CONGREGATION BETH AARON ANNOUNCEMENTS Parshat Terumah February 8-9, 2019 4 Adar I 5779 TIMES This week’s announcements are sponsored by Lamdeinu. For information on their schedule of classes, see page 4 and go to lamdeinu.org. Friday, February 8 Study in depth; be inspired! Latest Candles: 5:03 p.m. Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 5:05 p.m. SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 10 Shabbat, February 9 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Hashkama Minyan: 7:30 a.m. 10 11 12 13 14 15 Nach shiur: 8:20 a.m. Main Minyan: 8:45 a.m. Earliest 5:57 5:56 5:55 5:54 5:52 5:51 Youth Minyan: 9:15 a.m. Shacharit 6:30 MS 5:45 SH 5:55 SH 5:55 SH 5:41 SH 5:55 SH Sof Zman Kriat Shema: 9:34 a.m. 7:15 MS 6:20 BM 6:30 BM 6:30 BM 6:20 BM 6:30 BM Early Mincha: 1:45 p.m. 8:00 MS 7:10 BM 7:15 BM 7:15 BM 7:10 BM 7:15 BM Daf Yomi: 3:45 p.m. 8:45 MS 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM Women’s Learning: 3:45 p.m., in the shul Mincha 1:00 BM Social Hall, Shmuel Bet, Chapter 21, led by Rivka Herzfeld and Mollie Fisch Mincha/ 5:10 MS 5:10 BM 5:10 MS 5:10 BM 5:10 BM 5:15 MS 5th/6th grade Boys’ Mishna Group: Maariv 4:25 p.m., in the Book Room Maariv Mincha: 4:55 p.m., followed by Rabbi 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM Rothwachs’ shiur, “The What, When, 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM Who, and How of Correcting a Ba’al KEY: MS = Main Shul BM = Beit Midrash SH = Social Hall Koreh (Part 1)” MAZAL TOV TO Maariv: 6:03 p.m. Havdalah: 6:12 p.m. ● Rebecca Cooper, on being honored at the Jewish Youth Encounter Program (JYEP) Annual Breakfast this Sunday. Mazal Tov also to Rebecca’s parents, Michele & Benjamin Cooper. ● Estelle Harris, on the birth of her grandson Sinai, born to her children Mayrav & Avraham Harris of Ma’ale Hever, Israel. Latest Candles on Friday, February 15: ● Nancy & Naphtali Lichtenstein, on the engagement of their daughter Rivka to Rafi Anapolle of 5:12 p.m. Teaneck. Mazal Tov also to Rafi’s parents, Rebecca & Elliot Anapolle. ● Naomi & Aaron Mandelbaum, on the Bat of their granddaughter Idit Mandelbaum in Israel and the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson Yair Ziffer in Baltimore. Mazal Tov also to Idit’s parents, Michal & Avi Mandelbaum, and to Yair’s parents, Esti & Yossi Ziffer. ● Gitl & Meylekh Viswanath, on the birth of their granddaughter Priva Charne, born to their children Meena Viswanath & Jamie Conway of Berkeley, CA.

MEN’S CLUB KIDDUSH

This week’s Men’s Club Kiddush following the Main Minyan is sponsored by: L’Chaim Sponsors: ● Marcy & Jeff Manas, in honor of the homecoming of their twin grandsons, born to their children Aviva & Ari Manas, after four months in the NICU. Welcome home, Zecharia Tzvi and Baby B, who will have On Shabbat, his bris this Sunday. the shul elevator will operate in Shabbat mode as follows: If you are celebrating a simcha, commemorating a yahrtzeit, or simply want to say “thank you,” Friday: consider sponsoring an upcoming Kiddush following either the Hashkama Minyan or the Main Minyan. 4:45-6:30 p.m. To become a sponsor, please go to www.bethaaron.org/kiddush. For questions, contact Ari Gononsky at Shabbat: [email protected]. 8:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 1:30-2:30 p.m., 3:30-5:45 p.m. last chance for a portrait sitting: sunday, march 31 Is the Eruv Up? Call the Eruv Hotline The only date still available for a portrait-sitting for the new pictorial directory is Sunday, March 31. before Shabbat: 201-530-0222 Remember, there is no cost to you or to our shul, and each participating family will receive a complimentary 8x10 portrait and directory and have the opportunity to purchase additional Shop Amazon portraits to share with family and friends. To sign up for an appointment, visit https://booknow- & Support Beth Aaron lifetouch.appointment-plus.com/ykd034xy/. Go to www.bethaaron.org/amazon If you can’t schedule a session, then send in a photo. If you do neither, we can’t guarantee that you and click on the Amazon link to start will receive a directory. To ensure that you receive a copy of the directory, book a session or send a your online shopping. photo to Ramona Wolpoe, [email protected]​​​​​​. If you are sending in a photo, please list the names of those you want included in your directory entry. Contact Beth Aaron at [email protected] Volunteers are needed both to act as greeters when photos are being taken and to contact members for follow-up. To volunteer, please contact Ramona, [email protected] or 201-801-0398. SHUL ANNOUNCEMENTS SPONSOR THE PURCHASE OF A BOOK FOR THE LIBRARY The SOY book sale is starting next week, and there are a number Meir Hirsch will not give his shiur this Shabbat, February 9. It will of books that we would like to purchase for the Beit Midrash li- resume next week, Shabbat, February 16. brary. If you would like to sponsor the purchase any of the books listed below, contact Josh Zakheim, [email protected]. Checks The topic for this week’s Shivti seder limud is “Making Kiddush on should be made out to and sent to Congregation Beth Aaron. Non-Wine Substances, Part 2.” The program is held on Sunday Thank you for your help. mornings in the Beit Midrash, beginning at 9:00 a.m. A light breakfast is served at 8:45 a.m. Each Sunday morning program ● Rabbi Marc D. Angel, A Sephardic Passover Haggadah $12.92 typically will be independent from the previous and subsequent ● Robert Bonfil, Rabbis and Jewish Communities in Renaissance programs. This week, Rabbi Sason Gabay will both lead a chabura Italy $27.94 before the shiur and offer theshiur. Thank you to Aliza & Kal ● Robert Brody, Saadyah Gaon $20.75 Staiman for their sponsorship of the February learning and to an ● Richard I. Cohen, Jonathan Frankel, Stefane Hoffman, Insiders anonymous sponsor for breakfast. For more information, please and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry $23.95 contact Mordy Ungar, 201-741-3920, [email protected]. ● David Hartman, Maimonides: and Philosophic Quest $19.95 “When a Marriage is Fine, Is It Really? What Science and Torah ● Jonathan I. Israel, European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism Teach Us about Making a Good Marriage Great” will be the topic 1550-1750 $23.95 this Monday, February 11, at 8:00 p.m., when Rabbi Dr. Ari Sytner ● Hyam Maccoby, on Trial: Jewish-Christian Disputations will speak in the shul. Rabbi Dr. Ari Sytner is a licensed social worker in the Middle Ages $19.95 and couples’ therapist with a private practice in Teaneck. He is a ● Bezalel Naor, ed., When God Becomes History: Historical Essays professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, the author of of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook $25.79 The Kidney Donor’s Journey, and the Director of Leadership and ● Antony Polonsky, The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History Community Development for University’s Center for the $31.94 Jewish Future. Rabbi Dr. Sytner speaks extensively about dating, ● Haym Soloveitchik, Collected Essays I $47.57 marriage, and divorce, sharing his unique doctoral research on ● Haym Soloveitchik, Collected Essays II $47.57 marital relationships within the Orthodox community. Rabbi Dr. ● Shaul Stampfer, Lithuania of the Nineteenth Century: Sytner brings extensive research and experience to this critical topic Creating a Tradition of Learning $23.95 of conversation and will discuss what science and Torah teach us ● Yael Unterman, Nehama Leibowitz: Teacher and Scholar $29.52 about making a good marriage great. ● European Jewry $23.95 ● The Shoah in Sephardic Communities $18.45 The early Hashkama Minyan will meet next Shabbat, February 16, ● Shorshei Minhag Ashkenaz: Minhag Ashkenaz Sources and at 7:15 a.m. To sponsor the Kiddush following this minyan, please Roots: Synopsis of Volumes I-IV $23.75 contact Mo-b Singer, [email protected].

On Motzaei Shabbat, February 23, there will be a French Wine REGISTER FOR THE BETH AARON ANNUAL DINNER Tasting in the shul. Reservations are $45 per person through Join us for the Beth Aaron 43rd Annual Journal Dinner, to take February 14, $50 per person beginning February 15. Register at place on Sunday, March 3, at Congregation Ahavath Torah in www.bethaaron.org/event/WineTasting5779. Englewood. Honorees are: ● Lorraine & Rabbi Sam Vogel: Guests of Honor The Sisterhood Book Club will next meet on Motzaei Shabbat, ● Elissa & Joel Richter: Shelly Leffel Service Award March 2, to discuss Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, ● Rachel, Aliza and Talia Sperber: Eitan Shapiro Young Leadership by Rabbi Ariel Burger. For further information, contact Diane Fogel, Award [email protected]. We look forward to celebrating with all of you on March 3. To place an ad and make reservations, go to Bethaaron.org/dinner. PARNAS HAYOM There also are forms in the lobby. Dedicate a day of learning at Beth Aaron on the occasion of a yahrtzeit, in the zechut of a refuah shelaima, or in honor of a STAY WARM AND DRY WITH A LOCKER simcha , a birthday or any other occasion. Each week’s dedications It’s getting chillier and wetter out there! Need a sweater in shul or shul are prominently displayed in the lobby and sent out to the sometimes need a poncho to get home? Rent a locker! The membership via email. For more information, or to sign up, please annual rental fee is $100 per fiscal year (July 1 to June 30) and can go to www.bethaaron.org/parnashayom. be pro-rated. To rent a locker, please contact the shul office, [email protected]. Feel free to contact Isaac Hagler, WEEKLY SHIURIM AT CONGREGATION BETH AARON [email protected], with any further questions. • Daf Yomi: For Daf Yomi shiurim and resources in Teaneck, go to www.teaneckshuls.org/daf/. FASS SHLOSHIM IN ISRAEL • Daf Yomi shiur: Monday-Thursday evenings, at 9:45 p.m. On Sunday, February 17, at 8:00 p.m., at Congregation Ohel • Daf ha-Shavua: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:55 p.m. Sunday Yonah Menachem, Shivtei Yisrael 2, Beit Shemesh, there will morning chazara shiur at 7:55 a.m. on the previous week’s be a gathering to commemorate the shloshim of Rabbi Stanley daf. Shiurim will be given by Rabbi Larry Rothwachs, Rabbi Yair Fass, who served as the Rabbi of Congregation Beth Aaron in the Hindin, and David Schnaidman. 1970s. • Tanya shiur by Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg: Tuesdays at 9:00 p.m. • Rabbi Rothwachs’ Sanhedrin shiur: Wednesdays, at 8:30 p.m. • Morning Mishna Chabura: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 7:00 a.m.; Monday, Thursday: 6:55 a.m. BETH AARON YOUTH and JUNIOR HIGH This Tuesday, February 12, at 8:00 p.m., at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, 641 West Englewood Avenue, Michal Zahtz will offer The 5th and 6th grade Boys’ Mishna Group will meet this Shabbat, the first of a three-part class, “Taharat HaMishpacha Refresher February 9, at 4:25 p.m., in the Book Room. The group is learning for Women.” This week’s topic will be “A Deeper Look at Taharat Masechet Pesachim with Rabbi Rothwachs and meets weekly on HaMishpacha: Halacha and Hashkafa.” On Tuesday, February 19, Shabbat afternoons, 30 minutes before Mincha. she will discuss “The Mikvah, a Most Sacred Place: Mikvah Halacha and Hashkafa,” and on Tuesday, February 26, the subject will be Parent-Child Learning will meet for its final session of the year next “Intimacy: Keeping the Spark Burning.” Please submit questions in Motzaei Shabbat, February 16, at 7:00 p.m. Parents and children are advance to [email protected]. encouraged to come and learn. Bring your own materials to learn, or take out a book from our Youth Library. Children are welcome to On Thursdays, February 14, 21, and 28, at 10:15 a.m., at Ma’ayanot, sign up to say a Dvar Torah. To sign up to say a Dvar Torah, please 1650 Palisade Avenue, Leah Herzog will offer a class, “What Does go to www.bethaaron.org/event/pcl5779 or contact youth@ Hashem Really Want From Us? An In-Depth Analysis of Yeshayahu.” bethaaron.org. Thank you to the Ausubel, Bogner, Brusowankin, Chaitovsky (Tamar & Avi-Gil), David, Dimond, Dubin, Fisher, Gilbert, On Motzaei Shabbat, February 16, at 8:00 p.m., Landeinu will hold Giles, Gordon, Gruber, Gur-Aryeh, Heidings, Himelstein, Hoenig, a free Women’s Kumzitz and Melava Malka. The location will be Honikman, Isaacs (Judah & Tzvia), Kaplan (Barry & Emily), Klavan, supplied on registration. To register, go to www.lamdeinu.org/ Knapp, Korn, Lauer, Lazar, Lewitan, Nussbaum, Rotenberg, Segal register. For more information, contact [email protected]. (Eric & Olga), Shapiro (Miriam & Menachem), Shapiro (Stephanie & Jerry), Sheffey, Silverberg, Singer, Stein, Waxman, Wechter, On Sunday, February 17, at 8:45 a.m., at Congregation Rinat Yisrael, Weisinger, Wolff, and Zell families who have joined the Parent-Child 389 West Englewood Avenue, Rabbi Moshe Taragin will discuss “Has Learning Society. To sponsor a session or to join the Society, please Brisker Creativity and Tanach Analysis Eliminated the Awe of Talmud go to www.bethaaron.org/event/pcl5779. Torah?”

For more information about youth programs, contact Youth Directors On Sunday, February 18, beginning at 9:00 a.m., at Congregation Erica and Jason David, 732-618-9473, [email protected]. Keter Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue, the Beit Din of America, YU’s Center for the Jewish Future, the Rabbinical Council of America, NCSY and the Orthodox Union will offer acomplimentary CLE program, “Issues in Contemporary Practice.” The program also will All high school teens are invited to join Teaneck NCSY for an Oneg be streamed live at yutorah.org. Topics include “The Prohibition this Friday, February 8, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m., on the lower level at of Litigating in Secular Court,” “Female Testimony in Beit Din: Congregation Beth Aaron, 950 Queen Anne Road. Come hang out An Untold Story of Halachic Justice,” and “Does Jewish Law Like with friends, shmooze with awesome advisors, meet new people, Lawyers? Building a Just Legal System.” Speakers include Rabbi and enhance your Shabbat experience. For more information about Mordechai Willig; Rabbi Yona Reiss; Rabbi Shlomo Weissmann; Teaneck NCSY, contact Cayla & Daniel Lubat, [email protected]. Michael A. Helfand, Esq.; Benyamin Kaminetsky, Esq.; and Jordana Mondrow, Esq. The event is open to the community and is geared On Friday, March 1, and Shabbat, March 2, at Congregation Keter to both attorneys and non-attorneys. An RSVP is not required, but Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue, NJ NCSY will hold its annual 8th grade to register for CLE credit, go to www.bethdin.org/register. For more Shabbaton. All davening, meals, and programming will take place information, contact [email protected]. there. NJ NCSY will set up walking groups Friday night to walk students back to host homes. On Motzaei Shabbat, attendees will go On Wednesday, February 20, at 8:00 p.m., at Ben Porat Yosef, snow tubing. The cost is $50. Sign up at newjersey.ncsy.org. For 243 Frisch Court, Paramus, there will be an interactive program, more information, please contact Rabbi Reuven Lebovitz, “Hidden ..... In Plain Sight,” about identifying and explaining various [email protected]. drug paraphernalia. For more information, contact taliahindin@ benporatyosef.org. COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS On Motzaei Shabbat, February 23, at 8:00 p.m., at the Montammy This Shabbat, February 9, at 3:50 p.m., at Congregation Keter Country Club, Montammy Drive, Alpine, Ben Porat Yosef will hold its Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue, Keshet Starr, Executive Director of the Annual Dinner. For more information, go to BPYdinner.org or contact Organization for the Resolution ofAgunot (ORA), and Yonatan Director of Development Gabrielle Altman, gabriellealtman@ Klayman, Director of Advocacy, will speak on “In the Trenches of benporatyosef.org. 201-845-5007, ext. 35. Agunah Advocacy: Then and Now.” Following the 4:50 p.m. Mincha, Ms. Starr will speak at Seudah Shlishit on “A Roadmap to Resolving On Motzaei Shabbat, February 23, at 8:30 p.m., at Congregation the Agunah Crisis,” followed by a question-and-answer period. On Keter Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue, Bonei Olam will hold a Chopped Motzaei Shabbat, from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m., there will be a post-nup Competition with Naomi Nachman. To sign up for a chance to party at which Rabbi Haim Jachter will speak on “A Rabbi Chased compete, go to bit.ly/boneiolamchopped. No RSVP is required to After with a Baseball Bat: What Happens When a Prenuptial/ attend the event. Postnuptial is Not Signed.” On Sunday, February 24, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at This Sunday, February 10, at 9:30 a.m., at Congregation Rinat Yisrael, Congregation Keter Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue, thePurim Costume 389 West Englewood Avenue, the Jewish Youth Encounter Program Gemach will be open. A $5 donation is requested, but not required. (JYEP) will hold its annual breakfast. For more information, contact There also is a $10 per costume refundable deposit. To donate used School Director Dr. Debby Rapps, 201-833-JYEP. costumes, contact [email protected], 201-923-7622. This Monday, February 11, at 8:00 p.m., at the Lerer home, 788 On Sunday, February 24, at 4:45 p.m., at the Marriott Glenpointe Winthrop Road, Maayanot will offer “Meal Prep 101: How to Plan Hotel, 100 Frank W. Burr Boulevard, SINAI Schools will hold its and Organize Your Meals,” with Gila Guzman. A second session will Annual Benefit Dinner. For reservation, go to www.sinaidinner.org be held on Monday, March 25, at 8:00 p.m. or call 201-833-1134, ext. 106. Beginning Sunday, February 24, at 7:00 p.m., at Congregation COMMUNITY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Beth Abraham, 396 New Bridge Road, Bergenfield, there will be a six-session father-son jump rope class. Register by February This Sunday, February 10, Yeshiva University’s Kollel Yom Rishon, 14 and receive a 10% discount from the $120 cost. Register weekly free learning for men, will be held in Glueck 307 (515 West at jumpintoshape.fun. For more information, contact Russell 185th Street, corner of Amsterdam Avenue), and its Midreshet Moskowitz, 973-476-7356, [email protected]. Yom Rishon, weekly free learning for women, will be held in the Schottenstein Center (560 West 185th Street, between Audubon On Motzaei Shabbat, March 2, at 8:00 p.m., at the Hilton and St. Nicholas Avenues). Both are open to participants of all Meadowlands, 2 Meadowlands Plaza, East Rutherford, The Moriah ages, backgrounds, and learning levels, with no registration. This School will hold its Annual Dinner. For more information, please go week, Kollel Yom Rishon will feature Rabbi Mordechai Willig to www.themoriahdinner.org. and Rabbi Zev Goldberg, and Midreshet Yom Rishon will feature Hadassah Frenkel and Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom. The first shiur On Sunday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m., at Dwight Morrow High starts at 9:30 a.m., the second at 10:30 a.m. For information or to School, 274 Knickerbocker Road, Englewood, middle school girls download mar’ei mekomot, visit www.kollelyomrishon.org or www. representing 12 different area Yeshiva day schools will take part in midreshetyomrishon.org or call 212-960-0041. the first annual Meorot song and dance performance. There also will be a pre-show boutique, beginning at 5:30 p.m. and continuing The Beit Midrash of Teaneck (BMT) provides an interactive Talmud during intermission and after the show, which is for girls and women Torah learning experience for male retirees. Located at Yeshivat only. Proceeds will benefit NCSY summer programs and Tomchei Heichal Hatorah/Jewish Center of Teaneck, 70 Sterling Place, the Shabbos of Bergen County. For more information, please contact program meets on Monday and Wednesday mornings between Miriam Pfeiffer, [email protected]. 9:15 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. Doors open at 9:15 a.m. for source preparation in a Seder setting. This week, at 10:00 a.m., Rabbi Ronen On Sunday, March 10, at the Glenpointe Marriott, 100 Frank W. Dvash of Heichal HaTorah will give a shiur on Gemara Brachot. Burr Boulevard, Nefesh b’Nefesh will hold a Mega Event for those At 11:00 a.m., Rabbi Larry Rothwachs will discuss “Leveling the thinking about aliyah. The programs for retirees and medical Praying Field: Worshiping God While Serving Man” (Monday) and professionals will begin at 9:30 a.m.; general programming will start “Honoring a Shul” (Wednesday), and, at Noon, Rabbi Hayyim Angel at 10:30 a.m. Register at www.nbn.org/mega. of Yeshiva University will give a shiur on Sefer Chaggai. Source sheets will be available and can be obtained in advance by contacting On Wednesday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m., at Teaneck High School, 100 [email protected]. BMT welcomes all men and is free of Elizabeth Avenue, the Jewish Community Council of Teaneck will charge. You can attend as many sessions during the day as you like. hold its annual Yom Hashoa observance. The speaker is Toby Levy, For more information, contact BMT at [email protected]. whose family was hidden in the barn of a former Polish employee until they were liberated in June 1944. To ensure that memorial Congregation Keter Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue, presents Torah in names are read and printed in the memorial booklet, please send a the AM on Tuesdays and Thursdays: 9:05 a.m. -- Chavura studying check for $25 or more to Sharon Penkower Kaplan, 534 South Forest sefer Bamidbar; 9:45 a.m. -- 7th Perek of Masechet Shabbos, with Drive, by March 13. For more information, contact Amy Elfman, Rabbi Menachem Meier; Thursdays: 10:45 a.m. -- and [email protected], or Felicia Grossman, felicia0221@ thought in Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, with Rabbi Menachem Meier. optonline.net or visit www.teaneckyomhashoa.org. On Tuesdays, at 8:30 p.m., at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, 641 On Tuesday, May 21, NORPAC will hold its annual Mission to West Englewood Avenue, Rav Meir Goldwicht offers a Parshat ha- Washington, DC. Visit Congress and advocate for !srael! Register Shavua shiur in Hebrew. now at www.norpac.net. Students under 18 must be accompanied by an adult relative. 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