David Bassous - Rabbi
Ray Morris - President
Visit our Website at http://etzahaim.org for the latest news
Thursday - Evening of Seventh Day of Pesach
NOTE: Don't forget to make an [eruv tashillin]!
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Mincha: 7:00pm
- Candle lighting: 7:29pm
Friday -- Seventh Day of Pesach
- Shacharit: 8:45am
- Latest Shema: 8:48am
- Emunah and Bitcahon -- The Alef Bet of Judaism with Rabbi Bassous: 6:00pm
- Mincha: 7:00pm
- Candle lighting: 7:29pm
Saturday -- Eighth Day of Pesach
- Shacharit: 8:45am
- Latest Shema: 8:47am
- Yizkor during services: About 10:00am
- Seuda Shelishit should be eaten at home
- Women's Tehillim Group: 5:30pm
- Rabbi Akiva and his Students with Rabbi Bassous: 6:30pm
- Mincha: 7.30 pm
- Dvar Torah and special Pesach Seuda Shelishit with Adin Bodzin
- Arvit, Shabbat and Pesach Ends: 8:29pm
NOTE: Please don’t open up your chametz until 10:00pm to give the Rabbis time to buy back your chametz. Also please do not go to Dunkin Donuts until 9:30pm.
Sunday
- Shacharit: 8:30am
- Shulchan Aruch: 7:00pm
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:30pm
Monday – Thursday
Note: All services to take place at 33 Stone Street, Edison NJ
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Shulchan Aruch: 7:00pm
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:30pm
- Nefesh HaChaim: 8:00pm
- Tuesday: Talmud Brachot: 8:15pm
Friday
- Shacharit at 33 Stone Street, Edison NJ: 6:30am
- Shulchan Aruch: 7:00am
- Mincha and Arvit: (back at Etz Ahaim): 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 7:36pm
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.
- Help Us Replace Our Women's Seating in Our Sanctuary
- The Laws of the Omer -- The Omer is the period between the Second Day of Pesach and Shavuot
- Purchasing Chametz After Pesach -- We know you're impatient, but first please read this important message from our Vaad.
- May 21: Join Rabbi Basous for This Year's NORPAC Mission to Washington
- May 24: Rabbi Stephen Baars -- Scholar in Residence -- Join us and help us welcome Rabbi Stephen Baars this Shabbat. Registar Now!
- 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.
- To sponsor a seuda or a Sunday morning breakfast, call the shul at 732-247-3839.
Bikur Cholim of Congregation Etz Ahaim
- Contact Rose Reiss at (732) 828-7415 in order to volunteer.
- Seeking volunteers to visit: Shirley Cohena and others at the Regency Nursing home on DeMott Lane in Somerset. For more info, contact Rahel Baruh.
- Drivers and coordinators needed. Call (732) 572-7181 for more information.
The congregation extends get-well wishes to:
- Avishai ben Esther
- Avraham ben Sarah
- Amos ben Galina
- Linda Balavram (Emuna bat Sarah)
- Chaim Yaakov Ben Sarah
- Clara bat Rachel
- Cochavit bat Victoria
- David ben Farha
- Esther bat Liba
- Galina bat Riva
- Gittel bat Leah
- Bradley Greenberg (Yehuda Dovid ben Tzvia Sarah)
- Keren bat Orly
- Liba Shaindel bat Chava
- Lidia bat Paulina
- Lita Greenberg (Tzvia Sarah bat Golda)
- Millie Hakim (Miriam bat Sarah)
- Benny Mayo (Bentzion ben Avraham)
- Mary Naar (Miriam bat Yitzchak)
- Penina Rachel bat Bracha
- Miriam Devorah bat Bracha
- Perla bat Leah
- Rosa bat Rachel
- Shaul ben Regina
- Yehuda Reich (Yehuda ben Hermina)
- Lilas Saltiel (Leah Saltiel)
- Sheva bat Merel
- Zimbul bat Vida