AHAVASAHAVAS ACHIMACHIM NEWSLETNEWSLETTERTER כ"ג אלול תש"פ נצבים/וילך SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 SCHEDULE OF SERVICES SYNAGOGUE NEWS ELUL BOOT CAMP Get your soul in shape for the Year 5781! Join us this afternoon between המקום ינחם Friday Evening Latest Candlelighting...... 6:53 p.m. and . "Drill sergeants," Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv The Congregation extends its condolences (Sanctuary & Outdoors)...... 7:00 p.m. to Gary Gonzales on the loss of his wife, Rabbi Miodownik and Rabbi Elise z"l. Condolences also, to Gabi and Schwarzberg will present the last Shabbat Day Josh on the loss of their mother. There will session of ELUL BOOT CAMP (Sanctuary) ...... be a private funeral service this afternoon. featuring tips for the Yomim Noraim, ...... 8:30 & 10:00 a.m. Shiva will take place from Sunday- perspectives on Teshuvah, and Shacharit (Outdoors)...... 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at 116 South Third Avenue. fascinating Torah sources. Teen Minyan (Upstairs Social Hall)...... 9:30 a.m. There will be Mincha/Maariv daily MACHZORIM Daf Yomi ...... 6:00 p.m. Sunday-Wednesday at 6:50 p.m. on the Mincha (Sanctuary & Outdoors) ...... front lawn (weather permitting). Ahavas Achim's collection of Artscroll ...... 6:50 p.m. Outdoor Shiva hours will be: Machzorim for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Elul Boot Camp (Sanctuary & Outdoors) .. Kippur (as well as books) will ...... 7:15 p.m.  9:00-10:30 a.m. Sunday-Wednesday be available for use in shul for everyone Maariv (Sanctuary & Outdoors) ...... 7:56 p.m.  2:00-4:00 p.m. Monday and registered for minyanim on Yomim Motzei Shabbat ...... 8:00 p.m. Wednesday Noraim. Hand sanitizer will be placed Selichot (Sanctuary)...... 1:00 a.m. Masks are required for all in-person visits. adjacent to the book carts for use before and after machzorim are taken and The following minyanim do not require Zoom Shiva hours will be: returned. If you will not be in shul for registration:  2:00-4:00 p.m. Sunday: https:// Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur and Sunday Selichot/Shacharit (Outdoors) .... us02web.zoom.us/j/83299035299? would like to borrow one of the shul's ...... 7:30 a.m. pwd=QTFkWXM5UUYxZzZrTm16W machzorim, please contact the shul Sunday Selichot/Shacharit (Sanctuary) .... mxlTGtEZz09 office...... 8:30 a.m.  2:00-4:00 p.m. Tuesday: https:// Monday & Thursday Selichot/Shacharit (Outdoors)...... 5:55 a.m. us02web.zoom.us/j/88517376381? Tuesday & Wednesday Selichot/Shacharit pwd=NnRMNEd0VmlqTExWcWJ0M (Outdoors)...... 6:05 a.m. kRlYXk1Zz09 Monday-Thursday Selichot/Shacharit May the entire family be comforted among (Sanctuary) ...... 7:45 a.m. the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Friday Selichot/Shacharit (Outdoors)...... 5:30 a.m. צאתכן לשלום .... . (Friday Selichot/Shacharit (Sanctuary to Jaklin Rozen צאתכן לשלום a.m. We wish a 7:00...... Sunday-Thursday Mincha/Maariv and to Marcie Leff who are both making (Sanctuary & Outdoors)...... 6:50 p.m. aliyah. Thank you for all your contributions Sunday-Thursday Maariv/Selichot (Sanctuary) ...... 9:50 p.m. to our shul and community and may you both enjoy your new homes in Eretz Yisrael!

ברוך הבא Ahavas Achim would like to warmly welcome all newcomers, visitors and guests who are joining us for Shabbat. If President Josh Ostrin or Rabbi Steven Miodownik don’t get a chance to greet you personally, please come up and introduce yourself. We’d like to meet you! Please patronize our sponsors! SEATING UPDATE TCN RABBI FRAND'S PARASHA SHIUR רפואה שלמה The Abbreviated Indoor minyan in the in Upstairs Social Hall is slightly above legal Rabbi Frand's parasha/halakha shiur is חולים Please include the following capacity for that room. In order to shown on TCN in the Beit Midrash on .תפילות your accommodate everyone's needs, we will be Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. Masks are ליבה שיינדל בת חוה contacting a small group of those registered required, and please sit at least 6 feet for this minyan and offering an alternative from other participants. Admission is בת - שבע בת מלכה choice on one day of Yomim Noraim: free; donations are welcome to help אסתר בת לאה either RH1, RH2 or YK. That small group defray the cost of bringing TCN to the ראובן סורה הלוי בן אסתר .will be asked to attend services on one day community מינדל בת תמימה either in the full-length minyan in the Main קלמן בן רחל Sanctuary or in the downstairs social hall THANK YOU FROM THE אריאל בן עדבה adjacent to the abbreviated Tent Minyan HONOREES outdoors, whichever they prefer. We ask חנה גיתל בת חוה for your flexibility and understand as we This was the most fun fundraising dinner הרב דוד בן פנינה - Rabbi Dovid Adlin try to conduct our services in the safest way ever! And while we will all thank a lot of possible and maximize everyone's people in the next few days and weeks, as שרון בת לאה - Janette Arnold experience. Please check your email for a group we wanted to say a huge, special חנה בת נחה - Candi Feinberg specific details in the coming days. thank you to the Dinner Committee, the משה יעקב בן צביה - Mike Greenberg ,Journal Committee, Rabbi Miodownik יצחק אריה בן חנצה בלומה - Isaac Stern Josh Ostrin and Rachel Weintraub for SHALOM CEMETERY VISITS .everything they did to make it happen יוסף חיים בן בעשה - Yussie Weiss DURING ELUL They took a year of lemons and didn't just אברהם יוסף בן פריידע - Alan White The gates of the Shalom Cemetery on stop at making lemonade—they turned it מיכה שלום בן חנה רחל - Micah White Highway 27 in New Brunswick will be into lemon meringue pie! If you would like to submit a name for open this Sunday, September 13 from the cholim list, please call the Shul Steven and Ann-Sheryl White 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. For visits at other office: 732-247-0532 or you can Teri and Ari Sofair-Fisch times, you can obtain the combination by email: [email protected]. calling the shul office: 732-247-0532 or by Edward Epstein emailing [email protected] or NEIGHBORHOOD SHOFAR [email protected]. DAILY INSPIRATION BLOWING Each day, the rabbi offers a short dvar To accommodate those who will not be MOTZEI SHABBAT SHUVA DRASHA torah video or image based on the parsha and current events. Would you like to be able to come to shul to hear Tekiat Shofar The Rabbi's annual Shabbat Shuva included in a WhatsApp group and on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, Drasha between Rosh Hashanah and Yom receive these daily lessons? Please email Ahavas Achim has arranged for shofar Kippur will take place on Zoom on Motzei blowing (30 kolot only) in the following Shabbat, September 26 at 8:30 p.m. The [email protected] with your phone number, and we will add locations on Sunday, September 20. Drasha will be sponsored by Jeremy and Anyone is invited to attend without prior Tova Renna in memory of his mother, you to our group! and ז "ל registration: Miriam bat Yitzchak Isaac  Shul parking lot: 4:00 p.m. Yehuda and Faigie Hecht in memory of AAU SHIURIM VIA ZOOM TELECONFERENCE . ז "ל his father, Moshe Yaakov ben Chaim  Parking lot at River Ridge, 30 S. Adelaide Ave.: 12:30 p.m. The learning has not stopped! It has just YIZKOR ON YOM KIPPUR moved online. Please join us for this  Greenberg front yard, 516 Braun Ave.: schedule of classes and maintain your 4:00 p.m. This year, at all our Yom Kippur minyanim, Yizkor will not be recited at its regular learning from home!  Miodownik backyard, 248 Lawrence traditional spot immediately after the TUESDAY 9:00-10:00 a.m. Men's Ave.: 4:00 p.m. . Instead, it will be recited at the Retirees Kollel Parsha Gems with Rabbi  Ukraincik backyard, 9 Manor Court, conclusion of davening, after the final Moshe Goldberger. Please call in to (605) Edison: 4:00 p.m. of . Those who will be 313-5890 and enter 399719# to access reciting Yizkor may stay at their seats; this shiur. MINYAN LOCATIONS FOR ROSH those who will not be reciting Yizkor are WEDNESDAY 8:15-9:00 p.m. Custom HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR encouraged to exit and avoid congregating. in Jewish Law with Dr. Elisha Russ-  Indoor Full-Length: Main Sanctuary Fishbane; topic for this week:"Minhagei MATAN BAT MITZVAH PROGRAM Elul: Le-David Hashem Ori." Please  Indoor Abbreviated: Upstairs Social use the following Zoom information: In the upcoming season, the Matan Bat Hall https://nyu.zoom.us/j/970322591776  Outdoor Abbreviated “A”: Tent in Mitzvah Program for sixth grade girls and Parking Lot their mothers will begin in January or February 2021. Please contact Gila  Outdoor Abbreviated “B”: Tent in 2 Miodownik for more information. Parking Lot MINYANIM must be worn at all times with no YAHRZEITS exceptions. These are the "rules of engagement" for 9/12 Harriet Adelson Mother davening:  Please bring and use your own siddur James Friedman Brother and chumash. Gizella Gottesman Mother  Beginning this Shabbat, pre-  Please use Purell from our dispensers 9/13 Sharon Raven Mother registration is only necessary for George Shrier Mother immediately after entering the indoor minyanim. No advanced 9/14 Irwin Levine Sister signup will be required for any of our Sanctuary. Jeffrey Mann Mother outdoor minyanim.  Please sit only at the designated spaces 9/15 Linda Moed Cohen Mother and remain at your seat the entire time. Sharon Stern Mother  In light of the state government's 9/16 Debbie Israel Mother latest guidelines, individuals who  Please do not congregate as you leave Arlyne Lookstein Mother have traveled to a region that would the shul. Irving Mandelbaum Father require quarantine (including Israel Although the degree of risk to congregate 9/17 Jeffrey Ackerman Father and Europe) and any of the following in this manner has diminished to an Sandy Bodzin Father states or U.S. territories should not acceptable level (with proper social 9/18 Michael Wasserman Father attend shul within 14 days of return to distancing), it cannot be stated that the risk New Jersey: Alabama, Alaska, has been eliminated entirely. No one is Arkansas, California, Delaware, obligated to attend any of these minyanim, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, and anyone who does not feel comfortable Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, doing so is encouraged to refrain from Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, attending at this time. Anyone who is Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, considered medically vulnerable due to age Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, or any other factor should only attend with Nevada, North Carolina, North the consent of their medical professional. Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South No one who has a fever or ANY Covid-19 Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, symptoms or who has contracted the virus Texas, Utah, Virginia, West and is not 14 days past recovery may Virginia, Wisconsin attend. For further questions, email:  All indoor minyanim will take place [email protected]. in the Main Sanctuary.  Designated spaces have been assigned to ensure proper social SISTERHOOD NEWS distancing; only those seats may be occupied. BOOK CLUB  Shabbat morning davening will be a streamlined version beginning at The next AA Sisterhood Book Club "Shochain Ad." meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 13 at 8:30 p.m. The book we will  All Sunday and weekday Shacharit be discussing is Next Year in Havana by minyanim will begin with Brachot Chanel Cleeton. Zoom information to (instead of Yishtabach). follow closer to the date. We hope you can  Indoor Shabbat minyanim may only join us! be attended through our registration website.  Please register for the indoor 1:00 YOUTH NEWS a.m. Selichot on Saturday night using this link. https:// www.signupgenius.com/ JUNIOR CONGREGATION go/904054DADAD29A4F58- Ahavas Achim invites all girls and boys in aaminyanim16. grades 3-6 to join Junior Congregation  Sunday and all weekday minyanim on Rosh Hashanah, September 19 and 20 do not require registration. and Yom Kippur, September 28 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the Beit Midrash.  Please park only on the left side of Masks must be worn by all attending and the parking lot (Cedar Avenue side) social distancing will be observed. Please and as close as possible to the email Kivi and Chani for questions and entrance in order to accommodate RSVP: [email protected]. our outdoor minyanim. Please observe the following rules for the safety of all of our congregants:  Masks that cover the mouth and nose 3 Please patronize our sponsors! COMMUNITY NEWS MESORAH NJ MYSIYUM ONLINE TESHUVA LECTURE THIS FUNDRAISER THIS SUNDAY SUNDAY EVENING OF INSPIRATION WITH The annual 36-hour fundraiser for This year’s annual I. David and THE VAAD HARABONIM OF Mesorah NJ will be this Sunday, Miriam Goldstein Teshuva Lecture RARITAN VALLEY September 13. Your contribution helps will take place via Zoom this Sunday, Selichot Night, Motzei Shabbat, September connect hundreds of young professionals September 13 at 8:00 p.m. The 12, 9:30–10:40 p.m. ZOOM https:// across New Jersey with their yiddishkeit featured speaker is Rabbi Berel Wein, us02web.zoom.us/j/5757628337 and with each other. This year, it will be Founder and Director of The Destiny combined with the first ever MySiyum, Foundation. The topic of Rabbi Wein’s Please join us for this program of brief, where over 70 young professionals, along lecture is: Return to Where? motivational Torah thoughts as we prepare with their chavrutot from the community, Returned to Whom? In preparation together for Rosh Hashanah and Yom will make siyumim on Brachot, Shabbat for the Yomim Noraim please join Kippur 5781. and Avot. To contribute, and/or to view the them for an inspiring evening. SCHEDULE OF SHIURIM Siyumim at 6:00 p.m., please visit: Donations to help Yad Eliezer feed 9:30-9:40 p.m.—Rabbi Gedaliah Jaffe: www.charidy.com/mysiyum. Israel’s poor should be made out to The End of Summer American Friends of Yad Eliezer ERUV PHONE NUMBER CHANGED and mailed to Rifky & Jack Atkin, 9:40-9:50 p.m.—Rabbi Yehuda 16 Hamlin Road Edison, NJ 08817. Eichenstein: In The House of G-d We Walk The phone number of the Eruv Hotline Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/ with Trepidation has changed. It is now 732-487-ERUV. j/8804804616; Meeting ID: 880 4804 9:50-10:00 p.m.—Rabbi Effy Unterman: The Eruv Hotline now automatically gets 6168; Passcode: 741163. Choosing Life updated as soon as the Eruv’s status is known. 10:00-10:10 p.m.—Rabbi Steven BACK TO ELUL BASICS Miodownik: On The Front Lines You can find out the status of the Eruv by Emma (Mael) Katz is presenting a 10:10-10:20 p.m.—Rabbi Yaakov Luban: using the following: zoom women's shiur, Tzedakah: How To Tip The Scale  Email: A weekly email is sent within Selfless or Selfish? this Wednesday, 10:20-10:30 p.m.—Rabbi Eliyahu 30 minutes after the Eruv’s status has September 16. You can choose to Kaufman: In Search of a Spark been determined. You can sign up to participate at 11:00 a.m. or at 7:00 10:30-10:40 p.m.—Rabbi Reuven this service by sending a blank email p.m. Zoom ID: 702 057 2805; Drucker: We Are The King’s Children to: [email protected]. Passcode: EWCFS7.  Twitter: Follow @hp_eruv to find GENIZA DROP OFF FOR BURIAL OF out the Eruv status as soon as it has ROSH HASHANAH CARDS been determined. RELIGIOUS ITEMS NOW is the time to order your Rosh Poile Zedek Cemetery, 566 Joyce Kilmer  Facebook: Join the Facebook Group Hashanah cards from Raritan Valley Avenue, New Brunswick (between hperuv and receive the Eruv Hadassah. There are 25 cards in a Elizabeth and Reed Streets) notifications within 30 minutes after package and packages cost $30. Please Dates for drop off: after the Eruv’s status has been call Marsha Hines at 732-271-2932 or determined.  Monday, September 14, 12:00-4:00 p.m. email her at [email protected]  Website: https://hperuv.org will with Hadassah in the subject line. If  Tuesday, September 15, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 show the Eruv’s status on the top of you live in Highland Park, p.m. the main page. The website also has an arrangements can be made to drop off Please have everything in bags—no loose up-to-date map of the entire Eruv. the cards to you. items accepted. When you enter the  Hotline: Of course, there is always the cemetery there is a place on the left for the Eruv Hotline at 732-487-ERUV. KOSHER MEALS ON WHEELS: A drop off. Someone should be there to direct SOURCE OF TRUE SURVIVAL you. Asking donation: $36 per bag. Mail check, payable to Poile Zedek Cemetery HP FIRST AID SQUAD DISCOUNT Hundreds of seniors throughout Association, to Harry Schick, 439 CARDS Middlesex County face food insecurity, and many more have Valentine St. Highland Park. If you can't Help support the Highland Park First Aid become more vulnerable as a result of afford the amount, send what you can. Squad by purchasing its discount cards. Covid-19. The Jewish Family The cards provide discounts to many local They are trying to see how big of an area Services Kosher Meals on Wheels businesses including Jerusalem Pizza, they need to prepare for. If you can email program ensures that seniors can enjoy Sushiana, Park Place, Bridge, Dunkin Harry Schick: [email protected] to adequate nutrition without having to Donuts, Dairy Deluxe, Orchid and Giddy’s let him know how many bags you are leave their homes. To make a much Pizzeria. There are 2 cards this year: one bringing, it would be helpful. Please note: at needed donation to this constantly for $25 or both for $40. The cards may be this time there is no water available at the growing program, call 732-777-1940 purchased at the Ahavas Achim office or cemetery. If you want to wash your hands or visit: https://jfsmiddlesex.org/ by contacting any Squad member before leaving, please bring what you need. donate-form. For questions, contact Harry at including: Ari and Deborah Lewitter, Naomi Hanoch and Yossi Benedek. 4 [email protected]. DO CLOTHES REALLY MAKE THE KEYLIM MIKVAH AHAVAS ACHIM WOMAN? Please do not use the Keylim Mikvah Rabbi Ohav Emeth Women's Learning Program Monday-Friday between the hours of 8:00 Steven Miodownik invites you to join them in a pre-Yamim Noraim a.m.-4:00 p.m. Rabbi Emeritus Shiur: Do Clothes Really Make the Woman? Ronald L. Schwarzberg The Shiur will be given by Robin Schwartz MEN’S MIKVAH this Tuesday, September 15 at 8:00 p.m. on Honorary Presidents Zoom. All are welcome to join. Due to the COVID 19 Pandemic the RJJ Alexander Bernstein, z"l Mikveh will not be open for men before Rosh Isadore Sapiro, z"l Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/ Albert Sapiro, z"l Hashana or Yom Kippur. Nathan Segal, z"l j/81868221976? pwd=Q3ZpZ1FsQUFmRzR6UUUycXRpQVpH President UT09; Meeting ID: 818 6822 1976; Passcode: JEWISH FEDERATIONS PROVIDE LIFT Josh Ostrin 679437. TO OUT-OF-WORK PROFESSIONALS Vice Presidents For out of work Jewish communal Dovid Becker: Fundraising GO FLY A KITE WITH OHAV EMETH professionals, Jewish Federations of North Yossi Benedek: Ritual THIS SUNDAY America's RISE program provides resources, Renee Dublon: Treasurer tools, and support to lift them up during this Harry Glazer: House Ohav Emeth presents Kite Flying and Rosh Ari Sofair-Fisch: Membership economic downturn and get them back on their Robert Haarburger: Hashanah Crafts for families (socially distant; career path. RISE offers career coaching, Fundraising kites provided) this Sunday, September 13 emotional and spiritual support, job listings and Debra Levenstein: Secretary from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in Donaldson Park, more—either at low or no cost—to help those Eli Weiss: Finance Grove 2. Cost is $15 per family. Please RSVP: who've been furloughed or laid off build Immediate Past President [email protected]. resilience and navigate next steps. For more Jeremy Renna information and registration, visit: https:// ROSH HASHANAH VIRTUAL COOKING tinyurl.com/yydlf7pu. Gabbaim Yossi Benedek CLASS Seth Berman Learn to make Kale, Apple, Walnut and Sumac- JEWISH FEDERATION COVID RELIEF Jonathan Caplan FUND Michael Kornfeld Onion Tabbouleh, Honey Glazed Chicken, and Barry Leskowitz Apple Cake from Executive Chef and Co-owner If you or someone you know is in need due to Barry Levinson of Zahav, the 2019 James Beard Foundation COVID-related financial hardship or health David Simen award winner for Outstanding Restaurant. David Stern concerns, Jewish Federation may be able to Steven White Michael Solomonov will dazzle in this virtual help. Federation’s COVID Relief Fund has cooking event. Moderated by James Beard made emergency grants to families affected by Honorary Gabbai award-nominated food journalist Gabriella job loss and work closures. Additional aid is Bernard Israel z"l Gershenson. This virtual class is Jewish available through Hebrew Free Loan interest- Board of Directors Federation's Rosh Hashanah gift to the Jewish free loans to small business owners. Email: Michael Beberman heart of NJ, and will take place this Monday, [email protected] to apply for help. Shani Berkovitz September 14 at 8:00 p.m. Register at: https:// Please visit: https://www.jewishheartnj.org/ David Blain tinyurl.com/y245l3nm Maggie Brooks donate?utm_source=DNBTN to make a Andrew Cohen donation to support this important program. Susan Hornstein JEWISH FEDERATION: A DAY OF Elana Kurtz KVELLING AND COMEDIC RELIEF Jeremy Lichtman LEFKOVITS FAMILY PARK MIKVAH Eitan Pludwinski Join Jewish communities from around North The Mikvah is currently by appointment only. Ari Podhorcer America this Wednesday, September 16 from Avital Rosenberg All preparations should be done at home and all Marc Scheiner 1:30-2:15 p.m. Connect with like-minded appointments must be made via the Sherry Simantov people who believe in Jewish Federation and appointment page on the website: Hank Strub hear about the impact you've had through our www.parkmikvah.org. Please read through all Ze'ev Strupinsky local Federation, especially during this current Laura Weiss instructions prior to making your appointment. Rhea Zucker crisis. While you social distance, your A face mask should also be worn at the mikvah. Federation gift goes far and wide, impacting Please email [email protected] with any Sisterhood President countless lives. Learn how YOU make a questions. Elena Orgel difference. Celebrity guests, Dan, Eugene, and Sarah Levy of Schitt's Creek, will share Youth Directors Akiva and Chani Neuman inspiring and entertaining stories. It's been ages since we heard music from a band performing 216 South First Avenue together in the same place. Enjoy special live Highland Park, NJ 08904 performances. Register at: https://tinyurl.com/ phone: (732) 247-0532 fax: (732) 247-6739 y569othm. www.ahavasachim.org

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