CONGREGATION BETH AARON ANNOUNCEMENTS Parshat Chayei Sara November 25-26, 2016 25 Cheshvan 5777
SHABBAT TIMES This week’s announcements are sponsored by Lamdeinu. Friday, November 25 For information on their schedule of classes, see page 4 and go to lamdeinu.org. Latest Candles: 4:12 p.m. Study in depth; be inspired! Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 4:15 p.m. SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 27 Shabbat, November 26 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Hashkama Minyan: 7:30 a.m. Nach Shiur: 8:20 a.m. 27 28 29 30 1 2 Main Minyan: 8:45 a.m. Earliest Tallit 5:58 5:59 6:00 6:01 6:02 6:03 Youth Minyan: 9:15 a.m. Shacharit 6:30 MS 5:48 SH 5:55 MS 5:55 MS 5:51 SH 5:55 SH Sof Zman Kriat Shema: 9:20 a.m. 7:15 MS 6:20 BM 6:30 BM 6:30 BM 6:10 BM 6:30 BM Early Mincha: 1:45 p.m. 8:00 MS 7:10 BM 7:15 BM 7:15 MS 7:05 SH 7:15 BM Daf Yomi: 2:55 p.m. 8:45 MS 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM Women’s Learning: 2:55 p.m., at the Greenberg home, 291 Schley Place, Mincha 1:00 BM Shoftim, chapters 9-10, led by Rivka Herzfeld Mincha/ 4:15 MS 4:15 BM 4:15 BM 4:15 BM 4:15 BM 4:15 MS Meir Hirsch’s shiur: 3:05 p.m. Maariv Mincha: 4:05 p.m., followed by Rabbi Maariv 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM 8:00 BM Rothwachs’ shiur 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM 9:30 BM Maariv: 5:12 p.m. Havdalah: 5:21 p.m. KEY: MS = Main Shul BM = Beit Midrash SH = Social Hall The Kiddush following the Main Minyan is sponsored by Reshi & Yosef Isaacs, in honor of their son Noah’s aufruf and upcoming marriage to Ayelet Prero. Latest Candles on Friday, December 2: 4:10 p.m. MAZAL TOV TO
• Gila Berkowitz & Arvin Levine, on the birth of a granddaughter, born to their children Livia Levine & Noah Moline in Yerushalayim. Mazal Tov also to Noah’s parents, Joni Crounse and Rich Moline of Chicago. • Sharon & Sam Frankel, on the Bat Mitzvah of their granddaughter Chana Rovner of Memphis, TN. Mazal Tov also to Chana’s parents, Rachael & Adir Rovner. • Sarah & Aharon Hammer, on their recent marriage. Mazal Tov also to Sarah’s parents, Patty & Sam Borodach, and to Aharon’s parents, Sheri & Shalom Hammer of Woodmere. • Noah Isaacs, on his aufruf and upcoming marriage to Ayelet Prero of Chicago. Mazal Tov also to Noah’s parents, Reshi & Yosef Isaacs, and to Ayelet’s parents, Miriam & Rabbi Elisha Prero. • Sorah Ruchlamer, on the birth of a grandson, born to her children Lisa and Yidel Breuer of Boro Park.
PARNAS HAYOM
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 simcha, a birthday or any other occasion. Each week’s dedications are NOVEMBER prominently displayed in the shul lobby and sent out to the membership via email. For more Calendar information, or to sign up, please go to www.bethaaron.org/parnashayom.
THIS WEEK’S PARSHA QUESTIONS This week’s Parnas Hayom sponsors are: Printed copies are available in the lobby. • 25 Cheshvan: Nurit & Gary Adler, in memory of Cipora Adler, Feige Zippora bat Reb Gedalyahu. On Shabbat, the shul elevator will operate Lockers for your seforim in Shabbat mode as follows: Are you participating in the new Daf ha-Shavua sessions? Do you have a chavruta? Why bother Friday: shlepping your seforim back and forth? Rent a locker and store your seforim there. Aren’t you worth 4:25-6:00 p.m. it? To reserve a locker, please contact the shul office,[email protected] . Contact Isaac Hagler, Shabbat: [email protected], with any questions. 8:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; 1:30-2:30 p.m.; 3:00-5:30 p.m. THE YOM KIPPUR APPEAL The Yom Kippur Appeal is drawing to a close, but there’s still time to make a donation. This is our beloved shul’s most important campaign. As always, we hope to have 100% participation from our Is the Eruv Up? Call the Eruv Hotline members, which shows our commitment to this community, all that it has accomplished, and all before Shabbat: 201-530-0222 that it hopes to achieve. In addition, this year’s campaign represents 15% of our annual budget, Contact Beth Aaron at and its success is critical to our shul’s ability to provide for and support our most basic services [email protected] and programs. If you already have made a donation, we thank you. If you have not yet made a donation, please go to www.bethaaron.org/yomkippur or send your check to the office, noting in the memo line that it is for the Yom Kippur Appeal. SHUL ANNOUNCEMENTS WEEKLY SHIURIM
Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Executive Vice President Emeritus of the • Daf Yomi: For Daf Yomi shiurim and resources in Teaneck, go to Orthodox Union, will speak in the shul on Sunday, December 4, at www.teaneckshuls.org/daf/. 8:15 p.m., on “Heroes to Inspire Us: A Personal List.” To sponsor this • Daf Yomi shiur: Monday-Thursday evenings, at 9:45 p.m. program, contact the office,[email protected] . • Daf ha-Shavua: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights at 9:05 p.m. Sunday morning chazara shiur at 7:55 a.m. on the previous week’s Allison Josephs, Founder/Director of “Jew in the City,” which works daf. Shiurim will be given by Rabbi Larry Rothwachs, Rabbi Daniel to break down stereotypes about religious Jews, will speak in the Goldberg, Rabbi Yair Hindin, and David Schnaidman. shul on Sunday, December 11, at 8:15 p.m. • Tanya shiur by Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg: Tuesday evenings, at 9:00 p.m. The Sisterhood Book Club will discuss Single Jewish Male Seeking • Rabbi Rothwachs’ Sanhedrin shiur: Wednesday evenings at Soul Mate by Letty Cottin Pogrebin on Motzaei Shabbat, December 8:30 p.m. 10, at 7:30 p.m., at the home of Marilyn Zeidel, 169 Carlton Terrace. • Morning Mishna Chabura: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 7:00 a.m.; For more information, please contact Diane Fogel, [email protected]. Monday: 6:55 a.m.; Thursday: 6:50 a.m.
The Annual Toy Drive begins on Monday, November 28. New, MEN’S CLUB KIDDUSH unwrapped toys should be dropped off at the Leifer home, 150 Chadwick Road. If you are celebrating a simcha, commemorating a yahrtzeit, or simply want to say “thank you,” consider sponsoring an upcoming On Shabbat, December 30-31, the Youth Department and the Men’s Kiddush. To become a sponsor, go to www.bethaaron.org/kiddush. Club will be offering Shabbat meals at the shul. More information For questions, contact Ari Gononsky at [email protected]. will be sent soon.
Thank you to Rabbi Daniel Senter for his great shiur on Thanksgiving. HASHKAMA MINYAN KIDDUSH “Society” For those who were not able to attend, a recording of the shiur, The Hashkama Minyan Kiddush “Society” has entered its fourth along with photos, is available at bethaaron.org/torah. year. This true partnership between the mitpalilim of the Hashkama Minyan and the Men’s Club has allowed approximately The CD Library is now housed in the Youth Library on the lower 36 Kiddushim to be held following Hashkama. As interest level and is available for browsing and borrowing. The collection increases in holding Hashkama Kiddushim, please note this includes shiurim by Rabbi Wein, Rabbi Orlofsky, and others. Thank updated information: you to Ira Bauman for facilitating the move. • Hashkama Minyan Kiddush “Society” annual membership is $54. This fund allows us to ensure there is at least one monthly Beth Aaron has a Bikur Cholim rotation for visits to patients at Holy hot Kiddush following the Hashkama Minyan. Name Hospital on Shabbat. We are happy to welcome new • Members of the “Society” who would like to enhance an volunteers for this rewarding mitzvah. To be added to the list, or for already scheduled Kiddush can do so for an additional donation more information about this program, please contact Diane Fogel, of $72. Enhancements can include salads, noodles, herring, etc. 201-837-0651, [email protected]. Contact [email protected] at least one week prior to the Kiddush. Sisterhood condolence cards are available from the office for $8 • The cost of sponsoring a standard hot Hashkama Kiddush on each or $50 for 10. To order, please contact Judi at the office, a week that is not a “Society” Kiddush is $360. There also is an [email protected], 201-836-6210. enhanced option for $500.
We are often willing to accept donations of used seforim to our Thank you again to everyone who has joined this partnership; library in the Beit Midrash. If you wish to donate such seforim, we truly appreciate it. For more information, please contact Ari contact Mitch First or Joshua Zakheim, [email protected]. Gononsky or Moishe B. Singer, [email protected]. Please do not bring any donations of seforim to the Beit Midrash or drop the books off at their homes without first contacting Joshua BETH AARON YOUTH and JUNIOR HIGH or Mitch. If you wish to donate money for the purchase of new All 6th-8th Graders are invited to “Escape the Oneg,” this Friday, seforim and have particular titles in mind, please contact them. November 25, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m., at the David home, 188 Cranford Place. Play the “Escape the Room” game and enjoy cholent, In order that our volumes in the Beit Midrash remain available to all, candy, friends, and fun! Bring your friends. please remember that NO seforim or books may be removed from the library in the Beit Midrash, other than those on the right as one Parent-Child Learning will take place this Motzaei Shabbat, enters. Out of courtesy for others, please do not remove the current November 26, at 6:05 p.m. Parents and children are encouraged Daf Yomi Gemara volume from the Beit Midrash. to come and learn. Bring your own materials to learn, or take out a book from our Youth Library. Children are welcome to sign up The following movies are available for rent for a month at a time to say a D’var Torah. Become a sponsor at www.bethaaron.org/ by making a donation to the shul. The titles from the Ma’aleh event/pcl5777. To sign a child up to say a D’var Torah or for more Film School of Jerusalem are “Newspapers and Flowers,” “Shira,” information, contact [email protected]. “Prague,” and “The Divide.” View trailers at www.maale.co.il/default. asp?PageID=74&CatID=1. Thanks to Mordy Ungar, “Follow Me: The For more information about youth programs, please contact Beth Yoni Netanyahu Story” also is available. To borrow the films, please Aaron Youth Directors Erica and Jason David, 732-618-9473, contact Sandy Zlotnick, [email protected]. [email protected]. NCSY Alan Hantman, past Architect for the Capitol, will discuss the Memorial’s features and goals. There will be introductory remarks by All high school teens are welcome to join Teaneck NCSY for Latte and Teaneck Mayor Mohammed Hameeduddin; a dessert reception will Learn this Thursday, December 1, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Lazy follow the program. An RSVP at www.nnjholocaustmemorial.org is Bean Cafe, 1404 Queen Anne Road. Come grab a drink and chill with required. friends and advisors! See you there! On Sunday, December 11, the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North All high school teens are invited to join Teaneck NCSY for a Friday Jersey (RYNJ) will hold its annual Barnes and Noble Bookfair Night Oneg, next Friday, December 2, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., on and fundraiser. You can shop at any Barnes and Noble store and the lower level at the shul. Come hang out with friends, shmooze mention ID# 11799368 in order for the RYNJ library to receive a with awesome advisors, and enhance your Shabbat experience! percentage of each sale. Beginning at 11:00 a.m., at the Barnes and Noble in Riverside Square, Hackensack, there will be activities for NJ NCSY Winter Regional Shabbaton will be held from Thursday, children. If you prefer to shop online, RYNJ will receive credit for December 8, to Sunday, December 11, at the Hudson Valley Resort orders placed at www.bn.com/bookfairs between December 11 and Spa. Enjoy a fun and exciting Shabbat with your friends. The cost and 16, with the ID above. For more information, contact Esther is $299. There is a special freshman discount of $50. To register, go Schnaidman at [email protected]. to https://newjersey.ncsy.org/winter-regional-2016. On Monday, December 12, at 7:00 p.m., at Congregation Beth For more information about Teaneck NCSY, please contact Rabbi Sholom, 354 Maitland Avenue, the Jewish National Fund will hold Reuven Lebovitz, [email protected]. its annual reception. Mordechai Ungar will receive the Circle of Excellence Award. The evening will be dedicated to “Special in COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS Uniform,” a program dedicated to integrating youth with disabilities and special needs into the IDF. The IDF is this year’s focus of CareOne needs volunteers for a minyan. On Friday evening, Mincha Teaneck JNF. Register by December 5 at [email protected]. For more will be at 4:20 p.m. On Shabbat, Shacharit will be at 9:00 a.m., information, contact [email protected] or [email protected]. Mincha at 4:10 p.m., and Maariv at 5:15 p.m. On Motzaei Shabbat, December 17, at 8:00 p.m., at Congregation The Kof-K, 201 The Plaza, now offers a minyan for mincha at 1:00 Ahavath Torah, 240 Broad Avenue, Englewood, Project Ezrah will p.m. and for maariv at 5:15 p.m. hold its Annual Dinner. Dena & Moshe Kinderlehrer are among the honorees. For dinner reservations, visit www.ezrah.org, call the CAN YOU USE FREE FOOD ONCE A WEEK? Shearit HaPlate of Project Ezrah office at 201-569-9047 or email [email protected]. Bergen County is our only local kosher food rescue and distribution organization. If you think this would help you and your family, please On Sunday, December 18, at 9:30 a.m., in Zysman Hall on Yeshiva email us at [email protected]. If you would like to volunteer University’s Wilf Campus, 500 West 185th Street, New York City, two hours per week to help Shearit HaPlate pick up or repack food Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks will speak on “Inspiring the Next donations, please email us at [email protected] and we would be Generation.” This special program also will feature breakout sessions happy to put you to work ASAP! If you would like to donate catered from a variety of educators. For more information, contact leftovers from a special gathering or event, small or large, please [email protected]. call for pick-up Danny Chazin, 201-835-5338. For more information about our not-for-profit organization and for donation opportunities On Sunday, December 18, from 10:00 a.m. to noon, at Congregation please visit www.shpbc.org or visit our Facebook page. Ohr HaTorah, 36 Rector Court, Bergenfield, the Sisterhood will hold a pre-Chanukah boutique. For more information please email This Friday, November 25, at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, [email protected] or [email protected]. 666 Kinderkamack Road, River Edge, MTA will hold a Middle School 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament for 7th and 8th graders. Shacharit A new shul shidduch initiative is being formed by a group of will be at 9:00 a.m., followed by a special shiur and breakfast with volunteer New Jersey matchmakers representing various local shuls Rabbi Jon Kessel. The tournament will be held from 10:00 a.m. to to help Jewish singles of all ages and hashkafa levels find appropriate noon. There is a $10 entry fee. Sign up at yuhsb.org/basketball. For matches. Please send a text with your name and email address to more information, contact Rabbi Jon Kessel, [email protected]. Michele Cooper, 201-403-6409, or Bess Bogner, 201-281-0787, to be introduced to other singles and learn about upcoming singles events. This Sunday, November 27, at 5:00 p.m., at the Rivkin home, 681 Mildred Street, there will be a program benefitting the Lone Soldier Teaneck singles are invited to get together for Shabbat meals. Just Center in memory of Michael Levin. A light dinner and refreshments contact [email protected] by Wednesday to indicate will be served. An RSVP to [email protected] is which meals you would like to join. required. On Monday evenings, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., in local homes, On Sunday, December 4, at 7:30 p.m., at the Stein home, 424 women are invited to take part in the PeniNote Choir. Going on Claremont Avenue, Nefesh b’Nefesh aliyah advisors will offer an its 10th year, the weekly practice is a great way to relax, meet new in-depth, informal discussion of the topics most relevant to retirees. people, expand your brain, and be inspired! For more information, For more information and to RSVP, contact [email protected]. contact Batya Harris, 201-694-1654, [email protected].
On Motzaei Shabbat, December 10, at 8:00 p.m., at Congregation School Open House: Keter Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue, there will be an evening of music, • Sunday, December 4, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.: Rosenbaum information, and inspiration, to benefit the capital campaign for the Yeshiva of North Jersey (RYNJ), 666 Kinderkamack Road, River Northern NJ Holocaust Memorial & Education Center to be located Edge. Early Childhood preview for parents and prospective on the Municipal Green in Teaneck. Music composed during the students. Register at RYNJ.org or contact Director of Admissions Holocaust will be performed and discussed by Dr. Tamara Freeman. Tamar Kahn, [email protected], 201-986-1414, ext. 338. COMMUNITY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES LAMDEINU: Study in depth. Be inspired. Fall 2016 Semester On Sunday, December 4, at 9:00 a.m., at Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus, 500 West 185th Street, New York City, there will be a Parshanut HaMikra Bereishit: Why Are We Here? conference on “Humanity’s Oldest Rival: Infectious Diseases: Then, Avot ve-Imahot The Purpose of Creation Now and Beyond.” Register at www.yumedicalethics.com
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CONGREGATION BETH AARON 950 Queen Anne Road Teaneck, NJ 07666 Phone: 201-836-6210 www.bethaaron.org [email protected]
Laurence Rothwachs, Rabbi Isaac Hagler, President