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Mazel Tov to Randolph and Holly Weiss, and sisters Ariella and Naomi on the occasion of Tziona becoming a Bat Mitzvah. Mazel Tov to grandparents Judy and Sheldon Ohren and to the Ohren and Weiss extended families.
For dinner journal and reservation information please visit http://www.arzeidarom.org/dinner.html. For any questions about the dinner or your reservation: dinner@arzeidarom.org. Thank you to the following who have already responded: Emerald Sam and Patty Borodach Akiva and Rachel Distenfeld Mark and Linda Karasick Miles and Valerie Levin Cedar Market ~~~~~~
Sapphire Howard and Elaine Alt Shlomo and Sarah Barber Ann Lewkowitz Oleg and Cheryl Rivkin ~~~~~~
Pearl Jerry and Rena Barta Alan and Rochel Feld Elvie and Alden Leifer Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lewkowitz Steven & Yael Rabitz Benjy and Elana Rosenbluth Yosef and Elisheva Rothstein ~~~~~~
Opal Howard & Carol Bienenfeld of BLS Financial David and Sheryl Blass Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Eis Donny and Melissa Furer Aliza and Ron Goldgewert Ira and Francine Greenberg Robi and Shira Grunstein Adina & Michael Littwin Moshe and Marga Marx David and Elana Pollack Your Extended Miami Beach Family ~~~~~~
Amethyst Rocky and Ita Cohen Daniel and Nancy Edelman Mark and Myriam Einhorn Yitzi and Talia Flynn Alon and Michelle Frumer Seth and Stacy Goldstein Marty and Jeanette Heistein Eric and Jennifer Horn Uri and Emma Horowitz Rebecca and Benjy Lopkin Paul and Rani Lustiger Dr. and Mrs. Randy Makovsky Jarrod and Adrianne Mittan Mr. & Mrs. Melvin M. Ness Dr. Yisroel and Dr. Simcha Okon Michael and Arlene Sand Carlos Sarue Allan and Rina Schwartz Jeff and Sariva Sklar Perry and Miriam Tirschwell Sandy and Phyllis Zlotnick ~~~~~~
Topaz Rabbi Tavi Koslowe Stuart and Sherri Krupnick Mikey and Ilana Lehrer Benjamin and Shira Leifer Ilene and Mark Pollack Leonard and Alla Rivkin Matthew and Lisa Root Ben and Shoshana Ryp ~~~~~~
Friend Doug Blumenfeld Larry and Helen Ciment Richard and Gail Dukas Judy Eiger Ira and Roz Friedman Shmuel and Miriam Glazer Ken and Lena Goffstein Judah Grunstein Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot and Rachel Brenner Shuey Jacoby Abraham and Thelma Stern ~~~~~~
Listing Joel and Deborah Blaiberg Jason and Aviva Esses Steven and Edith Gruen Rabbi Gil and Sarah Simchi Martin & Brooke Strazynski ~~~~~~
Your support will make a tremendous impact on the shul for the
coming year.
Arzei Darom's 9th Annual Cholent Cookoff will take place on Friday night, January 8, 2016 at 8 p.m. in the Social Hall. Everyone is invited to Taste and Judge. Are you interested in competing/sponsoring/organizing? Please contact Debbie Tyler at debbietyler@yahoo.com.
By now all members and associate members should have received an email with all of your information from the prior directory, for update, correction, etc. Please reply to that email. If you didn't receive an email, and/or would like to update your membership status in order to be listed in the directory, please send an email to directory@arzeidarom.org. Family Photo This year we are again including the option for you to add a family photo to your listing. Just submit a digital photo of your family for us to include along with your listing. Babysitter Page Do you have children of babysitting age? We are offering them an opportunity for free advertising! We are compiling a list of babysitters for a special page in the directory. If your sons or daughters are interested in participating, please submit the following information to: Stacy Goldstein stacyag@gmail.com. Name of Babysitter: Email address: Phone number: Age: Advertising In The Directory We are also seeking everyone's assistance in soliciting ads for the directory. If everyone brings in one or two ads, this will be an extremely successful project. Remember to ask everyone you encounter for an ad - some suggestions of whom to ask include:
We are in the process of setting times for our remaining onegs during the fall and winter. This year we hope to have four onegs and are again looking for sponsors. We have two levels of sponsorship:
Thank you to our sponsors: Alt, Barber, Barta, Blass, Borgen, Borodach, Cohen, Einhorn, Eisenman, Greenberg, Grunstein, Haberman, Levin, Polinsky, Ramirez, Rivkin, Rose, Rosenbluth, Rudman, Segal, Weinberger and Anonymous.
Mommy & Me continues to meet every other Shabbat at 10:30 am. Please contact Shira Silverberg at shirasilverberg@gmail.com if you are interested in leading a session. PoKiZman Club meets every Shabbat at 10:15 am. Please remind your children to be prepared to participate in davening. Regular Groups for children in 3rd grade and up continue to meet at 9:45 am with davening starting at 10:00 am. Children who participate in davening and other activities, as well as help with setting up and clean-up will earn tickets towards prizes. Please contact us at youth@arzeidarom.org for more information about these programs.
Our third cycle of our kiddush cooperative is underway. Through the contributions of $200 from about 20 families, 7-8 additional hot kiddushim per year are added. This is an excellent way to sponsor kiddush at a very reasonable price. While we typically order from our local vendors, we welcome feedback from Kiddush Cooperative members on what types of menus they would like to see. Thank you to the following families who have joined this year's Kiddush Cooperative: Adams, Alt, Barber, Barta, Blass, Blum, Borodach,Davidowitz, Distenfeld, Einhorn, Eisenman, Knoll, Levin, Mittan, Rabitz, Rivkin, Rothstein, Rose and Anonymous families for your season sponsorship. We still welcome families to join the Kiddush Cooperative. The more families we have, the more hot kiddushes we can enjoy throughout the year. It is not too late to join! Please email Holly Weiss at holly.ohrenweiss1@gmail.com to add your name to the Kiddush Cooperative.
Families interested in sponsoring a kiddush and/or seudat shlishit should contact Holly so that she can reserve the date on the shul calendar. Please also let Holly know if you would like to participate in an upcoming Crock Pot Challenge which generally takes place around Rosh Chodesh. We've been doing these for a year and are always seeking new families to take the challenge. Kiddush clean up is on a rotating basis, based on your last name. While we recognize that everyone in your group may not be available each Shabbat, we ask that you pitch in if you are assigned in that month so that the same people are not doing the clean-up each week. We all like kiddushes and we all make plans for lunch after shul so please be respectful of your fellow congregants by helping out during your assigned month if you are in shul. We also ask that you please watch your children during Kiddush to the extent possible, and to place their finished items in the garbage cans provided. December:Leifer, Lichtenstein, Levin, Margolin, Max For more information on anything Kiddush related, please contact Holly Weiss at kiddush@arzeidarom.org.
Upcoming Yartzeit? Having a simcha? Do you know of a visiting Ba'al Tefilah? Please email our gabbai Dr. David Blass for all of your davening/leining related issues at rituals@arzeidarom.org.
Please join Rabbi Ciment as he leads Arzei Darom in a new year of learning, Shabbat mornings starting at 8:15 am. We will be learning Masechet Sanhedrin. All are encouraged and welcome to attend. Rabbi Ciment is continuing his Sunday morning shiur on the Rambam at 7:50 am (please check the schedule above for confirmation on a given week). We are always looking for opportunities to strengthen our connection to Torah. The more Torah in the shul, the better, so let us know if you have any other suggestions. A number of Hebrew and English seforim are missing from our library. If you have any of them, please return them so that other members will have the ability to use them as well. If you are currently using one of the seforim, and need to continue to use it, please contact Rebecca Segal so that we can keep track of where our seforim are. Thank you.
As a community, we offer assistance with meals to families with new babies, families sitting shiva, and families who need a little help for various reasons, such as a medical emergency. If you are interested in volunteering to help make meals in the future, please contact Adrianne Mittan at agemittan@gmail.com. And if you are in need of our assistance, whether it is for good news or less fortunate news, you can contact Adrianne directly, or speak to Rabbi and Rabbanit Ciment, or Yosef Rothstein.
Bikur Cholim List If you know of someone who would like to be put on the bikur cholim list, please email the name of the person (English and Hebrew w/ Mother's name), and whether or not they are accepting visitors (if so, please include location) or phone calls (if so, please include phone #) and any other details which the person is interested in sharing with the community. The email address is bikurcholim@arzeidarom.org. Bikur Cholim Volunteers Arzei Darom is looking for bikur cholim volunteers to visit the patients at CareOne on Shabbat. For those who have volunteered in the past, the visits are gratefully appreciated. Please volunteer and encourage your children to join you for this great mitzvah. Please e-mail Susan Taubes at bikurcholim@arzeidarom.org, so she can add your name to the rotation list and we can have an organized schedule each Shabbat.
Having a party? Need space for a simcha? Know someone who is? Arzei Darom's social hall is available for rent at reasonable prices. Please send an email to hallrentals@arzeidarom.org for further information. In addition, if you are having a simcha, e.g. a bar or bat mitzvah, you can reserve a shabbat by contacting Valerie Levin or Yosef Rothstein, and asking to have your simcha added to the Arzei Darom calendar. Questions when planning your simcha? Speak to Yosef Rothstein, Miles Levin (Gabbai Rishon) or Valerie Levin.
Ma'ayanot Shiur Series The Ma'ayanot Continuing Education committee is pleased to present a shiur series by Rabbi Jay Goldmintz, Tanakh and Jewish Philosophy teacher, on the topic: The Meaning of Praying and Praying with Meaning: An Exploration of Tefilla and the Siddur. Shiurim will take place from 12:15 - 1:15 in the Ma'ayanot beit midrash on the following dates: Dec. 24, 31, & Jan. 7. Men and women welcome. For more information please contact Pam Ennis at 201-833-4307, ext. 265. The entire community is invited to attend Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School's Day of Big Ideas on Friday, December 25th, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at Ma'ayanot (1650 Palisade Avenue, Teaneck). The program will begin with a keynote address by Dr. Jeremy Dauber (Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture & Director, Institute of Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University) on the topic Frightening Jews: What Makes a Jewish Horror Story? The keynote address will be followed by additional lectures by Ma'ayanot faculty on advanced topics in the liberal arts and sciences. Men and women welcome. For more information please contact Pam Ennis at 201-833-4307, ext. 265. Project Ezrah Dinner - Dec 19 Ezrah has meant HELP to over 8000 neighbors in the past 14 years - Help celebrate this commitment to our community: Project Ezrah's Dinner Reception December 19, 2015 at Congregation Ahavath Torah Proceeds from the annual dinner go directly to client support, enabling our clients to put food on their tables, stay in their homes and find meaningful employment so that they can be self-supportive and contributing members of our community. Dinner 2015 will honor: Rabbi Steven Weil, Amy and Joshua Fogelman, Ellen and Richard Gertler, Emily and Eli Isak, Maren and Robbie Scharf, Rivka and Baruch Stein "Meat us in Englewood" for Dinner 2015! For reservations or questions please: Visit http://new.soshul.net/ezrah/cf/dinner_form.cfm, call our office (201) 569-9047 or email dinner@ezrah.org. Rinat Adult Education Upcoming Lectures On Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 8:00pm, Professor Michael Avi Helfand of Pepperdine Law School will discuss a contemporary topic of great interest: Religious Liberty in the Age of Same-Sex Marriage. On Saturday night, January 2, 2016, from 8:00-10:00 pm, we will hold an Israeli Film Festival featuring four films from the Maale Film School. Admission is $7 in advance at www.rinat.org/filmfestival or at the door. Come early for a good seat! Beth Aaron Sisterhood Shiur- Dec 28 The Beth Aaron Sisterhood presents a shiur by Mrs. Rochel Goldbaum: Holding Hands Through Hardships: How to help Others and Ourselves through Hard Times/Difficult Situations. Monday, December 28th at the home of Rachelle Mandelbaum, 695 Palmer Avenue, Teaneck, NJ 07666 at 8 p.m. Do Wonders Dinner - Jan 3 Do Wonders is a local charity, run entirely by volunteers, which donates wigs to women and young ladies with cancer who could not otherwise afford a beautiful, human hair wig. Each wigs is personally chosen for each recipient, and then cut, styled, colored, and re-sized as needed to make it perfect for each recipient. Night of Wonders is being held to raise funds to buy new wigs for our youngest recipients. Do Wonders & Lillian Lee Salon invite you to join us at the Third Annual Night of Wonders Benefit Concert Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 5:00 pm at the Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe, 100 Frank W. Burr Ave, Teaneck, NJ 07666. For ticket pricing and sponsorship opportunities please visit Heichal HaTorah Seder Program Heichal HaTorah invites all Jr. High Boys to the Rubenstein Jr. High Night Seder Program on Monday evenings 7:00 - 8:15 PM at the Yeshiva located at 70 Sterling Place, Teaneck, NJ. For more information, visit http://www.heichalhatorah.org/nightseder, call the Yeshiva 201.335.0633 or email Rav Stechler at ras@heichalhatorah.org. Rebbetzin Kohn Shiur Rebbetzin Leah Kohn gives her weekly shiur for women on Mondays from 9:45am-11am at 1510 Jefferson Street, Teaneck. The current series is "Vayikara: The Guide to Developing a Deep Connection with Hashem". Bikur Cholim of Bergen County seeking volunteers Bikur Cholim of Bergen County (BCBC) provides support, facilities, and services to ease the burden of families during trying times. We partner with our families to relieve some of the stress and effects of illness, with compassion and concern. BCBC is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit organization, guided by the RCBC. We are currently looking for men and women who would like to join our volunteer core of sensitive and caring individuals, so that we can expand our services to those in need. We are looking for volunteers to help with: meal preparation, driving the elderly or ill to local doctor appointments, visiting people in need, or giving respite to a caregiver. As we expand, we are also looking for people with organizational expertise to oversee new projects. Please visit our website at bikurcholimbergencounty.org and visit our VOLUNTEER PAGE or email volunteer@bikurcholimbergencounty.org to sign up to help our efforts. For any questions call us at 201-579-3066. Mikvah appointments now available online! Appointments may now be booked online for the Teaneck Mikvah (http://www.teaneckmikvah.com). You must make an online appointment to use the Mikvah on Friday night or Yom Tov, other times walk-ins are welcomed. If you have a special circumstance, please call Miriam Feman at the Mikvah, 201-837-8220, and she will do her best to accommodate your needs. The Keylim Mikvah is open from 7:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Please call the Mikvah, 201-837-8220, with any questions. Tomchei Shabbos of Bergen County Tomchei Shabbos is desperately seeking drivers for Wednesday night deliveries. Please contact Chani Schmutter 201-833-2320 or email chaniruth@att.net, if you are able to help out. We have many opportunities for volunteers to help out, with anything from deliveries to administrative assistance. For more information, click here. About this messageThis message is being sent to you as a service of Congregation Arzei Darom. To add an announcement, please send the information, including the contact person, to: ennouncements@arzeidarom.org by noon on Wednesday to be included in that week's announcements. 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