happenings around town 14 Elul 5775/August 28-29, 2015–Parshat Ki Teitzei

This weekend—Sept 5 - 7 Sept 7 and Beyond Friday night September 4 | 9:30-11:00pm | Lebovitz home Lamdeinu High Holiday classes 441 W Englewood Ave. Wednesday September 9 | Teaneck Teaneck NCSY program: All High School teens are invited Register for, "From High Holidays to Every Day: Aleinu as to join us this for our first Shabbos Oneg of the year! a Lens into Our Prayers" with Rachel Friedman, "Teshuva Come to hang out with friends, shmooze with awesome for the Sins We Don't Commit" with Dr. Julie Goldstein advisors, and join us as we welcome our new city director and "The Difficulty of Asking for Forgiveness" with R. Dr. Rabbi Reuven Lebovitz to the neighborhood! Aaron Segal. Lamdeinu is a center for Jewish learning Pre-Selichot shiur | Motzei Shabbat | 11:25pm | Keter Torah located in Teaneck. For more information and to Rabbi Menachem Penner, Dean of RIETS at Yeshiva register, please visit lamdeinu.org. University, will give a pre-Selichot shiur. Selichot will be Teshuva Drasha | Thursday, September 17 | 8:15pm |Cong. at 12:00am. Beth Aaron Shiur at BMOB | Motzaei Shabbat | 10:30pm Rabbi , Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS. All are Rav Meir Goldvicht will deliver a shiur on the topic of welcome. "The Power of Prayer: In Times of Crisis and in Times of Friendship Circle of Bergen County presents: Friendship Happiness". The Shiur will be followed by a Kumzits with Walk and Celebration, Sunday, September 20 live music and refreshments until the beginning of at Votee Park, Teaneck Selichot at 12:55 AM. 10:00 am Registration, 11:00am Walk, Shaare Tefillah Adult Education Committee's Legal Holiday 11:30am Celebration. For more information, please go Shiur: Labor Day, Sept. 7 | 9:20am following an 8:15 am to www.NJFriendshipWalk.com Selichos and Shacharis. Rabbi will Tomchei Shabbos of Bergen County Annual Kapparos event provide an overview of the laws of Shmitat Kesafim | Sunday, September 20, 2015: Two convenient (Cancellation of Debts) and Pruzbul. He will then locations: 13 Foster St, Bergenfield | 10am - 1pm convene a Beit Din to enable everyone in attendance to (block past Pathmark, after tracks) and Ahavath Torah, sign a Pruzbul. Without a Pruzbul, all debts are cancelled Englewood, 240 Broad Ave | 9:45 am - 12pm (back of on the last day of the Shmitta year. A light breakfast will parking lot near ballroom entrance). be served. Shaare Tefillah is located at 510 Claremont All proceeds benefit Tomchei Shabbos of Bergen County. Avenue. For questions and info contact Sara Zilberstein Community Directory: A community directory is being [email protected] published within the next few weeks. If you would like to Ma’ayanot Annual Yom Iyun remove yourself from the directory, please email September 20 | 9:30am to 12:30pm | Ma’ayanot [email protected] or call (201) 371-3212. Yeshiva High School for Girls | 1650 Palisade Avenue, Thursday evening, September 10 | 8:30pm | Shaarei Orah Teaneck. The Yom Iyun will begin with a keynote shiur by Rabbi Michael Chernick will present “Awakening to Rabbi Jeremy Wieder, Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Isaac Teshuvah,” a series of five shiurim in preparation for the Elchanan Theological Seminary of , on Yamim Noraim. “There is No Reason for Hopelessness”: the topic Avot Akhlu Boser veShinei Banim Tiq`henah: The Path to Teshuvah of R. Nahman of Breslov. Vicarious Punishment and Communal Responsibility in Judais, followed by additional shiurim by members of Soda Scan's Back-to-School Charity BBQ the Ma’ayanot faculty. Men and women are welcome. Sunday, September 6 |12-4pm | Phelps Park, Teaneck. Sponsorship opportunities are available. For more This support the communal tuition fund. We are working information, please contact Pam Ennis at with many of the local shuls and schools to bring their [email protected] or 201-833-4307, ext. 265 members and families to have some fun, enjoy a great Barbecue and support an important cause. Teaneck NCSY—First Latte and Learn of the year! Thursday night September 11| 7:00-8:30pm | Lazy Bean Café, Shofar blowing class | Sunday, September 6 | 10:00am 1404 Queen Anne Rd. Come grab a drink and chill and Congregation ’B nai Yeshurun | downstairs classrooms learn together with friends and advisors in a relaxed Renowned trumpeter, Howard Birnbaum, has graciously environment. See you there! offered to hold a MASTER CLASS IN SHOFAR BLOWING to benefit Project Ezrah and all who attend. Howard, a TorahWeb—Sunday, Sept. 20, Bnai Yeshurun |8:00pm student of the great William Vacchiano, will go over the Rav Mayer : Aspiration & Ascent In THREE TRADITIONAL SOUNDS necessary to fulfill the Avodas Hashem, 8:45pm: Rav : The mitzvah of shofar blowing and will also concentrate on Future of Modern Orthodoxy BLOWING TECHNIQUES, CONSISTENCY and CLARITY. This Yomim Noraim Mikvah Hours for Men 5776/2015 class will benefit anyone from the novice who wants to Erev Rosh Hashanah, Sunday, Sept. 13 5:30am- 4:00pm learn to the experienced bal tokea who would like to Erev Yom Kippur, Tuesday, Sept. 22 4:30am- 4:00pm sharpen his skills before the yamim noraim. . To ensure The Teaneck Mikvah will be open for men's use on Erev individual attentions from this master Bal Tokea, class size Rosh Hashanah and Erev Yom Kippur. Men will have will be limited and pre-registration is required. A $36 access to 12 preparation rooms, 2 express changing donation to Project Ezrah is suggested. To register, please areas, and 3 mikvaot. One of the three mikvaot will close contact: [email protected]. at 1:00pm on Erev Rosh Hashana in order to prepare it Ongoing/Miscellaneous September 21. For more information or to register, please visit: www.jfnnj.org/ulpan or call Joyce at 201- for immediate post Rosh Hashanah use. Kindly enter 820-3907. through the Main Entrance of the Mikvah. Please be MTA presents Macabbi Tel Aviv vs. Armani Milan considerate and adhere to the closing times. Fees: $25 Sunday, October 4 | 12:30pm | Chol Hamoed Succot per person, $54 per family. Kindly shower at home and Madison Square Garden. Cost is $50. For more bring your own towels. Please call the Mikvah at information, [email protected] 201-837-8220 or email us at [email protected] Ongoing/Miscellaneous with any questions. Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson The Jewish Learning Experience is once again offering FREE announces the formation of a support group for explanatory High Holiday services. Services will be held separating, separated, and divorced individuals. This at the Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls, 1650 is an opportunity to “give to and get from” others in Palisade Ave., in Teaneck. This Rosh Hashanah will be similar circumstances. Learn ways to cope with the observed this year on Monday, September 14, and loss of the dream “Till death do us part” as well as the Tuesday, September 15, services will begin at 10:00 am more practical challenges of recreating a quality on both days. The services on Rosh Hashanah will be lifestyle as a single person and learning to co-parent followed by Kiddush and refreshments. in a healthy way. For more information, please Yom Kippur will begin on Tuesday evening, September 22 contact JFS at 201-837-9090. at 6:30 pm for Kol Nidrei and the evening service, and on Tomchei Shabbos of Bergen County Wednesday, September 23 10 am for the morning Volunteers needed to pack | Wednesdays | 6:00pm service followed by Yizkor (memorial prayer for deceased A weekly, bi-monthly or monthly basis. Please only loved ones). Our High Holiday services are free of reply if you are willing and able to make a serious charge. Voluntary donation of $30 per person. (Checks commitment. Contact Sara Walzman at payable to Jewish Learning Experience). If you would like [email protected] to join us again for any or all of the High Holiday prayer Chesed Opportunities Bar and Bat Mitzvah boys and services, please email, call, or use the website http:// girls! For information how to commemorate your jle.org/high-holidays-program/ before September 6 to Simcha with a chesed project thru partnering with ensure your seats. For further information, Rabbi David Tomchei Shabbos, contact Andrea Fields at 973-371- Pietruszka, 201-966-4498, [email protected], or go to 1771x411 or [email protected] website: www.jle.org Chatan and Kallah Gemach - donate new or unopened Play-Doh Drive! Start off your year on the right foot! gifts to needy couples. We will accept (in original box) Donate Play-Doh to Hackensack Hospital's Tomorrow's household, Judaica, engagement or wedding gifts that Childrens Fund. All Play-Doh must be sealed and perhaps are not your taste but others can use. Drop dropped off at local drop off locations (Best Glatt & off at Carrie Cooper, 1060 Windsor Road. Carrie can Cedar Market). Checks can be made out to Tomorrow's be reached at 201-801-9028 or email her at Childrens Fund. Shipped Play-Doh and checks can be [email protected]. mailed to Sophia Berman at 608 Grenville Ave Teaneck NJ 07666. For more information contact Sophia at 845- Teaneck Simcha Gemach has folding tables, cocktail 625-9614 or email [email protected] tables, chairs and coat racks (w/ hangers) available for loan. Contact [email protected]. Congregation Beth Aaron—No Shekel left behind Do you have some shekalim or Euros left over from a Tablecloth Gemach: Recently established in memory of recent trip? Your loose change and paper money can Chaim Feigenbaum, Chaim Yissachar ben Yechiel add up and will help refurbish the Youth Center in Beit Zeidel Dov Z’l. Specialty cloths in all colors and sizes Yair, Beth Aaron’s sister town in Israel. Mail or drop off for every type of simcha. Donations will go to Project your shekalim or Euros at the Beth Aaron office. Yechi and are tax deductible. Please contact Chaye Donations in dollars will also be accepted. Feigenbaum, [email protected] Ma'ayanot Adult Education Intermediate Ulpan Classes The Ma'ayanot Adult Education committee is offering fall semester intermediate level Ulpan open to the community. Instructor: Mrs. Tamar Appel, Ma'ayanot Assistant Principal for Academic Life Cost: $210 for 15 sessions Time/Dates: Tuesdays, 7:30 - 9:00 pm September 8, October 13, 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17, 24, December 1, 15, 22, 29, January 5, 12, 19 Register today or contact Pam Ennis at 201-833-4307, ext. 265 or go to http://www.maayanot.org/ Ulpan_Registration Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Learn to speak Hebrew! Classes begin October 19. Summer special fee: $410. Price goes up to $480 after