David Bassous - Rabbi
Ray Morris - President
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Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Shir Hashirim: 6:45pm
- Mincha: 7:00pm
- Candle lighting 8:14pm
Shabbat
Parashat Korach – Rosh Hodesh Tamuz
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: 8:17am
- Kiddush is sponsored by the Congregation.
- Class with Rabbi Behzad Hakakian 6:15pm
- Mincha: 7:15pm
- Seuda Shelishit after Mincha
- Special speaker is Rabbi Yehoshua Lewis
- Sponsored by Ibeth in memory of her son Joseph
- New Program for the Entire Family: Come and learn some classic shabbat songs for your Shabbat Table
- Arvit and Shabbat Ends: 9:14pm
Sunday – Rosh Hodesh Tamuz
- Class with Rabbi Ben Hakakian: 8:00am
- 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 8:14pm
Classes
- Parasha and Halacha: Sunday with Rabbi Ben Hakaian: 8:00am
- 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 speaking Shabbat morning, Rabbi Behzad Hakakian for giving a pre-Mincha class and Rabbi Yehoshua Lewis 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.
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
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 8:30 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