Arzei Darom - eNnouncements

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Events
8th Annual Arzei Darom Cholent Cookoff
Friday Night, Jan 9 8PM
Parashat Shemot
Friday, Jan 9
Shacharit 6:45 am
Candles 4:28 pm
Mincha 4:35 pm
Cholent Cook Off 8:00 pm
Shabbat, Jan 10
Shacharit 9:00 am
Kriat Shma 9:42 am
Mincha 4:20 pm
Ma'ariv 5:31 pm
Havdalah 5:37 pm
Parent Child Learning 6:30 pm
Sunday, Jan 11
Rabbi's Shiur 7:50 am
Shacharit 8:30 am
Mincha/Ma'ariv 4:35 pm
Monday, Jan 12
Shacharit 6:35 am
Ma'ariv 8:30 pm
Tuesday, Jan 13
Shacharit 6:45 am
Ma'ariv 8:30 pm
Wednesday, Jan 14
Shacharit 6:45 am
Rabbi's Shiur 7:50 pm
Ma'ariv 8:30 pm
Thursday, Jan 15
Shacharit 6:35 am
Ma'ariv 8:30 pm
Contact Us
CONGREGATION
ARZEI DAROM
725 Queen Anne Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Rabbi Aharon Ciment
rabbi@arzeidarom.org
Study: 201-530-0043
President: Yosef Rothstein
president@arzeidarom.org
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FOR THE CHOLENT COOK OFF, ENTER THROUGH THE PARKING LOT DOORS. THE
FRONT DOORS WILL BE LOCKED.
Calling All Bakers!
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Calling All Bakers
It's time again to open your heart
And help Arzei Darom by doing your part
Open your kitchen, cook and bake
So we can sell your great makes
Or make some soup, kugel, or cake
We need it all for our shul's sake!
Please sign up below to tell us what you would like to make for this this
year's Arzei Darom Bake Sale
February 5, 2015 7-10pm
Drop off of items: February 4, 2015 7-10pm
Sign Up Here
Murder Mystery - Feb 14
Please join the Sisterhood on Saturday night February 14th for a Murder Mystery.
Details to follow. Contact ellierothstein@gmail.com if you want to help with the
arrangements.
Care One Chesed Opportunity
Every week, Arzei Darom sends volunteers to visit the patients at CareOne. They spend
a couple of hours, performing the mitzvah of bikur cholim, by visiting with patients at
Care One who have requested visitors. Some families have decided to go together and
many bring their children along. For each family, the experience is unique, but every one
of those visits is greatly appreciated.
We want to thank the following families who have made this a great project over the
past year: Borodach, Rosenbluth, Katzwer, Tyler, Grunstein, Goldgewert, Rothstein,
Rubenstein, Cohen, Taubes, Sarue, Kahn, Weiss and Shore.
But most of all we want to thank Susan Taubes for coordinating this chesed opportunity.
As we begin a new calendar year, now is the time to either join the rotation or if your
time commitments on shabat afternoon have changed, to drop off the list. Because so
many families participate, the commitment is to visit Care One, once every three to four
months.
If you wish to be added to or removed from the rotation, please e-mail Susan Taubes at
bikurcholim@arzeidarom.org, so we can have an organized schedule each Shabbat.
Welcome to our new Meals Coordinator
We are pleased to announce that Adrianne Mittan has volunteered to become our new
meals coordinator. As a community, we offer assistance with meals to families with new
babies, families sitting shiva, and families who need a little help for various reasons,
such as a medical emergency. Adrianne will oversee those efforts, and we thank her for
stepping forward to fill this need. Adrianne, however, will need the help of everyone in
the community to help us continue to fulfill these chesed opportunities when the arise. If
you are interested in volunteering to help make meals in the future, please contact
Adrianne at agemittan@gmail.com. And if you are in need of our assistance, whether it
is for good news or less fortunate news, you can contact Adrianne directly, or speak to
Rabbi and Rabbanit Ciment, or Yosef Rothstein.
Youth Programing At Arzei Darom
Upcoming Youth Events
January 10th: Parent child learning
January 17th: Mommy and Me
January 24th: Parent child learning
January 30th: Teen Oneg at Blech family
January 31st: Mommy and Me
February 7th: Inagural 5th Grade boys Shabbos Afternoon Pirchei. Location and time
TBA. (Fun! Learning! Nosh!)
February 13th: Middle School Oneg. Location TBA
February 21st: 3rd and 4th grade boys and girls Shaloshuedes. 3:30-5:00pm. Location
TBA
February 28th: 2nd ever "Transformative" 1st and 2nd grade Shaloshuedes.
3:30-5:00pm. Location TBA
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
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 youth@arzeidarom.org.
Upcoming Dates: 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 youth@arzeidarom.org.
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 17, Jan 31, Feb 14
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 davidwilliamtyler@yahoo.com.
Kiddush Cooperative 2015
We have finished our second cycle of the Kiddush Cooperative and based on feedback
from members, it continues to be a nice addition to our kiddush calendar allowing a
group of families to sponsor at least seven to eight times a year a hot and delicious
kiddush. Thus, we would like to start our third cycle following the yeshiva break. In
order to do that we need at least twenty four families to participate at a cost of $200 per
family. This is an excellent way to sponsor kiddush at a very reasonable price. While we
typically order from our local vendors, we welcome feedback from Kiddush Cooperative
members on what types of menus they would like to see.
Please email Holly Weiss at holly.ohrenweiss1@gmail.com by January 15, 2015 to add
your name to the Kiddush Cooperative.
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.
Jan: Blaiberg, Blass, Blech, Borgen, Borodach
For more information on anything Kiddush related, please contact Holly Weiss at
kiddush@arzeidarom.org.
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 bikurcholim@arzeidarom.org.
Bikur Cholim Volunteers
Arzei Darom is looking for bikur cholim volunteers to visit the patients at CareOne 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 bikurcholim@arzeidarom.org, so she can add
your name to the rotation list and we can have an organized schedule each Shabbat.
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
hallrental@arzeidarom.org 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.
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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 seforim@arzeidarom.org. 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
Shabbos Project 2015 Planing Meeting - Jan 13
The Shabbos Project Committee for Bergen County is planning the Shabbos Project 2015
and we want you to be involved! There will be a planning meeting at Keter Torah, 600
Roemer Ave., Teaneck on Tuesday night, January 13th, at 8:30PM. No need to RSVP.
For more info, please email shabbosprojectBC@gmail.com.
Sinai Dinner - Feb 8
SINAI Dinner - Please help change the life of a child with special needs!
SINAI Schools cordially invites you to our 2015 Annual Benefit Dinner. Each year we rely
on the community to make a difference in the lives of this community's special needs
children who otherwise could not afford to attend our schools. With our incredibly
individualized programs designed to meet each child's specific needs, the nearly 1:2
staff-to-student ratio, and intense therapeutic supports within the classrooms, our costs
per child are staggeringly high. Tuition reflects these costs, and without significant
financial aid is beyond the reach of all but a handful of families. Funds raised at the
Benefit Dinner enable us to continue to say "yes" to the children who need a special
education, regardless of financial circumstances. Your compassion and generosity allows
SINAI Schools to continue to provide an outstanding special education to our
community's Jewish children with special needs.
Please join us on Sunday Evening, February 8, 2015
HONORING
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Shelley and Ruvan Cohen, establishing the Nathaniel Richman Cohen A"H
Scholarship Fund in memory of their son, who tragically succumbed to the illness
that had necessitated his attending SINAI.
Nancy and Dr. Elie Elmann, parents of a current SINAI student.
Laurie and Rabbi Brian Gopin, former SINAI parents whose son recently returned
to a mainstream yeshiva day school after many years at SINAI.
Ashley and Rabbi Shimshon Jacob. He is a SINAI alumnus, and now a Rabbi,
teacher and father.
Judy and Nathan Rephan, grandparents of a current SINAI student.
Receiving our Community Partnership Award: Holy Name Medical Center, a
hospital in Teaneck that has provided vocational placements for our high school
students for over a decade.
Marriott Glenpointe Hotel, Teaneck NJ
Buffet Dinner 4:45PM Program Promptly at 6:30PM
To make reservations or a donation, please visit http://www.sinaidinner.org or call 201833-1134 x105.
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 chaniruth@att.net, 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.
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