AHAVASAHAVAS ACHIMACHIM NEWSLETNEWSLETTERTER י"א חשון תש"פ לך לך NOVEMBER 8, 2019 SCHEDULE OF SERVICES SYNAGOGUE NEWS which all are invited. Miodownik and Rabbi Lesher will speak, and your !participation is encouraged מזל טוב שבת Friday Candlelighting...... 4:28 p.m. Mazel Tov to Eric Silverman on his aufruf Please save the following dates for Friday Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv future Friday Night Tisches: ...... 4:35 p.m. this Shabbat and on his forthcoming marriage Friday Night Tisch...... 8:00 p.m. to Kay Burin. December 20 at the home of Ari and Rachel Podhorcer Mazel Tov to Debbi and Alex Diament on Shacharit ...... 7:00 & 8:45 a.m. the birth of a granddaughter. Mazel Tov to January 10 at the home of Jeremy and Pre-Group Babysitting ...... 9:00 a.m. the parents, Eliana and Didi Weiss. Simi Lichtman Latest Shema...... 9:09 a.m. There will also be Friday Night Tisches Sefardit vs. Ashkenazis...... 9:15 a.m. Mazel Tov to James Weinberger and in February and March. Teen Minyan...... 9:30 a.m. Miriam Oles on the birth of a Youth Groups...... 10:00 a.m. granddaughter. Mazel Tov to the parents, Baby Group ...... 10:30 a.m. Elisheva and Ami Zukowsky. SEFARDIT VS. ASHKENAZIS Mazel Tov to Eric Wallenstein on being This Shabbat, November 9, Rabbi Kiddush is sponsored by Eric Shmuel Lesher will deliver a special Silverman in honor of his aufruf this honored at the Federation in the Heart of Shabbat and his forthcoming marriage New Jersey's Annual Meeting and shiur after the 7:00 a.m. Shacharit in the to Kay Burin. Celebration of Caring. Downstairs Social Hall. The topic will be: "Sefardit vs. Ashkenazis: Which Daf Yomi (Niddah 17) ...... 3:35 p.m. Mazel Tov to Rebecca and Israel Rivkin on Pronunciation Is More Correct?" Mincha...... 4:25 p.m. the birth of a great-granddaughter. Mazel Rabbi Lesher will share many fascinating Learning Seudah Shlishit .....4:45 p.m. Tov to the parents, Avital and Devir sources from Achronim and Maariv ...... 5:32 p.m. Gamlieli in . contemporary authorities about the Motzei Shabbat ...... 5:36 p.m. different pronunciations of various Rabbi Yisroel Reisman ...... 7:30 p.m. WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Jewish communities. The shiur will run from 9:15 - 10:00 a.m. We warmly welcome Dov and Julia וירא Sunday Shacharit...... 8:00 & 9:00 a.m. Rosenschein who recently joined the shul as Monday & Thursday Shacharit ...... Full Members. We look forward to their ...... 6:25 & 7:45 a.m. active participation and a warm and mutually Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday Shacharit supportive relationship...... 6:35 & 7:45 a.m. Sunday -Thursday Mincha/Maariv ...... 4:30 p.m. THE FRIDAY NIGHT TISCH Monday -Thursday late Maariv...... AAU presents our inaugural Friday Night ...... 9:30 p.m. Tisch, a monthly evening of Divrei Torah Friday Candlelighting...... 4:21 p.m. and singing and delicious food, this Friday, Friday Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv November 8 at 8:00 p.m. at the home of ...... 4:30 p.m. Ariel and Yaelle Fromowitz, 968 Aurora North Side Minyan November Street #A. Illuminate the beginning of your Andrew and Marcia Freedman Shabbat through this uplifting gathering to 7 Marshall Drive, Edison

Bridge Turkish and Mediterranean Grill YOU DESERVE TO BE TREATED AS ONE OF A KIND! Open Saturday nights starting SEPTEMBER 7 half hour after Shabbat Sunday-Thursday 11:30 AM-10:00 PM Friday 11:30 AM-4:00 PM 315 Raritan Ave. Highland Park, NJ 732-418-9000 Please patronize our sponsors! School of International Affairs, focusing on that's not enough for you, then be sure crisis management. David has been rejected to check out the incredible food and רפואה שלמה from several prestigious fellowships and drink offerings which you will not want in חולים Please include the following awards. to miss! General admission for the evening is $65 per person which .תפילות your MUSICAL SHABBAT CHANUKAH includes entrance, dinner, and $1,000 ליבה שיינדל בת חוה FEATURING THE MACCABEATS of funny money! Additionally, we have קלמן בן רחל many different sponsorship Back by popular demand, Congregation opportunities available. For more יצחק בן עליזה Ahavas Achim presents the fourth annual information and to sign up, please בת - שבע בת מלכה .Musical Shabbat Chanukah featuring the visit: aafundraising.org חנה בת נחה - Candi Feinberg .Maccabeats on December 27-28 לייב בן שרה - Lloyd Greenberg Friday evening: SOLICITING PRIZES FOR שלמה מאיר בן חסיה - Stuart Kilstein Menorah Lighting and Kabbalat Shabbat AHAVAS ACHIM CASINO NIGHT ביילה בת חסי - Barbara Kritz Musical Dinner (by reservation only) Ahavas Achim is still in need of prizes אהרון יעקב בן פייגה - Jack Moskowitz Dessert and Musical Oneg Shabbat at 7:30 for the Monte Carlo Casino Night on אופירה חיה בת רבקה צביה - Anny Safier p.m. Motzei Shabbat, December 7! If you יוסף חיים בן בעשה - Yussie Weiss know the right people—or are the right :Shabbat Day אברהם יוסף בן פריידע - Alan White people—who can donate exciting If you would to submit a name to the Shacharit & Musaf beginning at 8:45 a.m. prizes (local establishment gift cards; cholim list, please contact the Shul Celebratory Kiddush following Services event tickets; gift baskets; etc), please office: [email protected] or Musical Seudat Shelishit email Dovid Becker at call 732-247-0532. Musical Havdalah [email protected]. Dinner Cost: (Priority Reservations for AA AAU PRESENTS RABBI DAVID Full and Associate Members until LEARNING SEUDAH SHLISHIT BASHEVKIN: NOVEMBER 15-16 November 22) AAU proudly presents our new All are invited to Ahavas Achim $30 per person "semester" of Learning Seudah University's first Shabbaton of the 5780 $150 maximum cost for immediate families Shlishit beginning this Shabbat! We season featuring Rabbi David Bashevkin, of Full and Associate Members of Ahavas encourage strong attendance at this Director of Education for NCSY. The Achim phenomenal learning opportunity at the scholar-in-residence is sponsored by the end of Shabbat day. Please select from For dinner information, contact Susan Korbman Family in memory of Jack our Seudah Shlishit buffet station, and Frank at [email protected]. For Korbman z"l. The schedule will be: select one of the following three information about sponsorship packages, learning groups for an uplifting Friday Night, November 15: please contact Elliot Frank at experience: 8:00 p.m. Lecture followed by Oneg [email protected]. Shabbat: BT, FFB, OTD: Entrance and NACH: Sefer Tehillim: A Literary Please mail your reservations including: Exit Ramps of Religious Life Approach with Prof. AJ Berkovitz names of all adult and child attendees, any Shabbat Day, November 16: (This shiur will not meet this Shabbat, special requests such as vegetarian meals November 9.) Lecture after Mussaf, Main Sanctuary: etc. and your full payment to: Coca Cola & Apple: Case Studies in Congregation Ahavas Achim, 216 South PARSHA: Neilat HaShabbat: One Religious Communal Development First Ave, Highland Park, NJ 08904. Final Look at This Morning's Parsha with Gil Dersovitz Lecture at Seudah Shlishit: The HALACHA: Parenting Without Wholeness of the Broken Luchot: An AHAVAS ACHIM MONTE CARLO Marriage: Contemporary Poskim on Introduction to the Thought of Rav Tzadok CASINO NIGHT of Lublin Using Technology to Become a Single Do you remember how much fun Bingo Parent with Rabbi Steven Miodownik Rabbi David Bashevkin is the director of Night was last year? Well we decided to (alternating with) education for NCSY, the youth movement take it up a notch! Congregation Ahavas The Coffee Drinker's Guide to of the Orthodox Union, and an instructor at Achim is proud to present the return of Shabbat Observance with Rabbi Yeshiva University, where he teaches Monte Carlo Casino Night on Motzei Shmuel Lesher courses on public policy, religious crisis, Shabbat, December 7! and rabbinic thought. He completed rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University’s Unlike casino nights of the past, we've WEEKLY SHIURIM 5780 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological decided to put our own updated take on the Seminary, as well as a Master's degree at classic. Monte Carlo Night will be a formal The most powerful expression of thirst the Bernard Revel Graduate School of affair, so dust off those tuxedos and iron for Torah knowledge is to make a daily Jewish Studies focusing on the thought of those ball gowns. You definitely want to or weekly commitment to learning. We Rabbi of Lublin under the guidance dress to impress! While dressed to the look forward to your participation in of Dr. Yaakov Elman. He is currently nines, you can expect authentic "Las Vegas one or all of the following learning pursuing a doctorate in Public Policy and Quality" gaming which will lead to a opportunities. 2 Management at The New School’s Milano Chinese Auction with amazing prizes! If (Continued on page 3) (Shiurim, continued from page 2) Leskowitz, Drs. Periel and Michal Shapiro YAHRZEITS MONDAYS, 8:00 p.m. PRACTICAL Dean ($360): Includes reservations for 2 at 11/9 Dr. Dorothy Father HALACHA with Rabbi Steven the Friday night Musical Seudah with The Breitbart Miodownik: We will journey through the Maccabeats on Shabbat Chanukah, Dr. John Winer Father world of halacha with an eye toward the December 27: Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan 11/11 Eli Levenstein Mother practical laws that guide us. This year's Caplan, Mr. and Mrs. Barry Katz, Mr. and 11/13 Rena Blau Mother theme will be The Laws of Prayer. Mrs. Eli Levenstein, Rabbi Steven and Mrs. 11/15 Naomi Caplan Father Sponsored in memory of Joel Cohen z"l Gila Miodownik, Mr. and Mrs. Giyora policy protects all individuals, who in MONDAYS, 8:30 p.m. ADVANCED Simantov, Dr. Michael and Mrs. Marsha good faith report an episode of with Rabbi Steven Wasserman suspected abuse to the SCR or the Miodownik: Through this iyun shiur and Department Chair ($250): Ms. Arlyne CSC, from any form of retaliation. chavruta-learning, we will advance Lookstein If you have any questions regarding the steadily through the first perek of Professor ($100): Dr. Yinon and Mrs. committee or the policy, contact the Kiddushin supplemented by a selection of Sheri Degani, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Congregant Safety Committee at and Achronim. Klaver, Ms. Chaye Kohl, Mr. and Mrs. [email protected]. You TUESDAYS, 8:30 p.m. CUSTOM IN Edward Lowinger, Mr. and Mrs. Alan may also email Simi Lichtman, Chair of JEWISH LAW with Dr. Elisha Russ- Silver, Dr. Mark and Mrs. Rachel Stein, the CSC, at [email protected]. Fishbane: This weekly course will Drs. James Weinberger and Miriam Oles examine the critical role of minhag in the BLOOD DRIVE history of halacha. ISRAEL MISSION 2020 Just as your calendar begins to free up, WEDNESDAYS, 1:15 p.m. Women's here come Thanksgiving, Chanukah, and Shiur THE WEEKLY HAFTARAH Ahavas Achim invites you to join the yes, another blood drive. Next Sunday, with Rabbi Steven Miodownik: Prepare Fineberg, Goldberg, R. Kelin, Kohl, November 17, we will be holding our next for the upcoming Shabbat's Haftarah with Meiner and Simantov families on our 18th Community Blood Drive from 9:00 a.m. this textual and conceptual analysis. annual Israel Mission from January 15- 27, 2020. This will be our last January to 3:00 p.m. at Ahavas Achim. Donors Mission! The mission will include can be as young as 16 (with parental INVEST IN AHAVAS ACHIM roundtrip nonstop flights on El Al Israel permission and meeting weight UNIVERSITY Airlines from Newark, 8 nights at the requirements). For further information, We ask for your generous support to make Leonardo Plaza Hotel, 2 nights at the please contact Ira Rosen at 732-318-0798 the programs detailed in our AAU 5780 Carlton Hotel in Tel Aviv, 3 day touring or [email protected]. Catalog a reality. We truly appreciate your excursion with experienced guides, full participation in all of our classes and Israeli breakfast daily, two dinners in Tel lectures, as well as your donations which Aviv, Friday night and Shabbat lunch on enable us to offer Ahavas Achim both Shabbatot, tips, transfers, and University to the shul and community. handling. Please consider these sponsorship The cost per person (based on double categories below: occupancy) is $3491. Registration is now Chancellor ($2000 or more): Includes open. Sign up at arieltours.com/ reservations for a full table at the Friday aamission. Questions can be directed to: night Musical Seudah with The [email protected]. Maccabeats on Shabbat Chanukah, December 27: Mrs. Janis Cohen, Dr. SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION AND Elliot and Mrs. Susan Frank, Mr. and RESPONSE POLICY Mrs. David Goldberg, Abraham and Bessie Hann Charitable Foundation, Mr. Congregation Ahavas Achim is deeply and Mrs. Jeffrey Korbman, Mrs. Rachel committed to safeguarding the members of Lefkovits, Dr. Barry and Mrs. Marcia our shul community. In order to ensure a Levinson, Mr. Kenneth and Dr. Barbara positive and secure environment for our Strassman congregants and guests, a Sexual Abuse President ($1000): Includes reservations Prevention and Response Policy is now in for 6 at the Friday night Musical Seudah effect. For the next few weeks, highlights with The Maccabeats on Shabbat from this policy appear below. Chanukah, December 27: Mr. and Mrs.  All reports made to the Congregant Jeremy Renna Safety Committee will be treated as Torah Builder ($613): Includes confidential in accordance with New reservations for 4 at the Friday night Jersey regulations, protecting the Musical Seudah with The Maccabeats on confidentiality of the information and Shabbat Chanukah, December 27: Mr. individuals involved. Information will and Mrs. Andrew Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. be shared among the members of the Avi Freidenreich, Mr. and Mrs. Barry CSC and if necessary with appropriate 3 New Jersey personnel. Further, this Please patronize our sponsors! ETZ CHAIM David Silber COMMUNITY NEWS The Congregation notes the following new Shabbat 50 minutes before Mincha Daf In Yomi with Judah Abraham NAALEH HIGH SCHOOL FOR" :עץ חיים leaf which recently grew on our memory of our dear friend, Rita Broder z"l, Motzei Shabbat Navi with Rabbi Yisroel GIRLS OPEN HOUSE THIS MOTZEI from: Irene Balsam, Sandra Frankel, Cynthia Reisman on the TCN (November 9- SHABBAT & Lloyd Greenberg, Marcie & Bernie Leff, January 25 7:30 p.m.; No charge; Please join Naaleh High School for Ruth & Irwin Levine, Barbara & Lawrence donations welcome!) Pargot, Jane Stein." Girls, 475 Grove Street, Ridgewood, NJ, this Motzei Shabbat, November 9, continue to for their Open House, and find out more עץ חיים If you'd like to help our blossom with new leaves, please call Hava SISTERHOOD NEWS information about this dynamic, new high Freidenreich at 732-777-2015 with your school. Registration opens at 7:45 p.m. event or email the wording שמחה life-cycle KIDDUSH REMINDER To register and for more information, for the leaf to [email protected]. please visit: www.naalehhighschool.org/ Each leaf is $250, and $1000 will pay for a The Kiddush committee for this Shabbat admissions. stone. All leaves and stones include is: Kranzler, Kurtz and Kornblum. The Kiddush committee for Shabbat, personalized commemorative certificates MTA OPEN HOUSE THIS SUNDAY sent to the honorees. November 16 is: Leskowitz, Levenstein and Levi. The Kiddush committee for Join Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MTA) at their Open House SHUL P.O. BOX CLOSED Shabbat, November 23 is: Levin, Levinson and Lewitter. The Kiddush this Sunday, November 10 at 9:30 a.m. Please note that Ahavas Achim will no committee for Shabbat, November 30 is: For more information and to register, longer be using our P.O. Box 4242 for mail. Lichtman, Mandelbaum and Mann. contact Rabbi Yoni Stone at Please address all correspondence to 216 S. [email protected] or call 646-994-0441. 1st Ave. effective immediately. Important: BOOK CLUB If you have checks coming to shul directly YESHIVAT FRISCH OPEN HOUSE The next AA Sisterhood Book Club from your bank, please be sure to change THIS SUNDAY our address with the bank as well. In meeting will take place on Tuesday, addition, all shul correspondence may be December 10 at 8:30 p.m. at the home of The Frisch School, 120 W Century Rd, placed in the mailbox outside the rear door Shoshy Akman, 45 North 8th Avenue, Paramus, invites all 8th graders and their of the shul or indoors in the mailbox next to Highland Park. The book we will be parents to their Open House this the office door. discussing is The Only Women in the Sunday, November 10 at 9:00 a.m. Room by Marie Benedict. We hope you Come and experience the innovative AAU SHIURIM can join us! formal and informal educational opportunities provided to our students Monday-Thursday after 9:30 p.m. Maariv that foster their individualized intellectual Chug Mishnayot and religious growth. Kindly register at: Monday 8:00 p.m. Practical Halacha: The YOUTH NEWS Frisch.org/openhouse. Laws of Prayer with Rabbi Steven Miodownik TEEN MINYAN KIDDUSH JEC BOYS HIGH SCHOOL OPEN Monday 8:30 p.m. Advanced Talmud: SPONSORSHIP HOUSE Kiddushin with Rabbi Steven Miodownik Teen Minyan Kiddush is co-sponsored by Please join the JEC Boys High School Tuesday 8:30 a.m. Torah Gems with Rabbi Seth and Mindy Berman in celebration for their Open House this Tuesday, Moshe Goldberger (Breakfast served! For of Gavi’s Bar Mitzvah anniversary; and November 12. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. men only) by Tzippy Newman l'illuy nishmat Program begins at 7:15 p.m. Please pre- Tuesday 8:30 p.m. Custom in Jewish Law Chana Tziporah bat Nachum Yehuda register at: jechs.org/openhouse. For with Dr. Elisha Russ-Fishbane HaCohen z"l on her second yahrzeit. more information, call 908-355-4850 ext. Wednesday 1:15 p.m. The Weekly Haftarah If you'd like to sponsor Teen Kiddush in 6255 or email [email protected]. with Rabbi Steven Miodownik (For women the future, please email Kivi Neuman at: only) [email protected]. TABC OPEN HOUSE Thursday 9:30 a.m. Gemara Brachot with Torah Academy of Bergen County Rabbi Eli Reisman (For men only) SHABBAT GROUPS BIRTHDAY (TABC), 1600 Queen Anne Road, Thursday 10:30 a.m. The Weekly Haftarah PARTY SPONSORSHIP Teaneck, cordially invites all prospective with Rabbi Steven Miodownik (For men Celebrating your child's birthday? parents and students to their Open House only) Sponsor a birthday party for your child's next Sunday, November 17 at 9:00 a.m. Thursday 9:00 p.m. Parshat Hashavua with Shabbat morning group: includes birthday Join them and explore all that TABC has Rabbi Yissocher Frand on the TCN (No game, birthday hats, and special snacks. to offer from their uniquely nurturing charge; donations welcome!) Sponsorships start at $25. For more Torah environment, rigorous academics, Shabbat 9:30 a.m. (after 7:00 a.m. information, contact Chani Neuman at and the meaningful experiences that are Shacharit) Im La'et KaZot—Biblical [email protected]! fostered inside and outside the classroom. 4 Reflections in the Book of Esther by Rabbi RAE KUSHNER YESHIVA HIGH LEFKOVITS FAMILY PARK MIKVAH ANNUAL MTJ MELAVE MALKA SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE HOURS THIS MOTZEI SHABBAT Join Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School  Sunday-Thursday: 8:00–10:30 p.m. The Annual Melave Malka Reception for their Open House next Motzei  Motzei Shabbat: November 9, 16, 23, of Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem will be Shabbat, November 16. Experience 30: 7:30-10:00 p.m. held this Motzei Shabbat, November 9 RKYHS during an inspirational evening, at 8:00 p.m. at Ohav Emeth. Harav as they highlight the vast opportunities for  Friday nights by appointment only: Reuven Feinstein will address the students, demonstrate their values, and Appointments should be made by reception. The Guest of Honor is Joseph define their difference. Come see the emailing [email protected], online Friedman. For reservations, please call dynamic and innovative academic and at: www.parkmikvah.org or by calling Shimon Jakubovic at 732-246-1037. Judaic programs, first-rate educational 732-221-8155. initiatives and co-curricular opportunities.  Please be reminded that out of hours RPRY OPEN HOUSE Registration begins at 7:30 p.m. followed appointments incur an additional $20 by the program at 8:00 p.m. Register at: fee. During the winter months the out of RPRY's annual Open House for www.rkyhs.org/RKYHSOpenHouse. hours fee is waived for appointments prospective families will be held on For more information, please contact occurring between nightfall and opening Tuesday, November 19 from 7:30-9:00 Allison Lyons at [email protected] or time. For all comments and questions, p.m. Are you a prospective family who 862-437-8050. please email [email protected]. would like to learn more about the school? Are you a community member who knows someone that would benefit OPEN HOUSE LEFKOVITS FAMILY PARK MIKVAH from RPRY's Open House? Introduce ANNUAL WOMEN’S MELAVE MALKA Please join Bruriah High School, 35 them! RSVPs can be made online at: North Avenue, Elizabeth, at their Open Save the date: the Lefkovits Family Park https://tinyurl.com/y324z3xn. For more House next Sunday, November 17 at Mikvah Annual Women’s Melave Malka information, contact Shoshana Madsen, 9:30 a.m. Come and see why Bruriah is will be held on January 4. The featured Director of Admissions, at 732-572-5052 such a special place. They look forward to speaker will be Sivan Rachav Meir, a ext. 204 or [email protected]. greeting you personally! To register, visit: popular Israeli news anchor and journalist https://bruriah.org/bruriah-admissions/ who gives a weekly Torah Shiur to 1000 JEWISH FEDERATION'S WINTER openhouse-bruriah. people in Israel. Please visit: https:// SUPER SUNDAY www.sivanrahavmeir.com/home-en to November 24 is Jewish Federation's S.O.S. MISHMAR RETURNS TO learn more about her. Winter Super Sunday fundraising RPRY THIS MOTZEI SHABBAT telethon, and they need you to help them SPEED DATING EVENT Save Our Saturday Nights Mishmar, a make calls. Did you know Super Sunday parent-child learning program in a true Shnainu Edison Highland Park Shidduch callers help bring in the critical funds to Beit Midrash setting, will resume this Group presents a Speed Dating event on make this Jewish community safer, Motzei Shabbat, November 9, from Motzei Shabbat, November 23 at 8:00 p.m. sweeter, more supportive and sustainable 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the RPRY Beit at Ohav Emeth. Jewish Orthodox singles for thousands of people of all ages? What Midrash. It is open to all grades! All you between the ages of 23 and 50 are invited to better way to warm up the coming winter need to bring is your sefarim, your join them for a fun-filled evening. for yourself and countless people in need. chevruta and yourself! Enjoy pizza, Participants will be divided into groups Please sign up for a shift, or you can refreshments and raffle prizes! To sponsor according to age. Kindly respond by email to choose to become a phone sponsor, to an SOS Mishmar, contact Rabbi Einzig at [email protected] no later than strengthen this Jewish community. Please 732-572-5052 ext. 203. this Wednesday, November 13, and please register at https://tinyurl.com/ attach a Shidduch resume or personal y3vamdt9, and thank you! NEW ACTT EVENT information. Limited spots available and advanced registration with $20 payment is TIFERES Come hear Rabbi Doniel Staum, noted required. A light dinner will be served. author, speaker, Heichal HaTorah Rebbe, The next DVD for women will be shown Yeshiva Ohr Naftoli Principal, speak next Motzei Shabbat, November 16 at RABBI REISMAN SPEAKS ON THE about “Kiddush Hashem: The Kiddush 8:30 p.m. at the Siegel house. Weekly KASHRUT OF MILK that Never Ends” at the ACTT teleconferences with topics such as (Achieving Change through Torah) Rabbi Reisman will present a 2-part series shalom bayit and parenting are available Kiddush Hashem 2 kickoff event, on for men and women on the kashrut of milk. to Tiferes members. The current Sunday, November 24 at 8:00 p.m. at He will speak this Friday, November 8 at teleconference is: “Teshuva—Real Ahavas Achim. Source book: Artscroll’s 8:30 p.m., and on Friday night, November Change in Real Time” with Chani A Life Worth Living—Stories and Ideas 22 at 8:30 p.m. at Khal Chassidim. Topics Juravel. For more information or to for Constant Kiddush Hashem by Rabbi include: cow sugar controversy, the Indian become a member, contact Aviva at Shraga Freedman, available at event and micro-farm investigation, cheese butter and [email protected]. The Highland at Judaica Gallery. Free admission. milk powder, and halachic considerations of Park/Edison group of Tiferes is zecher Donations encouraged. For more modern dairy production. For more l'nishmat Malka bat Shalom. information, email [email protected] or information, call Marsha Eiserman at 347- call Phil Rosen at 732-572-8762. 203- 7906. 5 YAHRZEIT OF RACHEL IMEINU COMMUNITY FORUM ON YOUTH BIAS AHAVAS ACHIM VIDEO THIS MOTZEI SHABBAT The Interagency Task Force to Combat Youth Rabbi Women’s Learning Initiative presents the 17th Bias is hosting a community listening session to Steven Miodownik annual worldwide Yahrzeit Rachel Imeinu hear from members of the public this Wednesday, Rabbi Emeritus Video, "Your Inner Spark: Finding the November 13 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at Chabad Ronald L. Schwarzberg True You” to be shown at the home of Zev House, 170 College Avenue, New Brunswick. If and Rachelle Stern, 27 Brookdale Ct., you or your child has been impacted by bias, Honorary Presidents Alexander Bernstein, z"l Highland Park, this Motzei Shabbat, intolerance or prejudice, they want to hear from Isadore Sapiro, z"l November 9 at 8:00 p.m. The video includes you. If you do not want to speak at the listening Albert Sapiro, z"l an introduction by HaRav Shmuel session, but would still like to share your story or Nathan Segal, z"l Kamenetsky, words of inspiration from Rabbi your recommendations, you can submit written President Moshe Weinberger, Rabbi Paysach Krohn, comments until Sunday, December 15 by emailing Josh Ostrin Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro and Rebbitzen [email protected] or online at: Tehila Jaeger, and is for women and girls NJCivilRights.gov. Vice Presidents only. Raffles for a chance to win a trip to Dovid Becker: Fundraising Eretz Yisrael will be sold at the event. Yossi Benedek: Ritual FRIENDSGIVING SHABBAT IN MEMORY Renee Dublon: Treasurer Donations are requested. All proceeds go to OF JOEL ADLER Z"L Meir Flancbaum: House Aniyei Eretz Yisroel. Please email Harry Glazer: Membership [email protected] for more Congregation Ohr Torah invites the entire Robert Haarburger: information. community to FRIENDSGIVING with Animator/ Fundraising Director Saul Blinkoff on Shabbat, Parshat Debra Levenstein: Secretary Toldot, November 29-30. The Shabbaton is in Eli Weiss: Finance LUNCH AND LEARN PRESENTS commemoration of the 5th yahrzeit of Ohr Torah's QUEST FOR THE LOST TRIBES Immediate Past President beloved Gabbai Joel Adler, Yosef Yitzchak ben Jeremy Renna The next Retirees Lunch and Learn will be Zev HaLevi z"l. Sponsorships welcome! Gabbaim held this Tuesday, November 12 at 12:00 5:30 p.m.: Friday Night Seudah: (by RSVP: $72 Yossi Benedek p.m. at Ohr Torah. The mystery of the lost per couple; $100 per family; $18 college/young Seth Berman tribes of Israel reverberates through three Jonathan Caplan professionals; please register at ohrtorah.net) millennia of human experience. Of the twelve Michael Kornfeld tribes mentioned in the Bible, only those of 7:00 p.m.: "My Disney Tale" (ages 8-120!) Barry Leskowitz Barry Levinson Judah and Benjamin survived the Assyrian 8:00 p.m.: Dessert and Oneg David Simen capture of Israel. This is the story of the search Shabbat Day after Mussaf (approx. 11:00 David Stern for those remaining few. An introduction to a.m.):"I Just Can't Wait to be King" (ages 12- Steven White the video will be given by Dr. Michael 120!) Honorary Gabbai Wasserman. The program will include a light Motzei Shabbat at 7:00 p.m.: Animation Bernard Israel lunch followed by the video and discussion. Workshop! Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; $10 per Please bring a friend. Cost: $12 per person. Board of Directors person: Learn the tools and methods that the Please RSVP no later than this Friday, Maggie Brooks WALT DISNEY STUDIOS has been using for November 8 to Marcia at 732-572-5998 or Andrew Cohen over 60 years to draw your favorite Disney Sarah Grunstein [email protected], Bella at 732-317- characters! Susan Hornstein 1786 or [email protected] or Herb Klaver Mildred at 732-572-1712. Saul Blinkoff is a Hollywood filmmaker who has Elana Kurtz worked for many high profile clients including; Jeremy Lichtman DISNEY, DREAMWORKS, & NETFLIX. He Eitan Pludwinski REBBITZEN EICHENSTEIN Avital Rosenberg started his career animating on the hit DISNEY Marc Scheiner Tefillah class will not be held this Sunday, films Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Sherry Simantov November 10. Parsha class will be held this Mulan and Tarzan and went on to direct Winnie the Ari Sofair-Fisch Monday, November 11 at 8:00 p.m. at Ohr Pooh, Kronk's New Groove, Tinkerbell, and the hit Hank Strub DISNEY show Doc McStuffins. Saul is one of the Ze'ev Strupinsky Torah. For more information, contact Ricki at Laura Weiss 732-828-6939 or [email protected]. most sought out Jewish speakers in the world, Rhea Zucker giving inspiring and empowering talks where he incorporates his ability to maintain and balance a Sisterhood President RPRY TOBY MAYER MEMORIAL Elena Orgel SCHOLARSHIP BREAKFAST strong Jewish identity with a successful Hollywood directing career. Saul is currently a Supervising Youth Directors Save the date: The Rabbi Pesach Raymon Producer at DREAMWORKS ANIMATION and Akiva & Chani Neuman Yeshiva Annual Toby Mayer Memorial lives in Los Angeles with his wife and four Scholarship Breakfast will be held on children. 216 South First Avenue Sunday, December 15 at 9:30 a.m. They will Highland Park, NJ 08904 phone: (732) 247-0532 present the Educator Excellence Award to fax: (732) 247-6739 Morah Helene Lockspeiser. For more www.ahavasachim.org information, email [email protected].

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