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Friday, November 27, 2020

Congregation Agudath Sholom Shabbat Bulletin

Congregation Agudath Sholom
Shabbat Bulletin
VayeitzeiNovember 28, 202012 Kislev 5781
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bulletin@cas-stamford.org
Friday
Candle Lighting4:09 PM
Mincha4:14 PM
Shabbat
Shacharit7:00 AM/9:00 AM
Latest Shema9:20 AM
Latest Shacharit10:07 AM
Mincha3:00 PM
Maariv5:04 PM
Shabbat Ends5:09 PM
Shabbat Shalom
We hope you and your families are well and enjoying an uplifting Thanksgiving weekend.

Thank you to Stephanie Bilenker and Liatte Lasher for chairing a successful food drive for the Schoke JFS Kosher Food Pantry. Thank you to everyone who expressed gratitude to our first responders on Thanksgiving morning and Mitchell Bell and a host of volunteers for providing a Thanksgiving meal to Stamford EMS.

With Chanukah around the corner, we urge you to participate in the myriad of opportunities. To get real time updates, visit our CAS Facebook page and our Young Families page. As we approach Chanukah, let's find new ways every day to light up our community! You may receive updates for timely mitzvah moments by joining our growing whats app group group.

Join us this Monday evening for our Pre Chanukah Torah with Rabbi Benjamin Samuels of Newton, Mass.

This Shabbat, join us for one of the three Shabbat morning minyanim at 7 AM and 9 AM in the Chapel and 9 AM in the tent. This is the last Shabbat when the tent will be in the parking lot. Take a moment to check out the many great events on the horizon. Stay tuned in the weeks ahead, to learn about another vital investment in our future "Life and Legacy", a community venture spearheaded by our local United Jewish Federation. To learn more, visit https://jewishlifelegacy.org/ or speak to Elissa Klapper elissak@optonline.net or Rabbi Cohen.

Thank you for your partnership and wishing you and your family a Shabbat Shalom and Happy Thanksgiving,

Rabbi Daniel Cohen


Pre-Shabbat Virtual Opportunities at CAS 
  1. Ruach and Renewal with Rabbi Cohen and Jonathan Cahr, Friday at 2:00 PM - https://www.facebook.com/rabbidanielcohen
  2. Community Prayers for Healing with Rabbi Kurtz, Friday 3:00 PM - https://zoom.us/j/8514043665 - password: 1234613
  3. Studies for the Soul with Rabbi Kurtz, Friday at 3:10 PM - https://zoom.us/j/8514043665 - password: 1234613
  4. Kabbalat Shabbat with Sandy Shapiro and Rabbi Cohen, Friday at 3:20 PM - https://zoom.us/j/8514043665 - password: 1234613
  5. Join Rabbi Cohen's Living Torah Moment and Rabbi Kurtz's Daily Peninei Halacha

Virtual Torah and Announcements 
  • Rabbi Daniel Cohen: Eternal Ethics: A Thanksgiving and Holiday Season Awakening for All of Us - click here
  • Rabbi Moshe Kurtz: Dvar Torah On Parshat Vayetze - click here
  • CAS President, Toby Schaffer's Shabbat Announcements - click here
  • Rabbi Daniel Cohen: The Difference between Urgent and Important - click here
  • Virtual Scholar-In-Residence Rabbi Dr. Moshe D. Tendler - click here
  • Rabbi Menachem Leibtag on Kaddish - click here with Passcode: 9H+%pFsu

Shabbat Information 
  • We will be in the tent Friday and Saturday night
  • Shabbat Torah Reading Parshat Veyeitzei - click here - Please learn the Torah of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Harav Yaakov Tzvi ben Liba, in his memory.
  • Haftorah Parshat Veyeitzei - summary by Chabad.org - click here
  • Shabbat mincha will be at 3:00 PM during the winter to enable seudah shlishit at home.
  • Important - We now have plexiglass dividers for indoor and outdoor minyanim that will be used to facilitate aliyot. Please be mindful of the guidelines which will be printed at each minyan.
  • Artscroll siddurim will be available for Shabbat morning minyanim

Don't forget to sign up for minyanim: click here. With increasing COVID cases in our community, contact tracing is all the more important. Masks covering the nose and mouth must be worn at all times. Thank you for your cooperation.

Relive the Moment - Torah Reading and Haftorah - Have not read your Bar Mitzvah Parsha and would like to relive the moment? Contact Mark Wagshul (mark.wagshul@gmail.com) or Sandy Shapiro (sandy613@optonline.net). To schedule Haftorah or lead davening on the anniversary of your Bar Mitzvah or Aufruf, contact Rabbi Cohen or Rabbi Kurtz.

Thank you  
  • to Mitchell Bell for leading the Men's Club's Annual Thanksgiving Feast for the Stamford EMS and to everyone who helped make it happen: Jim Benjamin, Harvey Caney, Diane Cohen, Elior Coleman, Suzannah & Eytan Coll, Aaron Goldenberg, Lorraine Kweskin, Barbara Webski & Shushannah Yasgur
  • To the Waldstreicher Family for sponsoring this week's Senior Challah Delivery

    If you would like to sponsor a week, click here.

Thank You to everyone who has responded generously to our Yom Kippur Appeal. The Yom Kippur Appeal is our second largest fundraiser of the year and directly goes to support the operations of the shul.

Your support makes a difference and we value every contribution as we know it comes from your heart and is an investment in the future of our shul and community! To make your investment today, click here.

Daniel & Andrea Aaron
Alexander & Mariya Abramov
Diane Akassis
Selim & Johanna Akyuz
Herman & Myrna Alswanger
Ronald & Barbara Ashkenas
Fred & Sharon Baer
Mitchell & Gayle Bell
Albert Bensimon
Michael & Debra Berg
Paul & Dina Berger
Ira & Karen Berk
Harvey & Lynn Berman
David Bessaleli
Barry Best
Carl & Linda Bildner
Josh & Stephanie Bilenker
Herbert Bregman
Jeff & Judy Cahn
Harvey & Emily Caney
Corinne Chapman
Barry & Joyce Chavkin
Lewis Cherniack
Abraham Cogan
David & Meredith Cohen
Ephraim & Rachel Cohen
Miriam Cohen
Rabbi Daniel & Diane Cohen
Steven & Elise Cohen
Isaac & Stella Cohen
Michael & Lenore Cooper
Peretz & Kate Cik
Gary & Ellen Davis
Zvi & Emily Dubitzky
Rita Edelston
Irwin & Arlene Ettinger
Shirley Ephraim
Yoel Ephraim
Daniel & Debra Faizakoff
Lee Fanwick
Stuart & Rosalie Feldman
Michael & Sharon Feldstein
Stuart & Claudine Feurstein
Tamara Feurstein
Sam Fischel
Howard & Stephanie Fogel
Len & Lindy Fox
Avram & Rhoda Freedberg
Steven & Lynne Frenkel
Richard & Gayle Frohwirth
Adam & Jessica Furmansky
Joseph & Miriam Gelb
Arline Gewanter
Morris & Roslyn Glucksman
Howard & Judy Goldstein
Ethan & Shira Green
Gloria Green
Eric & Pamela Greenhut
Mikhael Guy & Tatiana Kunik
Lawrence & Joyce Haber
Dan & Rachel Haron
Yoav & Meghan Haron
Sheryl Hertzberg
Sidney & Lorraine Horowitz
Robert Indyk
Dorothy Jaiven
Eric & Monica Jankelovits
David & Judith Jelen
Jay & Rachel Jubas
Michael & Sandra Kamen
Harvey & Helene Kaminski
Brian & Rebekah Kanefsky
Hannah Kaplan
Howard Kaplan
Carl & Flora Kaufman
Michael Kheyfets
Philip & Elissa Klapper
Bruce Klenoff
Max & Susan Kolbrenner
Randy Kovacs
Daniel & Tamar Kraus
David & Lorraine Kweskin
Ari & Andrea Lefkovits
Rita Lerner
David Levine
Senator Joseph & Hadassah Lieberman
Albert & Ana Lilienfeld
Mark & Vered Links
Jason & Marla Lewis
Robert & Gail Loonin
Norman & Nina Lotstein
Judd & Rhonda Love
Jonathan & Nicole Makovsky
Roselyn Mangot
Len & Susan Mark
Seth & Dinah Marlowe
Sarah Marlowe
Jeffrey Maron & Rhonda Schaffer-Maron
Danette Meigel
Irene Meltzer
Neil & Deborah Metviner
Jacob & Janice Meyer
Bill & Kori Meyers
Barry & Shelley Michelson
Gadi & Nancy Mimoun
Abraham Mintz & Stacey Mintz
Gregory & Leah Miller
Joseph Mittel
Ilya Molodetsky
Philip & Jane Molstre
David Moskowitz & Rona Orenstein-Moskowitz
Gavriel & Bella Mullokandov
Eliaz & Jessica Niedober
Irwin Niedober
Marc & Shira Nerenberg
Ken & Marguerite Neuhaus
Bruce & Rose Newman
Jonathan Osser
Norman & Barbara Ostroff
Anne Peskin
Alexander Podelko & Marina Sapir
Robert & Carol Rabinowitz
Neil & Anne Raff
Bob & Judy Raymond
Veronica Reich
Glenn & Maria Reicin
Alan & Hilary Rifkin
Irwin & Jeannie Rifkin
Noel & Lenore Robin
Laurie Rogoff
Allen & Sherri Rosenthal
Carol Rosmarin
Howard & Gayle Rothman
Nat & Helene Samberg
Renee Samson
Edward Schachter
Toby Schaffer
Marvin & Ivy Schildkraut
Madeline Schor
Dean & Ilyse Schuckman
Edward & Rochelle Senker
Sheldron & Helen Seplowitz
Alan & Pam Shanker
Martin & Phyllis Shapiro
Sandy & Lillian Shapiro
Rosalyn Sherman
Howard & Carol Shiffman
Esther Shklover
Keith & Claudia Silver
Abraham & Lisa Slen
Ben-Zion & Devora Soifer
Joshua & Miriam Sperber
Samuel & Amy Sroka
Ronaldo & Betty Steinberg
Harold & Rachel Terk
Seth & Laura Tobin
Arkady & Ludmila Tuller
Audrey Waldstreicher
Stuart & Sandi Waldstreicher
Jon & Shira Waldstreicher
Daniel Wallis & Sarah Bierman
Harry & Barbara Webski
Michael & Emily Wirgin
Simeon & Sharon Wohlberg
Robert Yaghoubian & Neda Khaghan
Robert & Shana Yakubovich
Joe & Lauren Zalis
Sandra Zaritsky
Helene Zimmerman
Robert & Hillary Zitter
David & Navah Zizmor
Condolences
  • to Beth Cohen on the passing of her mother Irma Skversky
  • to Ruth Aminoff on the passing of her brother Norman Mattisinko
For up to date shiva and contact info: www.cas-stamford.org/shiva
To make a memorial contribution online, and have us send an acknowledgement to the family, please click here
Mazal Tov
  • to Danielle and Matthew Kondub on the birth of a baby boy!
Celebrate with the family! Make a donation in their honor and we will send an acknowledgement to the family. Just click here
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Upcoming Events
Literature At Lunch With Rabbi Moshe Kurtz & Richard Schwartz 
Wednesday, December 16 - 12:00 PM
Join us on Wednesday 12/16/20 as we discuss The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko. Dr. Richard Schwartz will present the literature, Rabbi Kurtz will provide the Torah, and you will contribute your own thoughts and ideas! (No pressure, you can also just listen in.) Please feel welcome to read the short story beforehand. Please reach out to Rabbi Kurtz with any questions: rabbikurtz@cas-stamford.org
Shabbat Shalom
Help Us in Securing Our Shul  We Need You - Join our Agudath Sholom CSS volunteer security team! We live in uncertain and trying times, and no one can protect our community like our own members. Join us and get trained so you can be empowered to help further CSS's mission of protecting our synagogue and our members.Contact CSS Team leader: Dr. Adam Breiner (adambr@thecss.org) for more information.

Michael Feldstein's latest article in The Jewish Link  click here
Weekday Schedule
ShacharitShacharit: Sunday 7:00 AM/8:30 AM, Monday-Friday 6:30 AM/7:30 AM
MinchaMincha: Sunday-Thursday 4:15 PM, Friday 4:12 PM
Candles Friday4:07 PM
CAS Israel Advocacy Update
Virtual ACHI/Ben Yehuda Market  Even though you can't visit Israel, you can still shop and support the businesses there who are suffering from the lack of tourism. Browse through 55 Israeli merchants from many different categories. Achi613.org

Take a Minute to Support Israel  Supporting Israel isn't hard -- there are many things that you can do that take literally one minute. The Israel Committee now has a website built on this idea. Go to www.IsraelMinute.com for simple things that you can do, from calling your Congressional representatives to social media posts, that take only a minute or two. Check back frequently for updates and ideas for things you can do!

LIPS product of the week  Check out our new Love Israel Products Blog (LIPS) for the latest ways to support Israel! Thank you to Lola Halperin and Aaron Goldenberg for organizing. www.loveisraelproducts.com
CAS Announcements
  • JOIN THE CHEVRA KADISHA If you are interested in viewing a training video on how to perform a tahara, please contact Michael Feldstein at michaelgfeldstein@gmail.com at the Stamford Chevra Kadisha and he will send you a link.
  • PAY IT FORWARD! As our community grows it takes even more effort to insure the warmth of our shul. You may not realize but we have a Hospitality Team who are informed of new families who moved into community. Team members are expected to invite new families to any of the following: shabbat meal, BBQ, brunch, even coffee, a get-together in the park, or a community-wide function. It means so much to new families. To join our Hospitality Team, contact membership committee chair, Jon Makovsky at jonathanmakovsky@gmail.com.
  • HEALING VISITS UPDATE: Every week, we include a note about our healing visits group. As a reminder, the group consists of volunteers who give of their time to call, email or visit people in our community who are in the hospital or in recuperation. If you like to join this Mitzvah mission, please contact Rabbi Cohen at rabbicohen@cas-stamford.org.
  • CAS FREE MEZUZAH CAMPAIGN IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CT Bringing Blessings to Jewish Homes. Do you know a neighbor or a friend who lacks a mezuzah? CAS offers a free mezuzah and home visit to post this sacred scroll at the entrance to all Jewish homes in the area. For more info, contact Rabbi Cohen: rabbicohen@cas-stamford.org
  • IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING We need you to help secure our Synagogue. As you come to the building, please be aware of your surroundings. If you see something out of the ordinary, please let someone know about it. This will keep everyone safe.
  • WELCOME TO OUR SYNAGOGUE PROGRAM Every Shabbat we station ushers at the doors in the sanctuary to welcome people, assist them and enhance the service. We are expanding the usher roles to include a greeter in the lobby from 9-10:30 am. Please join the usher team. We need you and your smile. Info: Mitchell Bell.
  • COMMUNITY CHESED HELPERS An important role of the Chesed committee is outreach to the Shul's elderly and homebound, who are often isolated and lack a lifeline to our synagogue. Volunteer to reach out and identify needs, visit, or give a ride. Even small gestures mean a great deal Interested? Vivian Weiss at 203-323-0909 or vivianweiss@gmail.com. If you are aware of elderly or homebound members in need of outreach, please notify Rabbi Cohen.
CAS Classes Online

Join one of the online classes from CAS or in our community

Shabbat, November 28

5:42 PMRabbi Cohen and his family: Virtual Havdalah - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
6:00 PMRabbi Cohen and Rabbi Kurtz: Motzai Shabbat Live - www.facebook.com/rabbidanielcohen
7:15 PMCAS Shabbats Daf Yomi: - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: (646) 558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824

Sunday, November 29

6:10 AMMishna Brura: - www.zoom.us/j/7203757688 Dial in: Password: MB
7:40 AMCAS Daf Yomi: - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: 646-558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824
8:30 AMCAS Shacharit: - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
9:15 AMRabbi Moshe Kurtz - Bible from the Beginning: - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: (646) 558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824
4:15 PMCAS Mincha/Maariv: - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
5:40 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Community Prayers for Healing - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
5:50 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Studies for the Soul - Mishna class, now studying Tractate Megillah - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613

Monday, November 30

5:40 AMMishna Brura: - www.zoom.us/j/7203757688 Dial in: Password: MB
7:30 AMCAS Shacharit: - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
7:30 AMCAS Daf Yomi: - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: 646-558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824
10:15 AMBob Abrams: The Tanach Club - A Philosophical Discussion of the Book of Breishit/Genesis - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: (646) 558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824
4:15 PMCAS Mincha/Maariv: - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
5:40 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Community Prayers for Healing - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
5:50 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Studies for the Soul - Mishna class, now studying Tractate Megillah - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
8:00 PMRabbi Benjamin J. Samuels, PhD - How Many Chanukah Lights? The Development of Halakhic Practice in Light of Talmudic Interpretation, Sociology, Climate and Technology: - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: (646) 558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824

Tuesday, December 1

5:40 AMMishna Brura: - www.zoom.us/j/7203757688 Dial in: Password: MB
7:30 AMCAS Daf Yomi: - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: (646) 558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824
7:30 AMCAS Shacharit: - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
8:15 AMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Inside the Mind of the Great Biblical Commentators Explore their overarching Torah and life philosophies - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
9:10 AMRabbi Daniel Cohen: The Power of the Prophets - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
12:00 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Parsha Perspectives - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
4:15 PMCAS Mincha/Maariv: - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
5:40 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Community Prayers for Healing - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
5:50 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Studies for the Soul - Mishna class, now studying Tractate Megillah - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613

Wednesday, December 2

5:40 AMMishna Brura: - www.zoom.us/j/7203757688 Dial in: Password: MB
7:30 AMCAS Daf Yomi: - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: (646) 558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824
7:30 AMCAS Shacharit: - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
4:15 PMCAS Mincha/Maariv: - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
5:40 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Community Prayers for Healing - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
5:50 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Studies for the Soul - Mishna class, now studying Tractate Megillah - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
8:00 PM(Non)10: 30 Shiur Rabbi Oran Zweiter - Ordination Ordeals Part 3 Modern Semikhah Controversies - Understandings and Reflections - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: (646) 558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824

Thursday, December 3

5:40 AMMishna Brura: - www.zoom.us/j/7203757688 Dial in: Password: MB
7:30 AMCAS Shacharit: - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
7:30 AMCAS Daf Yomi: - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: 646-558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824
9:30 AMRabbi Moshe Kurtz: Leaves of Faith - The Philosophy of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: (646) 558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824
12:00 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Eternal Ethics - www.facebook.com/rabbidanielcohen
4:15 PMCAS Mincha/Maariv: - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
5:40 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Community Prayers for Healing - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
5:50 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Studies for the Soul - Mishna class, now studying Tractate Megillah - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
9:15 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen: Men's Learning - Finding Strength - Slonimer Insights on the Parsha - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613

Friday, December 4

5:40 AMMishna Brura: - www.zoom.us/j/7203757688 Dial in: Password: MB
7:30 AMCAS Daf Yomi: - zoom.us/j/7052940733 Dial in: (646) 558-8656, code: 7052940733# - Zoom password: 015824
7:30 AMCAS Shacharit: - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
8:15 AMRabbi Daniel Cohen: The Pre-Shabbos Torah Taste - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
2:00 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen and Jonathan Cahr: Ruach and Renewal - www.facebook.com/rabbidanielcohen
3:00 PMRabbi Moshe Kurtz: Community Prayers for Healing - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
3:10 PMRabbi Moshe Kurtz: Studies for the Soul - Mishna class, now studying Tractate Megillah - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
3:30 PMRabbi Daniel Cohen and Sandy Shapiro: Virtual Kabbalat Shabbat Program - zoom.us/j/8514043665 Dial in: (646) 568-7788, code: 8514043665# - Zoom password: 1234613
We Wish A Speedy Recovery To
  • Aviva bat Sultana
  • Davida bat Rachel
  • Dov ben Pnina
  • Eliezer ben Chana
  • Malkah Esther bat Itzik
  • Nechama Miriam bat Devorah
  • Refael Ephraim ben Sima
  • Rivka bat Alta
  • Rochel Fraidl bat Yehudis
  • Ruth bat Ivette
  • Zev Mordechai ben Chaya Gittel
Community Announcements
  • THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION (CCE) OF THE BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY is proud to announce a Zoom panel discussion on MODERN ORTHODOXY IN A POST-MODERN WORLD, featuring Rabbi Tully Harcsztark, founding principal of the SAR HIGH School, and Rabbi Dr. Gil Perl, head of school at Kohelet Yeshiva. Tuesday night, December 1st at 8PM. To register, please visit bchaupperschool.org/cce
  • CHANUKAH VIRTUAL COOKING DEMO Join United Jewish Federation on Wednesday, December 2nd at 8pm with James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov. Solomonov is the co-owner and Executive Chef of Zahav, the first Israeli restaurant to win a James Beard award for Outstanding Restaurant, and voted one of the 40 most important restaurants of the past 40 years by Food & Wine Magazine. A list of ingredients will be emailed before the event. To sign up for this free program go to www.ujf.org/solomonov. For more information contact Diane Sloyer at dianesloyer@ujf.org
  • ONGOING COMMUNITY SUPPORT FROM SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE Schoke Jewish Family Service is offering weekly Zoom sessions to help community members manage the stress of the Coronavirus outbreak. Each session will be facilitated by members of the Schoke JFS Kuriansky Family Counseling Program. These webinars are open to anyone in the community. Registration is limited to twelve participants per session. To register, please click on the session you wish to attend at https://ctjfs.salsalabs.org/covid19virtualgatheringsupdated. Tuesdays, Beginning March 31 at 12 Noon - Facilitated by Lois Meyer, LMSW and Valerie Gutman, Thursdays, Beginning April 2 at 4 PM - Facilitated by Dr. Lee Combrinck-Graham and Toby Lazarus, Ph.D. and Fridays, Beginning April 3 at 10 AM - Facilitated by Eve Moskowitz, LCSW and Amanda Hirsch-Geffner,LCSW
  • THE SCHOKE JFS FREEDBERG FAMILY KOSHER FOOD PANTRY IS OPEN AND ACCEPTING DONATIONS of perishable and non- perishable foods. Please contact Rebekah Kanefsky at rkanefsky@ctjfs.org or 203-921-4161 to arrange for a donation. If you would like to volunteer at the food pantry or to help deliver food to our clients, please contact Jill Knopoff at 203-921-4161 or jknopoff@ctjfs.org for volunteer opportunities.
Kosher Advisories
  • KOSHER ALERTS The OU reminds you to always check the label before purchasing any item that needs kosher certification! And for the latest corrective actions, stay up with the latest OU KOSHER CONSUMER ALERTS & ADVISORIES...just click here
  • KOSHER ADVISORY Breaking news from the OU - newly certified items! to check out the list click here

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