pesach and that people should contact Shelly Winchester
if interested.
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OU Pesach books are available in the Shul lobby
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Please keep Gil Adler's safety in the Israeli army
in mind when you light your Shabbat candles.
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Please
daven for the soldiers: Gilad (ben Aviva) Shalit, Ehud (ben Malka) Goldwasser
and Eldad (ben Tova) Regev.
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The
shul has Siddurim & Machzorim ($36) and Chumashim ($54) available to be
donated. Please contact Eli Greenbaum for details
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If you know anyone who could use
a visit or assistance from the Bikkur Cholim/Chesed Committee please contact
the Rabbi or Heidi Oster.
Kiddush/Seuda
Shlishit
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Please remember that no food or drinks are
permitted in the classrooms, Beit Midrash or youth lounge.
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An anonymous sponsor has stepped forward and has
offered to sponsor one Kiddush a month provided the other 3 Kiddushim in the
month are sponsored. Please don’t let us lose this generous opportunity.
Thank you to our anonymous sponsor.
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If you would like to sponsor a Kiddush, contact
Gail Plotnick. If you would like to sponsor a Seuda Shlishit, please speak to
David Garfunkel.
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Kiddush setup this week are the following families:
Goldstein, Graber, D. & G. Greenberg.
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Next week’s Kiddush setup are the following
families: L. &M. Greenberg, Halpern, Heller
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Kiddush cleanup for the month of March are the
following families: Schachter, Schwitzer, Smedresman, Sokoloff, Solomon,
Sonnenblick, Sperling, Spier, Stock and Taubes.
PLEASE MAKE EVERY
EFFORT TO ATTEND MINYANIM.
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
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Shacharit |
8:15 am |
6:15 am |
6:25 am |
6:25 am |
6:15 am |
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Mincha/Ma’ariv |
7:05 pm |
8:00 pm |
8:00 pm |
8:00 pm |
8:00 pm |
PIRKEI
AVOT Join
Rabbi Goldstein on Monday mornings at 9:15 am for a class on Pirkei Avot.
GEMARAH SHIUR Join Rabbi Goldstein every Shabbat afternoon approximately one hour before Mincha.
PARSHA
CLASS A
weekly Parsha class with the Rabbi takes place every Tuesday evening at 8:30
pm.
CHUMASH
CLASS Jerry Halpern gives a shiur
every Shabbat morning from 8:00 – 8:45 am. Men and women are invited to
attend. We are studying Toldos.
TORAH
LINKS Torah Links presents a Sunday
Morning Bais Midrash featuring Rabbi Moshe
N. Abramczyk at the shul. Light
breakfast shiur following Shacharit from 9:15-10:15 am. Topics are: March 30 General Info
about Pesach; April 6 Something to say at the Seder. Rabbi Abramczyk is a lecturer at Torah Links.
He is a musmach of Beth Medrash Govoha in
HISTORY
CLUB Our next History Club will be on
the subject of the Shanghai Ghetto, the story of the 20,000 Jews who managed to
survive the Holocaust in Japanese- occupied
A Glimpse Into Our Future
Thursday, April 8 Pre-Pesach
Q & A with Rabbi Goldstein, 8:30 pm at the Shul
Sunday, April
Monday, April 14 Shul Board Meeting at the Shul,
following Ma’Ariv
Thursday, April 17 BeDikat Chametz
Friday, April 18 Burn the Chametz
Saturday Night, April 19 First Seder
Shabbat, May 3 Sisterhood Book Club Meeting, 3pm
at the
Monday, May 12 Shul Board Meeting at the Shul,
following Ma’Ariv
Monday, June 16 Sisterhood Annual Spring Dinner, honoring Gail Plotnick. Details to follow
The Gita Cooperwasser Youth
Program appreciates your ideas and suggestions. The committee is focusing
on creating a meaningful Shabbos in the Shul experiences for our kids.
Any thoughts how to accomplish this - programming ideas, references material,
good books to learn from, or books to read the kids, meaningful experiences to
pass on to the children of the shul - are more than welcome. Please contact
someone on the committee: Ilana Schwitzer at ilanatree@aol.com, Renee Freund,
Eli Greenbaum, Sara Bernstein, Arnie Spier and/or the Rabbi.
PRE-K MINYAN
We are proud to
announce that have a Junior Congregation for those children in pre-K through 2nd
grade to be led by Julie Goldstein. Younger children are welcome when
accompanied by a parent.
Please email
rjsafier@optonline.net the name(s) of those members either going to, or
returning from,
BOOK
CLUB The next book club meeting will take place
on May 3 at 4:00 PM at the home of Shelley Winchester 19-18 Angelo
Terrace. Shelley will be reviewing the book The
Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman. From Publishers Weekly:
Starred Review. "Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses)
tells the remarkable WWII story of Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw
Zoo, and his wife, Antonina, who, with courage and coolheaded ingenuity,
sheltered 300 Jews as well as Polish resisters in their villa and in animal
cages and sheds. Using Antonina's diaries, other contemporary sources and her
own research in
SPRING
DINNER Save the Date! The sisterhood
annual Spring Dinner honoring Gail Plotnick will take place on Monday, June 6th.
Please contact Steve
Winchester at swinchman@aol.com to join the Men’s Club. To join Sisterhood, please contact Gail
Plotnick or Andrea Riskin at ajriskin@aol.com.
Ahavat Achim Misc.
RABBI
GOLDSTEIN’S OFFICE HOURS
Although Rabbi Goldstein is always
available to the membership; he will be maintaining office hours in the shul
every Wednesday evening from 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm. Those wishing to make an
appointment to speak to him during this time may contact him in advance
either via e-mail rabbi@ahavatachim.org or by phone
201-794-3927. Please note that the Rabbi's e-mails are forwarded to his home PC
and to his blackberry.
BECOME A MEMBER OF AHAVAT ACHIM If you are not yet a member of Congregation Ahavat Achim; please speak with Eli Greenbaum (796-7081) or email eligreenbaum@yahoo.com for details on membership.
NOTICE
TO THOSE RECEIVING ALIYOT At the
conclusion of your Aliyah, you are asked whether you would like to make an
optional Mishebayrach for your family. As part of that additional
Mishebayrach, you pledge to give Tzedakah in any amount of your choosing in
behalf of those for whom you have asked Hashem's
blessing. Contributions to the shul can be made on-line via Paypal
to treasurer@ahavatachim.org, or via MasterCard, Visa or check by sending the information
to Aryeh Brenenson and indicating on the note or
check "Aliyah Donation." Thank you for your generosity and
continued support of Ahavat Achim.
BAR/BAT
MITZVAH The Fair Lawn Jewish
Community Council gives a book as a present to all Bat and Bar Mitzvah children
in each Shul. If your child is going to
be a Bar or Bat Mitzvah (or if they were recently a Bar or Bat Mitzvah), please
contact Shirley Vann to receive the book.
BOOK
THE DAVID SCHWITZER SOCIAL HALL FOR A SHUL OR PERSONAL EVENT All bookings must be cleared through our calendar
person, Steve Winchester. Please contact him at 796-1766 or swinchman@aol.com.
SCRIP
is
available from Sisterhood for Food Showcase. To purchase, please speak with Shelly
Winchester at 796-1766. Scrip is also
available from the Men’s Club for Pathmark and Shop Rite. To purchase, please speak with David
Garfunkel at 791-1205. You can pay for Scrip via Paypal to Treasurer@ahavatachim.org
or MasterCard or Visa, by giving that information to Aryeh Brenenson.
YAHRZEIT PLAQUES Memorialize a loved one and receive written notice of your upcoming yahrzeit every year. In addition, your loved one’s name will be mentioned during the public yizkor we recite on Yom Kippur. Plaques are $250 for members and $350 for non-members. Please note that as of July 1, 2008 the price will increase to $300 for members and $350 for non-members. For more information, contact Sophie Infield at 791-5518.
MITZVAH
CARDS
Contact Eita Latkin at
791-8940 or via email at parentsof3@aol.com.
Mitzvah cards sent through Eita cost $3 and those sent to shul members
will be acknowledged in the shul bulletin.
Mitzvah cards can also be ordered in bulk. Ten cards will be sent to your home for
$25. These cards (which you send out
yourself) cannot be acknowledged in the bulletin.
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Name |
Hebrew Date |
Shul Member |
Relationship |
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Charles Feldman Frankel |
17 |
Elyce Smedresman |
Uncle |
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Edna Kerin Shimoff |
22 |
Melanie Kwestel |
Mother |
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Louis Strausberg |
22 |
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Father |
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Sofie Levitskaia |
29 |
Yuliya Perchuk |
Mother |
This
section is published each month before Rosh Chodesh to remember the yahrzeit of
those listed on memorial plaques in the shul, and to memorialize members'
immediate relatives who have passed away. If you would like the yahrzeit
of a family member to be included in this section, please contact rjsafier@optonline.net.
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March 26, 2008 to June 11, 2008
Wednesdays, 10:00am to 12:00pm, Jewish Family Service,
TORAH LINKS Torah
Links and the Young Israel of Fair lawn invite you to the famous and popular
live Shiur broadcast of Rabbi Yisroel Reisman's Shiur to be broadcast this
Motzai Shabbos 3/29/08 at the Young Israel of Fair Lawn. The program will start with coffee and cake
at 9:30 PM followed by the Shiur starting promptly at 10:00 PM. The entire
Jewish community at large is invited. No admission fee.
PROJECT S.A.R.A.H. BREAKFAST The entire community is
invited to the second annual breakfast to benefit Project S.A.R.A.H. (stop
abusive relationships at home). Please
join us in honoring: Dr. Cheryl Kramer, Esteemed Founder and Rabbi Yosef Adler,
Rabbinic Supporter Award. Video presentation: “Project S.A.R.A.H. – Voices of Survival”
on Sunday, March 30th at Congregation Beth Sholom,
DARCHEI NOAM BRUNCH ‘N LEARN On Sunday March 30 at
10:00 AM, with Mrs. Julie Goldstein, Rebbetzin of Ahavat Achim, at the home
of Debbie and Bernie Thau (
THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK Please join us on Sunday evening, March 30,
2008 to view the first ever screening in northern
HAZKARAH FOR YESHIVA MERCAZ HARAV The Va’ad Harabanim – Rabbinical Council of Bergen County invites the
community to a community wide evening of reflection on the tragic events at
Yeshivat Mercaz Harav on Wednesday April 2nd, 2008 – 27 Adar
II 5768 at 8:15pm at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, 641 West Englewood Avenue,
Teaneck, New Jersey. The Speakers will
be: Rabbi Ozer Glickman - “Moral Relativism vs. Pure Evil” Thoughts on the
Murder of Innocents and Rabbi Zev Reichman - “ Bemichitzasam Shel Kedoshim” A
First Hand Report of Emunah and Chizuk from the Shiva Homes of the Eight
Students. Tehillim and Keil Molei
Rachamim will be recited. About our
speakers: Rabbi Glickman is a Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS and a former student of
Yeshivat Mercaz Harav. Rabbi Zev Reichman is the spiritual leader of the East
Hill Synagogue of Englewood and director of the Mechinah Program at
YOM HASHOAH PROGRAM The Holocaust Memorial Committee
of UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey announces that the 65th Anniversary of
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Annual Holocaust Commemoration will take
place on Thursday, May 1, 2008, at Temple Sholom, 385 Howland Avenue, River
Edge, NJ at 7 PM. The media
exhibit will be open for viewing at 6:15 PM.
The facility is handicap accessible. Our
distinguished keynote speaker will be Julius Berman, Chairman of the Conference
on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The community speaker will be
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