Kehilat Kesher / Community Synagogue of Tenafly & Englewood

Welcome to Kehilat Kesher

Community Synagogue of Tenafly and Englewood

Kesher’s mission is to create a spiritual and respectful place for prayer and textual religious study, to actively participate in communal affairs, and to transmit Jewish values to the next generation.

To view our weekly bulletin please click here.

To view our monthly calendar, please click here.

To upload the RCBC Directory, please click here.

If you have moved or changed any of your contact information, please change it on your shulcloud account or contact Ruth Hartstein.

For more information on Gan Henel, the independently run pre-school and daycare housed at Kesher visit their website here or call 201-308-3042.

Our Beautiful New Building

At Kesher

MAZAL TOV

Mazal Tov to Eli Parness on becoming a Bar Mitzvah!
Mazal Tov to Jack Teicher on becoming a Bar Mitzvah!
Mazal Tov to Sarah Silver on becoming a Bat Mitzvah!
Mazal Tov to Noa Polinsky on becoming a Bat Mitzvah!
Mazal Tov to Judah Lewis on becoming Bar Mitzvah!
Mazal Tov to Zahara Solomon on becoming a Bat Mitzvah!
Mazal Tov on the Bar mitzvah of MJ Birk!
Mazal Tov on the Bar Mitzvah of Harry Baum!
Mazal Tov on the bat mitzvah of Orly Hod!
Mazal Tov on the Bat mitzvah of Abigail Bruhim!
Mazal Tov on the Bar Mitzvah of Ben Davidovitch!
Mazal Tov to Adina & Simon Brief on baby Joey's bris.
Mazal Tov to Riki Farkovits on becoming a Bat Mitzvah!
Mazal Tov to Debbie and Brandon Stern on the birth of a baby girl.
Mazal Tov to Zach Kalish on becoming a Bar Mitzvah.
Mazal Tov to Nathaniel Tare on becoming a Bar Mitzvah.
Mazal Tov to Josh Lebovitch on becoming a Bar Mitzvah.
Mazal Tov to Noah Marks on becoming a Bar Mitzvah.
Mazal Tov to Sophie Fink on becoming a Bat Mitzvah.
Mazal Tov to Annabelle Fromen on becoming a Bat Mitzvah.
Mazal Tov to Vered Goodman on becoming a Bat Mitzvah.
Mazal Tov to Hadar Aviv Adler on becoming a Bat Mitzvah.
Mazal Tov to Dr. Yiska Furman & Josh Furman on the birth of Judah George.
Mazal Tov to Ayelet Spitzer & Daniel Gross on the birth of a baby boy.
Mazal Tov to Rachel & Ari Wainberg on the birth of Freddy Liam.
Tamar & Uri Moche on the birth of Sabina Natanya.
Mazal tov to Elana & Ben Silver on the Bar Mitzvah of Ethan Silver.
Mazal tov to Lori and David Birk on being honored at the Annual Kesher Dinner.
Mazal Tov to Amber and Jonathan Harris on being honored at the Annual Kesher Dinner.

VIRTUAL BRICK DONATIONS

DONATE A VIRTUAL BRICK IN INCREMENTS OF

$36, $54, $72, $108 & $180
IN SUPPORT OF THE KESHER BUILDING CAMPAIGN!

Mazal Tov on the birth of baby girl Russell

Marissa and Moses Sternstein

Mazal tov on the birth of baby girl Russell

Jordana and Jon Merkin

Kesher Membership

To inquire about becoming a member of Kesher, please email Ruth Hartstein at ruth@keshernj.com

Wed, January 22 2020
25 Tevet 5780

This Week at Kesher

Friday, January 23, 2020

Shabbat Mevarchim

Parashat Vaera

4:45pm Candle lighting

4:50pm Mincha

Shabbat, January 24

9:15am Shacharit

Kiddush sponsored by Amanda & Hillel Parness in honor of Eli's Bar Mitzvah

This Week in Groups

9:15-10am - Supervision by Geeta and Donna
Ages 2-5 in Classroom C,
Grades 1 & up in Classroom B

10:00am - Youth Groups Begin

Nursery Through 4th grade - Lower level, see signs on classroom doors

for exact age groups' locations

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Toddler-Parent Playgroup

Downstairs, Classroom E

4:45pm Mincha followed by Seudat Shelishit

5:48pm Shabbat Ends

Sunday January 26

8:30am Shacharit

4:55pm Mincha

MONDAY-THURSDAY

6:30am Shacharit

9:00pm Maariv

KESHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Kayama Book Club Selection
The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani
Sunday, January 5

Hostess: Jennifer Nelkin-77 Chestnut Street

Pink Challah Bake Event
Sunday evening February 9
RSVP at https://link.sharsheret.org/kesherchallahbake

Kesher Helping the Homeless -
Volunteers Needed

Kesher's Social Action Committee is pleased to announce that we will again be participating with Temple Sinai in housing and feeding homeless families through the Bergen County Family Promise Program.
Tuesday, February 18 and
Wednesday, February 19
Sign up to help out here.

Women's Megilah Reading
Believe it or not, Purim is coming! If you are interested in reading in the women's megillah reading at Kesher on Purim night, please contact Arwen Kuttner sooner rather than later at arwenkuttner@gmail.com. Parts are already filling up!

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday night, March 14
An evening in honor of ORA (Organization for the Resolution of Agunot) at the home of Miri Lipsky Schainker and Josh Schainker to raise awareness for this really important cause.
Dr. Batsheva Lerner, an expert on fertility matters, will be speaking.

MINYAN

We're looking for more people to commit to at least once a week for the morning and/or evening weekday minyan. Please contact Don to sign up.

Yahrtzeit Plaques

To order a memorial plaque in the new building click here.

Kesher Lockers

Members can sign up to rent a locker here.

If you shop on Amazon

Please start each session by clicking on this link.

You will be directed to to Amazon and Kesher will automatically be credited with a commission for each purchase.

GOOD & WELFARE

Misheberach List

We are reconstituting our misheberach list, to be used at our daily minyan each and every Monday and Thursday. Please click here to add the name of a friend or family member who is in need of healing. Even if it is a name you've added already, we are starting the list anew, so please add it again.

If you wish, include in the last column the description of the individual, so we know for whom we are davening (eg, "Rabbi Block's aunt Sarah").

Bereavement Notices

Wed, January 22 2020 25 Tevet 5780