Rabbi Eliyahu Tal - Rabbi
Ray Morris - President
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Important Messages
- Mabrouk and mazal tov to Yvonne Levy and Cary Solomon on their engagement. Mabrouk also to all their families. We wish the newly-engaged couple a happy, healthy, and lengthy life together.
- With the summer vacation season upon us, many of our regular minyaneers will be away the next two months. Please make every effort to attend our morning and evening minyanim.
- Security Information: As a reminder, please do not use the main/front door when there is no security person present. Once the guard has left, you need to use the downstairs door. If you cannot use the stairs, please check the camera monitors before exiting to make sure it is safe. AND have someone lock the door behind you.
Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Shir HaShirim: 6:45pm
- Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 8:14pm
Saturday — Parashat Ḥukat-Balak
- Youth Groups for ages 3 to 8 in the Upper Classrooms: 9:30am to 11:00am
- Recite Shema: 8:31am
- Shacharit: 8:45am
- Kiddush After Services (Sponsored by the Congregation)
- Sefer Shoftim Class: 7:20pm
- Mincha: 8:00pm — Followed by:
- Se'udah Sh'lshit (Sponsored by Reichman family in honor of Yvonne Levy’s engagement)
- Arvit and End of Shabbat: 9:06pm
Sunday
- Shacharit: 8:00am
- Women's Class: 10:00am
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm
- Followed by Chavruta Learning Program
Monday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:40am
- Pre-Mincha Class 6:40pm
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm
Tuesday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Pre-Mincha Class: 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
- Pre-Mincha Class: 6:40pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
Thursday — Fast Day: Shiva Asar b'Tammuz
- Fast Begins: 3:47am
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:40am
- Mincha/Arvit: 8:00pm
- Fast Ends: 9:07pm
Next Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- The Doctor Edward Nawy Memorial Talmud Class: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:30am
- Mincha: 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 8:12pm
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
- Help Us Welcome New Members to Our Community
- Women's Rosh Chodesh Event a Great Success
- Chevruta Learing
Community News
Emergency Contacts for Our Community
- Hatzalah of Middlesex County: 732-456-6666
- Chaverim of Middlesex County: 732-844-3577
Dr. Presby Shiurim
- Woman: Pele Yoetz (a combination of halacha and mussar shiur) on Tuesdays at 8:00pm at the Presby home, 467 Lincoln Ave, HP
- Men/Women: Eicha on Wednesdays at noon via conference call, Dial in #605-475-6333 code 9017189
- Men: Megillah on Thursdays at 9:00pm at the Presby home, 467 Lincoln Ave, HP or via conference call, Call 605-475-6333 Code 9017189
- Men/Women: Nach shiur on Shabbos at 4:00pm at the Presby home, 467 Lincoln Ave, HP
For more info, please contact Dr. Presby at 732-925-4828
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