CONGREGATION BETH AARON SHABBAT ANNOUNCEMENTS Parshat Tetzaveh February 7-8, 2014 8 Adar I 5774

SHABBAT TIMES This week’s announcements are sponsored by Friday, February 7: NORPAC Mission to Washington on Wednesday, April 30 Latest Candles: 5:03 p.m. Early Bird Registration Is Now Open atwww.norpac.net Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 5:05 p.m. Eitan Katz Oneg at Rothwachs home: SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 9 8:00 p.m. Sun* Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Shabbat, February 8: Location 9 10 11 12 13 14 Hashkama Minyan: 7:30 a.m. Earliest Tallit 5:58 5:57 5:56 5:55 5:53 5:52 Rabbi Richie Schiffmiller’s shiur Shacharit on Melechet Me’ammer follows Social Hall 6:30* 5:46 5:55 5:55 5:42 5:55 Beit Midrash Hashkama Minyan 7:15* 6:20 6:30 6:30 6:20 6:30 Beit Midrash Tefillah Shiur: 8:20 a.m. 8:00* 7:10 7:15 7:15 7:10 7:15 Beit Midrash Main Minyan: 8:45 a.m. 8:45* 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 Youth Minyan: 9:15 a.m. Mincha Beit Midrash 1:00 Sof Zman Kriat Shema: 9:35 a.m. Mincha/Maariv Beit Midrash 5:10* 5:10 5:10 5:10 5:10 5:15 Early Mincha: 1:45 p.m. Daf Yomi: 3:45 p.m. Maariv Beit Midrash 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 Women’s Learning: 3:45 p.m., at the 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 Greenberg home, 291 Schley Place, *On Sunday, all minyanim will be held in the Main Shul, Pirke Avot except the 8:45 a.m. Shacharit minyan, the 1:00 p.m. Mincha minyan, Mincha: 4:55 p.m., followed by a shiur and the 8:00 and 9:30 p.m. Maariv minyanim, which will be in the Beit Midrash. by Rabbi Moshe Taragin: “Music of Love and Fear” MAZAL TOV TO Maariv: 6:03 p.m. Havdalah: 6:12 p.m. Elli Friedman, on his upcoming marriage to Estee Lefkowitz of Brooklyn. Mazal Tov also to Elli’s Parent-Child Learning: 6:50 p.m. parents, Marsha & Tom Friedman, and to grandmothers Liesel Schloss and Gisela Friedman. Eitan Katz Concert: 8:30 p.m. Rachel & Yitzchok Furst, on the birth of their granddaughter Kayla Malka, born to their children Ahuva & Roman Tsibulevskiy. Latest Candles on Friday, February 14: Chaya Kanarfogel and Adin Rayman on their engagement. Mazal Tov also to Chaya’s parents, Rabbi 5:11 p.m. Ephraim & Devorah Kanarfogel; to Chaya’s grandmother, Ethel Kanarfogel; to Adin’s parents, Rochi & Louis Rayman; and to Adin’s grandparents, Phyllis & David Rayman and Diane Himber. FEBRUARY CALENDAR MEN’S CLUB KIDDUSH THIS WEEK’S PARSHA QUESTIONS Kiddush following the Main Minyan is sponsored by: On Shabbat, the shul elevator will operate in Shabbat mode as follows: L’Chaim sponsors: Friday: 4:45-6:15 p.m.; w Drs. Olga and Eric Segal, in memory of Dr. Sergei Pantukhov, Olga’s father and a beloved “dedushka” Saturday: 8:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m., to Akiva, Natan Dov, Sima Miriam, Binyamin, Eitan, and Yasha, and who always said “grandchildren 1:30-2:30 p.m., 4:15-6:00 p.m. MUST be spoiled”

Is the Eruv Up? Call the Eruv Hotline Sponsorships for the weekly Kiddushim are $72 (L’Chaim Sponsor) and $54 (Kiddush Sponsor). If you before Shabbat: 201-530-0222 are celebrating a simcha, commemorating a yahrtzeit, or simply want to say “thank you,” consider sponsoring an upcoming kiddush. Visit the kiddush website to sponsor. If you have any questions, please contact Ari Gononsky at [email protected]. Having a simcha? Email [email protected] Join the Hashkama Minyan “Society” by contributing $54 and helping to sponsor a monthly hot kiddush by noon Wednesday for inclusion on Shabbat Mevorchim. Please help us reach our goal by becoming one of the 50 charter members of in the announcements. this group. To sign up as charter member, e-mail the Kiddush Committee at [email protected].

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Contact Beth Aaron at Last week’s sponsors were: [email protected] 3 Adar I: Barbara & Kal Feinberg, commemorating the 16th yahrtzeit of Barbara’s father, George Bader, Gershon Kopel ben HaRav Zev HaLevi EITAN KATZ LIVE BETH AARON ANNUAL DINNER Sunday, February 23 This Shabbat, Parshat Tetzaveh, February 7-8, Beth Aaron is excited to welcome Jewish music sensation Eitan Katz for a We are no longer accepting ads for very special weekend. Eitan’s latest album release, Shuvu, is a the journal, but are still accepting continuation of Eitan’s trademark style, in which he has been able reservations for the shul dinner to both entertain and spiritually uplift the listener. Eitan will be honoring Roz & Ira Friedman and the guest ba’al tefilah throughout Shabbat, which will include an Barbara & Kal Feinberg. inspiring and ruach-filled davening on Friday night. There will be a spirited Oneg Shabbat with Eitan at the Rothwachs home at If you are interested in attending the dinner, please sign up online 8:00 p.m. on Friday night, which will include singing and divrei at www.bethaaron.org/dinner. For further information, contact Torah and promises to be a very special experience. Valerie Kahn or Nechama Pudell, [email protected].

Eitan and his band will also be performing a concert on motzaei Read about our honorees at www.bethaaron.org/dinner. Shabbat at the shul at 8:30 p.m. Admission in advance or at the door will be $15 per person, $25 per person for preferred seating. Checks should be made payable to Congregation Beth Aaron. BETH AARON YOUTH

Please consider one of the following sponsorship opportunities: Parent-Child Learning will be held this Motzaei Shabbat, February 8, w $180 (includes 3 preferred seating tickets) at 6:50 p.m. This week’s learning is sponsored by Olga & Eric Segal, w $250 (includes 4 preferred seating tickets) in memory of Sergei Pantukhov, father of Olga Segal and grandfather w $360 (includes 6 preferred seating tickets) of Akiva, Natan Dov, Sima Miriam, Binyamin, and Eitan. Parents and children are encouraged to come and learn. Bring your To make a reservation or help sponsor the event, go to own materials to learn or take out a book from our Youth Library. www.bethaaron.org/event/eitan-katz-live.html. There will be ices or ice cream served each week, as well as a raffle for great prizes. There also will be a door prize for every child who For more information about this event or sponsorship attends. Children are welcome to sign up to say a d’var Torah. opportunities, contact Irit Sandler at [email protected]. Sponsorships are available starting at $36 (ice cream party) or $118 For more information about Eitan and his music, please go to (pizza party). To sponsor or to sign up to say a d’var Torah, please www.eitankatz.com. go to http://goo.gl/8abPB or email [email protected]. Go to www.bethaaron.org/youth for additional dates. SHUL ANNOUNCEMENTS If you would like to host an Oneg for 3rd to 5th grade girls or boys, contact Erica & Jason David, [email protected]. Today’s shiur after mincha will be given by Rabbi Moshe Taragin, a Ram at in Gush Etzion for the past 20 years. He For more information about youth programs, contact Beth Aaron semicha has from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, a Youth Directors Erica and Jason David, 732-618-9473, BA in Computer Science from Yeshiva College, and an MA in English [email protected]. Literature from City University. Rabbi Taragin previously taught at Columbia University, lectured in Talmud and Bible at the NCSY IBC and JSS divisions of , and served as Assistant Rabbi at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue. In addition, Rabbi Taragin These Teaneck NCSY programs are open to all high school students: currently teaches at the Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women • Wednesday Night Senior Schmooze, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Aliza & of Yeshivat Har Etzion. He is the author of an Internet shiur on Rael (432 Maitland Avenue) “Talmudic Methodology” and of a weekly shiur on Pirkei Avot, and • Thursday Night Latte and Learning, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Lazy Bean has delivered several series of weekly audio shiurim through the • NCSY summer programs are open for registration! You can also Yeshivat Har Etzion “Audio Beit Midrash” (KMTT). explore the amazing opportunities at www.ncsysummer.com.

NEW DATE: The next Sisterhood Book Club selection is Tomorrow Upcoming calendar of events: There Will Be Apricots, by Jessica Soffer. The Book Club will meet on • Increased Number of Nursing Home Shabbatonim: For information, Saturday night, March 1, at 7:30 p.m., at the home of Debbie Ross, sign up for the Teaneck NCSY texts by sending TNCSY to 41411. 993 Phelps Road. For more information, contact Diane Fogel, 201- • Friday, February 7, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.: Shabbos Oneg @ Aliza 837-0651, [email protected]. and Rael, 432 Maitland Avenue • Sunday, February 9, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.: Girls-Only Chesed WEEKLY SHIURIM Event making bracelets with Friendship Circle. For more information, contact Talia Lichtenstein, [email protected] • Daf Yomi: For Daf Yomi shiurim and resources in Teaneck, go to • Friday, February 14, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.: Oneg at Beth Aaron! www.teaneckshuls.org/daf/. Join your friends from the “other side” • Daf Yomi shiur by Rabbi Rothwachs/ Rabbi Daniel Feldman/ Rabbi • Thursday, March 20: Mission to Washington. Sign up for limited Mark Staum/ Rabbi Daniel Herrmann: Monday-Thursday space: http://newjersey.ncsy.org/register/?eventID=83833. $50 pp. evenings, at 9:45 p.m. • Rabbi Rothwachs’ Bava Kama shiur: Wednesday evenings at 8:30 For more information on the above events, or if you have questions, p.m. comments, and ideas, please email Rabbi Rael Blumenthal, • Morning Mishna Chabura: Monday, Thursday: 6:55 a.m.; Tuesday, [email protected]. Join us on Facebook or email us, Wednesday, Friday: 7:00 a.m. [email protected]. This Monday, February 10, at 11:30 a.m., at Congregation Rinat The Teaneck Mikvah Association is proud to announce that the Yisrael, 389 West Englewood Avenue, the Orthodox Union Advocacy new Friday Night Mikvah serving the south side of Teaneck will Center & STAJE are presenting a luncheon for retirees, featuring open this Friday night, February 7. a presentation and discussion on “Jewish Education: How We Afforded It for our Kids and What We Can Do for our Grandkids.” The new Mikvah is located at 87 Sterling Place, directly across STAJE is a Jewish organization committed to fostering a culture the street from the Teaneck Jewish Center. Appointments are that views the second phase of adult life as a highly meaningful required and should be made on our website at opportunity for personal and religious growth. Visit www.Staje.org. www.teaneckmikvah.com. The entrance to the Mikvah is in To RSVP, contact Arielle Frankston-Morris, 201-416-7742, the back of the house. Please follow the ramp at the top of the [email protected]. driveway to the main entrance at the rear. On Shabbat, February 14-15, Isaiah Gafni, Professor of Jewish History at Hebrew University, will be the Scholar-in-Residence at Congregation Rinat Yisrael, 689 West Englewood Avenue. Professor Please send a thank-you note to Scarlett Johansson, contacting Gafni will deliver a dvar halacha before maariv Friday evening, speak her at [email protected]. Use or adapt this text: on “How Babylonia Became Zion: ‘Land’ and ‘Torah’ in the Rabbinic I applaud you, Scarlett Johansson, for your courage in resigning World” at an Oneg Shabbat commencing at 8:30 p.m., address as global ambassador from Oxfam International and rejecting the 9:00 a.m. minyan on “The Advantages and Limitations of Oral the demands to boycott Soda Stream. This Israeli company over Torah,” and lecture aftermincha Shabbat afternoon on “Will the the Green Line serves as a successful model of Israeli-Palestinian ‘Real’ Rabbis Please Stand Up: On the Ongoing Repackaging of the cooperation, employing more than 900 Palestinians who earn Rabbinic Model in Modern Times.” the same wages and enjoy the same benefits as Israeli Arabs and Jews. Hopefully, your actions will inspire others to follow your On Shabbat, February 15, at 8:45 a.m. at Congregation Keter Torah, example and resist pressure from the anti-Israel boycotters whose 600 Roemer Avenue, Rabbi Steven Weil will lead a Shabbat version real goal is to isolate, defame, and destroy Israel as a Jewish state. of the “I Wish I Understood Everything I Was Saying” minyan. I wish you continued success in your career. On Presidents Day, Monday, February 17, at 10:00 a.m., at Congregation Keter Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue, Rabbi Hanoch Teller will introduce and screen the film “Reb Elimelech and the Chassidic COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS Legacy of Brotherhood.” CareOne needs volunteers for a minyan. On Friday evening, Mincha/ On Motzaei Shabbat, February 22, at 8:30 p.m., at Purchase College, Kabbalat Shabbat will be at 5:05 p.m. On Shabbat, Shacharit will be 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY, the MORASHA@50 CONCERT at 9:00 a.m, Mincha at 5:05 p.m., and Maariv at 6:07 p.m. will take place. Performers include Abie Rotenberg, Baruch Levine, Eitan Katz, Benny Friedman, and Edon Pinchot, along with surprise For help with Hebrew, please contact Yehiel Levy, 201-357-5495, alumni musicians. A gala dessert reception follows the concert. For [email protected]. He will coach any shul member for free. more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.morashaconcert.com. February is CNJKIDS month. Tuition will be set by our local Jewish K-8 day schools in the next few months. Help is needed to keep On Sunday, February 23, at 10:30 a.m., at the home of Rena & tuition as low as possible to encourage continued enrollment in our Menachem Schnaidman, 333 Ogden Avenue, the Queens College schools. Please consider becoming a dependable monthly donor to Hillel will hold an Open House discussion with current students CNJKIDS. Go to www.cnjkids.org and make a donation to mitigate and the Hillel Executive Director Uri Cohen on the topic “Turning future tuition increases at local Jewish K-8 day schools that have Commuter into Community.” The program is open to high school agreed to partner with CNJKIDS. juniors and seniors and their parents. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Uri Cohen, [email protected], This Shabbat, February 8, following mincha at 4:50 p.m. at 718-793-2222. Congregation Keter Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue, Rabbi Reuven Taragin of Yeshivat Hakotel will speak on “Loving by Learning from On Sunday, February 23, at 11:30 a.m., in the Bergenfield High All People.” School Auditorium, 80 South Prospect Avenue, Bergenfield, the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey will hold a Variety Show This Sunday, February 9, at 1:00 p.m., at the home of Deganit & featuring Bubble Mania, Pirate School, and the RYNJ Boys Choir. Tomer Ronen, 947 Sheffield Road, two senior leaders of the Lone Regular-priced tickets are $12 before February 10, $15 afterwards; Soldier Center will speak. They will discuss their experiences in the Silver seating is $22 before February 10, $25 afterwards. For tickets, IDF, the lives of lone soldiers, their friend Michael Levin (in whose please contact Karen Rubin, [email protected], or Shoshana memory the program is being held), and the work and programs Moskowitz, 201-841-8581. carried out by the Lone Soldier Center in aiding and supporting today’s lone soldiers. More information on the Lone Soldier Center On Motzaei Shabbat, March 8, at 8:30 p.m., the Ma’ayanot Yeshiva can be found at www.lonesoldiercenter.com. For questions, contact High School for Girls Annual Scholarship Dinner will take place Josh Flaster at [email protected]. at Congregation Keter Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue. Mark & Bracha Bluman are the Keter Shem Tov Award honorees, Sallie & Ernie Levi This Sunday, February 9, at 5:15 p.m., at the Marriott Glenpointe are Parents of the Year, and Abbie Rabin will receive the Faculty Hotel, 100 Frank W. Burr Boulevard, SINAI Schools will hold their Appreciation Award. Please call Pam Ennis at 201-833-4307, ext. Annual Benefit Dinner. Among the honorees at this year’s Dinner are 265, for more information. Ma’adan Caterers and Beth Aaron members Stuart Kahan and Yossie (continued on page 4) Markovic. To make reservations or a donation, please visit www.sinaidinner.org/shl or call 201-833-1134, ext. x105. On Sunday, March 9, at 8:00 p.m., at the Eric Brown Theater at This Sunday, February 9, Yeshiva University invites you to its the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 East Clinton Avenue, Tenafly, Midreshet Yom Rishon, weekly Sunday morning learning for Rebecca Teplow will sing selections from her two albums, “Tefilot/ women. The program, which will be held at the Shenk Shul in the Prayers” and “Kaveh/Hope.” Selections from the composer/singer Schottenstein Center (on West 185th Street, between Audubon can be found on rebeccateplow.com, and her songs can be heard on and St. Nicholas Avenues), is open to participants of all ages, iTunes and CDBaby.com. For tickets, call 201-408-1418. backgrounds, and learning levels. Admission is free, and no registration is required. This week,Midreshet Yom Rishon will feature On Thursday, March 13, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., Blush Salon of Rabbi and Mrs. Suzanne Cohen. The first shiur starts Englewood, 3 Grand Avenue, Englewood, will hold its second hair at 9:30 a.m., the second at 10:30 a.m. For more information or to donation and fundraising event for Zichron Menachem of Israel. download mar’ei mekomot, visit www.midreshetyomrishon.org or Please contact the Salon at 201-568-2221 to book a hair cutting call 212-960-0041. appointment. For donations to Zichron Menachem, contact Nicole Kinches, 201-836-8173. The Amud Yomi shiur meets weeknights at 9:30 p.m. at Congregation Rinat Yisrael, 389 West Englewood Avenue. For more On Sunday, March 30, at 6:00 p.m., at Congregation Keter Torah, 600 information, contact Mordechai Ungar, 201-741-3920. Roemer Avenue, Torah Academy of Bergen County (TABC) will hold its annual dinner. Honorees are Wendy & Isaac Shulman, Alisa & On Tuesday mornings from 9:45 to 10:30 a.m., Yeshivat Noam’s Stephen Levy, Dr. Garry Katz, and Yaacov Apfelbaum. For reservations Parent Education Committee offers “Prophetesses, Queens, and or to make a donation, please go to http://tabc.org/dinner. Villains: Exploring Women in Tanach,” a weekly shiur taught by Aliza Weinberg, 8th Grade Tanach teacher and Tanach Enrichment NORPAC MISSION: April 30. If you care about Israel and want to Coordinator. Dedicated to the memory of Rochi Lerner, z”l, the translate that care into action, join dozens of fellow Beth Aaronites weekly shiur has been generously sponsored by an anonymous on the NORPAC lobbying mission in D.C. on Wednesday, April 30. donor and is free of charge. It takes place in the Yeshivat Noam Early registration and student discounts available. Register online, Middle School, 70 West Century Road, Paramus. For more (www.norpac.net), call NORPAC (201-788-5133), email Allen information, please contact Amy Vogel, [email protected]. Friedman ([email protected]) or Mollie Fisch ([email protected]). On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Keter Torah presents Torah in the AM: The Rinat Chaim Gemach, established by the family of Renee 9:00 to 9:45 A.M. - Chavura on Personalities in Chumash: Sefer Chaya Levy, a”h, beloved wife of Yehiel Levy, accepts donations of Bereishit; 9:45 to 10:45 A.M. - Rabbi Menachem Meier’s Talmud medical supplies that can be used by members of our community. shiur on Masechet Ketubot; 11:00 a.m. to noon (Tuesday only) - They welcome donations of all types of medical supplies (e.g., Rabbi Shalom Baum’s shiur on Sefer Haggai; 10:45 to 11:40 a.m. motorized wheel chairs, conventional wheel chairs, walkers, portable (Thursday only) - Rabbi Menachem Meier’s shiur on Sefer Yeshayahu. commodes, canes, etc.) in good condition that are no longer being used. For more information, or to donate to the Gemach, please On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, at 6:20 a.m., Rabbi Zvi contact Yehiel Levy, [email protected], 201-357-5495. Sobolofsky, a at Yeshiva University and Mora de-Atra of Congregation Ohr HaTorah in Bergenfield, presents a Kollel Boker program on Masechet Shabbat at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, 641 COMMUNITY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES West Englewood Avenue. For more information or to sponsor this program, contact Jack Feigenbaum, [email protected]; Daniel Saks, This Sunday, February 9, Yeshiva University invites you to its [email protected]; or Henry Orlinsky, [email protected]. Kollel Yom Rishon, weekly Sunday morning learning for men. The program, which will be held in Glueck 307 (515 West 185th Street, On Thursday at noon at Ma’ayanot, 1650 Palisade Avenue, school at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue), is open to participants of all principal Rivka Kahan will offer a six-part adult education series, ages, backgrounds, and learning levels. Admission is free, and no “Do unto Others: A Nuanced Analysis of the Torah View on Social registration is required. This week,Kollel Yom Rishon will feature Justice.” The series begins on February 27 and concludes on April 3. Rabbi Mordechai Becher and Rabbi Eli Baruch Shulman. The For additional information or to sponsor a shiur, please contact Pam first shiur starts at 9:30 a.m., the second at 10:30 a.m. For more Ennis at 201-833-4307, ext. 265. information or to download mar’ei mekomot, visit www.kollelyomrishon.org or call 212-960-0041. On Thursday nights, at the Beis Medrash of Bergenfield (BMOB), 371 South Prospect Avenue, Bergenfield, Yeshivat Heichal HaTorah is offering a Chaburah given by Senior Ram Rabbi Pesach Skulnick. A Hachana Seder will take place from 8:30 to 9:15 p.m., Maariv will be held at 9:15 p.m., and the Chaburah will be from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. For questions or to receive the mar’ei mekomot in advance, contact Yehuda Jacoby, [email protected].

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