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.
Our Beautiful New Building
At Kesher
MAZAL TOV
- 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!
A belated Mazal Tov to Ethan Silver on his bar mitzvah. Mazal Tov also to Emily, Sarah, Ben and Elana
-Yonit and Thierry, Julie, Charles and Gabriel Kahane
A belated Mazal Tov to Hadar Adler on her bat mitzvah. Mazal Tov also to Sarah and Oren, Matan, Shalhevet and Lev
-Yonit and Thierry, Julie, Charles and Gabriel Kahane
Abigail Hepner Gross & Robert Gross in honor of baby Stern.
Marisa & Moses Sternstein in honor of baby Stern.
Deborah and Brandon Stern in memory of Sara Sasson.
Deborah and Brandon Stern in honor of Amber & Jonathan Harris
Robin & Josh Tare in honor of Lori & David Birk and Amber & Jonathan Harris
Houchangue and Pari Toubian in honor of
Asher Rosenberg's Bar Mitzvah.
Houchangue and Pari Toubian in honor of this year's Kesher honorees Lori & David Birk.
Houchangue and Pari Toubian in honor of this year's Kesher honorees Amber & Jonathan Harris.
Mark & Susie Charendoff in memory of Mr. Gil Polinsky Z"l.
Mark & Susie Charendoff in honor of Anabelle Fromen's Bat Mitzvah
Mark & Susie Charendoff in honor of Ben Silver's Bar Mitzvah
Marcelle Agus in honor of David & Lori Birk and Jonathan & Amber Harris' upcoming honor.
Kesher Membership
To inquire about becoming a member of Kesher, please email Ruth Hartstein at ruth@keshernj.com
Sat, September 21 2019
21 Elul 5779
This Week at Kesher
Friday, September 20, 2019
Parashat Ki Tavo,
6:38pm Candle lighting
6:40pm Mincha
7:30pm Family Friday Night Dinner with Professor Steven Wilf sponsored by Marisa & Moses Sternstein and Oren & Kara Epstein
8:15pm Friday Night Lecture
The Torah of the Kiss
Shabbat, September 21
Drasha presented by Professor Wilf, Measure to Measure
Kiddush in honor of Matt & Jenna Lipton's service to Kehilat Kesher. We wish them much success in their new community.
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
Toddler-Parent Playgroup
5:00pm Kayama Women's Lecture Series: Looking Inward by Looking Outward: Ethical Wills from the Past and Present, Presented by Tamar Appel
Hosted by Miri Lipsky at
59 Bliss Ave, Tenafly
6:40pm Mincha followed by Seudat Shelishit with a shiur by Professor Wilf, Forgetting in Order to Remember: The Churban as a Tale of Three Perhaps Even Four Temples
7:36pm Shabbat Ends
12:00am Selichot
Sunday, September 22
8:30am Shacharit
6:30pm Mincha and Siyum Mishnayot in honor of Miri Farkovits Z"l. Refreshments, speeches and Maariv to follow.
Tuesday, September 24
8:15pm
Rabbi Block's Elul Series: Rav Soloveitchik's On Repentance
Monday - Thursday
6:30am Shacharit
9:00pm Maariv followed by Selichot
KESHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
Siyum Mishnayot in Memory of Miri Farkovits Z"l
Sunday night, September 22nd at 6:30pm at
Kehilat Kesher.
Mincha, followed by food and speeches,
ending with Maariv.
Kayama Book Discussion
Sunday Sept. 22 @ 8pm
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Meeting Sunday 9/22 at 8pm
RSVP
ilana.cuttler@gmail.com
kursamantha@gmail.com
Hosted by Megan Genet at 135 Lawrence Pkwy, Tenafly
LULAV & ETROG SALE
Kesher is once again selling high quality lulav and etrog sets for Sukkot.
PRICES
Kosher Lulav & Esrog @ $54.00 per set
Extra Hadasim @ $ 3.00 per set
Extra Aravot @ $ 3.00 per set
Plastic Zippered Lulav Carrying Case@ $10.00
SPECIAL REQUESTS
Meuhdar set $72
Pitom-less etrog
ORDER HERE BY THURSDAY OCTOBER 3.
WE CANNOT GUARANTEE YOUR ORDER AFTER THAT DATE. PICK UP AT KESHER ON DATE TBD.
DIRECTORY UPDATES
Our community continues to grow, and we're working on updating the next Kesher Membership Directory! In the upcoming version, we'd like to include our children's Hebrew names as well as include lists of children by grades for easy reference. We're requesting that all members and affiliate members please update the following information, if applicable, in your ShulCloud account:
Update your ShulCloud account here:https://www.keshernj.com/members/my-account.php.
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").