For the schedule of Winter davening times, click here. Events Mazel Tov Parashat Vayigash Friday, Dec 26 Shacharit 6:45 am Candles 4:16 pm Mincha 4:20 pm Mazel Tov to Rami Levin on his becoming a bar mitzvah. Mazel Tov to Valerie, Miles, Gittel, Moshe, and Rosalie Levin on the occasion of Rami becoming a bar mitzvah. Kiddush is sponsored by the Levin Family in honor of the occasion. Special Mazel Tovs to proud grandmothers, Naomi Rotter and Rita Levin. 8th Annual Arzei Darom Cholent Cookoff Friday Night, Jan 9 8PM Shabbat, Dec 27 Shacharit 9:00 am Kriat Shma 9:38 am Mincha 4:10 pm Ma'ariv 5:19 pm Havdalah 5:25 pm Parent Child Learning 6:30 pm Sunday, Dec 28 Rabbi's Shiur 7:50 am Shacharit 8:30 am Mincha/Ma'ariv 4:25 pm Monday, Dec 29 Shacharit 6:35 am Ma'ariv 8:30 pm Tuesday, Dec 30 Shacharit 6:45 am Ma'ariv 8:30 pm Board Meeting 8:45 pm Wednesday, Dec 31 Shacharit 6:45 am Rabbi's Shiur 7:50 pm Ma'ariv 8:30 pm Thursday, Jan 1 New Year's Day Aseret B'Tevet Fast Begins 5:52 am Shacharit 8:30 am Mincha/Ma'ariv 4:10 pm Fast Ends 5:25 pm Contact Us CONGREGATION ARZEI DAROM 725 Queen Anne Road Teaneck, NJ 07666 Rabbi Aharon Ciment [email protected] Study: 201-530-0043 President: Yosef Rothstein [email protected] Shop @ Amazon: http://smile.amazon.com/ch/223771836 Trouble viewing this email? For a print friendly PDF version click here Board Meeting - Dec 30 The next Board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, December 30th at 8:45 p.m. in the social hall. All are invited and welcome to attend. End of Year Donations As we are approaching the end of the tax year, this is a good time to clear up any outstanding obligations you might have. If you have not yet paid your 2014 dues (or want a credit toward 2015 dues), building fund, Yom Kippur appeal pledges or outstanding sponsorship pledges, there is no better time to do so than now. You should already have received your bills. If you have any questions, please contact Ron Goldgewert at [email protected]. Youth Programing At Arzei Darom Youth Groups Children are welcome to join our youth groups every shabbat morning from 9:45 until the end of shul. Please see our youth director, Yitzy Frankel if you have any questions. PARENT CHILD LEARNING - Dec 27 Parent Child Learning offers a relaxed, fun atmosphere to learn. Children of all ages are encouraged to attend as long as they are able to learn with a parent for a 30-45 minute period. Followed by pizza and raffle prizes. Family learning topics varies from gemara, mishnayot, parsha, navi, and chumash. Help your child(ren) prepare for a Judaic test, review homework, or study hebrew reading with your kindergartners. Opportunities are available for sponsorship. Please email [email protected]. Upcoming Dates: 1/10/2015 starting 6:30PM 1/24/2015 starting 6:45PM 2/7/2015 starting 7:00PM 2/21/2015 starting 7:15PM 3/7/2015 starting 7:30PM Mommy and Me Times We are also back to our regular every other week Mommy and Me. This year, we are looking for Moms to help out with this event. We provide lots of assistance and guidance - no previous Mommy and Me experience needed! If you are interested in taking a turn, please email [email protected]. Mommy and Me takes place in the left side classroom at 10:30 AM on the following dates. All kids ages 0-3 with a parent are welcome and encouraged to attend. Jan 3 Jan 17 Jan 31 Feb 28 Fall/Winter Oneg The Next Oneg will be our Cholent Cook Off. If you are interested in competing, or can help up plan the event, please contact Debbie Tyler or David Tyler. We are looking for sponsors for this season's Onegs. We have two levels of sponsorship: Single Oneg Sponsor - $45 Season Sponsor - $150 Thank you to the Alt, Blech, Bordach, Carman, Eisenman, Levin, Polinsky, Rose, and Anonymous families for your season sponsorship. If you would like to become a sponsor of this terrific mix of Torah and social activity, or if you would like to help organize the Onegs, please contact or speak to David Tyler at [email protected]. Kiddush Committee News Families interested in sponsoring a kiddush and/or seudat shlishit should contact Holly so that she can reserve the date on the shul calendar. Please also let Holly know if you would like to participate in an upcoming Crock Pot Challenge which generally takes place around Rosh Chodesh. We've been doing these for a year and are always seeking new families to take the challenge. Kiddush clean up is on a rotating basis, based on your last name. While we recognize that everyone in your group may not be available each Shabbat, we ask that you pitch in if you are assigned in that month so that the same people are not doing the clean-up each week. We all like kiddushes and we all make plans for lunch after shul so please be respectful of your fellow congregants by helping out during your assigned month if you are in shul. We also ask that you please watch your children during Kiddush to the extent possible, and to place their finished items in the garbage cans provided. Dec: Wiesel, Alt, Barber, Barta, Bernath For more information on anything Kiddush related, please contact Holly Weiss at [email protected]. Learning Opportunities We are always looking for opportunities to strengthen our connection to Torah. The more Torah in the shul, the better, so let us know if you have any other suggestions. Rabbi Ciment's new Sunday morning shiur at 7:50 am & weekly shiur on Wednesdays at 7:50 pm before ma'ariv. A number of Hebrew and English seforim are missing from our library. If you have any of them, please return them so that other members will have the ability to use them as well. If you are currently using one of the seforim, and need to continue to use it, please contact Rebecca Segal so that we can keep track of where our seforim are. Thank you. Chesed Opportunities Bikur Cholim List If you know of someone who would like to be put on the bikur cholim list, please email the name of the person (English and Hebrew w/ Mother's name), and whether or not they are accepting visitors (if so, please include location) or phone calls (if so, please include phone #) and any other details which the person is interested in sharing with the community. The email address is [email protected]. Bikur Cholim Volunteers Arzei Darom is looking for bikur cholim volunteers to visit the patients at CareOne and Holy Name Medical Center on Shabbat. For those who have volunteered in the past, the visits are gratefully appreciated. Please volunteer and encourage your children to join you for this great mitzvah. Please e-mail Susan Taubes at [email protected], so she can add your name to the rotation list and we can have an organized schedule each Shabbat. Care One Care One at Teaneck is seeking Shabbos host families to provide hospitality for our patients' relatives. When illness or post surgery rehabilitation at our facility requires a patient's stay over Shabbos, we often receive requests for accommodations for a spouse, adult child, friend, or other family member. We gladly provide on site RCBC supervised meals, a beautiful Shul and most other requirements. However, when our facility is full, we try to arrange nearby off-site accommodations for sleeping. As a token of our appreciation, we will gladly provide delicious Shabbos meals for the host family, as well. To pre-register as a Shabbos host, please contact Laurie Kleid at 201-287-8560. Social Hall Rentals Having a party? Need space for a simcha? Know someone who is? Arzei Darom's social hall is available for rent at reasonable prices. Please send an email to [email protected] for further information. Important Safety Notice PLEASE DO NOT BLOCK the doorways or the walkway leading to the doors to the shul with your baby carriage. We understand that if it is raining or snowing you do not want your carriage to get wet, but this is a safety issue. The doorways MUST NOT BE BLOCKED AT ANY TIME. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation. Sefer dedication and Yahrzeit memorial plaques A Sefer Or A Volume Of Shas A wonderful way to commemorate an anniversary, honor a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, a significant birthday, marriage, or birth, or in memory of a loved one, is to dedicate a sefer. In addition to the label that is placed in the volume, an acknowledgement card is mailed out. • • • • • • • Artscroll Hebrew/English Siddurim - $30 Artscroll Hebrew only Siddurim - $18 Stone Chumashim - $45 Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur Machzor - $30 Set of 2 Machzorim - $55 Artscroll Hebrew/English Selichot - $25 Dedicate a volume of Gemara - $36 • Dedicate a volume in the Shul Library - various amounts • Dedicate a volume in the Moises ben Rafael Sarue Library - $20 each • Artscroll Children's Siddur, or other children's book - $20 each If you would like to dedicate a sefer, please contact [email protected]. The form is also available on our web site. Or click this link to be taken to the form: http://www.arzeidarom.org/pdf/seforim.pdf. Community Events Teaneckshuls Annual Fundraiser This year's recipient of our online community's generosity is KosherTroops! KosherTroops supports Jewish women & men who are serving in the armed forces of the United States. KosherTroops provides ongoing support and care packages to Jewish American troops in all branches of the military, both deployed as well as stateside. These packages strengthen the spirit and resolve of our troops and show appreciation and thanks for their sacrifice and commitment to protecting our freedom. The packages they send include items that will help them celebrate the Jewish holidays and Shabbat so that they feel connected to the Jewish community while away. In 2013, over 2500 holiday packages and nearly 400 Shabbat packages were sent to over 3200 troops. In addition to our usual request for monetary donations, we are asking for children to submit cards, drawings, etc. which we can send on to the troops, as well. Show the troops some TeaneckShuls love!! Please make tax deductible checks payable to KosherTroops & mail to: Debby Teicher, 1317 Hudson Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666. All kid artwork may also be sent or dropped off at Debby's house. For credit card donations ($10 minimum) please go to: http://www.razoo.com/story/Kosher-Troops Keter Torah Shiurim This Shabbat, following Mincha at 4:05pm at Keter Torah, Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg will speak on "Kaddish and the Eleven Stars of Joseph's Dreams." Motzei Shabbat at 8:00pm, Rabbi Eli Mansour will deliver a public lecture on "How to Overcome Envy," sponsored by Shira Mirkhani to mark the first yartzeit of her husband, Ted Mirkhani, z"l. JEC/Bruriah High School Parlor Meetings JEC's Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy (RTMA) will host parlor meetings for prospective parents on the following dates: Monday, December 29 at 8 PM in Passaic (at the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Schmutter), Tuesday, January 27 at 7:30 PM in Elizabeth/Hillside (at the home of Adam and Esti Cantor). There will also be a Shabbaton held for prospective students in Staten Island the Shabbat of December 26-27. Please contact the RTMA office for exact address details at 908-355-4850, or at RTMA.theJEC.org. Yeshivat Noam Weekly Parent Shiur Yeshivat Noam invites the community to attend a weekly parent shiur on Tuesdays at 9:45 AM in the Middle School Beit Knesset, located at 70 West Century Road in Paramus. The shiur features a number of wonderful educators presenting on varying topics throughout the year. The current series, "Tricks, Loopholes, and Legal Fictions: Does Halacha Allow Us to Deceive G-d?" is presented by Rabbi Uri Goldstein. The series will travel through different places and periods of Jewish History to look at the Halachic and historical circumstances behind some famous loopholes, including the Prozbul, the sale of Chametz, and the sale of The Land of Israel during a Shemita year. For more information, please email [email protected]. Beth Abraham Yarche Kallah - Dec 27 Please join us as we take advantage of the upcoming time off by joining together for a special yarchei kallah focusing on Tefila in memory of the Har Nof kedoshim: Shabbos, Dec. 27th Following mincha,R' Neuburger will be giving a special shiur on "Baruch - the Elemental and Enigmatic Building Block of our Davening". Men and Women are invited to all shiurim. Sponsorships are available. Ma'ayanot Shiurim - Jan The Ma'ayanot Continuing Education committee is pleased to present a shiur series by Rabbi Zev Prince, Director of Religious Programming and Talmud Teacher, on the topic: Ketav VeKabbalah: The Story of the Sidrah as Told by the Sages of the Talmud. The series will take place from 12:20 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. in the Ma'ayanot Library on the following dates: January 1,8 & 14. Ma'ayanot is located at 1650 Palisade Avenue, Teaneck. JLE Annual Dinner - Jan 3 The annual Jewish Learning Experience dinner will be held Motza'ei Shabbat, January 3, 2015 at Temple Beth Shalom, Fair Lawn, NJ. Guest of honor is our very own Ken Goffstein. Entertainment to be provided by the band Pey Dalid. For more information visit http://www.jle.org or call Rabbi Pietruszka at 201-966-4498. Email [email protected]. TABC Annual Dinner - Jan 4 Save the Date! TABC Annual Dinner - Torah Academy of Bergen County is holding its 32nd Annual Dinner on January 4, 2015. Guests of Honor are Lianne and Etiel Forman; Norman Blumenthal will receive the Service Award and Etan Bluman '06 will receive the Alumni Service Award. Reservations and donations can be made at http://www.tabc.org/dinner. RYNJ Annual Dinner - Jan 7 Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey's 77th Annual Dinner will take place on Sunday evening, January 11th, 2015 at Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck. Please join us as we pay tribute to our Guests of Honor, Israel and Cindy Wiesel and to our Keter Shem Tov awardees, David and Shira Greenberg. For more information, reservations or to place an ad please see our website at http://www.RYNJ.org/dinner or contact the school office at 201-986-1414. Beth Aaron Lecture Series Rabbi Larry Rothwachs of Congregation Beth Aaron will offer an eight part lecture series on the topic "Serving Our Creator with a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul", beginning November 24 at 8:30 pm at Congregation Beth Aaron, 950 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck. For further information, contact the shul office at 201-836-6210 or [email protected]. Mikvah appointments now available online! Appointments may now be booked online for the Teaneck Mikvah (http://www.teaneckmikvah.com). You must make an online appointment to use the Mikvah on Friday night or Yom Tov, other times walk-ins are welcomed. If you have a special circumstance, please call Miriam Feman at the Mikvah, 201-837-8220, and she will do her best to accommodate your needs. The Keylim Mikvah is open from 7:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Please call the Mikvah, 201-837-8220, with any questions. Tomchei Shabbos of Bergen County Tomchei Shabbos is desperately seeking drivers for Wednesday night deliveries. Please contact Chani Schmutter 201-833-2320 or email [email protected], if you are able to help out. We have many opportunities for volunteers to help out, with anything from deliveries to administrative assistance. For more information, click here. About this message This message is being sent to you as a service of Congregation Arzei Darom. To add an announcement, please send the information, including the contact person, to: [email protected] by noon on Wednesday to be included in that week's announcements. Visit http://www.arzeidarom.org/ennouncement.html to Subscribe or Unsubscribe from the e-mail announcement list. 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