Rabbi Eliyahu Tal - Rabbi
Ray Morris - President
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Important Messages
The Etz Ahaim Website lists all sorts of community services for your convinience including:
- Chevra Hatzolah of Middlesex County — Volunteer EMS Service: 732-456-6666
- Chaverim of Middlesex Country Automobile Help Line: 732-844-3577
- Shopping WhatsApp — A WhatsApp Group to help people who cannot drive to Trader Joe’s to shop.
- hpboro.com - Official Highland Park Boro's website(
- mainstreethp.org - Main Street Highland Park. The official organization for the Highland Park business community. Main Street Highland Park sponsors a lot of community events.
- Edisonnj.org - Official Edison Township's website.
- Highland Park Family Network - The Highland Park Family Network (HPFN) is a FREE group for Highland Park, NJ children ages 0-5 and their parents/caregivers. We host weekly events such as play groups/meet ups and seasonal events.
Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Shir HaShirim: 6:45pm
- Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 7:46pm
- Count the Omer: Day 37
Saturday -- Parashat Behar-Bechukotai
- Youth Groups for ages 3 to 8 in the Upper Classrooms: 9:30am to 11:00am
- Recite Shema: 8:34am
- Shacharit: 8:45am
- Kiddush After Services (Sponsored by the the Gluzman family in memory of Eliran's father, Zalman ben Sima A”H)
- Sefer Shoftim Class: 6:35
- Mincha: 7:15pm
- Pirkei Avot: 7:45pm — Followed by:
- Se'udah Sh'lshit (Sponsored by The Hamaoui and Reichman families in memory of Zalman ben Simah)
- Arvit and End of Shabbat: 8:39pm
- Count the Omer: Day 38
Sunday
- Shacharit: 8:00am
- Women's Class: 10:00am
- Children's Torah Reading Class Given by Asher Cohen: 6:20pm
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm
- Followed by Chavruta Learning Program
- Count the Omer: Day 39
Monday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:40am
- Rambam 6:40pm
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm
- Count the Omer: Day 40
Tuesday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Rambam: 6:40pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
- Followed by Chavruta Learning Program
- Count the Omer: Day 41
Wednesday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Rambam: 6:40pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
- Count the Omer: Day 42
Thursday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:40am
- Insights on the Parasha: 6:15pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
- Followed by Chavruta Learning Program
- Count the Omer: Day 43
Next Friday — Yom Yerushalayim
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Mincha: 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 7:46pm
- Count the Omer: Day 44
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:
- Liba Shaindel bat Chava Sachs
- Gershon ben Sara
- Dvorah Shahala bat Sarah Parvin
- Chava bat Esther
- Lita Greenberg (Tzvia Sarah bat Golda)
- Linda Balavram (Emmunah bat Sara)
- Sara Shifra bat Yehudit
- Sharona Bella bat Malka
- Yosef Daniel ben Feige
- Leah Chana bat Batya Chaya
- Leah Chava bat Shayna
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.
News and Events
- May 8: Etz Ahaim Lag BaOmer Celebration
- Voices of Faith: Memories of the 1948 War
- Buying Chametz After Pesach
- Chevruta Learing
- OU Launches New Portal to Report anti-Semetic Incidents
- Be´siyata dishmaya - Con la ayuda del Cielo
- שיעור במסכת ברכות
Community News
Dr. Presby Shiurim
- Woman: Pele Yoetz (a combination of halacha and mussar shiur) on Tuesdays at 8 pm at the Presby home, 467 Lincoln Ave, HP
- Men / Women: Eicha on Wednesdays at noon via conference call, Dial in #605-475-6333 code 9017189
- Men: Megillah on Thursdays at 8 pm (temporarily at 7:00PM
due to current Mincha / Maariv time) via conference call,
Dial in #605-475-6333 code 9017189
- Note: no classes on Thursday April 27 and Thursday, May 11
- Men / Women: Nach shiur on Shabbos at 4 pm at the Presby home, 467 Lincoln Ave, HP For more info, please contact Dr. Presby at 732-925-4828
Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University sponsoring RBG's List of Brave and Brilliant Jewish Women. An in person public talk at May 18 at 7:00pm at the Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick.
Nadine Epstein, editor of Moment Magazine, discusses her collaboration with late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on a book about inspiring women. Politicians, artists, scientists, and more, these trailblazing role models—like Ginsburg herself—were all guided by Jewish values to change the world.
Free and open to the public, the talk will be held on Thursday, May 18, 7:30 pm, at the Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street New Brunswick.
Free campus parking is available with online vehicle registration. Light refreshments will be served following the talk, which is presented by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University. For more information and to register, click here.