David Bassous - Rabbi
Ray Morris - President
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Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Shir Hashirim: 6:45pm
- Mincha: 7:00pm
- Candle lighting 8:09pm
Shabbat
Parashat Pinchas
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.
- Shacharit: 8:45am
- Latest Shema: 8:30am
- Kiddush is sponsored by Susie and Scott Linde and family in honor of their son Brandon starting his master’s program in education
- Class with Dr. Richard Shakarchi 6:15pm
- Mincha: 7:15pm
- Seuda Shelishit is sponsored by Carol and Alex Kotlyar
in memory of his mother.
- Special speaker is Dr. Elisha Russ-Fishbane
- Come and learn some classic Shabbat songs for your Shabbat Table.
- Arvit and Shabbat Ends: 9:09pm
Sunday
- No class with Rabbi Ben Hakakian this week
- Shacharit: 8:30am
- No Women's Class
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:30 pm
- Rav Kook's Orot Teshuvah 9.00 pm
Monday - Thursday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Mincha & Arvit: 7:30pm Next Week – Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Shir Hashirim: 6:45pm
- Mincha: 7:00pm
- Candle lighting 8:04pm Classes
- No class with with Rabbi Ben Hakaian
- Nach: Shabbat: 6:00pm
- No Women's Class this week
- Mishna-a-Day: Monday to Friday: 7:30am
- Rav Kook's Orot Teshuvah Sundays: 9.00pm
Weekly Bulletin
Congregation would like to thank Dr. Elisha Russ-Fishbane for giving a Shabbat sermon, Dr. Richard Shakarchi for giving a pre-Mincha class and Rabbi Jacob Krief for speaking during Seuda Shelishit.
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.
Quilting Club at Etz Ahaim
Etz Ahaim will be hosting a Quilting Club for quilters at all levels from on Tuesdays from 7:00-9:00 p.m. from August 8 through Labor Day. Continuance will depend on level of interest. For more information and RSVP, please contact Chana Bishburg at kbishburg@aol.com.
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:
- 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
Jewish Youth Hockey Program for Boys
Jewish Youth Hockey Program for Boys in Grades 3 through 8 starting at RPRY in the Fall! We're thrilled to open a brand new program designed to provide boys in grades 3 through 8 with an opportunity to play floor hockey on Sundays.
There will be two divisions: a Junior Varsity division for grades 3 through 5 and a Varsity division for grades 6 through 8. Participants will play an eight game regular season and will have a playoff at the end of the season. The program will run on Sundays starting in September at RPRY and is open to children of all area schools (RPRY, YST, Netivot, etc).
IMPORTANT: There will be three information sessions coming up in early July for parents/kids who are interested in hearing more:
- Sunday, July 9 - (Location and time to be determined)
- Monday, July 10 - Congregation Ohav Emeth (415 Raritan Ave, HP) at 8:00pm
- Wednesday, July 12 - Congregation Ahavas Achim (216 S. 1st Ave, HP) at 8:00pm
Registration is open, with an introductory early bird rate of $150. The early bird rate expires on July 1st, at which point the price will increase to $175.
Space is VERY limited and will be on a first come, first serve basis, so please register ASAP!! Registration can be completed at www.JewishYouthHockey.com. For more information, contact David Zelingher or Aharon Goldwasser program!!!
Looking forward to this exciting new Fall!
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.
Rabbi Yisroel Weiss Parsha Class for Men and Women: Wednesday night at 8:30pm 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.
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.
PROJECT MAKOM
Please come this Wednesday, July 19 at 8:00 p.m. to a multi-media presentation by Jew in the City and Project Makom founder and director, Allison Josephs. The program will be held at 4 Fairhill Road, Edison. Learn more about Project Makom, how the OTD (Off the Derech) Movement got started, and how you can get involved. Find out how you can help these Jews find their place in Orthodoxy. This is a chance to increase Jewish unity and inclusion during the Three Weeks.
In 2003, Footsteps was founded to assist people to transition out of the ultra- Orthodox community. They have over 1100 members to date. In 2007, Jew in the City (a 501(c)3) was founded to rebrand Orthodox Jews and Judaism and publicize all the open-minded, educated, out-of-the- box frum Jews traditional media rarely reports on. In 2014, Jew in the City was approached by people who considered going to Footsteps, but instead asked Jew in the City to help them find the kind of Orthodoxy described on its platforms. Thus, Project Makom, was born. Refreshments will be served.
Jew in the City is endorsed by Rav Chaim Malinowitz, editor of the Artscoll Gemara. Project Makom has received a bracha by the Bostoner Rebbe of Yerushalayim, Rav Mayer Alter Horowitz. Its rabbinic advisers include Rav Yitzchak Shurin, Rosh Midrasha of Midreshet Rachel v’Chaya.
Tiferet DVD for Women
The next Tiferes DVD for Women, The Hand of the Tongue: Live Life Better with Shimiras Haloshon featuring Rabbi Mansour and Tovi Baron, will be shown next Motzei Shabbat, July 22 at 10:00pm promptly at the Siegel house.
Weekly teleconferences with topics such as shalom bayit and parenting are available to Tiferes members. Current teleconference: “Raise- the-Bar Parenting” with Simi Yellen. For more information, contact Aviva Siegel at siegelmom@optonline.net.
ZICHRON MENACHEM
For my Bar Mitzvah chesed project, I am selling kippot for $15 that I designed with Zichron Menachem's logo.
Zichron Menachem (www.zichron.org) is an Israeli organization that helps kids in Israel with cancer. To buy a kippah, email: filhartbarmitzvah@gmail.com or drop off/mail the money to my house, 12 Celler Road, Edison, NJ 08817. Thank you or your support!
Sapir Filhart
RPRY CORPORATE GOLF OUTING
Please join the RPRY Corporate Golf Outing on Tuesday, August 8:
8:00 a.m. Breakfast 9:00 a.m. Shotgun Start 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Come out for a great day of golf, competition, contests and networking. Support excellent education, innovation and inspiration! Please ask your colleagues, partners, vendors and business friends to participate. You can register at: http://rprygolfouting.yapsody.com.
JEC Annual Golf Outing
Have you signed up for the Jewish Educational Center's Annual Golf Outing at the exclusive Shackamaxon Country Club this Monday, July 17 yet? Foursomes for this year's event are filling up fast!
Please register online at: http://www.JECGolfOuting.org for an opportunity to reunite and network with fellow JEC-RTMA-Bruriah alumni, business and professional colleagues and peers. Enjoy a terrific game of golf on a beautiful course. Partake in a delectable BBQ on the green and gala dinner buffet with sushi and carving stations to round out the day and win exciting prizes. Most of all, help support the students of the Jewish Educational Center. It's going to be incredible! You won't want to miss it!
Keren Kol Kallah
Aviva Siegel is collecting used or new custom sheitels for Keren Kol Kallah. The sheitels are sold at very discounted prices at a gala sheitel sale to women who would otherwise not have the funds to buy a quality wig. All the money raised at the sale goes towards a hachnasat kallah fund which helps needy brides in Eretz Yisrael.
Last year's sale profited over $60,000! If you have a sheitel that you've recently (or not so recently) retired, or if you are a sheitel macher and have some unsold stock, please donate the sheitels to Keren Kol Kallah. Sheitels can be dropped off by Aviva, 16 Edgemount Road, Edison.
For more information, please contact Aviva at 732-572-4408 or siegelmom@optonline.net or visit: www.kerenkolkallah.webs.com.
Employment Network of Raritan Valley
Looking for work? ENRV can help. Go to www.ENRV.org or contact Bob Lansey at ENRVInfo@gmail.com. They post over 100 jobs each month, and help people with their resume and search strategies. Please help: If you know of any professional, part-time, or temporary job openings, contact Bob Lansey at ENRVInfo@gmail.com.