CONGREGATION BETH AARON ANNOUNCEMENTS Parshat January 17-18, 2014 17 Shevat 5774

SHABBAT TIMES SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 19 Friday, January 17: Sun* Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Latest Candles: 4:37 p.m. Loca on 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 4:40 p.m. Earliest Tallit 6:17 6:16 6:16 6:15 6:14 6:14 Shabbat, January 18: Shacharit Social Hall 6:30* 6:05 6:05 6:04 6:03 6:03 Hashkama Minyan: 7:30 a.m. Beit Midrash 7:15* 6:20 6:30 6:30 6:20 6:30 Tefi llah Shiur: 8:20 a.m. Beit Midrash 8:00* 7:10 7:15 7:15 7:10 7:15 Main Minyan: 8:45 a.m. Beit Midrash 8:45* 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 Youth Minyan: 9:15 a.m. Mincha Beit Midrash 1:00 Sof Zman Kriat Shema: 9:42 a.m. Early Mincha: 1:45 p.m. Mincha/Maariv Beit Midrash 4:40* 4:40 4:40 4:40 4:40 4:50 Daf Yomi: 3:10 p.m. Maariv Beit Midrash 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 Women’s Learning: 3:10 p.m., at the 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 home of Diane Fogel, 926 Queen Anne Road, Pirke Avot *On Sunday, all minyanim will be held in the Main Shul, except the 1:00 p.m. Mincha minyan and Mincha: 4:20 p.m., followed by Seudah the 8:00 and 9:30 p.m. Maariv minyanim, which will be in the Beit Midrash. Shlishit Maariv: 5:37 p.m. MAZAL TOV TO Havdalah: 5:46 p.m. Ephraim & Rivka Schnaidman, on their marriage. Mazal Tov also to Ephraim’s parents, Esther & David Latest Candles on Friday, January 24: Schnaidman; to Rivka’s parents, Lisa & Dr. Sidney Weiser of Skokie IL; to Ephraim’s grandparents, 4:45 p.m. Mordechai Schnaidman and Mr. & Mrs. Ted Zeff ren; and to Rivka’s grandparents, Mrs. Rose Weiser and Mr. & Mrs. Sanford Schwartz.

CONDOLENCES TO

Marilyn Mogul, on the passing of her sister, Roslyn Baron. Shiva will be observed at Marilyn’s home, 266 Carlton Terrace, through Tuesday morning, January 21. Please do not visit before 11:00 a.m.

JANUARY CALENDAR STAINED GLASS WINDOWS THIS WEEK’S PARSHA QUESTIONS We are delighted to inform you that four beau ful On Shabbat, the shul elevator will new stained glass windows, with themes rela ng operate in Shabbat mode as follows: to ci es in Eretz Yisrael (Tzefat, Yerushalayim, Friday: 4:00-5:30 p.m.; Hevron, and Teveryah), were installed in our Saturday: 8:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Beit Midrash this week. Each window includes a 1:30-2:30 p.m., 3:30-5:30 p.m. pasuk rela ng to the city featured on the window. These windows enhance the beauty of our Beit Is the Eruv Up? Call the Eruv Hotline Midrash, and we invite you to take a look at them before Shabbat: 201-530-0222 when you next are in the shul.

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The Kiddush following the main minyan is sponsored by: The Women’s Rosh Chodesh Shiur for Adar I will be given by Nechama (Friedman) Price on Tuesday, January 28, at 8:00 p.m. Kiddush Sponsors: at the home of Cathy Schuss, 110 Cherry Lane. Her topic will be • Barbara & Kal Feinberg, in honor of the birth of their grandson “Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? Aharon’s Involvement in Chet Refoel Alexander, born to their children Hadassah & Dovid Feinberg ha-Egel.” Shiurim are held on a Tuesday evening near Rosh Chodesh of Ramat Beit Shemesh and begin with tehillim for the cholim of the community. We hope • Abe Zerykier, commemora ng the yahrtzeit of his father, Shalom you will join us. For further informa on, or to host a future shiur, ben Avraham Yitzchak. please contact Fern Amper, [email protected], Esther Chaitovsky, [email protected]; or Tzippy Staum, [email protected]. The shul is also sponsoring this week’s Kiddush to welcome back Esther & Rinaldo Toporovsky. The annual Men’s Club Cholent Challenge will take place on Friday, January 31, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Sign up to make a cholent - there Sponsorships for the weekly Kiddushim are $72 (L’Chaim Sponsor) are only 10 spaces available. Cooking will be on Thursday night, and $54 (Kiddush Sponsor). If you are celebra ng a simcha, com- January 30. Rules and signup are online at memora ng a yahrtzeit, or simply want to say “thank you,” con- www.bethaaron.org/event/cholent-challenge.html. sider sponsoring an upcoming kiddush. Visit the kiddush website to sponsor. If you have any ques ons, please contact Ari Gononsky at Shifra Shafi er is off ering a four-week series of yoga classes for [email protected]. women only, beginning in February. The classes will meet at 7:00 p.m. on the lower level of the shul on Wednesdays, February Join the Hashkama Minyan “Society” by contribu ng $54 and 5, February 19, February 26, and March 5. The cost is just $25 helping to sponsor a monthly hot kiddush on Shabbat Mevorchim. for all four classes. All money collected will go directly to the Please help us reach our goal by becoming one of the 50 charter Rabbi’s Discre onary Fund. Please bring your own mat. For more members of this group. To sign up as charter member, please e-mail informa on or to RSVP, contact shifra.shafi [email protected]. the Kiddush Commi ee at [email protected]. Save Motzaei Shabbat, February 15, for the return of the Sisterhood PARNAS HAYOM Progressive Dinner! Get ready to have fun and spend me with friends. Details will follow. Dedicate a day of learning at Beth Aaron on the occasion of a On your next trip to , enjoy Beit Ya r’s hospitality! As yahrtzeit, in the zechut of a refuah shelaima, or in honor of a simcha, discussed in the last two issues of the Kol Beth Aaron, the a birthday or any other occasion. Each week’s dedica ons are community of Beit Ya r prizes its special rela onship with Beth prominently displayed in the shul lobby. For more informa on, or to Aaron. They would be extremely happy to provide a driver to bring sign up, go to www.bethaaron.org/parnashayom. any Beth Aaron members to Ya r and show them interes ng sites on the way there and/or on the way back, or during their visit, such This week’s sponsor was as the Patriarchs’ Cave in Hevron, the remains of the 1500-year-old • 15 Shevat (Tu bi-Shevat): Lynn & Dov Silverberg, in memory of in nearby Susiya, and Beit Ya r’s world-class, prize- Lynn’s mother, Chana Bat Yitzchak Tzvi winning winery. They would welcome anyone for a full Shabbat visit, or for a day or two during the week. Sleeping accommoda ons and meals would all be on the house. They will go the extra mile – or BETH AARON ANNUAL DINNER kilometer – to make you feel very welcome and most comfortable. Sunday, February 23 If you have any ques ons, or to make arrangements, please contact Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, tzviya [email protected], 02-996-0546, or Zvi By now, you should have received Weissler, [email protected], 201-836-1606. an invita on to this year’s shul dinner honoring Roz & Ira Friedman and Barbara & Kal WEEKLY SHIURIM Feinberg. • Daf Yomi: For Daf Yomi shiurim and resources in Teaneck, go to If you did not yet receive an www.teaneckshuls.org/daf/. invita on or if you have any • Daf Yomi shiur by Rabbi Rothwachs/ Rabbi Daniel Feldman/Rabbi ques ons, please contact Valerie Mark Staum, and addi onal Maggidei Shiur: Monday-Thursday Kahn or Nechama Pudell, evenings, at 9:45 p.m. [email protected]. • CANCELLED THIS WEEK ONLY: Rabbi Rothwachs’ Bava Kama shiur: Wednesday evenings at 8:30 p.m. Read about our honorees, make a reserva on, and place an ad at • Morning Mishna Chabura: Monday, Thursday: 6:55 a.m.; Tuesday, www.bethaaron.org/dinner. Wednesday, Friday: 7:00 a.m.

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Parent-Child Learning will next be held on Motzaei Shabbat, January CareOne needs volunteers to help make a minyan. On Friday 25, at 6:35 p.m. evening, Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat will be at 4:30 p.m. On Shabbat, Shacharit will be at 9:00 a.m, Mincha at 4:30 p.m., and Maariv at Parents and children are encouraged to come and learn. Bring your 5:33 p.m. own materials to learn or take out a book from our Youth Library. There will be ices or ice cream served each week, as well as a raffl e For help with Hebrew, please contact Yehiel Levy, 201-357-5495, for great prizes. There also will be a door prize for every child who [email protected]. He will be happy to coach any shul member a ends. Children are welcome to sign up to say a d’var . for free.

Sponsorships are available star ng at $36 (ice cream party) or $118 This Shabbat, January 18, following the 4:10 p.m. mincha at (pizza party). To sponsor or to sign up to say a d’var Torah, please Congrega on Ne vot Shalom, 811 Palisade Avenue, Ronnie Perelis, go to h p://goo.gl/8abPB or email [email protected]. Assistant Professor of Sephardic Studies at University, Go to www.bethaaron.org/youth for addi onal dates. speaks on “Drunk With Words: Returning to the Hebrew Poets of Medieval Spain.” If you would like to host an Oneg for 3rd to 5th grade girls or boys, contact Erica & Jason David, [email protected]. On Sunday, January 26, at 7:30 p.m., at Congrega on Bnai Yeshurun, 641 West Englewood Avenue, ZOA Na onal President Mort Klein For more informa on about youth programs, contact Beth Aaron will speak on “Iran Nuclear Deal: Progress or Peril?” Youth Directors Erica and Jason David, 732-618-9473, [email protected]. On Sunday, January 26, at 8:00 p.m., at Congrega on Rinat Yisrael, 389 West Englewood Avenue, Professor Jeremy Dauber of Columbia NCSY University will speak on “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Sholem Aleichem: The Life – and A erlife – of the Greatest Modern Jewish These Teaneck NCSY programs are open to all high school students: Writer.” • Wednesday Night Senior Schmooze, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Aliza & Rael (432 Maitland Avenue) On Motzaei Shabbat, February 1, at 8:00 p.m., Congrega on • Thursday Night La e and Learning, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Lazy Bean Rinat Yisrael, 389 West Englewood Avenue, will present “Ancient •NCSY summer programs are open for registra on! You can also Tradi ons, Modern Challenges,” an evening of exci ng short Israeli explore the amazing opportuni es at www.ncsysummer.com. fi lms. The fi lms are The Rabbi’s Daughter (2012, Documentary) and Veahavta: And Thou Shalt Love (2007, Drama).Moderators are For more informa on on the above events, or if you have ques ons, psychotherapist/analyst Yocheved Schacter and Rabbi Yosef Adler. comments, and ideas, please email Rabbi Rael Blumenthal, Admission is $5 at the door. [email protected]. On Motzaei Shabbat, February 1, at 8:00 p.m., the Inaugural Lecture Join us on Facebook or email us, [email protected]. in Memory of Mrs. Chaya Newman, a”h, will be held at the Jewish Educa onal Center’s Bruriah Campus, 35 North Avenue, Elizabeth. The keynote speaker is Esther Jungreis; her topic will be LOST AND FOUND “Turning Nega ves into Posi ves.” There will be a Melave Malka recep on and Meet & Greet with Rebbetzin Jungreis with a book One silver “chandelier” earring signing as part of the free program. For more informa on, please One men’s watch contact Alumni Rela ons at 908-355-4850, ext. 6214, One pair stretch gloves [email protected]. One black glove On Monday, February 3, at 8:15 p.m., in Furst Hall (Room 501) To claim these objects, please contact the offi ce at 201-836-6210, at (Amsterdam Avenue and 185th Street), the offi [email protected]. Student Organiza on of Yeshiva - Jewish Studies Council (SOY- JSC), Club of YU, and Chabad of Washington Heights are sponsoring “An Evening Showcasing the Special Rela onship Between the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rav Soloveitchik.” Speakers PAYMENTS TO BETH AARON include Rabbi , Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, Rabbi , Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, and Rabbi Yosef In order to properly post payments made by check to Congrega on Yitzchak Jacobson. There is a $5 suggested dona on; the program Beth Aaron, please be sure to include a note on the memo line of all is free for those with a valid YU ID. For more informa on, contact checks that clearly indicates how the funds should be applied (i.e., [email protected]. To register for the program, go to membership, building fund, , yahrtzeit dona on, etc.). This h p://bit.do/livingthelegacy. will ensure that payments are processed correctly and in a mely manner. On Sunday, February 9, at 5:15 p.m., at the Marrio Glenpointe Hotel, 100 Frank W. Burr Boulevard, SINAI Schools will hold their Payments also can be made online at www.bethaaron.org. Please log Annual Benefi t Dinner. Among the honorees at this year’s Dinner are into your account to ensure that payments are applied appropriately. Ma’adan Caterers and Beth Aaron members Stuart Kahan and Yossie If you do not know your password, click contact the offi ce at Markovic. To make reserva ons or a dona on, please visit offi [email protected] to have your password sent to you. Thank www.sinaidinner.org/shl or call 201-833-1134, ext. x105. you for your coopera on. (conƟ nued on page 4) Community Announcements (cont.) The Amud Yomi shiur meets weeknights at 9:30 p.m. at Congrega on Rinat Yisrael, 389 West Englewood Avenue. For more The Rinat Chaim Gemach, established by the family of Renee informa on, contact Mordechai Ungar, 201-741-3920. Chaya Levy, a”h, beloved wife of Yehiel Levy, accepts dona ons of medical supplies that can be used by members of our community. On Tuesday mornings from 9:45 to 10:30 a.m., Yeshivat Noam’s They welcome dona ons of all types of medical supplies (e.g., Parent Educa on Commi ee off ers “Prophetesses, Queens, and motorized wheel chairs, conven onal wheel chairs, walkers, portable Villains: Exploring Women in Tanach,” a weekly shiur taught by commodes, canes, etc.) in good condi on that are no longer being Aliza Weinberg, 8th Grade Tanach teacher and Tanach Enrichment used. For more informa on, or to donate to the Gemach, please Coordinator. Dedicated to the memory of Rochi Lerner, z”l, the contact Yehiel Levy, [email protected], 201-357-5495. weekly shiur has been generously sponsored by an anonymous donor and is free of charge. It takes place in the Yeshivat Noam Middle School, 70 West Century Road, Paramus. For more COMMUNITY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES informa on, please contact Amy Vogel, [email protected].

Next Sunday, January 26, Yeshiva University invites you to its On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Keter Torah presents Torah in the AM: Kollel Yom Rishon, weekly Sunday morning learning for men. The 9:00 to 9:45 A.M. - Chavura on Personali es in Chumash: Sefer program, which will be held in Glueck 307 (515 West 185th Street, Bereishit; 9:45 to 10:45 A.M. - Rabbi Menachem Meier’s Talmud at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue), is open to par cipants of all shiur on Masechet Ketubot; 11:00 a.m. to noon (Tuesday only) - ages, backgrounds, and learning levels. Admission is free, and no Rabbi Shalom Baum’s shiur on Sefer Haggai; 10:45 to 11:40 a.m. registra on is required. On January 26, Kollel Yom Rishon will feature (Thursday only) - Rabbi Menachem Meier’s shiur on Sefer Yeshayahu. Rabbi Shmuel Marcus and Rabbi . The fi rst shiur starts at 9:30 a.m., the second at 10:30 a.m. For more informa on or On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, at 6:20 a.m., Rabbi Zvi to download mar’ei mekomot, please visit www.kollelyomrishon.org Sobolofsky, a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University and Mora de-Atra or call 212- 960-0041. of Congrega on Ohr HaTorah in Bergenfi eld, presents a Kollel Boker program on Masechet Shabbat at Congrega on Bnai Yeshurun, 641 Next Sunday, January 26, Yeshiva University invites you to its West Englewood Avenue. For more informa on or to sponsor this Midreshet Yom Rishon, weekly Sunday morning learning for program, contact Jack Feigenbaum, jbf53@a .net; Daniel Saks, women. The program, which will be held at the Shenk Shul in the [email protected]; or Henry Orlinsky, [email protected]. Scho enstein Center (on West 185th Street, between Audubon and St. Nicholas Avenues), is open to par cipants of all ages, On Thursday nights, at the Beis Medrash of Bergenfi eld (BMOB), 371 backgrounds, and learning levels. Admission is free, and no South Prospect Avenue, Bergenfi eld, Yeshivat Heichal HaTorah is registra on is required. On January 26, Midreshet Yom Rishon will off ering a Chaburah given by Senior Ram Rabbi Pesach Skulnick. A feature Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman and Dr. Gillian Steinberg. The Hachana Seder will take place from 8:30 to 9:15 p.m., Maariv will be fi rst shiur starts at 9:30 a.m., the second at 10:30 a.m. For more held at 9:15 p.m., and the Chaburah will be from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. informa on or to download mar’ei mekomot, please visit www. For ques ons or to receive the mar’ei mekomot in advance, contact midreshetyomrishon.org or call 212-960-0041. Yehuda Jacoby, [email protected].

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