David Bassous - Rabbi Ray Morris - President
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Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Shir Hashirim: 6:45pm
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 7:53pm
Shabbat Day
Shabbat Day Parashat Behar-Bechukotai
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: 8:26 am
- Kiddush is sponsored by Dr. Richard and Liba Shakarchi and family in honor of Tamar’s Bat Mitzvah.
- Book of Kings: Eliyahu Hanavi -- Rabbi Bassous: 6:00pm
- Mincha: 7:15pm
- Seuda Shelishit after Mincha
- Sponsored by Adina Aguilar in memory of her mother.
- Arvit and Shabbat Ends: 8:53 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: 7:30 pm
- Rav Kook's Orot Teshuvah 9.00 pm
Monday - Thursday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Shulchan Aruch Class: 7:00pm
- Mincha & Arvit: 7:30pm
Next Week - Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Shir Hashirim: 6:45pm
- Mincha: 7:00pm
- Candle lighting 7:59pm
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
- Eye to the Infinite - Mondays: 8:00pm
- Talmud Berachot - Chapter Three: Tuesdays: 8:00pm
- Rav Kook's Orot Teshuvah Sundays 9.00pm
Weekly Bulletin
The Kugel Kiddush
The Kugel Kiddush on June 17 is a celebration of the entire Highland Park Jewish community and every one is welcome -- no matter what synagogue you call home. We're all part of this wonderful fellowship that is Highland Park.
We want to celebrate the uniqueness of the Highland Park Jewish community. Like many communities, we are a place where many of us have different outlooks and different traditions, but we still all remain friends because we are able to overlook these tiny differences and see everyone as part of the same Jewish body.
We are inviting everyone in the community, no matter what synagogue they call Home. No matter what tradition minchag they follow and join together in celebration that we all share the same Jewish Heritage and we are all children of Averham Avinu.
And please help make this an even more wonderful event by helping us with sponsorship.
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. To sponsor a Shabbat Kiddush, please go to our Kiddush Sponsorship Page on our website and fill out the on line form. We'll get in contact with you as soon as possible. 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
The New Highland Park First Aid Squad Discount Cards Are Here!
It's that time of year - time to purchase your new discount cards. The cards are being sold for the same price as last year (2 for $40, 3 for $50) and you KNOW you make many times that amount in savings throughout the year. Cards can be purchased from:
- The Ahavas Achim office,
- Jerusalem Pizza
- Cyber Knight
- Covered Girl Clothing
- Giddy's Pizzeria
- Leah Paretzky
- Any member of the Highland Park First Aid Squad.
A Family's Plea for Help
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 go to the Chesed Fund and open up 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.
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"
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.
Other News
Mesorah NJ invites the community to 3000 Years of Jerusalem and What it Means to Me with Jerusalem resident and educator Nachliel Selavanin, this Monday, May 22 at 7:45 p.m. at Ahavas Achim.
Through archaeology, engage in a story of Jerusalem from its origins as a Jewish city in the time of King David, with highlights of conflict throughout its history, until its eventual destruction by the Romans. Nachliel Selavan will focus on the important conflict between King Hezekiah and Sennacherib (ca. 687-701 BCE) when the mighty city of Lachish—where he has excavated this past summer—was destroyed.
Tiferes DVD for Women: Weekly teleconferences with topics such as Shalom Bayis and Parenting are available to Tiferes members. Current teleconference: “Perfectly Imperfect – Accepting and Appreciating the People in Our Lives” with Mrs. Atara Malach.
For more info, please contact Avivasiegelmom@optonline.net. The Highland Park / Edison group of Tiferes is zecher l'nishmas Malka bas Shalom.
Rabbi Yisroel Weiss Parsha Class for Men and Women: Wednesday night at 8:30 PM at the home of Marsha Eiserman, 154 N. 10th Avenue, Highland Park. For more info, please call Marsha at 347-203-7906.
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.