July 23 — Parashat Eikev

Rabbi Eliyahu Tal - Rabbi
Ray Morris - President

Visit our website for the latest news and copies of the bulletin.

Important Messages

  • The Youth Program is expanding. Jacob Oslick will lead a Youth Minyan for ages 8-12 in the Beit Midrash/Library. Masks required.
  • Kiddush is back indoors.
  • We will be mailing High Holiday Seat Reservation forms out soon. More information will be on our website.
  • The Rabbi is on vacation. We would like to thank our volunteers Richard Shakarchi for giving the Shacharit Shabbat Sermon and Rabbi Behzad Hakakian for giving the talk at Seudah Shlitshit

Friday

  • Shacharit: 6:30am
  • Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm
  • Candle Lighting: 7:56pm

Saturday -- Parashat Eikev

Youth Groups for Ages 3 to 8 in the Upper Classrooms: 9:30 - 11:00am

  • Shacharit: 8:45am
    • Kiddush After Services
  • Mincha: 7:35pm — Followed by:
    • Se'udah Sh'lshit (Sponsored by Micha Ben Haim and family)
  • Shabbat Ends and Arvit: 9:03pm

Sunday

  • Shacharit: 8:00am
  • No Women's Class
  • No Children's Torah Class
  • Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm

Monday

  • Shacharit: 6:30am
  • No Talmud Class
  • No Halachot Class
  • Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm

Tuesday

  • Shacharit: 6:30am
  • No Talmud Class
  • No The Questions in Our Community Class
  • Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm

Wednesday

  • Shacharit: 6:30am
  • No Talmud Class
  • No Rabbeinu Bahya Class
  • Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm

Thursday

  • Shacharit: 6:30am
  • No Talmud Class
  • No Insights on the Parasha Class
  • Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm

Next Friday

  • Shacharit: 6:30am
  • No Talmud Class
  • Mincha: 7:00pm
  • Candle Lighting: 7:49pm

News and Events

Bikur Cholim of Congregation Etz Ahaim

  • The Regency Nursing Home is currently closed to visitors.
  • Drivers and coordinators needed. Call (732) 572-7181 for more information.

The congregation extends refua shelema wishes to:

  • Lyudmila Chaya bat Riva
  • Moshe ben Rachel Monavar
  • Liba Shaindel bat Chava Sachs
  • Chava bat Esther
  • Chaya Sarah Leah bat Shifra
  • Nili Feda bat Yaffa
  • Linda Balavram (Emmunah bat Sara)

If you like to add someone to this list, or merely want the Rabbi to say a Mi Shaberach on someone after Torah reading on Shabbat, please go to our webpage and fill out the form.

Community News

Chabad House Lubavitch at Rutgers has launched their annual Jewish Calendar Campaign. This beautiful, colorful and educational calendar for New Year 5782 covering September 2021-September 2022 will be distributed to 25,000 homes and businesses in the Central, South New Jersey area.

support their vital educational and social outreach programs for young men and women at Rutgers University; and ten affiliate Chabad Houses serving Central/South New Jersey. The ad deadline is Friday, July 30. Please place your ad.

The Maccabi Girls Camp @ RPRY has chosen to raise money for victims of the Surfside Condo Tragedy.

This Monday, July 26, the girls will be running a lemonade/iced tea stand. The lemonade stand will be in the front of RPRY from 10:00 to 11:45am.

All proceeds raised will go to tzedakah to help victims of the Surfside Condo Tragedy. For questions, please email Emily Menasha.

Netivot presents the first annual Dr. Aryeh Zinkin Memorial Scholarship Brunch featuring renowned Jewish Montessori educator, Rabbi Jonathan Rietti. They are honoring Morah Niza Kassin with the faculty award, and Ms. Rhea Zucker with the volunteer award.

The breakfast will take place on Sunday, August 15 at 10:00 a.m. at Ohr Torah. Visit: their website to RSVP.

Jewish Family Services urgently needs volunteers to deliver meals to homebound seniors in Edison and East Brunswick on Monday and Friday mornings.

Volunteers would, preferably, make deliveries every week, but every other week would also be helpful. Volunteers are vital to this service, ensuring that vulnerable, elderly adults do not go hungry.

If you delivered Kosher Meals on Wheels meals in the past and took a break during the pandemic, JFS would be most eager and grateful to have you back! email Family Services to find your place on the schedule.

Raritan Valley Hadassah Presents Rabbi Bryan Kinzbrunner, BCC Renewal and Redesign—How to Invigorate Our Celebration of the High Holidays Wednesday, September 1, 2021 7:30 PM, on Zoom.

Rabbi Kinzbrunner is the Director of Religious and Spiritual Services for the Oscar and Ella Wilf Campus for Senior Living in Somerset, NJ and the President of Neshama, the Association of Jewish Chaplains.

Lev LaChayal is a program that provides housing and support to lone solders (solders with no family in Israel) while they're on their army breaks. You can help support this program by going to their webpage.

Tiferes

  • Elul DVD on Motzai Shabbos, August 14 at 10:00pm at the Siegel house. For women only.
  • Weekly teleconferences with topics such as shalom bayis and parenting are available to Tiferes members.

For more info or to become a member, please contact Aviva.

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

Lefkovits Family Park Mikvah

The Mikvah is currently by appointment only. All preparations should be done at home. No showers or baths at the mikvah.

All appointments must be made via our appointment page

Women's Learning Initiative

  • Offers customized Torah learning partners/chavrusas! For a personalized study program of your choice, email your contact information to womenslearninginitiative@gmail.com

ACTT

  • Current Module: The Six Constant Mitzvos 2
  • Source Book: Artscroll's Constant Connection -- Deepening Your Emunah through the Six Constant Mitzvos by Rabbi Yitzchak Coopersmith

Rabbi Yisroel Weiss' Tehillim Shiur for Men and Women:

On Zoom:

  • Wednesday night at 8:00pm
  • Meeting ID: 858 5198 8386
  • Password: RWTehillims
  • To join by phone:
    • Dial 408-638-0968
    • Enter Meeting ID
    • Use Passcode 705203.

Any questions, please contact Marsha Eiserman 347-203-7906.