Friday

Shacharit: 6:30am
Mincha: 4:21pm
Candle lighting 4:21pm

Saturday - Parashat Vayetze

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

Boys 6 and up in the Library.

Girls 6 and up upstairs left classroom.

Boy's tefilla group meeting at 9:30am

Children 3 - 5 upstairs right classroom.

Rabbi Hakakian's Parasha Class: 8:00am
Shacharit: 8:45am
Latest Shema: 8:44am
Kiddush is sponsored by Dina and Leo Horowitz & Family in memory of his mother, Cyrla Golda bat Frimet.
- To sponsor a kiddush, go to our Kiddush webpage.
Zera Shimshon: 2:10pm with Rabbi Hakakian
Women's Tehillim Class: 2:10pm
The Ladder to Heaven with Rabbi Bassous: 3:10 pm
Mincha: 4:10pm
Seuda Shelishit is sponsored by Peretz and Adina Aguilar in honor all the Kind People who Invited them for a Meal
- Class with Rabbi Bassous: Bringing Weapons Into A Shul?
Arvit: 5:21pm
Shabbat Ends: 5:21pm

Sunday

Shacharit: 8:30am
Women Pirke Avot Class: 10:00am
Shulchan Aruch: 3:50pm
Mincha and Arvit: 4:20pm
Iggeret Haramban: 5:00pm

Monday to Wednesday

Shacharit: 6:30am
Mishna-a-Day: 7:20am
Shulchan Aruch: 3:50pm
Mincha and Arvit: 4:20pm -- Please come to make the minyan!
Tuesday: Talmud Class: 8:00pm -- The 6th Chapter of Brachot Ketzad Mevarchin. Please join us.

Thursday -- Thanksgiving

Shacharit: 8:00am
Mishna-a-Day: 9:00am
Shulchan Aruch: 3:50pm
Mincha and Arvit: 4:20pm -- Please come to make the minyan!

Next Friday

Shacharit: 6:30am
Mincha: 4:16pm
Candle lighting: 4:16pm

News and Events From our Webpage

The following events and news items can be found on our webpage at http://etzahaim.org

Help Us Welcome New Members to Our Community - HP/Edison Connection welcomes new members to our community. Our laison is looking for people to host new community members for Shabbat dinner. Please sign up to help out.
November 17: Jewish Heroines in History and Today: Creating More Heroines -- Presented by The Orthodox Forum. Dr. Adina Shmidman will analyze Jewish Heroines of the past and how we can create new Jewish heroines for today and the future.
December 8: The Simcha Kiddush - Our 5th Annual Simcha Kiddush. Sponsor now!
December 15: Tomchei Shabbos Community Wide Concert - Tomchei Shabbos provides Shabbat and Yom Tov meals to families in need in Middlesex County. Help us make this a grand affair by sponsoring it. See our webpage.
December 18: The Daughters of Etz Ahaim Paid Up Dinner

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 on Shabbat and Chaggim) make sure all the lights are out.
If you are celebrating a simcha or want to remember a loved one, sponsoring 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 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 email Rahel Baruh or call her at 732-672-4673

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.

The congregation extends get-well wishes to:

Avishai ben Esther
Linda Balavram (Emuna bat Sarah)
Galina bat Riva
Bradley Greenberg (Yehuda Dovid ben Tzvia Sarah)
Lita Greenberg (Tzvia Sarah bat Golda)
Millie Hakim (Miriam bat Sarah)
Benny Mayo (Bentzion ben Avraham)
Mary Naar (Miriam bat Yitzchak)
Clara bat Rachel
David ben Farha
Penina Rachel bat Bracha
Perla bat Leah
Yehuda Reich (Yehuda ben Hermina)
Lilas Saltiel (Leah Saltiel)
Avraham ben Sarah
Sheva bat Merel
Esther bat Liba
Zimbul bat Vida

Community News

Women's Learning Initiative:

Offers customized Torah learning partners / chavrusas! For a personalized study program of your choice, email your contact information to the Women's Learning Inititive.
Parsha class by Mrs. Miri Cohen: Class on Tuesday, November 20 at 9:30am at the home of Leah Epshtein, 253 Lawrence Avenue, Highland Park. Babysitting is now available at the shiur; text Leah at 917-763-1848 to reserve.
Shimiras Haloshon class by Mrs. Leah Drillman: Class on Monday, November 19 at 7:30pm at the home of Ellen Smith, 407 North 8th Avenue, Edison. For more info, please call Ellen at 201-410-1893 or 732-777-6787.

Rebbitzen Eichenstein’s classes for women: No classes on Sunday, November 18 and Monday, November 19. For more info, please contact please call / text Aviva at 732-672-7104 or siegelmom@gmail.com

Tiferes: DVD for women Motzai Shabbos, November 24 at 8:30pm at the Siegel house.

Speakers: Rabbi Elchonon Jacobovitz and Rebbetzin Rena Tarshish. Title: Battling Bogus Beauty with Spiritual Splendor.

Weekly teleconferences with topics such as shalom bayis and parenting are available to Tiferes members. Current teleconference: Shalom Bayis - Getting it Right with Mrs. Rivka Katz. Teleconferences are open and free to all women during the month of Kislev! Call 212-444-9898; pin 2018. For more info or to become a member, please contact Aviva Siegel.

The Highland Park / Edison group of Tiferes is zecher l'nishmas Malka bas Shalom.

Rabbi Weiss' shiur on Tehillim: for men and women on Wednesday nights at 7:30pm, at Eiserman home, 154 N. 10th Ave., Highland Park. For more info, please call 347-203-7906.

Park Mikvah Hours:

Sunday - Thursday: 9:00pm – 11:00pm
Friday night: By appointment only. Call 732-249-2411
Starting Sunday, November 4,
- Sunday - Thursday: 8:00pm – 10:30pm

The Women's AMEN Group meets monthly on the Sundays following the Shabbos in which one bensches Rosh Chodesh, at 9:30am 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.

Eruv: The Highland Park Eruv has a webpage which includes a map and the most recent status of the eruv. You can even use the webpage to find out if someone’s house is inside the eruv. You can get automated notifications of the eruv’s status each Friday via Twitter, text, Facebook, or email. Go to the Eruv Status Page for more information.

Gemachs Abound in Highland Park: A Gemach is sometimes thought of a free loan organization, but these organizations can lend way more than just money. For example, if you have a large simcha at your house and need tables, center pieces, and tablecloths, a gemach can help you out. Etz Ahaim has a complete listing of all local area gemachs at https://www.etzahaim.org/local-gemachs/.

Collecting Sheitels: Keren Kol Kallah - established to provide orphan and destitute kallahs in Israel with essential needs. Donated custom sheitels, some brand-new, some gently worn, are sold to women in Israel who would not otherwise have the funds to buy a quality wig. All the money raised at the sale goes towards a hachnasas kallah fund which helps needy brides in Eretz Yisrael. Sheitels can be dropped off by Aviva, 16 Edgemount Road, Edison. For more info, please contact Aviva Siegel.