Hebrew Institute of Riverdale Bayit BULLETIN March 29 - April 5, 2019 22 Adar II - 29 Adar II, 5779 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway, Bronx, NY 10463 718-796-4730 www.thebayit.org Steven Exler, Senior Rabbi: Mazal Tov to: [email protected]/ x108 Anat Sharbat, Ph.D., Associate Rabba: Aimee & Jonathan Baron on the bar mitzvah of their son, Doniel. To siblings Leah, Yael, [email protected]/ x106 Avital and Netanel, honored grandparents Elliott & Sabina Friedman and Joan & Reuben Ezra Seligsohn, Associate Rabbi: Baron. [email protected]/ x219 Sara Hurwitz, Rabba: Alisa & Michael Brown on the birth of a grandchild. [email protected]/ x107 Michellle Biller-Levy & Orrie Levy on the birth of a boy. To siblings Noam & Amalia as well. Avi Weiss, Rabbi in Residence: [email protected]/ x102 Steven Katchen and Shira Zeif on their engagement. To Shira’s parents Susan & Bob Zeif and Richard Langer, Executive Director: Steven’s parents Alice & Hazzan David Katchen and Steven’s children Rafi and Micah.. [email protected]/ x104 Eitan Cooper, Co-Youth Director: Welcome to new members: Beth & Yashi Kraus [email protected]/ x240 Emily Hausman, Co-Youth Director: THIS SHABBAT @ THE BAYIT [email protected]/ x120 Bryan Cordova, Facilities Manager: SPECIAL GUEST: ODED REVIVI - SHABBAT, MARCH 30TH [email protected]/ x121 Please join us on Shabbat Parashat Parah as we welcome Oded Revivi, Phyllis Newsome, Bookkeeper: Mayor of Efrat. [email protected]/ x103 Yael Oshinsky, Program Associate: Oded Revivi, Mayor of Efrat and Chief Foreign Envoy – YESHA Council [email protected]/ x116 (Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea and Samaria), is a statesman, orator, lawyer, mayor Shuli Boxer Rieser, Assistant to R’ Weiss: and prominent advocate for the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. [email protected]/ x102 Shabbat Morning Drasha after Mussaf: Nadav, Avihu, and Israeli Politics KIDDUSH: There will be no Kiddush this week. Shiur Between Mincha/Ma’ariv at 7:00pm: Building Bridges, Not Fences - Efrat: To sponsor a future Kiddush, please contact A Co-Existence Case Study Seth Aronson - [email protected]. HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSSOCIATION This Shabbat: RIVERDALE COMMUNITY BREAKFAST - THIS SUNDAY Parshiot Shemini/Parah Sunday, March 31st at 9:30am at the Riverdale Jewish Center (3700 Independence Avenue). Shabbat Mevarchim The honorees are Jennie Goldress & Andrew Eisenberger, Alicia Solan-Teglasi & Victor Candle Lighting: 6:59pm Teglasi, and Deborah & Steven Berkowitz. For more information or to make a reservation Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm please call the Hebrew Free Burial Association at 212-239-1662. Shalom Bayit: 7:00am Shacharit Main Tefillah: 8:30am PESACH PRACTICUM WITH THE BAYIT RABBINIC TEAM Teen Tefillah: 9:15am SUNDAY, APRIL 7TH FROM 8:00 - 9:45PM Learning Service: 9:15am To ensure that it is a Chag Kasher Ve’Sameach, we’ll study the laws and details of what Sof Zman Kriat Shema: 9:51am foods or products can be bought and used for Pesach, and how to clean and Kasher our Parasha Shiur: 5:50pm homes in a Halakhic way. Mincha (Main/Sephardic): 6:35pm Listening Room: not meeting OU Passover Guides are available in the coatroom and the office. Maariv/Shabbat Ends: 8:03pm Mechirat (Sale of) Chametz forms are in the boxes in the lobby or online at www.thebayit.org/chametz. WEEKDAY TIMES: Full Pesach schedule and review of laws and customs at www.thebayit.org/pesach. Shacharit: Sun: 8:30am Rav Steven’s Shabbat HaGadol Drasha Shabbat, April 13th at 7:05pm Mon/Thurs: 6:40, 7:50am Why is this Night the Same as Last Night? Tues/Wed/Fri: 6:45, 7:50am Lessons From Yom Tov Sheni for Israel-Diaspora Relations Mincha/Maariv: FREE SEDERS Sun-Thurs: 7:05pm Each year the Bayit hosts over 400 people for the Passover Seders. Next Shabbat: Tazria/Hachodesh Join us to eat, drink, celebrate and relive the story of our Exodus at Rosh Chodesh HIR’s Free Passover Seders for either of our two Seders on Friday, Candle Lighting: 7:07pm April 19th and Saturday, April 20th at 8:15pm. In the spirit of the Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm words of the Haggadah: “Let anyone who is hungry enter and eat: let anyone who is needy enter and join us in our Passover feast.” There is no charge to attend a Shacharit Main Tefillah: 8:30am Seder at the Bayit but we do rely on your generosity to cover the substantial cost of this Mincha (Main/Sephardic): 6:55pm program. To sponsor the Seder or to make a reservation please visit Maariv/Shabbat Ends: 8:11pm www.thebayit.org/seder or call the office at 718-796-4730 x101. THE BAYIT BULLETIN THIS WEEK’S CLASSES @ THE BAYIT: CHESSED OPPORTUNITIES: CELL PHONE & LAPTOP DRIVE JOE HOCH Z"L MEMORIAL DAF YOMI SHIUR The Bayit is participating in a drive to collect cell phones and with Dov Weinstock (M-Fr) and Eli Oberstein (Sat/Sun) in room 3.4 laptops for recent refugees and asylum seekers in the NY/NJ area. Please clean devices of all data before donating. For more Sunday - Friday 7:30am Shabbat - After Mincha Open to all. You are invited to join at any time. information, please contact Michael Goldblum at [email protected]. We are looking for occasional substitutes. Please email [email protected]. RIVERDALE MEDICAL GEMACH When someone in the Riverdale community has a temporary SHABBAT CLASSES need of medical equipment, it is often difficult to find. The 8:05am: Midrash Hashavua w/Rav Steven Riverdale Minyan (TRM) has established a medical equipment Immediately After Mussaf: Torah To Go, A weekly brief Gemach that is open to the Riverdale Community. If you should Torah learning w/Ariel Freidenberg have a temporary need for a wheelchair, light-weight wheel- 5:50 pm: Parasha Shiur w/Livya Tinestit chair, rollator, walker, knee scooter or the like, please send an 5:15pm: Listening Room w/Myra Estelle - not taking place email to [email protected] or call Rochel this week Cheifetz at 917-748-2052 or Ilana Gordon at 917-623-8873. WEEKDAY CLASSES: Similarly, if you have such equipment in good condition that you Monday, 9:30am - Midreshei Nashim in Hebrew w/Rabba would to donate, please use the same contact information and Anat we will be happy to coordinate the donation. Monday, 10:30am -Talmud w/Rav Ezra SOCIAL WORKER @ THE BAYIT Monday, 7:30pm - Weekly Torah Portion w/Rav Avi (at his home Arona Berow, LMSW, is a licensed social worker who is Tuesday, 10:00am - Topics in Genesis w/Rav Avi (Lobby) available to the HIR community through the Partners in Caring (PIC) program facilitated by Jewish Board and funded Tuesday, 11:00am - Weekly Torah Portion w/Rav Ezra by the UJA‐Federation of New York. Arona will be working in Riverdale at the (Lobby) Beatman Center on Mondays and Wednesdays and can be reached by email Tuesday, 7:30pm - Foundations of Judaism (3.7) at [email protected] or by phone at 212-632-4735. Wednesday, 11:30am - Midreshei Nashim w/Rabba Anat (Lobby) NEW BEREAVEMENT GROUP Thursday, 10:00am - Book of Isaiah w/Rav Steven (Lobby) A new bereavement group will be led by Bayit social worker, HEBREW CLASSES WITH SARA KINBERG* Arona Berow, LMSW. The group is open to individuals of all Monday - 7:30pm - Advanced Hebrew Ulpan (at the Atria) backgrounds who are struggling with the loss of a relative. The Wednesday - 7:30pm - Intermediate Hebrew Ulpan (Lobby) group will provide a safe space for participants to offer support, Thursday - 7:30pm - Biblical Hebrew and Siddur study combat isolation, share common experiences and helpful (Lobby). *Sara Kinberg is an experienced Hebrew teacher. For info and resources, and build a network with others who are going guidance on placement, please call Sara at 718-548-2461. through a similar process. The group will take place weekly on Payment made directly to the teacher. Mondays, at 10:00am, for 8 weeks, at the Beatman Center (521 West 239th Street, 3rd floor). For more information or any ABRAHAM & SARAH'S TENT: DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF HENRY AND GOLDIE questions, please call Arona at 212-632-4735. GUTTMAN Z"L AND SPONSORED BY JOE GUTTMAN Z”L (CO-SPONSORS WELCOME): ALIYOT AT THE BAYIT Join us this Shabbat for our open communal dinner. To see Have a guest or special occasion coming up? Contact Bayit which Shabbatot are available for sponsorship, please visit Gabbai, Hillel Jaffe to arrange for Aliyot and other Kibbudim. www.thebayit.org/tent or email James Lapin at [email protected]. [email protected]. LEARNING SERVICE WITH YESHIVAT MAHARAT STUDENT, LIVYA TINESTIT Finding one's way around a prayer book is a learned skill. Using Do you know someone who needs any of the following? a transliterated Siddur, we will gradually build a repertoire of Would you like to volunteer for any of these committees? Meals For Ill Members: prayers starting with the better-known melodies and liturgies. Jackie Binstock: 718-543-9135, [email protected] The learning service begins at 9:15am in the 2nd-floor office Shiva: Beth Braunstein: [email protected] past the kitchen and ends at 11:00am. You may arrive as late Bikur Cholim: Ruth Licht: 718-796-3491, and leave as early as your schedule allows. [email protected] Meals for New Parents: Shira Billet: [email protected] RIVERDALE MIKVAH HOURS - EFFECTIVE APRIL 1 Meals after Pregnancy Loss: Shira Billet: [email protected] Friday Night: 40 minutes after candle lighting. No appointment is Hospitality and Welcome: [email protected] Bayit Band: [email protected] necessary but please be on time. Green Committee: Ann Rauch, [email protected] Saturday Night: 9:30pm -11:00pm.