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 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!
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
Sun, August 18 2019
17 Av 5779
This Week at Kesher
Friday, August 16, 2019
Parashat Vaetchanan, Shabbat Nachamu
7:00pm Mincha
7:35pm Candle lighting (ideally by 7:25pm)
Shabbat, August 17
This Week in Groups
9:15-10am - Supervision by Donna & Aarti
Ages 2-5 in Classroom C,
Grades 1 & up in Classroom B
10:00am - Youth Groups Begin
Toddler-Parent Playgroup
7:25pm Mincha followed by Seudat Shelishit sponsored by Rachel and Ari Wainberg in honor of the yahrzeit of Rachel's mother Bernice Fishman
8:36pm Shabbat Ends
Sunday, August 18
8:30am Shacharit
7:40pm Mincha
Monday - Thursday
6:30am Shacharit
9:00pm Maariv
KESHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
TEEN LEADERS
ONLINE HIGH HOLIDAY REGISTRATION
Please respond ASAP!
Visit https://www.keshernj.com/form/high-holidays-2019.html
YOUTH
We are currently accepting applications for Teen Leaders for the 2019-2020 school year. All applicants must be entering 7th-12th grade in September 2019. To apply, please click here . Applications are due by August 26th at 6 pm. There will be a mandatory Teen Leader training for all leaders (new and returning) on Monday, September 2nd from 3-5 pm.
5780 YIZKOR BOOK
We are now collecting names for the 5780 Yizkor Book. It will contain the text of the Yizkor prayers, psalms, inspirational thoughts and a list of names of our departed ones. The Yizkor books will be used throughout 5780, on Yom Kippur, Shemini Atzeret, Pesach and Shavuot.
Please list the names of those you wish to memorialize in the form here.
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.
SAVE THE DATE!
Annual Kesher BBQ
September 8
Location: TBD
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").