AHAVASAHAVAS ACHIMACHIM NEWSLETNEWSLETTERTER כ"ב שבט תשע"ז יתרו FEBRUARY 17, 2017 SCHEDULE OF SERVICES SYNAGOGUE NEWS different cholents. Tasters will vote for their favorite by "-friendly" ballot. Winner will determined by popular המקום ינחם שבת Candlelighting...... 5:17 p.m. vote and a prize will be awarded! Thank Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv...... The Congregation extends its condolences to you to Giyora and Sherry Simantov for ...... 5:25 p.m. Malka Grinkorn and Miriam Franklin on generously donating the crock pots for this the loss of husband/afther, Howard Cook-off. The funeral will take place . ז"ל Shacharit ...... 7:00 & 8:45 a.m. Franklin Our 2017 cholent contestants are: Seth Latest Shema...... 9:32 a.m. this Sunday, February 19 at 11:00 a.m. at Berman, Maggie Brooks, Lawrence Youth Minyan ...... 9:30 a.m. Goldstein Chapels in Edison followed by Margolin, Simi Lichtman, Ostrin Family, Youth Groups ...... 10:00 a.m. burial in Shalom Cemetery in New Baby Group...... 10:30 a.m. Brunswick. Shiva will be observed Sunday (Continued on page 2) afternoon through Friday afternoon at 236 Please join us in the Upstairs Social S. 3rd Ave. Hall for and our annual Youth Department Cholent Cook-off. Condolences also to the family of Mrs. Shiva is being observed . ז "ל Nessie Kluger Daf Yomi (Bava Batra 27) .... 4:25 p.m. in Israel through Monday morning at the Mincha...... 5:15 p.m. Inbal Hotel, Room 886, 3 Jabotinsky Street, Learning ..... 5:35 p.m. Jerusalem, 92145. You may use the Sponsored by Jeremy and Tova following American telephone numbers to Renna in honor of the Board of call the family: 732-272-8114 or 732-272- Directors of Ahavas Achim. 8115. (Please keep in mind the 7 hour time difference.) Donations can be made to Shaare Maariv...... 6:24 p.m. Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem Israel. Motzei Shabbat ...... 6:28 p.m. Rabbi Reisman ...... 8:00 p.m. May they and their families be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. משפטים/שקלים Sunday Shacharit...... 8:00 & 9:00 a.m. AHAVAS ACHIM YOUTH Monday & Thursday Shacharit ...... DEPARTMENT PRESENTS THE 2017 ...... 6:25 & 7:45 a.m. CHOLENT COOK-OFF Tuesday Wednesday & Friday Shacharit ...... 6:35 & 7:45 a.m. Join our Cholent Cook-off! Contestants will Sunday-Thursday Mincha/Maariv...... be serving up all different types of delicious ...... 5:25 p.m. cholent for the community to taste and then Monday-Thursday late Maariv...... vote on for the 2017 Cholent of the Year! ...... 9:30 p.m. Cholents will be served at a special Kiddush Friday Candlelighting ...... 5:25 p.m. Friday Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/ after the Main Minyan THIS Shabbat, Maariv...... 5:30 p.m. February 18. Tasters will pay $5 per person, $25 per North Side Minyan February family maximum, to enjoy and taste all the Elliot and Susan Frank 20 Harrison St, Edison

AHAVAS ACHIM 128TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER Sunday, May 7, 2017 Guests of Honor Avi and Tobina Grin Young Leadership Award Avi and Hava Freidenreich Please note: This is paid advertising. Please note: These are all paid advertising. (Cholent, continued from page 1) AAU SHABBATON WITH RABBI needs to come together for a Shabbat of Netanel Renna and Rachel Weintraub. MICHAEL TAUBES inclusion and fun with fellow Yachad members, mainstream peers, community In conjunction with Yeshiva University's To taste/vote in the cholent cook-off, members, and Yachad staff. contact Miriam Tennenbaum at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological [email protected]. MAY THE Seminary, which will celebrate its Chag In addition to a lunch at Ahavas Achim BEST CHEF WIN! Hasemicha in March, Ahavas Achim that is open to the community, families University presents a Shabbat Experience from Highland Park and Edison are invited with RIETS Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Michael to host Yachad members in their homes רפואה שלמה Taubes next Shabbat, February 24-25. for Shabbat, as well as Friday night .to: dinner רפואה שלמה The Congregation extends a Friday Night, February 24, 8:30 p.m.: שולמית בת זהבה Shiur by Rabbi Taubes followed by Oneg If you are interested in hosting Yachad Shabbat: "Educating Our Children: How members over Shabbat, or for Friday night לאה בת רעיה Should We Measure Success?" dinner, please contact Jeremy Lichtman מרים בת צירל at [email protected]. :Shabbat, February 25 סלמה בת שרה תמר קרן בת נסה גולדה Shiur by Rabbi Taubes after Mussaf, Main Sanctuary: "Machatzit HaShekel and the OU COMMUNITY WEEKEND שמואל יעקב בן חיה דישל Price of Membership in Klal Yisrael" Ahavas Achim University and The צביה שושנה חיה בת מרים Pre-Mincha Shiur, 4:30 p.m. RIETS Department of Synagogue & Community שלומית דינה בת שינה רייזל :Musmach, Class of 2017, Rabbi Eliron Services of the Orthodox Union present קלמן בן רחל Levinson: "Megillat Esther Through the OU Community Weekend with Stephen יטקה שיינה בת מלכה Savitsky, former President & Chairman of "Vilna Gaon's Prism נעמה שירה בת רוחמה מדינה the Board of the Orthodox Union on ,Seudah Shlishit Shiur by Rabbi Taubes שמואל בן חנה - Stephen Adelson 6:00 p.m.: "Behind The Mask: The Inner Shabbat, March 17-18. שרה רוזה בת פשה - Susan Borger Meaning of Purim" Friday Night, March 17: Flora Cirillo Rabbi Michael Taubes teaches Yoreh Deah 6:55 p.m. Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/ גרשום בן שרה - Gary Danforth at RIETS. He has served as the Rosh Maariv ה ר ב ש מ ו א ל ב ן ר ב ק ה ֵבּ י י ל ה - Rabbi Richard Fagan Yeshiva and Head of School at MTA and 8:00 p.m. Seudah with a panel discussion the Head of School at the Mesivta of North moderated by Stephen Savitsky: "The חנה בת נחה - Candi Feinberg Jersey, in addition to teaching in YU’s Cost of Grandparenting in the 21st מיכאל בן אסתר - Michael Fradkine James Striar School of General Jewish Century Torah World." Panelists: Rabbi חוה רחל בת דבורה - Eva Grin ,Studies and the Isaac Breuer College of Ronald Schwarzberg, Abe Schwartzbard דבורה בת פסל - Dorothy Litt Hebraic Studies. Russell Adler, Jeff Korbman and Betzalel מרים בת סאסי ריזל - Myra Rosenbaum Posy. (Open to all grandparents by An alumnus of Yeshivat Har Etzion in אופירה חיה בת רבקה צביה - Anny Safier reservations only: $25 per person. Contact Israel, Rabbi Taubes attended Yeshiva משה בן שרה - Maurice Willer College, earned his semicha from RIETS, Rachel at the shul office: 732-247-0532 or where he studied in the shiur of Rav Joseph [email protected] ). AAU TUESDAY NIGHT LECTURE B. Soloveitchik, z”l, and holds a master’s Shabbat, March 18: SERIES degree in Jewish education from YU’s Lecture after Mussaf in Main Sanctuary: Ahavas Achim University presents a Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. "Stopping Assimilation One Phone Call special pre-Purim three-part learning Rabbi Taubes, along with his wife and their at a Time: The Amazing Story of opportunity featuring RIETS Rosh Yeshiva children, reside in Teaneck, where he Partners in Torah and the Orthodox Rabbi David Hirsch. On Tuesdays, serves as the Rabbi of Congregation Union" Zichron Mordechai, delivering regular February 21, 28 and March 7 at 8:30 5:45 pm: Pre-Mincha Lecture: "The shiurim and lectures both at the shul and at p.m., Rabbi Hirsch will explore three Future of the Torah Community in the Beis Medrash of Bergen County. different sugyot from Masechet Megillah America: Challenges and on the laws of Purim. This is an Rabbi Taubes is the author of The Practical Opportunities" opportunity to study for a sustained period Torah, a collection of articles on topics in 7:20 pm: Seudah Shlishit Discussion: with one of Yeshiva University's Roshei halacha based on the weekly parsha, as Yeshiva and deepen your understanding of "Shul Life in America: An Open Forum well as numerous essays on an array of with Stephen Savitsky" Purim. All are invited to join the learning! Torah subjects appearing in Jewish The topics of each shiur will be: publications. RUACH KABBALAT SHABBAT ON February 21: Mikra Megillah SHABBAT MEVARCHIM YACHAD'S IS BACK IN TOWN AND February 28: Mishloach Manot Please join us for the return of a Ruach- WE NEED YOU! March 7: Taanit Esther filled Kabbalat Shabbat with uplifting Rabbi David Hirsch, who lives with his On Shabbat, March 3-4, Ahavas Achim niggunim in the Beit Midrash on shabbat family in Passaic, is a popular and dynamic will be hosting our second annual Yachad Mevarchim, next Friday, February 24. teacher who holds the Eva, Morris, and Shabbaton. Yachad Shabbatonim are an All are welcome. Looking forward to opportunity for individuals with special seeing all of you promptly at 5:30 p.m. 2 Jack K. Rubin Memorial Chair in Rabbinics at RIETS. GLOBAL SEFER TORAH or hosting them for meals? To make YAHRZEITS arrangements, contact John Winer at Dear Members and Friends: 2/18 Irene Balsam Husband [email protected]. 2/19 Rahel Baruh Father I would like to invite you to join Ahavas 2/20 Eugenia Rothstein Mother Achim as we participate in a remarkable LEARNING SEUDAH SHLISHIT 2/22 Lori Resnick Mother project celebrating the 50th Anniversary 2/23 Stanley Presser Mother of a Reunited Jerusalem. This joint Ahavas Achim University is proud to 2/24 Anette Klaver Mother initiative of The Afikim Foundation and present Learning Seudah Shlishit. Each Myra Rosenbaum Sister Israel's Ministry for Diaspora Affairs, to Shabbat afternoon between Mincha and Barbara Stechel Father write a Global Unity Sefer Torah, Maariv we invite you to take some  Tuesday Night Lecture Series with requires chesed—not money—to become refreshments and settle in at one of the Rabbinic Intern Rabbi Daniel Reich a reality. following shiurim, and bring Shabbat out on the Laws of Yom Tov, May 9, 16, with a bang! Make in-depth a 23 Jews everywhere can inscribe letters in part of your Shabbat experience at one of  AAU Shavuot Scholar-in-Residence the Torah, NOT with money, but with these tables: simple acts of chesed, everyday May 30-31, June 1 kindnesses that positively impact the lives Hasidic Thoughts on the Parsha with Irv  North Side Lecture with Rabbi of others. To see more information about Mandelbaum: Each session, we will study Miodownik, June 17 this global unity initiative, please visit: and discuss a selection relating to the weekly Parsha from R. Levi Yitzchak of  Women's Shabbat Afternoon https://vimeo.com/195382006 to watch Lecture Series April 1, May 6, June Berdichev's Kedushat Levi (and possibly this one minute video! 24, July 15 other sources as well). 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Suggested donation is $10 per family. For more information and/or  Shabbat Afternoon Daf Yomi Shabbat 9:30 a.m. (after 7:00 a.m. Shacharit) Nefesh Ha-Chaim from Chaim sponsorship opportunities, contact Please demonstrate your support for adult of Volozhin Miriam at [email protected]. education by donating to AAU 5777! Shabbat 50 minutes before Mincha Daf Dedication categories (with donations PURIM AT AA received as of this printing) are: Yomi with Judah Abraham Join AA Youth for our 2017 Purim Professor: $100—Anonymous, Mr. Shlomo Motzei Shabbat Navi with Rabbi Yisroel Party Shenanigans! We are proud to Aronoff, Ms. Leora Bar-Lev, Mr. Justin and Reisman on the TCN (month of February, 8:00 p.m.; $5 per shiur) present a kids Magical Circus Show Dr. Susan Hornstein, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert during Megillah reading followed by a Klaver, Rabbi Milton and Mrs. Phyllis Kula, carnival complete with caricature artist, Ms. Arlyne Lookstein, Drs. Irving and Jenny spin art, face paint, photo booths, and Mandelbaum, Mr. Avi and Dr. Lauren Maza, SISTERHOOD NEWS more! Light refreshments will be served. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Orgel, Mr. Walter Sponsorships available. Rogers and Ms. Sally Klinger Rogers, Dr. DECOUPAGE DESSERT & WINE Alan and Mrs. Tobi Schilowitz, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Silver, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Strub, Ahavas Achim Sisterhood invites you to AHAVAS ACHIM YOUTH Dr. Miro and Mrs. Merri Ukraincik, Dr. join us to Learn the Art of Decoupage DEPARTMENT SICK POLICY Michael and Mrs. Marsha Wasserman, Mrs. next Monday, February 27 at 7:30 p.m. Children who are ill cannot attend Evelyn Weitzer, Mrs. Magda Winter Donation: $18. For more information and Shabbat morning groups and other youth Department Chair: $250—Mr. and Mrs. RSVP, email: [email protected] or department events. Mark Abraham, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan [email protected]. Children who show signs of illness Caplan, Dr. Hillel Cohen and Mrs. Linda including: Moed Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. David Schiff, BOOK CLUB Mr. and Mrs. Abe Schwartzbard, Mr. and  fever (100 degrees or higher) The next AA Sisterhood Book Club Mrs. Eugene Wishnic meeting will take place on Wednesday,  discharge from eyes Dean: $360—Mrs. Eva Axelrad, Mr. and March 22, at 8:30 p.m. at the home of  vomiting Mrs. Avi Freidenreich, Mr. and Mrs. Barry Marsha Wasserman, 24 Grant Avenue,  diarrhea (two or more times in a Katz, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Levenstein, Rabbi Highland Park. The book we will be short period of time) Steven and Mrs. Gila Miodownik, Mr. Alan discussing is The German Girl by  extreme pain or discomfort and Ms. Karen Novick, Dr. Harry and Mrs. Armando Lucas Correa. We hope you can Chani Schick, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Silbiger join us!  sore throat or severe coughing Torah Builder: $613—Mr. and Mrs. David  rash Goldberg, Mr. and Mrs. Barry Leskowitz, KIDDUSH REMINDER must be excluded from the program Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Renna The Kiddush committee for this Shabbat until they are symptom free for at President: $1,000 or more—Mr. and Mrs. is: Epstein, Erdfarb and Eserner. The least 24 hours. For the safety and well- George Blank, Dr. Elliot and Mrs. Susan Kiddush committee for Shabbat, being of all, we ask for your cooperation Frank, The Abraham and Bessie Hann February 25 is: Feiler, Fagan/Frankel in strictly adhering to this Sick Policy. Foundation, Mrs. Rachel Lefkovits, Dr. and Filhart. The Kiddush committee for Barry and Mrs. Marcia Levinson, Mr. and Shabbat, March 4 is: Fine, Fradkine/ Mrs. Joshua Ostrin, Mr. Marc and Dr. SHABBAT GROUPS BIRTHDAY Lechtchiner and Flancbaum/Hiller. The Debbie Turansky PARTY SPONSORSHIP Kiddush committee for Shabbat, March OPPORTUNITY We thank you in advance for your generosity 11 is: Freidenreich, Grinkorn and and look forward to your participation in all Frank. Celebrating your child's birthday? of our programs! Sponsor a birthday party for your child's Shabbat morning group: includes birthday game, birthday hats, and special AAU SHIURIM YOUTH NEWS snacks. Sponsorships start at $25. Please Monday-Thursday after 9:30 p.m. Maariv contact Miriam Tennenbaum at Chug Mishnayot CHIDON PARSHIYOT [email protected] for more information! Tuesday 8:30 a.m. Torah Gems with Rabbi Join AA Youth at our first Chidon Moshe Goldberger (for men only) Parshiyot—a fun Parsha Quiz Game for GROUP TIMES Tuesday 9:30 a.m. Mishnah Keritut with children ages 4-12 on Sunday, March 26 Rabbi Akiva Weitzner (for men only) (note: date change) at 10:00 a.m. Kids Baby/Toddler Room: 10:00 a.m. open Wednesday 1:00 p.m. Sefer Yehoshua with and parents will enjoy a Parsha game play, 10:30 a.m. organized parent and Rabbi Miodownik (for women only) while enjoying a delicious brunch. Study me groups up! Parsha Questions for different age All other groups: 10:00 a.m. Thursday 9:30 a.m. Masechet Brachot with groups are available in the shul lobby. We 4 Rabbi Eli Reisman (for men only) COMMUNITY NEWS 6:00 p.m. at the Marina Del Rey. At this Israel relationship. Join them on special event, they plan to recognize 100 Wednesday, May 17 to share concerns years of Building Foundations. The with Senators and Representatives about 8TH DAY IN CONCERT THIS esteemed honorees are: Alan '72, David aid to Israel, shared technology, Iranian SUNDAY '06 & Alex '10 Goldberg, Legacy Award; threats, security cooperation, and more. Nathan Lewin '53, Centenial Leadership Yeshivat Netivot Montessori presents Buses leave for the Capitol at 6:30 a.m. Award; Silvia & Avraham Borenstein, 8th Day in concert this Sunday, from local Synagogues and return Parents of the Year; Jaqueline & Dov '88 February 19 at 2:30 p.m. at The Jo Ann between 9:00-10:00 p.m. All meals will Borgen, Parents of the Year; Rabbi Magistro Performing Arts Center, 200 be provided. There will be briefings on Shlomo Tiechtel, Ethel Dworetsky Rues Lane, East Brunswick. Tickets cost the bus. Register now for the early bird Morrow Faculty Award; Rabbi Shimon $40, $30 and $20. VIP tickets, which discount, which ends on March 13: Schenker, Faculty Award. include a meet and greet with the band Adults—$125, Students—$75 (must be after the concert, are available for $75. over 12). Those under 18 must be Groups of 10 or more receive a 10% MEGA BAKE OF accompanied by parent or legal guardian. discount with code "groups". Purchase CENTRAL NEW JERSEY Signup at: www.norpac.net or call 201- tickets at: Netivot.booktix.com. Please 788-5133. They hope to see you on the email [email protected] for All women are invited to join the Mega bus! questions. Challah Bake of Central New Jersey this Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m. at Rutgers Chabad, 170 College Ave., New RETURN OF SAFAM AND SNEAK TOP TIPS FOR HEALTHY EATING Brunswick. Program includes: musical PEEK OF THE NEW RUTGERS RPRY PLUS and the RPRY Alumni entertainment by the world renowned, HILLEL Association invite the whole community dynamic Esther Freeman and inspirational Join Rutgers Hillel on Sunday, March to Coach Gila's cooking demo and speaker, Rivka Pevzner, Principal at Sinai 5 for the return of Safam and a sneak workshop on Top Tips for Healthy Schools in Paris, France. Each guest will peek of the new Eva and Arie Halpern Eating next Sunday, February 26 at receive a $25 gift value package and light Hillel House on the Wilf Family 8:00 p.m. at RPRY. At this event you will refreshments will be served. Couvert: $15. Campus and Funk Legacy Wall, 70 get to taste the food she prepares right in RSVP to: www.chabadnj.org. College Avenue, New Brunswick. Ticket front of you, and go home with a copy of prices: $36 each; $18 student. her featured recipes! Cost is $15 in KHAL CHASSIDIM SIMPLY TZFAT Sponsorship levels: Gold Boneh $1000 advance; $20 at the door. Sponsorships KUMTZIZ (4 preferred seats, a CD and dinner); available and include admission: $54 (VIP Silver Boneh $500 (2 preferred seats, a seating); $72 (VIP seating and special In the week leading up to its Annual CD and dinner); Boneh $250 (2 gift); $180 (VIP seating and phone consult Malve Malka, Khal Chassidim is holding preferred seats, and a CD). Schedule as with Coach Gila!). Please email a special (free admission) kumtziz with follows: [email protected] for questions and Simply Tzfat next Sunday, February 26 reservations. at 7:30 p.m. This Kumitziz is among the 4:30 p.m. Guided tour of the building for many gatherings—in song, study and Sponsors followed by dinner with Safam community commemoration—held in ANNUAL AHAVAS YISRAEL 6:00 p.m. Tour of the building for all tribute to Hinda bat Yaakov Peretz z"l, guests JOURNAL BREAKFAST Rabbi Horowitz’s precious wife. There will Ahavas Yisrael invites you to attend its be seating areas for men and women in the 7:00 p.m. Concert 8th annual Journal Breakfast next Shteible Beit Midrash. Thanks to Simply Sunday, February 26 at 9:30 a.m. at Tzfat for making their way to Highland HP/EDISON CONNECTS Park/Edison for this special tribute to Ahavas Achim. This year's honorees are: Highland Park/Edison Connects invites Rebbetzin Hinda Horowitz z"l. Menachem and Helene Kravitz, Guests the women of our community to their of Honor and Zev Rosenberg and Aryeh Winter 2017 Melava Malka featuring a Berger, Service Awardees. Deadlines: all BIKUR CHOLIM ANNUAL EVENT very special guest speaker! A former IDF ads, including Tribute Page names, are Bikur Cholim of Raritan Valley's soldier, who grew up in this community due by this Sunday, February 19 at 6:00 and who served during the recent p.m. All breakfast reservations are due by Annual Event will be held on Sunday, March 5 at 9:30 a.m. at the Pines Manor Operation Protective Edge will be this Monday, February 20 at 6:00 p.m. sharing inspiring stories of Achdut and Please visit: www.ayedison.org or email: in Edison. This year's Guest speaker is Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser. Invitations have how that CONNECT's to our [email protected] for more community! This very special no-charge information and reservations. been mailed. Please visit the Bikur Cholim website: bikurcholimrv.com for more event will be taking place on Motzei information. Shabbat, March 4 at 8:00 p.m. at the YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH home of Rachelle and Zev Stern, 474 SCHOOL ANNUAL DINNER Lincoln Ave. (Speaker to begin at 8:30 NORPAC MISSION MAY 17 p.m. sharp to leave plenty of mingling Join The Marsha Stern Talmudic time afterwards!) For more information, Academy Yeshiva University High NORPAC’s Mission to Washington, D.C. please email Faygie Lobel at School (MTA) at their Annual Dinner of is an annual event where citizen activists [email protected] or Tribute next Tuesday, February 28 at meet with Members of both Houses of Congress to advocate for a strong U.S.- [email protected]. 5 NSHEI EDISON/HIGHLAND PARK Rabbi Meir Lipschitz, both of YJS and Rabbi AHAVAS ACHIM CHABURA VIDEO PRESENTATION Eliyahu Kaufman of Ohav Emeth. Refreshments Steven Miodownik, Rabbi THIS SUNDAY will be served. Ronald L. Schwarzberg, Rabbi Emeritus The Nshei Edison/Highland Park Chabura invites all women to a video presentation by HATZOLAH BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Honorary Presidents ז"ל ,Tammy Karmel this Sunday February 19 at Hatzolah of Middlesex County is holding a Alexander Bernstein ז"ל ,p.m. at the home of Mindy Bilowitz, 98 basketball tournament for men age 16 and up on Isadore Sapiro 8:00 ז"ל ,Leslie St., Edison. Join thousands of woman Albert Sapiro ז"ל ,Sunday, March 5 from 5:00-9:00 p.m. at 71 Nathan Segal worldwide who have been inspired by the Ethel Rd. W, Piscataway. It will be a 3 on 3 masterful teachings of emunah and bitachon challenge using teams of 4. The cost is $65 per President by Mrs. Karmel from Yerushalayim who is individual; $250 per team. 100% of all proceeds Jeremy Renna living and thriving with the debilitating goes to Hatzolah of Middlesex County. disease of ALS. Registration deadline is this Thursday, February Executive Vice President 23. Please email: [email protected] Josh Ostrin, Operations NCSY ONEG THIS FRIDAY for more information and registration. To pay online, please visit: www.hatzolahmc.org. Senior Vice Presidents All teens are invited to an NCSY Shabbat Jonathan Caplan, Ritual/House Oneg at the Maza residence, 43 Cliff Court, Josh Goldstein, CFO this Friday, February 17 from 8:30-10:00 GENEALOGY CLUB MEETING Sherry Simantov, Secretary p.m. Enjoy refreshments, friends, words of The next Genealogy Club meeting will be held Vice Presidents Torah and fun! this Tuesday, February 21 at 7:00 p.m. at Avi Eserner, House Ahavas Achim. The speaker will be Sandra Avi Freidenreich, Treasurer SEEKING BIKUR CHOLIM Lanman on the topic: "Finding Family Dead or Avi Grin, Fundraising VOLUNTEERS Alive—UPDATE." Sandra Lanman will update us on new developments in her family research Immediate Past President 7-year-old boy in Robert Wood Johnson's and discuss how to mine documents, family Seth Berman Children Hospital needs visitors for times stories, the Internet and other resources to locate Gabbaim when his parents cannot be with him. Parents relatives and even long-lost friends. live in Brooklyn and are seeking people to Yossi Benedek stay with him for various time shifts. Please Seth Berman PARK MIKVAH IN HIGHLAND PARK Jonathan Caplan make volunteer arrangements with his aunt Michael Kornfeld Chaya Wilkes at [email protected] The Park Mikvah in Highland Park is temporarily Barry Leskowitz or 917-750-0807. closed due to renovations, with a reopening Barry Levinson David Simen scheduled tentatively for Nissan, 5777. The David Stern PURIM COSTUME GEMACH Young Israel of East Brunswick is extending Steven White their mikvah hours throughout the duration of Ohav Emeth’s 10th Annual Purim Costume Park Mikvah renovations. Please check their Honorary Gabbai Gemach will kick off on Rosh Chodesh Adar, website: yieb.org/mikvah.html or email: Bernard Israel next Sunday, February 26 from 5:00-8:00 [email protected] for more information p.m. with great excitement. The Gemach regarding fees and hours of operation. Board of Directors continues this year for 3 more days on Marisa Dolled-Filhart Wednesday, March 1 from 6:00–8:00 p.m., Meir Flancbaum Sunday, March 5 from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. TOMCHEI SHABBOS PESACH CAMPAIGN Caren Friedman David Friedman and on Tuesday, March 7 from 6:00-8:00 With Pesach less than 2 months away, there are Dana Korbman p.m. The cost is either a $5 donation or 1 families in our community for whom the thought Michele Kornblum donated costume per costume borrowed. of purchasing even the basic necessities is a Cheryl Kornfeld Email: [email protected] or visit: crushing financial burden. Tomchei Shabbos Jeanne Lankin https://www.facebook.com/costumegemach Rachael Levin helps ease this burden, and provide peace of mind, Barry Levinson for more information. by ensuring that these families’ basic needs are Simi Lichtman met. Michael Meiner OHAV EMETH PARENT-CHILD Shoshana Posy But all of this comes at a cost. Pesach is by far our Marc Scheiner LEARNING WITH YJS largest and costliest operation of the year. In the Ari Sofair-Fisch Eugene Wishnic Please join Ohav Emeth for two exciting weeks leading up to Pesach, over 250 boxes of evenings of Parent-Child Learning presented food are purchased, packed and distributed to Sisterhood President by Yeshiva at the Jersey Shore (YJS): this needy families in the Highland Park, Edison and Elena Orgel Motzei Shabbat, February 18 at 7:15 p.m. East Brunswick communities. Families are and Motzei Shabbat, March 25 at 9:00 p.m. counting on this food but to make it happen 216 South First Avenue They invite all boys and girls from grades 3-8 requires your support. Help give the gift of Pesach Highland Park, NJ 08904 to families in need. Donations can be made phone: (732) 247-0532 to come learn with their parents, grandparents, fax: (732) 247-6739 teachers and friends. There will be source through the website: www.tomcheimc.org. www.ahavasachim.org sheets, leveled by grade and opening and Checks can also be sent to Tomchei Shabbos of 6 closing thoughts by Rabbi Elie Tuchman and Middlesex County, c/o Cong. Ohr Torah, 48 Edgemount Road, Edison, NJ 08817.