AHAVASAHAVAS ACHIMACHIM NEWSLETNEWSLETTERTER ה'' סיון תשע"ח במדבר/שבועות MAY 18, 2018 SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Rabbi Leibtag Shiur following Early SYNAGOGUE NEWS Minyan kiddush שבת מזל טוב .Teen Minyan...... 9:30 a.m Friday Candlelighting...... 7:52 p.m. Youth Groups...... 10:00 a.m. Friday Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv Mazel Tov to Mike Wasserman on being ...... 7:00 & 8:00 p.m. Sanctuary Shul-Wide Siyum followed by Gala named Honorary Director at the recent Kiddush. Shacharit ...... 7:00 & 9:00 a.m. Rutgers Hillel Gala Celebration. Rabbi Leibtag Shiur following Early Daf Yomi (Zevachim 38)...... 7:10 p.m. המקום ינחם .Minyan kiddush Mincha...... 8:00 p.m Pre-Group Babysitting ...... 9:00 a.m. Rabbi Leibtag Shiur...... 8:20 p.m. The Congregation extends its condolences to Latest Shema...... 9:17 a.m. Maariv...... 8:59 p.m. Rabbi Shmuel Shimoni on the loss of his Teen Minyan...... 9:30 a.m. Motzei Yom Tov ...... 9:03 p.m. (Continued on page 2) Youth Groups...... 10:00 a.m. נשא .Baby Group ...... 10:30 a.m Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday Shacharit . Kiddush is sponsored by the Sisterhood...... 6:35 & 7:45 a.m. Thursday Shacharit ..6:25 & 7:45 a.m. Rabbi Leibtag Women's Shiur ...... Tuesday-Thursday Mincha/Maariv...... 5:00 p.m...... 8:00 p.m. Youth Learning Program (grades N-2) ...... 5:00 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday late Maariv ...... 9:30 p.m. Mincha...... 6:00 & 7:50 p.m. Friday Candlelighting...... 7:58 p.m. Daf Yomi (Zevachim 36) ...... 7:00 p.m. Friday Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv. Rabbi Leibtag Shiur...... 8:20 p.m...... 7:00 & 8:05 p.m.

North Side Minyan May ערב שבועות Motzei Shabbat Maariv/Candlelighting (7:00 p.m. throughout Summer) ...... 9:01 p.m. Barry and Rosa Katz Youth Seudah & Learning (grades 3-6) 132 North 8th Avenue, Highland Park ...... 9:30-11:30 p.m. Round Table Learning...... 12:00-1:00 a.m. Tikkun Leil Shavuot (for Adults and Teens Separately)...... 12:00-5:00 a.m.

שבועות יום א Sunday Shacharit...... 5:00 & 9:00 a.m.

Kiddush is sponsored by the Sisterhood.

Tikkun Yom Shavuot... 5:00-8:00 p.m. Afternoon Youth Groups...... 5:00-8:00 p.m. Daf Yomi (Zevachim 37) ...... 7:00 p.m. Mincha/Shiur/Maariv ...... 8:00 p.m. Candlelighting/Yom Tov Preparations ...... after 9:02 p.m.

שבועות יום ב Monday Shacharit ....7:00 & 9:00 a.m.

AHAVAS ACHIM 129TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER Sunday, June 24, 2018 Guests of Honor Andrew and Jean Getraer Young Leadership Award Avi and Abby Eserner Please note: These are all paid advertising. 10TH ANNUAL AHAVAS ACHIM community, we are now engaging the SHAVUOT SIYUM & GALA entire congregation in this important רפואה שלמה KIDDUSH chesed opportunity. When a need arises, in we will create a “MealTrain” and we will חולים Please include the following Please join us in the Main Sanctuary for the announce it to the congregation and post .תפילות your Siyum after Mussaf followed by Gala the link on the AA website. Or, if you or תמר קרן בת נסה גולדה Kiddush in the Downstairs Social Hall on your friends are creating your own חוה תמר שרה בת חיה מינדל פייגה the second day of Shavuot, Monday, May MealTrain for an AA family, please let us ציפורה בת חוה 21! Please see separate scroll for names of .share that with the AA community as well רחל חיה רפאלה בת רבקה all the learners and kiddush sponsors. If you have a need for meals, please don’t לאה בת רייה hesitate to ask. We will be happy to קלמן בן רחל WOMEN'S TORAH INSTITUTE ,provide! Please send all meal information הינדה שיינה בת גיטל requests and inquiries to ,Come for an afternoon of good company ישראל נחום בן חיה בתיה amazing Torah, and maybe a little light [email protected] and a שמואל בן חנה - Stephen Adelson refreshment. Susan Hornstein will provide member of the meal coordination !the Torah learning, Terri Rosenberg will committee will take it from there שולמית דינה בת שיינה רייזל - Sheila Beberman שרה רוזה בת פשה - Susan Borger supply the cold drinks (and maybe a We are organizing meals for Hava and cookie), and you are the good company! Avi Freidenreich running through the משה יעקב בן צביה - Mike Greenberg //:Hope to see you next Shabbat, May 26 at month of June. Sign up at: https חוה רחל בת דבורה - Eva Grin p.m. at 32 Skyview Terrace! mealtrain.com/ey987e. Cooking for 2 5:00 רחל בת חנה - Joan Israel Raphaela Losa Please save these future WTI dates: June adults and 2 children. Delivery to: 62 .July 14, and August 11. If you are able Grant Ave ,16 גילה רבקה רחל בת צביה ליבה - Geela Naiman to host WTI one of these dates, please For current opportunities to provide אופירה חיה בת רבקה צביה - Anny Safier contact Caren Friedman at 610-246-3131 :meals, please check out the AA website יחיאל אלטר בן חיה - Howard Sherman or [email protected] or Rosa ahavasachim.org. To add names to this list, please email: Katz at [email protected] or 908-881- [email protected] or call 1660. the Shul office: 732-247-0532. LEARNING SEUDAH SHLISHIT AHAVAS ACHIM'S 129TH Learning Seudah Shlishit meets between (Condolence, continued from page 1) ANNIVERSARY JOURNAL DINNER Mincha and Maariv in the Downstairs brother, z"l. May he and his family be Social Hall. We invite you to select some Congregation Ahavas Achim cordially comforted among the mourners of Zion refreshments and select one of the invites you to attend our 129th and Jerusalem. following shiurim: Anniversary Journal Dinner on Sunday, June 24, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. Andrew and Giving Good Gematria with Rabbi AAU WELCOMES RABBI Jean Getraer will be our Guests of Honor, Miodownik: Wisdom or folly? We will MENACHEM LEIBTAG and Avi and Abby Eserner will receive explore many perspectives on the numerical value of biblical texts, and learn This special Shabbat/Shavuot weekend is our Young Leadership Award. Invitations how to Give Good Gematria. sponsored by Barbara and Ken Strassman have been mailed. If you didn't receive your invitation, there are more available in in memory of their beloved parents, Law & Order: Making Sense of Edmund and Elaine Kaiser and Hilda and the shul office. Mysterious Mitzvot with Rabbinic Intern Alfred “Buddy” Strassman z”l, and in Couvert to attend the dinner is $180 per Rabbi Alex Maged (Continued): As the commemoration of Buddy’s yahrzeit on 6 person. As in previous years, you can weekly parshas transition away from Sivan. (Please see separate handout for receive complimentary tickets to the dinner narrative, and towards legal material, it complete schedule.) by soliciting advertisers for our Dinner can be tempting to “tune out” from Torah reading. These details are just so boring, Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, founder of the Journal. Please note: Last year’s ads will right? Wrong! Come join us as we Tanach Study Center www.tanach.org, is be reserved for past solicitors until this discover the drama hiding beneath the an internationally acclaimed bible scholar Friday, May 18. Journal Ad blanks are surface of our parsha’s halachic and pioneer of Jewish Education on the available in the racks in the Shul lobby and “minutiae,” and piece together layers of internet. His essays on Parshat Hashavua through: ahavasachim.org. Please submit meaning that you’ve probably never reflect his vibrant thematic-analytical all ads to the journal by Monday, June 4. noticed before! approach, blending the methods of modern scholarship with traditional approaches. As MEALS FOR AA FAMILIES Life-Saving Measures on Shabbat with a faculty member at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Kivi Neuman: The famous principle of The Ahavas Achim Meal Coordination Israel, he is best known for his ability to "Pikuach Nefesh" teaches us that life- Committee arranges meals for congregants teach students how to study Tanach. Rabbi saving measures override the laws of with medical needs, new babies and shivas. Leibtag also teaches at Matan, Midreshet Shabbat. But within that dictum are many Until now, the opportunity to contribute to Lindenbaum, and Yeshivat Shaalavim; and fascinating nuances that we will explore in these meals has been limited to people who routinely lectures around the globe, have already volunteered to help. In the this series. primarily as a Scholar-in-Residence in spirit of inclusion, and to strengthen our 2 communities in North America. LOOKING TO DECLUTTER? May 26 is: Meiner, Kornblum and YAHRZEITS Rappaport. The Kiddush committee for Donate your gently used, resalable items 5/19 Dr. Elliot Frank Father Shabbat, June 2 is: Novick, Renna and for our annual Yard Sale! Drop off at the Yussie Weiss Mother Ira and Heidi Rosen. shul. Please contact Kivi & Chani 5/20 Rabbi Elie Kurtz Father Evelyn Rosenberg Sister Neuman at [email protected] Kenneth Strassman Father before you drop off. 5/23 Cheryl Gunsher Mother YOUTH NEWS Steven Kolb Mother AAU SHIURIM Rachel Lefkovits Brother SHAVUOT YOUTH/TEEN 5/24 Shalom Kaplan Father Monday-Thursday after 9:30 p.m. Frank Stechel Father PROGRAMMING Maariv Chug Mishnayot sponsor of the Hakarat HaTov Kiddush. Tuesday 8:30 a.m. Torah Gems with There is something for every age this year! We now have three levels of sponsorship! All youth and teens are invited to join us on Rabbi Moshe Goldberger (for men only)  Bronze: $36 Shavuot! This year's program is sponsored Tuesday 9:30 a.m. Mishnah Keritut with by Alan & Sue Redlich (Kivi’s parents) of  Silver: $54 Rabbi Yehoshua Weitzner (for men only) Allstate in North Brunswick. Please see  Gold: $72 Tuesday 8:45 p.m. Practical Halacha separate Youth Department handout for All profits will benefit the AA Youth with Rabbi Yehoshua Lewis complete schedule. Department! Checks should be made out to Thursday 9:30 a.m. Masechet Brachot Ahavas Achim with a designation of with Rabbi Eli Reisman (for men only) AHAVAS ACHIM SIMCHA AND “Youth Kiddush” in the memo. The Thursday 9:00 p.m. Parshat Hashavua YOUTH GROUP LEADER HAKARAT Hakarat Hatov/Simcha Kiddush posting with Rabbi Yissocher Frand on the TCN HATOV KIDDUSH deadline is Monday, May 28. (No charge; donations welcome!) It's two celebrations in one! Hakarat Shabbat 9:30 a.m. (after 7:00 a.m. Hatov celebrating the AA Youth Group TEEN MINYAN KIDDUSH Shacharit) Kitvei HaRamban Leaders and the long absent Simcha SPONSORSHIP Kiddush. Shabbat before Mincha Daf Yomi with Teen Kiddush this Shabbat is sponsored by Judah Abraham Join the Group Leader Hakarat HaTov Avi and Dr. Lauren Maza in honor of the & Simcha Kiddush on Shabbat, June 2. Bar Mitzvah anniversary of their son, Seth. Many of AA's youth participated in the If you'd like to sponsor Teen Kiddush in the future, please email Kivi Neuman at SISTERHOOD NEWS many youth activities that went on this year at AA—through our Morning Shabbat [email protected]. Groups, Teen Minyan, Hot Teen Minyan UPGRADED KIDDUSH Kiddush, Toddler Jumping Jellybeans, Pre- VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Yom Tov Events, Purim Party, and more. The Sisterhood needs helpers for an The success of our Youth Department is upgraded kiddush on Friday morning, due to our incredible Group Leaders who May 25. It will take about 2 hours. Please provide love and dedication to our contact Sharon Zavodnick at 732-236- children—and now you have an 1238 or [email protected] if you opportunity to thank them! are available to help. Please join us and show appreciation to our group leaders: Sydney Beberman, Adina BOOK CLUB Brooks, Asher Brooks, Mili Chizhik, Feige Lechtchiner, Jessica Maza, Liana The next AA Sisterhood Book Club Maza, Kayla Miodownik, Nechama meeting will take place on Tuesday, June Stein, Noa Strupinsky, Yvette 5 at 8:30 p.m. at the home of Lorraine Teitelbaum and Laura Weiss. Please Schwartzbard, 9 Fairhill Road, Edison. consider showing your appreciation. The book we will be discussing is Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. We To participate in the Simcha kiddush, be hope you can join us! sure to forward your Simcha information: (date, honoree, occasion) to [email protected]. We all have KIDDUSH REMINDER much to be grateful for and to celebrate! The Kiddush committee for this Shabbat Share it with your Ahavas Achim family: is: Loewenstein, Levinson, Pludwinski birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, new and Strupinsky. The Kiddush committee business, retirement, acceptance to for Shavuot Day 1, May 20 is: Prince, university, awards, births, engagements, Maza and Mann. The Kiddush committee marriages, etc. for Shavuot Day 2, May 21 is: Resnick, Your sponsorship can be for both the Miller, Posy, Ostroff, Ostrin and Peleg. Simcha Kiddush Board & listed as a The Kiddush committee for Shabbat, 3 Please note: These are paid advertising. JUMPING JELLYBEANS COMMUNITY NEWS OHAV EMETH SHAVUOT LEARNING PROGRAMS FOR 4TH- Save the date! Sunday, June 3 at 10:30 a.m. 7TH GRADES for our last Jumping Jellybeans of the BIKE NCSY FUNDRAISER season. Children ages 0-5 with a parent are Boys and girls in 4th-7th grades are On Sunday, June 24, Fishel and Libbie invited to join Jumping Jellybeans with Tova invited to Ohav Emeth for separate Brooks will be riding for Bike NCSY to Halpern of Fresh Theatre Arts. Jumping learning programs on Shavuot day 2, raise funds to help NCSY teens afford Jellybeans is a program geared towards our Monday, May 21 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. their gap year experience. To help them youngest members. Using drama, movement Join them for friends, nosh and learning. reach their goal, please donate at https:// and music, children explore their For more information, please email: bike.ncsy.org/team/brooks/642. surroundings in a fun, energetic, and exciting [email protected]. environment. Cost of $5 per child includes a NAMES, NOT NUMBERS©: A snack. Parents must attend with child. RSVP OHAV EMETH WOMEN'S MOVIE IN THE MAKING to Chani at [email protected]. SHAVUOT LEARNING PROGRAM Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva Women are invited to Ohav Emeth for SHABBAT GROUPS BIRTHDAY cordially invites the entire community to a learning program on Shavuot day 2, PARTY SPONSORSHIPS their 4th annual Holocaust program: Monday, May 21 from 5:00-6:30 p.m. Names, Not Numbers©: A Movie in the Celebrating your child's birthday? Sponsor a Making this Thursday, May 24 at 7:30 Featured Speakers: birthday party for your child's Shabbat p.m. This presentation features the stories morning group: includes birthday game, Amy Tropp: "Serving Hashem from of six Holocaust survivors, as filmed by birthday hats, and special snacks. Where we are Now" RPRY eighth graders. Admission is free. Sponsorships start at $25. For more Shana Agassi: "What I Didn't Learn in They welcome sponsorships, which will information, contact Kivi and Chani at Yeshiva about the Ten Commandments" be acknowledged at the event. For more [email protected]! information or to sponsor the program, Becky Coulson: "Some Questions and please call RPRY at 732-572-5052. Answers about Shavuot" PRE-GROUP BABYSITTING! Dr. Chani Miller: "But What will We now have babysitting before groups, TEHILLIM GROUP People Think?" from 9:00-10:00 a.m. (ages 3 and up only.) Bracha Salomon, nee Fink: "Two The women’s Tehillim group meets It takes place in the 3-5-year-old room. No Wives, Two Roles: Rachel, Leah, and every Shabbat at 5:00 p.m. at Etz charge! Please email Chani if interested at Malchut Beit David" Ahaim. For more information, please call [email protected]. Etz Ahaim at 732-247-3839. The Women's Shavuot Learning program is sponsored by Rabbi & Debbi GROUP TIMES Kaufman in memory of Rabbi Kaufman's הרבנית דבורה גיטל בת הרב יצחק אייזק ,CHILDREN'S TORAH RALLY mother Baby/Toddler Room: 10:00 a.m. open play, who's yahrzeit is on the 2nd day הלוי ז" ל 10:30 a.m. organized parent and me groups Rutgers Chabad and Ohav Emeth invite children of all ages to their annual free of Shavuot. Refreshments will be served. All other groups: 10:00 a.m. Torah Rally & Ice Cream Party on Shavuot Day 1, Sunday, May 20 at 4:30 RPRY+ FUNDRAISER AHAVAS ACHIM YOUTH p.m. at Ohav Emeth. Enjoy cheesecake, DEPARTMENT SICK POLICY dairy and parve ice cream, Torah jugglers, RPRY+ has partnered with holiday stories and songs. For more packforcamp.com. Shop for all of your Children who are ill cannot attend Shabbat camp needs from one convenient site! morning groups and other youth department information, call Chabad at 732-296- 1800 or visit: www.ohavemeth.org. 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If you are able to give one day a RARITAN VALLEY HADASSAH $25, 2 for $40 or 3 for $50. week (Monday-Friday), or even one day a DAY IN PHILADELPHIA month to be accessible to help out with Join Raritan Valley Hadassah on HEARTBEATS: A NIGHT OF SONG transportation for Bikur Cholim, please Wednesday, June 6 for a day in AND DANCE call the Bikur Cholim Transportation Philadelphia. Your trip includes a guided Hotline at 732-672-9059. Ma'ayanot invites women and girls in the bus tour of the best of Philadelphia’s community to "Heartbeats: A Night of murals. Enjoy the ride as a local EXODUS FROM CUBA: A Song and Dance" next Thursday, May knowledgeable guide takes you into the HISTORICAL & PERSONAL 31 at 7:00 p.m. at the Moriah School, 53 back streets of some of Philly’s most ACCOUNT South Woodland Ave., Englewood. All artistic neighborhoods. 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(Lunch will member of Union Hebrea Chevet Ahim, a ANNUAL DINNER be on your own in the museum.) burial society located in Woodbridge, NJ. Join Yeshiva Tiferes Naftoli for their 13th Reservations are open now on a first His topic will include: Annual Dinner on Monday, June 4 in the come first served basis! The trip will leave Highland Park at 8:45 a.m. sharp  History of Jewish Life in Cuba Crystal Ballroom at the Radisson Hotel, 60 Gibson Place, Freehold: 6:30 reception; and return at approximately 5:00 p.m.  His family's personal stories 7:30 dinner. They are honoring Rabbi and The cost is $118 per person. Men and  Jewish immigration to Cuba Mrs. Hayim Leiter: Rabbinic Leadership non-members are most welcome. For Award and Mr. and Mrs. Rafi Adler: more information and RSVP, please  Integration of Jews into Cuban contact Elaine Rand Fromkin at Society Alumnus of the Year. They are also presenting a Memorial Tribute to the [email protected].  Synagogues, Business, and Schools family of Mrs. Chaya Friedman z"l. built by the Jewish Community in Dinner reservations are $125 per person. EMPLOYMENT NETWORK OF Cuba Journal ad deadline is Wednesday, May RARITAN VALLEY  Events surrounding the St. Louis 30. For journal ads and dinner reservations, Looking for work? ENRV can help. Go please visit: https://jdonations.com/  Cuban Jews going to Israel in 1948 to www.ENRV.org or contact Bob ytncnj. Please contact the yeshiva office at and The Altalena Lansey at [email protected]. [email protected] or 732-952-8384 for They post over 100 jobs each month, and  Exodus from Cuba more information. help people with their resume and search strategies. Please help: If you know of PARK MIKVAH HOURS PUBLIC FORUM, BOOK SIGNING any professional, part-time, or temporary Park Mikvah hours are: Sunday- WITH YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI AND job openings, please contact Bob Lansey Thursday 9:00-11:00 p.m.; Motzei GARY ROSENBLATT at [email protected]. Shavuot, May 21 & Motzei Shabbat, The New Jersey Jewish News in May 26: 10:00-11:30 p.m.; Friday partnership with the Jewish Federation in TEHILLIM INITIATIVE nights & Shavuot, May 19 & 20: by the Heart of New Jersey present a book Infertility is not discussed as much as the appointment only by leaving a message at signing and public forums on "Israel’s shidduch crisis but sadly it is still 732-249-2411 or via the website: Story Under Siege: A New Narrative for something that plagues our people. www.parkmikvah.org. the 21st Century" this Wednesday, May Therefore, Peninah Elmekies started a 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Rutgers Hillel, 70 40 day Tehillim initiative. This 2018 HP FIRST AID SQUAD College Ave, New Brunswick. initiative breaks up Sefer Tehillim over DISCOUNT CARDS Yossi Klein Halevi is an author, journalist 40 days to pray for couples who are The new Highland Park First Aid Squad and senior fellow on Jewish-Muslim struggling to have children. WHATSAPP Discount Cards are now available. To relations at the Shalom Hartman Institute Peninah Elmekies: 347-391-1741 or purchase the cards, please contact any and co-director of the Muslim Leadership email: [email protected] squad member including: Josh initiative. Gary Rosenblatt is an editor and for more information. Loewenstein, Joe Benedek, the Lewitter publisher of the NY Jewish Week and NJ family and the White family. Cards are Jewish News. Tickets: $18 online at: http:// 5 ACTT profile at: www.shulsconnect.com. All AHAVAS ACHIM information is kept strictly confidential. The ACTT (Achieving Change Through Steven Miodownik, Rabbi Torah) program helps individuals succeed in Ronald L. Schwarzberg, Rabbi Emeritus making meaningful and lasting changes in AHAVAS YISRAEL ANNUAL BREAKFAST their lives. Current source book: Artscroll’s Ahavas Yisrael cordially invites you to attend Honorary Presidents ז"ל ,Living Simchah: Finding the Joy in their 9th Annual Journal Breakfast honoring Alexander Bernstein ז"ל ,Everything by Rabbi Hadar Margolin. Rabbi Rabbi Gedaliah & Rebbetzin Rivka Jaffe for Isadore Sapiro ז"ל ,Moshe Tzvi Weinberg's shiur, "Serve Albert Sapiro ז"ל ,over 10 years of service to Ahavas Yisrael and the Nathan Segal Hashem with Joy: Can We Work on Being Edison/Highland Park Community. The breakfast Happier?" can be downloaded from the will be held on Sunday, June 10 at Ohr Torah. President ACTT website: www.actt613.org/6.html. For Doors open at 9:30 a.m.; program begins at 10:00 Jeremy Renna more information, email [email protected] or a.m. Please make reservations and submit ads on call Phil Rosen at 732-572-8762. the website: www.ayedison.org. For more Executive Vice Presidents information, please contact Rabbi Dani Davis at Josh Ostrin LIVING WITH TEHILLIM 917-518-2459 or [email protected], or you Sherry Simantov can email [email protected]. Rabbi Yisroel Weiss shiur, "Living with Senior Vice Presidents Tehillim," for men and women meets every Jonathan Caplan Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at the Eiserman's 40-DAY TEHILLIM INITIATIVE FOR Josh Goldstein home, 154 North 10th Ave., Highland Park. SINGLES Vice Presidents For more information, please call Marsha at They break up the 150 chapters of Sefer Tehillim Avi Eserner 732-503-8675. for each group, so feel free to commit to as many Avi Freidenreich chapters as you'd like (with a minimum of 3). Avi Grin ATTENTION COLLEGE AND Keep in mind all groupies say the names of all the Immediate Past President GRADUATE STUDENTS! singles in the group daily, the Tehillim they chose, along with the Tefillah. (All this will be provided Seth Berman Are you majoring in Business, Marketing, once the group is full, no worries.) It can be said Finance as an Undergraduate or Graduate Gabbaim anytime within the 24 hours, but must be said Student? Want to earn three credits and have Yossi Benedek daily for the 40 days. To participate, please fun at the same time? Rutgers University Seth Berman contact Rachel Kaplan at 908-616-3023 or Jonathan Caplan Business School will be offering "Doing [email protected]. Michael Kornfeld Business in Israel" with Professor Gary Barry Leskowitz Minkoff. The first pre-session is on Tuesday, Barry Levinson May 29, and there are still a few seats “FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT: AN David Simen available. Scholarships may be available for ARSENAL FOR DEMOCRACY” AT THE David Stern Steven White Rutgers Undergraduate students. Find out JCC more at: https://summersession.rutgers.edu/ The JCC of Middlesex County, 1775 Oak Tree Honorary Gabbai featured-programs/doing-business-israel, or Road, Edison, will present actor Neill Hartley Bernard Israel email [email protected]. starring as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a one- Board of Directors man performance on Tuesday, June 5 at 1:30 MRS. CHAYA NEWMAN Z"L ISRAEL p.m. Experience first-hand the history that shaped Dovid Becker Marisa Dolled-Filhart SCHOLARSHIP FUND our nation. This program is FREE and open to the Meir Flancbaum community as space allows. Advance registration In memory of Mrs. Chaya Newman z"l, David Friedman is recommended. To register, please call the JCC Cynthia Greenberg Bruriah High School class of 2019 is raising at 732-494-3232. Susan Hornstein money to pay for the round-trip flights of girls Dana Korbman attending seminary for their gap year in Israel Michele Kornblum who need financial help. Please help them RARITAN VALLEY HADASSAH WALK ’N Cheryl Kornfeld STROLL IN DONALDSON PARK Elana Kurtz accomplish their goal by donating. Every cent Barry Levinson counts! Please contact Mili Chizhik at Sunday, June 3, 4:00 p.m. Simi Lichtman [email protected] or 718-689-0418 Marc Scheiner Bring your sneakers, strollers, friends and family: with questions. Ari Sofair-Fisch all are welcome. Meet the Raritan Valley Laura Weiss Hadassah Chapter, and come with questions about Eugene Wishnic NEED A SHIDDUCH? what Hadassah, the largest Zionist group for women in the US, does for Israel. Or just come Sisterhood President A group of volunteer matchmakers, Elena Orgel representing various Shuls in our area, would and get some exercise! RSVP is required to: like to help singles of all ages and various Marnie Kean at 732-816-4712. Meeting Place: at 216 South First Avenue Hashkafa levels find appropriate matches. the big playground entrance by parking lot. Drinks P.O. Box 4242 Please email [email protected] and snacks will be served! Highland Park, NJ 08904 phone: (732) 247-0532 or text 908-616-3023 with your name, cell fax: (732) 247-6739 phone number and email address if you'd like www.ahavasachim.org 6 the group to contact you. Also, please create a