Your end-of-year contribution helped us meet the "15 Day for $15K Challenge" Grant! We raised $15,690. Thank you for your generous contributions.

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1 Your end-of-year contribution helped us meet the "15 Day for $15K Challenge" Grant! We raised $15,690. Thank you for your generous contributions. THE CLOCK IS TICKING! 2016 IS ALMOST OVER! Which means that any tax-deductible items you pay or donations you make by the end of this month will be included in your 2016 donor report! Thursday, 12/29/16

2 12:00 noon Torah Study Please note that there will NOT be a "Prayer with Meaning" class this day. Friday, 12/30/16 6:00 pm Shabbat Service - Please note early time. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CHANUKIAH AND 8 CANDLES to light on the bima Saturday, 12/31/16 9:15 am Wrestling with the Torah 10:30 am Shabbat Service Potluck lunch to follow (see flyer below) LAST NIGHT OF CHANUKAH! Sunday, 1/1/17 NO Religious School Classes resume on Wednesday, January 4th Monday, 1/2/17 Office Closed Wednesday, 1/4/17 7:00 pm Dr. Robert Ellis speaking on "God, Germany, the Jews and the Holocaust" Thursday, 1/5/17 12:00 noon Torah Study 8:00 pm Prayer with Meaning

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4 SAVE THE DATE: JAVA NAGILA SUNDAY, JANUARY 8 AT 9:30 AM See below for more information BROTHERHOOD CARDS MONDAY, JANUARY 9 The Youth Group is collecting adult coats and other items to hand out during their annual Midnight Run in January. Do you have gently used warm coats, sweaters, sweat shirts etc. to donate to the homeless? Also needed are new toiletries, soaps, tooth brushes, tooth paste, etc. Just drop off the items in the box in the lobby of the temple by January 10th. Tumble Dry Cleaners has generously offered to clean all the coats for free!

5 TO MAKE YOUR 2016 YOM KIPPUR PLEDGE! RETURN YOUR PLEDGE CARD WITH THE AMOUNT YOU WOULD LIKE US TO BILL YOU OR JUST SEND YOUR CHECK. Your contribution to the Yom Kippur Appeal is part of TAS annual campaign to support our operations, professional expenses, and dynamic programming. Thank you for helping us move closer to achieving our $225,000 goal. Stop by the temple anytime the office is open or on Sunday mornings to purchase your gift cards. Many cards are also available by special order. Forms are available in the lobby.

6 Dr. Robert Ellis God, Germany, the Jews and the Holocaust January 4, 11, 18 and 25, 2017 at 7:00 pm This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union. Particular attention will be given to debates and controversies, including the motivations of German and non-german perpetrators, bystanders and collaboration, the place of

7 the Jews and non-jew in Holocaust historiography, the continuities of racism and genocide and their comparability and the consequences of the Holocaust for memory and world politics. We will engage with a variety of topics, including nationalism and nation-building, revolution and reaction, industrialization and urbanization, mass politics and culture, Germans roles and experiences in two world wars, Nazi racism and genocide, and the theological implication of the Holocaust for contemporary Jewish thought. GENTLE YOGA. The next session of yoga is on Tuesdays, January 10 through February 28 at 7:00 pm The cost is $160 for all sessions Contact: yoga@avodatshalom.net (Please note that December 6 yoga will be at 6 PM) GIVE THE PERFECT GIFT The American Red Cross is sponsoring a blood drive on Friday, December 30th from 10:30 am-3:30 pm at the River Edge Library. This is a very important effort as very necessary blood supply can be low, while demand can be high during the winter months. Please consider participating or encouraging your family and friends to "Give the perfect gift. Give blood." "Give Something that Means Something." Appointments are preferred. Please visit and enter sponsor code: river edge' or call RED-CROSS ( ) to schedule an appointment. If you have students home for the holidays please encourage their participation!

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10 Family Fun Day A Character Breakfast with Belle from Beauty and the Beast and Chase from Paw Patrol, crafts, story time (in English, Russian and Hebrew), Israeli programming, tattoos (the temporary kind), camp activities for the whole family, and more...all great reasons why you'll want to spend a winter Sunday morning with your kids at Family Fun Day January 29, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm at Yeshivat Noam, 70 W. Century Road Paramus Costumes welcome! At Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, we think our Family Fun Day will give your kids a perfect outlet for all that energy, at the same time that you get to meet other young moms and dads, and enjoy a nice breakfast with us. Cost of Family Fun Day is $18 per family. Pre-register at For information, contact Sarah, or sarahd@jfnnj.org Are your teens prepared to discuss Israel and Jewish issues on campus? The ican Answer Now Teen Conference for High School Students, set to take place Sunday, March 5, 2017, 12 Noon-5:30 pm at the Hasbrouck Heights Hilton can help. Your teen will hear from current college students and guest speakers who will discuss The Real Israel: One Nation, Multiple Viewpoints; Challenges on Campus: BDS, Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and Ignorance; and Skills and Role- Plays: How to Answer Now. Register at The ican Answer Now Teen Conference is presented by Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey

11 PURIM SHPIEL AUDITIONS Due to popular demand, the TAS Players will be presenting a Purim Shpiel for the Third Straight Year!. This year's show is "THE REBBE OF OZ" and opening (and closing) night is Sat., March 11. If you'd like to act in the show, please come to auditions on Monday, Jan. 9 at

12 7:30 pm, or Sunday, Jan. 15 at 9:30 am. If you are interested in a singing part, please be prepared to sing a short song of your choice. For more information, contact Andy Lieb at talentshow@avodatshalom.net Sypnopsis: Esther is a young, college educated single, trying to make it in the city as a female professional, under intense pressure from social media, parents and peers. Wishing she could return to simpler times, when expectations were more reasonable and everyone knew their role, Esther tells Auntie Vashti that the whirlwind of her life is overwhelming, and that she knows in her heart she needs to make a few changes. One day, Esther gets onto the D train and emerges, not at the 34th street station, but in Oz!! Her wish has come true, but not nearly in the way she has expected it to!! The Munchy-Kins greet Esther with great fanfare, giving her a dress, a head scarf and a pair of red boots. They recognize that she could be the one who could lead them out of the terrible situation and persecutions they have been experiencing thru the Wicked Warlock Haman s decree to abolish all the Synagogues in Oz. Ever resourceful, Esther realizes that she must lead the charge to the Rebbe of Oz, to stop Wicked Warlock Haman from achieving his goal. They point her in the right direction and tell her to follow the Mandel Bread Road to the Rebbe! Along the way, she meets a scarecrow wearing a crown of gold (Ahasueros), a man made of Tin (Chris Christie?) who lacks a heart, and, of course they meet up with a cowardly Lion (Roar-dechai). The four new friends continue along the Mandel Bread Road until they, well, you have to come see the show to find out the rest. TENTATIVE CAST LIST Esther (Dorothy) Auntie Vashti Scarecrow (AKA Ahasueros) Tin Man Cowardly Lion (AKA Roar-dechai) Munchy-kins The Rebbe of Oz Haman (Wicked Warlock of the West) Good Witch or Warlock

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14 Yahrzeit List From 12/25/2016 to 12/31/2016 (Kislev 25, 5777 to Tevet 2, 5777) Name Belle Bachrach: Naomi Bashi: Observed by David Bachrach Elie Bashi Margaret Breitbarth Rose Cohen Edward Dimond: Ronnie Jacobs Rae Donchin: Gladys Stern Fink: Milton Gallubier: Judith Loeb Michelle Kahan Edith Gelfand: Jack Glazer: Irene Greenberg: Aaron Holtzman: Mae Kulman: Howard Glazer Maxine Zimmerman Myra Lustberg Joan Haberman Sophie Lapp: Rhoda Marks: Morris Raskin: Anna Roth: Morris Salzman: Regina Sass: Margo Tauberman Susanne Dallon Fay Roth Beth Helfant Goldman Audrey Sass William Sass: Anna Schnall: Vera Schwid: Sidney Schnall Marcia Salkowitz

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