Friday

Shacharit: 6:30am
Shir Hashirim: 6:45pm
Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm
Candle Lighting: 7:32pm

Shabbat Day

Shabbat Day Parashat Tazria Metzora

Full Range of Children's Groups: 9:45am - 11:30am

Boys 6 and up in the Library

Girls 6 and up upstairs left classroom.

Children 3 - 5 upstairs right classroom

Parasha Class with Rabbi Ben Hakakian: 8:00am
Shacharit: 8:45am
Latest Shema: 8:42am
Kiddush sponsored by Reza Green & Rabbi Moshe Silver, in gratitude for ten beautiful years at Etz Ahaim.
- Please join us in wishing Reza and Rav Moshe well as they embark on the next stage of their lives together.
Eliyahu & Elisha Hanavee Revival of the Dead!!! -- Rabbi Bassous: 6:00 pm
Mincha: 7:15pm
Seuda Shelishit after Mincha
- Sponsored by Rabbi & Clara Bassous imo his Grandmothers and for the good health of his mother.
- The Significance of Yom Ha'atzmaut and the Mitzva of Living in Israel.
Arvit and Shabbat Ends: 8:32 pm

Sunday

Class with Rabbi Ben Hakakian: 8:00am
Shacharit: 8:30am
Women's Class "Happiness" at 10.00am
Shulchan Aruch Class: 7:00pm
Mincha and Arvit: 7:30pm
Rav Kook's Orot Teshuvah 9.00pm

Monday - Thursday

Shacharit: 6:30 am
Shulchan Aruch Class: 7:00 pm
Mincha & Arvit: 7:30 pm

Next Week - Friday

Shacharit: 6:30 am
Shir Hashirim: 6:45 pm
Mincha: 7:00 pm
Candle lighting 7:39 pm

Classes

Parsha and Halacha: Shabbat and Sunday: 8:00am
Nach: Shabbat: 6:00pm
Woman's Class: Happiness: Sunday: 10:00am
Mishna-a-Day: Monday to Friday: 7:30am
Halacha-a-Day: Monday - Thursday: 7:00pm
New Class - EYE TO THE INFINITE Mondays: 8:00pm
Talmud Berachot: Tuesdays: 8:00pm - Chapter Three
Rav Kook's Orot Teshuvah Sundays 9.00 pm

Weekly Bulletin

Yom HaZikaron: Sunday Night/Monday Day
Yom Ha'Atzmaut: Monday Night/Tuesday Day

New Class - Jewish Meditation

Rabbi Bassous has started a new class on the Book EYE TO THE INFINITE. on Jewish Meditation. Mondays at 8:00 pm at Congregation Etz Ahaim. Everyone is welcome and admission is free.

Please join Rabbi Bassous on the NORPAC trip to Washington DC

Israel and the US-Israel relationship face increasing challenges and uncertainty. With ever-mounting pressure at the UN to impose a peace settlement on Israel, continued threats and ballistic missile testing by Iran, the need to authorize over $3.8 billion in aid each year, BDS bullying its way onto more American college campuses, and the numerous new Members of Congress to inform about our issues, this will be an extremely important year for us.

Please join Rabbi Bassous on the NORPAC trip to Washington DC on Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 for the single most important day of US-Israel relations advocacy!

Help Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of United Jerusalem

The Afikim Foundation in cooperation with the Israel Ministry of Diaspora Affairs has commissioned the writing of this unique and historic Torah and invites Jews across the globe to acquire its 304,805 letters, share via social media, and reveal hundreds of thousands of ways that goodness can elevate lives and give honor to Jerusalem.

Congregation Etz Ahaim has reserved a block of 200 letters for members of the congregation. Select your letter, and make a pledge to do an act of kindness/chesed for this letter. Fulfill your act, and mark your act as complete. That's it.

You can win a trip to Israel in order to attend the special ceremony on Yom Yerushalayim, May 24, 2017.

For more information, visit our webpage.

If you have an outstanding balance with Etz Ahaim, please send in your payment to help the Synagogue. Your help is appreciated.
If you are the last person to leave the building (except for Shabbat and Chaggim) make sure all the lights are out
If you are celebrating a simcha or want to remember a loved one, sponsor a kiddush is one of the best ways to mark the occasion. Please contact Yvonne at 908-227-5194. To sponsor a seuda or a Sunday morning breakfast, call the shul at 732-247-3839.

Bikur Cholim of Congregation Etz Ahaim

Our Congregation has its own Bikur Cholim Committee. If you know of a congregant who is in the hospital or a nursing home and would like a visit, please let us know. If there is a Home-bound congregant who is in need of a visit or assistance, we can help. We may also be able to make contact with a Jewish Agency which may be able to provide additional services. Please call Rose Reiss at 732-828-7415.
Nursing Home Visitation: Seeking volunteers to visit Mollie Reuben, Esther Tucker, Shirley Cohen, and others at the Regency nursing home on DeMott Lane in Somerset. For more info or an updated list of residents requesting visitors, please call Rahel Baruh at 732-672-4673 or email rbaruh@yahoo.com
Transportation Committee: Drivers and coordinators needed. Coordinate rides to and from medical appointments - match requests with an available driver. Each coordinator serves for two weeks at a time. To volunteer to coordinate or to drive, please call Bikur Cholim hotline at 732-572-7181 or fill out the volunteer form on the website bikurcholimrv.com

The congregation extends get-well wishes to:

Al Benzilio
Soroh Rosen
Viktorya Koen
Avishai ben Esther
Galina bat Riva
Joey Cenci (Yoseph Michael ben Yael Rut)
Linda Balavram (Emuna bat Sarah)
Stuart Balavram (Shammai ben Yitzchak)
Esther Tucker
Nancy Reich
Yehudah Reich
Benny Mayo
Mary Belsky
Esther Arouh
Lilas Saltiel
Donna Bardy
Mary Naar
Lita Greenberg
Bradley Greenberg
Marcelo Schor
Sarah bat Naava
Perla bat Leah

Community News

We realize there are many requests for Tzedaka, all heart wrenching. However, the rules of Tzedaka are to first help your family, then help your community, then outside the community. Here is a campaign started by longtime members of our community, who are presently struggling with the serious issue of having a family member trying to recover in rehab.

They need to raise about $6,000 a month and rehab can take about a year. Please search Thechesedfund.com and put in the name of the campaign which is please help us afford rehab to save our son. Please open up your hearts and help this local family keep their son in rehab. They have been generous in the past in supporting our community and never thought they would need to ask for themselves. (Please note: Rabbi Kaufman and Rabbi Kaminetzky have reviewed this issue and the great need of the family and encourage all to help in this extremely worthy and lifesaving effort.)

If you wish to make out a check instead of contributing online, please make it out to Congregation Ohav Emeth, in the memo write Rabbi's Charity Fund. On a separate note (NOT in memo) write that it is for the Rehab campaign"

Rebbitzen Eichenstein’s classes for women: Tefillah class on Sunday, April 30 at 11:00 AM at the Aguda shule; Parsha class on Monday, May 1 at 8:00 PM at Cong. Ohr Torah. For more info, please contact Aviva at 732-572-4408 or siegelmom@optonline.net

The Women's AMEN Group meets monthly on the Sundays following the Shabbos in which one bensches Rosh Chodesh, at 9:30 AM in a downstairs classroom at Congregation Ohr Torah. The group meets in the zechus of a refuah shelaimah for Menachem Mordechai ben Ophira and the other Cholim in the community.

Bikur Cholim OWLS (Overnight Women Labor Support): A complimentary service for maternity situations whereby volunteers will come to stay with your kids during the night. For more info on receiving this service or becoming a volunteer, please contact Rikki at 732-249-5116. Thank you.

Donations of diapers, pull-ups, and wipes are currently being accepted for the new HP/Edison Diaper Gemach. Please email diapergemach@gmail.com for more information.