Congregation Ohav Emeth

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1 Congregation Ohav Emeth Shabbat Vayechi December 21, 2018 Light 4:16pm 13 Tevet 5779 Schedule of Services Friday Mincha/Maariv 4:20 pm Shabbat Kriat Shema M A 9:01, Gra 9:37 Hashkama minyan 7:00 am Early minyan 7:50 am Main minyan 9:00 am Teen minyan 9:30 am Mincha 4:10 pm Maariv 5:20 pm Shabbos ends 5:25 pm Mincha/Maariv Week of Dec 23 4:20 pm (Late Maariv 7:50p Mon-Thu) Sun-Thu 1pm, Fri 12:30 Shacharit, Week of Dec 16 Sunday 6:30, 8:00 am Monday 5:54, 6:30, 7:20 am Legal Holiday Tuesday 6:30, 8:00 am Wednesday 5:54, 6:40, 7:20 am Thursday 5:55, 6:30, 7:20 am Friday 5:55, 6:40, 7:20 am (Candle Lighting on Dec :20 pm) Contribute to the Renovations! Contact Michael Garber or Norman Heyden mdgarber@live.com normanheyden@gmail.com Please be in Touch! Rabbi Kaufman Hospitality, misheberach list rabbioe@aol.com Jay Dobin, President Hospitality ohavemethpresident@gmail.com Aliza Riemenschneider, Admin Office matters, announcements office@ohavemeth.org Mazel Tov! To Josh Weiner on becoming bar mitzvah. Mazel tov to parents Leora & Warren, to siblings Kayla and Justin, and to grandfather Rabbi David Twersky. To Mr. & Mrs. Pesach Minkin on the engagement of their daughter, Shayna, to Avrumi Cohen of Ramat Beit Shemesh. To Rabbi & Mrs. Mordechai Tropp on the birth of a granddaughter to their children Rabbi Yaakov & Aviva Tropp in Israel. To Yitzi & Yonina Pomper on the birth of a baby girl; Leora Raizel. WHAT S HAPPENING AT OE? SAVE THE DATE! WEEKEND OF APRIL 12-14, 2019 OE s CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION! Hold the date for a special Shabbat in honor of OE s centennial and our renovation. THE NEXT SHABBAT MEVORCHIM KIDDUSH WILL BE FOR SHVAT ON SHABBOS, JAN 5. Details Page 7 CHECK OUT THE NEW SHUL WEBSITE Details Page 4 SHAIMOS thru Dec 26, Info Page 6 Schedule of Shiurim Shabbos 8:30 am Mishnayot l zecher Danny Ravitz z l 8:45 am R Zvi Weiss Parshat hashavua 3:30 pm Shaar habitachon 4:00 pm Dr. Presby: Nach Btwn M/M Shaloshudes Sunday, December 23 9 am R Botnick 8 pm R Klukaupt Monday, December 24 10a-12p Kollel Balabatim Mas. Shabbos Tuesday, December 25 11a-12p Kollel Balabatim Mas. Rosh Hashana 1:30 pm R Kaufman s Women s Parsha shiur 8:30pm Dr. Presby (Women) 9pm R Kaufman Bava Basra Wednesday, December 26 10a-12p Kollel Balabatim Mas. Shabbos 8 pm R Ziegler: Gemara Thursday, December 27 11a-12p Kollel Balabatim Mas. Rosh Hashana 8pm Dr. Presby: Gemara Friday, December 28 10a-12p Kollel Balabatim Mas. Shabbos Daf Yomi: Shabbat: after 7:50 minyan & mincha Sunday: 7:05am, M-F: 5:05am Shabbat Shalom to all our Members and Friends

2 בס "ד Renovation Update December 21, 2018 By Norman Heyden Eliyahu Kaufman Rabbi (732) Eliezer Kaminetzky Rabbi Emeritus (732) Jay Dobin President (732) Congregation Ohav Emeth 415 Raritan Avenue or P.O. Box 1533 Highland Park, NJ (732) As the tax year ends, please consider paying any outstanding dedications promptly and, if you were planning to pay a portion of your dedication next year or in subsequent years, please consider accelerating your payment(s) into this year. Many renovation dedication opportunities are still available, including benches for the main shul at $1800 each. Please contact Michael Garber or Norman Heyden for details. If you have not as yet contributed, it is definitely not too late. We need everyone s support! Since last week s update: The repair work to the walls in the main shul was completed, baseboard molding installed, and the walls painted. Beautiful! Sheetrock work was completed on the sides of the Jerusalem stone. Wood moldings should be installed in the horizontal open areas surrounding the Jerusalem stone in the next couple of weeks. All of the remaining pieces of wood for the Aron Kodesh have been delivered to Mr. Fligelman for staining and have been stained, and should be installed next week. The stained glass panels for the Aron Kodesh are being manufactured and should be delivered and installed in a few weeks. Lights will be installed behind each of the eight stained glass panels to illuminate them. The ner tamid was centered on the front bima in front of the doors of the Aron Kodesh, and the new ner tamid for the social hall has shipped and will be delivered at the end of next week. All of the new mechitza panels will be installed next week. All of the sheets of tempered glass (eight in total) upon which the bus film will be applied were also delivered this week. The bus film should be applied next week in the shul to the sheets of tempered glass. The electrician installed a wall dimmer switch to control the LED rope lights that will illuminate the top and bottom of the image on the bus film. New window blinds (wood slat) were installed in the beis medrash this week. New carpeting will be installed the week of January 7. We are also on schedule for delivery and installation of the new benches and furniture starting Monday morning January 14 and lasting approximately four days. The New Holland installation crew expects to work each day from 7 am to about 8 pm. Please see page 4 of this bulletin for further announcements and messages from the Renovations Committee.

3 This Shabbat 7:50 minyan kiddush is sponsored by Rifky & Jack Atkin in honor of the birth of their grandson, Shlomo Yosef, to their children, Sharona & Steven Bresler. Mazel tov to the greatgrandmother, Mrs. Ethel Roth, and to Yosef s siblings, Simi, Sara, Shalom, and Racheli. (The 7:50 minyan kiddush LAST WEEK was sponsored by Lisa & Micha Ben-haim in honor of Sarah Schwartz s engagement to Joe Khafi, and in honor of their daughter Naomi s upcoming wedding.) Main minyan kiddush is sponsored by Leora & Warren Weiner in honor of Josh s bar mitzvah. Seuda shlishit is sponsored by Gilda & Ed Norin to mark the coming yahrtzeit of Ed s mother, Dubba bat Yoseph OE office hours this week will be: Mon Tue Wed: CLOSED. Thursday: 10-3 Friday: To place business cards or flyers on the shul s cork boards by the restrooms, please submit them to the office. Flyers placed in other locations will be removed OE has hired Rabbi David Blum to serve as chaplain in Middlesex Cty via the Rabbi Chaim Yosef Furst Chaplaincy Program. For info about the program, and to donate, visit the OE website and click "Chaplaincy Program." If you would like to be added to the Ohav Emeth phone or list, contact Aliza office@ohavemeth.org Hatzolah Seeking volunteers. Free EMT training. If you wish to join, call or info@hatzolahmc.org. To donate, call /write checks to Chevra Hatzolah of Middlesex County mail to P.O. Box 778 Edison, NJ HP First Aid Squad highlandparkfas.com Highland Park Eruv hperuv.org * Follow us on * Contact: david@weintraub.name * updates: sign up on website A Call for Women s Shiurim Please contact the office if you are interested in presenting In memory of Sondra Donations in memory of Sondra Botvinick for medical equipment at Haddassah Hospital in Jerusalem. PO Box 1100, New York, NY ( Sondra Botvinick Memorial Fund in memo line) Phone: (mention the Memorial Fund.) HELP NEEDED A young girl in our community needs financial assistance for costly medical procedures and rehabilitation therapy. She has been rehabilitating post-injury for four years and is still in great need of help in order to improve her quality of life. Her parents thank our local rebbeim and the entire community for your support. Checks can be made to: Ahavas Achim Rabbi s Charity Fund. 216 S. 1st Ave. For info contact or Art artfpmd@aol.com or Rachelle rachelle_stern@yahoo.com BIKUR CHOLIM bikurcholimrv.com SAVE THE DATE: Bikur Cholim Annual Event: Sunday, March 17, 2019 at Manor. * * * * * * * * * Hospitality Room: at RWJ Univ. Hosp. Main floor opposite ICU Mothers Helpers: Volunteers (girls, grade 10+) to help w/ 5yo special needs girl Homebound Visits: Volunteers 11 th grade Nursing Home Visitation: Seeking volunteers to visit residents of the Regency Nursing Home, in Somerset, NJ Rahelrbaruh@yahoo.com OWLS: Overnight childcare for laboring moms; To receive or volunteer, call KOSHER MEALS ON WHEELS Kosher Meals on Wheels needs a volunteer to deliver meals to the homebound in HP on Thurs mornings. Pick-up in Metuchen, expected time is 2 hrs/wk. Also looking for sub drivers those who can be available on-call. Call Sara

4 ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE OHAV EMETH WEBSITE COMMITTEE At this time, we would like to invite our members to create accounts on the new Congregation Ohav Emeth website ( hosted by ShulCloud. ShulCloud, an established system that hosts several hundred synagogue websites and back-office operations, is quite secure. Briefly, login access to the website will allow you to do the following: Review your financial account with the Shul and make payments to the Shul via Credit Card or PayPal Review and edit your family s profile, including names and ages of family members, yahrtzeit reminders, and other personal information In order to get access, just the website administrator at admin@ohavemeth.org and make sure to include your name. If both spouses in a 2-adult family would like access, each should the administrator separately. Each spouse will be able to access the full account. The administrator will activate your account and you will be sent an invitation to set your password and log onto the site. For now, the gabbai will continue to maintain the yahrtzeit lists that are used in shul. The yahrtzeits in ShulCloud will be used to generate reminder letters prior to the date of the yahrtzeit, as we currently do. For now, the shul office will continue to maintain the shul list for announcements and other broadcasts. If you are not on the list and would like to be, please contact the office separately. In the future, the site will also enable you to sign up for events, reserve High Holiday seats, sign up for Torah reading, and other functions not possible on our old site. You may be receiving this as a nonmember. Account access is currently being offered to members and associate members only. Steve Stein, Ohav Emeth ShulCloud Administrator MESSAGE FROM THE OHAV EMETH OFFICE: The new year will soon be here! With the end of 2018 fast approaching, please be sure to redeem your pledges and to keep OE in mind when making end-of-year, tax deductible donations. Account statements have been mailed out. Please contact the office (phone or ) with any questions. Please submit any checks or credit card transactions by Wednesday, December 26. Thank you! INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE OF BOOK RACKS ON THE NEW BENCHES It is imperative that everyone fully understand how to use the new book racks that will be attached to the back of each of the new benches to avoid damaging them. The current book racks on the benches in the main shul are raised or lowered by moving the wood mechanism below the racks. All of the book racks on the new benches are raised or lowered by holding onto them with one or two hands and moving them either in an upward or downward direction. DO NOT REACH UNDERNEATH THE NEW BOOK RACKS AND PULL ON THE MECHANISM. PULLING ON THE MECHANISM BELOW THE NEW BOOK RACKS WILL DAMAGE THE MECHANISM. When the new benches are installed in January please help others by demonstrating how to properly raise or lower the rack. Please contact Norman Heyden or Michael Garber with any questions.

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6 THIS WEEK ADULT/CHILD CPR/AED CLASS Sat Dec 22, 7:30pm OT. American Heart Ass n certification provided. $50. Limited spots. Register w/marc: docdad@aol.com ORTHODOX FORUM OF EDISON/HP Sat Dec 22, AA: R Ronald Schwarzberg on: "When Did Tikun Olam Become a Jewish Value?. Info: orthodoxjewishforum.org. RPRY SCHOLARSHIP BREAKFAST Dec 23 9:30am: The Toby Mayer Memorial Scholarship Breakfast, honoring R Steven Miodownik. RSVP/ donate: rpry.org/ support-rpry/ scholarship-campaign SHAIMOS Nov 5 - Dec 26. Must be in tied garbage bags. Limit of 50 lbs per bag. $18 for small bags, $36 for large bags. For info: Michael Garber mdgarber@live.com WEEKLY / ONGOING PARENT-CHILD MISHMAR AT RPRY Every Motzi Shabbat 7-8pm. Bring your own sefarim. Pizza served. AVOS UBANIM FATHER-SON LEARNING Every Motzi Shabbos Pizza served. Free of charge. TEHILLIM SHIUR BY RABBI WEISS for men & women weekly on Wed home 154 N. 10th Ave in HP ACHIEVING CHANGE THROUGH TORAH (ACTT) info@actt613.org SINGLES TEHILLIM INITIATIVE For a refua shleima for Esther bat Naomi. WhatsApp Rachel or Adinah COMING UP SOON HP KOLLEL BREAKFAST The Guests of Honor for this year s Highland Park Community Kollel Breakfast: Mr. & Mrs. Akiva & Sara Scott. Guest Speaker: R Hillel Feldman. Sun Dec 30, OT. For info/to donate: visit HPKollel.com or call YIEB LECTURE Young Israel of East Brunswick presents On The Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz by Arthur Kurzweil Sun Jan 6, Please visit for details. AHAVAS ACHIM ISRAEL MISSION 17th Annual Israel Mission Jan 16-28, El-Al flights, hotel stays, guided touring, breakfasts, Shabbat seudot, and more. Cost/ person (double occupancy) is $3476. arieltours.com/aamission. aamission@arieltours.com CHAI LIFELINE SHABBATON The HP/Edison community will host a Chai Lifeline Shabbaton Mar 1-2. Approx 25 girls, ages 7-15, with lifethreatening illnesses will attend. Help us make this an event to remember by sponsoring or volunteering today. Checks made out to Chai Lifeline, mailed to David Waizer, 53 N. 7 th Ave, Highland Park. High school students who would like to volunteer: contact Barbara barbaraedery@gmail.com LOCAL GEMACHS SHEITEL COLLECTION siegelmom@gmail.com HP/EDISON DIAPER GEMACH diapergemach@gmail.com. CENTERPIECE GEMACH L iluy nishmas Fruma Sara bas Chaim Yitzchak KITTEL GEMACH l zecher Lazar Lipman ben Chaim Yitzchak. Call EDISON/HP GOWN GEMACH l iluy nishmas R Yitzchok ben Binyomin. Sara TZEDAKA COLLECTION l iluy nishmas Sorah Rosen. kraanan19@gmail.com EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES enrv.org Job, resume, search help. Send openings to ENRVInfo@gmail.com FOR FULL LISTING OF LOCAL GEMACHS: etzahaim.org/local-gemachs

7 The next Shabbat Mevorchim will be for Shvat on January 5 To become a sponsor for either: the 7:50 Minyan or for the Main Minyan please kiddushoe@hotmail.com and specify which minyan For Women and Girls R Kaufman s weekly Women s Parsha Shiur Tues Dec 25, 1:30 pm. All women are welcome! THIS WEEK HP/Edison Tiferes: L zecher l nishmas Malka bas Shalom. DVD Motzi Shabbos Dec 22, 8:30pm at the Siegel home. For info: siegelmom@gmail.com RBTZ N EICHENSTEIN S WOMEN S CLASSES NO CLASS Sun Dec 23. Parsha Class Mon Dec 24, OT. For more info Contact Aviva (siegelmom@gmail.com, ) VIDEO SERIES: ILLUMINATE YOUR LIFE Six inspirational videos by Tammy Karmel Billowitz home, 98 Leslie St, in Edison, on six consecutive Monday nights at 8:15pm, starting Dec 17. $10 (tax deductable) entry fee per showing. Any questions please contact WOMEN S LEARNING INITIATIVE Leah Drillman s Shmiras Haloshon class Mon Dec 24, home 407 N. 8th Ave in Edison. Call Ellen for info For babysitting call Leah Miri Cohen s Parsha class Tue Dec 25, home 253 Lawrence Ave, HP. ONGOING/WEEKLY R BASSOUS PIRKEI AVOS Sundays at 10am. For info, call Etz Ahaim WOMEN S AMEN GROUP Meets monthly in zechus of refua shleima for Menachem Mordechai ben Ophira & all cholim in the community. Sundays after Shabbos Mevorchim Torah Park Mikvah parkmikvah.org (LL) (M) Use this link to shop on Amazon: A donation will be made to the mikva with every purchase *Mikva Hours: Sundays-Thu: 8-10:30pm, Fridays: by appt only. Motzi Shabboses in December 7:30-10pm * Participate in the mitzvah campaign Help raise the remaining funds. Donate on the website. SAVE THE DATE! Park Mikvah presents a Melave Malka for women on Motzi Shabbos, Feb 23, Guest speaker: Charlene Aminoff Details to follow.

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10 Congregation Ohav Emeth Schedule of Services: Friday, December 21 Friday, December 28, 2018 Friday 12/21 Earliest T&T 6:18 AM Sunrise 7:18 AM Daf Yomi Chulin 24 Shacharit 5:55, 6:40, 7:20 AM Latest Shema M A 9:00, Gra 9:36 am 12:30 PM Candle Lighting 4:16 PM Mincha/Maariv 4:20 PM SHABBOS VAYECHI Earliest Tallis 6:19 AM Sunrise 7:18 AM Hashkama Minyan 7:00 AM Early Minyan 7:50 AM (followed by Daf Yomi, Chulin 25) Main Minyan 9:00 AM Teen Minyan 9:30 AM Latest Shema M A 9:01, Gra 9:37 am Mincha 4:10 (followed by Daf Yomi, Chulin 25) Maariv 5:20 PM Shabbos ends 5:25 PM Sunday 12/23 Earliest T&T 6:19 AM Sunrise 7:19 AM Daf Yomi Chulin 26 Shacharit 6:30, 8:00 AM Latest Shema M A 9:01,Gra 9:37 am 1:00 PM Mincha/Maariv 4:20 PM Monday 12/24 Earliest T&T 6:20 AM Sunrise 7:19 AM Daf Yomi Chulin 27 Shacharit 5:54, 6:30, 7:20 AM Latest Shema M A 9:02, Gra 9:38 am 1:00 PM Mincha/Maariv 4:20 PM Late Maariv 7:50 PM Tuesday 12/25 LEGAL HOLIDAY Earliest T&T 6:20 AM Sunrise 7:19 AM Daf Yomi Chulin 28 7:05 AM Shacharit 6:30, 8:00 AM Latest Shema M A 9:02, Gra 9:38 am 1:00 PM Mincha/Maariv 4:20 PM Late Maariv 7:50 PM Wed 12/26 Earliest T&T 6:21 AM Sunrise 7:20 AM Daf Yomi Chulin 29 Shacharit 5:55, 6:40, 7:20 AM Latest Shema M A 9:03, Gra 9:39 am 1:00 PM Mincha/Maariv 4:20 PM Late Maariv 7:50 PM Thursday 12/27 Earliest T&T 6:21 AM Sunrise 7:20 AM Daf Yomi Chulin 30 Shacharit 5:55, 6:30, 7:20 AM Latest Shema M A 9:03, Gra 9:39 am 1:00 PM Mincha/Maariv 4:20 PM Late Maariv 7:50 PM Friday 12/28 Earliest T&T 6:21 AM Sunrise 7:20 AM Daf Yomi Chulin 31 Shacharit 5:55, 6:40, 7:20 AM Latest Shema M A 9:03, Gra 9:39 am 12:30 PM Candle Lighting 4:20 PM Mincha/Maariv 4:25 PM