Rabbi Eliyahu Tal - Rabbi
Ray Morris - President
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Important Messages
- Special Graduation Kiddush This Week: Please join us this week for a special Kiddush and Seudah Shelishit honoring our graduates.
- Women's Rosh Hodesh Night Out June 19. Come out for an inspirational night with words of Torah and painting the Kotel with your instructor Leora Wenger. Refreshments will be served. See https://www.etzahaim.org/events/special-shabbaton-june-23-and-24 for more information.
- Special Shabbaton on June 23. Sponsored by Etz Ahaim and the Sephardic Brotherhood. This includes special Shabbat dinner at The Bridge. See https://www.etzahaim.org/events/rosh-chodesh-tammuz-womens-paint-night for more information.
- Help Us Welcome New Members Etz Ahaim works with HP/Edison Connects to welcome new members of our community. If you would like to help host new families for Shabbat meals, go to https://www.etzahaim.org/constant-items/help-us-welcome-new-members and fill out the form.
Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Shir HaShirim: 6:45pm
- Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 8:12pm
Saturday -- Parashat Sh’lach/Shabbat Mevarchim Chodesh Tamuz
- Youth Groups for ages 3 to 8 in the Upper Classrooms: 9:30am to 11:00am
- Recite Shema: 8:26am
- Shacharit: 8:45am
- Special Graduation Kiddush After Services (Sponsored by the families of our graduating students)
- Sefer Shoftim Class: 7:20pm
- Mincha: 8:00pm — Followed by:
- Se'udah Sh'lshit (Sponsored by the Reichman family in honor of all our graduates)
- Arvit and End of Shabbat: 9:07pm
Sunday
- Shacharit: 8:00am
- Women's Class: 10:00am
- Children's Torah Reading Class Given by Asher Cohen: 6:15pm
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm
- Followed by Chavruta Learning Program
Monday — Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:40am
- Rambam 6:40pm
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm
Tuesday — Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Rambam: 6:40pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
- Followed by Chavruta Learning Program
Wednesday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Rambam: 6:40pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
Thursday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:40am
- Insights on the Parasha: 6:15pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
- Followed by Chavruta Learning Program
Next Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Mincha: 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 8:13pm
Bikur Cholim of Congregation Etz Ahaim
The Regency Nursing Home is currently closed to visitors. Drivers and coordinators needed. Call (732) 572-7181 for more information. The congregation extends refua shelema wishes to:
- Liba Shaindel bat Chava Sachs
- Gershon ben Sara
- Dvorah Shahala bat Sarah Parvin
- Chava bat Esther
- Lita Greenberg (Tzvia Sarah bat Golda)
- Linda Balavram (Emmunah bat Sara)
- Sara Shifra bat Yehudit
- Sharona Bella bat Malka
- Yosef Daniel ben Feige
- Leah Chana bat Batya Chaya
- Leah Chava bat Shayna
If you like to add someone to this list, or merely want the Rabbi to say a Mi Shaberach on someone after Torah reading on Shabbat, please go to our webpage and fill out the form.
News and Events
- Jun 19: Rosh Hodesh Tammuz — Women's Painting Night
- June 23: Special Shabbaton
- Help Us Welcome New Members to Our Community
- Voices of Faith: Memories of the 1948 War
- Chevruta Learing
- Be´siyata dishmaya - Con la ayuda del Cielo
- שיעור במסכת ברכות
Community News
Emergency Contacts for Our Community
- Hatzalah of Middlesex County: 732-456-6666
- Chaverim of Middlesex County: 732-844-3577
Rabbi Reisman will be speaking to men and women on Shabbos Zemiros, June 17 at 7:10pm at Khal Chassidim, 46 N. 8th Avenue.
Topics will include history and origins, halacha and hashkafa and understanding the text. For more information contact Marsha Eiserman at 347-203-7906
Singles Event for all Orthodox Jewish singles from 27 and up. Sponsored by Congregation Ahavas Achim. Sunday, June 25 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. The event will include dinneer and dessert and will take place in a private home in the area. For more information, email hpsinglesevent@gmail.com.
Chug Ivrit for Intermediate to Advanced Hebrew Speakers is reading MeGola LeGeulah: MeBavel LeYerushalyim by Flora Taasan. It is Flora’s autobiography about her life growing up in Baghdad, and then making Aliyah in 1950.
Our next meeting will be on Sunday, July 2 at 11:00 a.m. in Rachel Weintraub’s back yard, 120 Highland Ave., Edison, and via Zoom. We’d love to have you join us. Please contact Rachel at rachel@weintraub.name.
The 2023/2024 Highland Park First Aid Squad Discount Cards are now available. Help support the Highland Park First Aid Squad by purchasing its discount cards.
There are 2 cards: one for $30 or both for $50. The cards may be purchased at Jerusalem Pizza and the Ahavas Achim office as well as from Deborah and Ari Lewitter and Yossi Bendek.
The Bikur Cholim of Raritan Valley is excited to announce a Senior Visitation Program. This program will provide weekly or biweekly visitation to members of our community. We are looking for community members who are 18 years and older to volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer or to hear more information about this program please contact Cindy Baruch at 908-309-8818 or email her at cindy.baruch@verizon.net