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AHAVASAHAVAS ACHIMACHIM NEWSLETNEWSLETTERTER כ"ו תשרי תשפ"ב בראשית/מברכים OCTOBER 1, 2021 SCHEDULE OF SERVICES SYNAGOGUE NEWS Betzalel Posy: Practical Implications of Shemittah 22 :Rabbi Jed Zaslow: Siddur Sprinters מזל טוב Friday Exploring the Top Ten Tefillot We Speed Candlelighting..................... 6:20 p.m. Mazel Tov to Drs. Gary and Dorothy Through Mincha/Maariv .................... 6:25 p.m. Breitbart on the birth of a granddaughter, Mazel Tov to the alternating with .חוה ירדן /Eva Jordyn parents, Steven and Dr. Ariel Heller. Rabbi Miodownik: The Power of Music שבת Shacharit ..................7:30 & 9:00 a.m. in the Jewish Experience Pre-Group babysitting..........9:30 a.m. UPGRADED MEMBERSHIP Teen Minyan.........................9:30 a.m. WOMEN'S SHABBAT AFTERNOON Youth Groups ....................10:00 a.m. Thank you to Rabbi Dr. Joshua and Dr. LECTURE SERIES Rebecca Cypess for upgrading membership Kiddush is sponsored by the Sisterhood. from Associate to Full Members. We look Next Shabbat, October 9 at 5:00 p.m., we forward to their increased participation and proudly present the return of the Women's Daf Yomi ............................. 5:25 p.m. support. Shabbat Afternoon Lecture Series. This Mincha ................................ 6:15 p.m. program will feature many local speakers to enlighten and enrich your month. The Seudah Shlishit.................... 6:35 p.m. RABBI REISMAN SHIUR RESUMES Maariv.................................. 7:23 p.m. kickoff lecture will be given by Merri Motzei Shabbat ................... 7:27 p.m. Rabbi Yisroel Reisman's weekly Motzei Ukraincik on the topic: Embracing the Shabbat Navi Shiur via the Torah Silence of Cheshvan, at the home of Conferencing Network will begin this Rabbi and Gila Miodownik, 248 נח Sunday Shacharit .....8:00 & 9:00 a.m. Motzei Shabbat, October 2 (Time: 9:00 Lawrence Ave. All women and teen girls Monday & Thursday Shacharit ........... p.m. through October). Please join us in the are invited to join. For more information, ..........................6:25 & 7:45 a.m. Ahavas Achim Beit Midrash for this please contact program co-chairs Samara Tuesday & Friday Shacharit ............... popular live broadcast. Admission is free; (Continued on page 2) ..........................6:35 & 7:45 a.m. donations are welcome to help defray the cost of bringing TCN to the community. ראש חודש חשון Wednesday & Thursday Shacharit ...... ..........................6:15 & 7:45 a.m. LEARNING SEUDAH SHLISHIT RETURNS! Sunday-Thursday Mincha/Maariv ....... Next Shabbat afternoon between Mincha and ..................................... 6:15 p.m. Maariv we are excited for the return of Monday-Thursday Late Maariv............ Learning Seudah Shlishit. There will be a ..................................... 9:30 p.m. food buffet in the center of the Downstairs Friday Candlelighting.......... 6:09 p.m. Friday Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv Social Hall and three choices of learning ..................................... 6:15 p.m. groups to join each week. You are welcome to sample them all over the next three months! Yossi Benedek: Learning from the Midrash on the Parsha ברוך הבא Ahavas Achim would like to warmly welcome all newcomers, visitors and guests who are joining us for Shabbat. If President Josh Ostrin or Rabbi Steven Miodownik don’t get a chance to greet you personally, please come up and introduce yourself. We’d like to meet you! Please patronize our sponsors! MATAN BAT MITZVAH PROGRAM רפואה שלמה Congregation Ahavas Achim invites 6th in and 7th grade girls and their mothers to חולים Please include the following participate in a very special learning .תפילות your !opportunity during their Bat Mitzvah year יוסף דניאל בן פייגי It is difficult in our busy world for mothers חנה בת נחה - Candi Feinberg and daughters to find the time to study together, but the Matan Bat Mitzvah גילה בת גולדה - Kay Silverman Program is a wonderful way to foster your יוסף חיים בן באשא - Yussie Weiss Simcha Zinberg relationship and grow together in preparation for this important transition in Please note: the cholim list has been your life. refreshed and all names have been removed. If you would like to submit a Why a mother-daughter program? Learning name for the cholim list, please call together in preparation for the Bat Mitzvah the Shul office: 732-247-0532 or helps Jewish girls and their mothers to email: [email protected]. connect with Jewish sources in fresh and creative ways; open new channels of communication; and share the excitement (Women's Lecture Series, continued from page 1) of discovering their own place in the chain Moritz: [email protected] or of Jewish continuity. Michal Shapiro: [email protected]. The Matan Bat Mitzvah Program is popular AHAVAS ACHIM MEN'S RETIREES all over the world, and thousands of KOLLEL RESUMES mothers and daughters have enjoyed the learning, which is themed “Jewish Women We are proud to announce the resumption Through the Ages.” The program focuses of the Ahavas Achim Men's Retirees on Jewish role models, from the Imahot Kollel. The Kollel will take place IN through modern-day heroines. At each PERSON in the Beit Midrash beginning meeting, the learning session is Tuesday, October 12. The schedule will accompanied by an experiential activity be: such as music, theater, art, and guided Tuesdays at 8:30 a.m. Rabbi Moshe imagery. Each girl is encouraged to prepare Goldberger: Parsha Gems a special project for her Bat Mitzvah on the subject, “Aishet Chayil,” selecting a Thursdays at 8:30 a.m. Rabbi woman from Tanakh or history, a family Miodownik: Gemara Masechet Chulin: member or any other inspiring woman. Milk, Meat and Parve. The Matan Program will be facilitated by WEEKLY WOMEN'S SHIUR: FROM Gila Miodownik. It will meet in the PROPHETS TO RABBIS—THE Ahavas Achim Social Hall on the BOOKS OF EZRA AND NECHEMIA following Tuesdays from 7:00-9:00 p.m.: October 26 All women are invited to Rabbi Miodownik's weekly afternoon shiur, November 2, 9, 16, 23 which will take place on Thursdays at December 7, 14, 21, 28 1:00 p.m. in the Beit Midrash, beginning January 4 on October 14. In this class, we will explore the lesser-known books of Ezra Registration for this program is $100 per and Nechemia from both a textual and mother/daughter team to cover the cost of historical perspective, revisiting the supplies and materials. Scholarships are complex issues of the Jewish return from available. Registration deadline is exile and building of the Second Beit Monday, October 18 and a minimum of 5 Hamikdash, many of which resonate today. mother/daughter pairs is required in order We will also explore the prophecies of the to run this program. last Neviim (who were contemporaries of For more information, please contact Gila Ezra and Nechemia): Chagai, Zechariah, at [email protected] or 732-565- and Malachi. 0744. To register for the program, please send a check to Ahavas Achim with “Matan Bat Mitzvah Program” in the memo. Please patronize our sponsors! 2 AAU SHIURIM AHAVAS ACHIM UPDATED COVID YAHRZEITS POLICY TUESDAY 10/2 Shoshana Diskind Sister 8:30 a.m. Men's Retirees Kollel Parsha All congregants must wear face Lawrence Fineberg Father Cynthia Greenberg Father Gems with Rabbi Moshe Goldberger coverings on Shabbat (and Yom Tov) Elena Orgel Father (begins October 12) in shul, even if they are vaccinated. The face covering may either be a face Gerald Silverstein Father THURSDAY 10/3 Rabbi Milton Kula Father mask or a plastic face shield. 10/4 Michael Beberman Mother 8:30 a.m. Men's Retirees Kollel Gemara Vaccinated adults do not have to wear Edward Epstein Father Masechet Chulin with Rabbi Miodownik face coverings for weekday davening Jeffrey Korbman Father (begins October 14) (Sunday-Friday morning), where there 10/6 Michael Kornblum Mother 1:00 p.m. Women's Shiur: Ezra and is more room to spread out and 10/7 Cheryl Kornfeld Mother Nechemia with Rabbi Miodownik (begins congregants should separate in the Steve Salit Wife Jerry Salit Mother October 14) Main Sanctuary as much as possible. 10/8 Annette Klaver Father 9:00 p.m. Parshat Hashavua with Rabbi Any vaccinated adult who has any Rabbi Ronald & Judy Son Yissocher Frand on the TCN (No charge; health factor that increases risk must Schwarzberg donations welcome!) wear a mask at all times. free between family units is desirable MOTZEI SHABBAT Shabbat kiddush will be held outdoors, when possible. Vaccinated individuals are requested to try and maintain Navi with Rabbi Yisroel Reisman on the weather permitting. If kiddush is social distancing when approaching TCN (9:00 p.m. through October; No indoors, face coverings may be unvaccinated individuals. charge; donations welcome!) removed only for active eating and drinking. Definitions: Close contact with an individual who tested positive or MEALTRAIN If you have any COVID-19 symptoms, including fever, chills, cough, or suspected of having COVID-19 is Ahavas Achim is cooking for Kay and shortness of breath, you may not come defined by these conditions: being Eric Silverman starting on October 8 as to Ahavas Achim (“AA”), as long as within six feet of the individual for Kay is having surgery on her knee. We are the symptoms persist, whether more than 15 minutes over a 24-hour cooking for 2 adults. Delivery is to River vaccinated or not. 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