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NechamaComfort 3rd Annual Dinner - Join us in raising community awareness of the tragedy of infant and pregnancy loss and in supporting the families who have been touched by this grief. Honoring digital influencer Elizabeth Savetsky. Guest speaker Kiley Hanish, author and co-creator of the film Return to Zero. Saturday night December 7, 2019 at 8:00 PM at the New York Hall of Science. For reservations or to make a donation and for more information about our services and programs visit nechamacomfort.org.

Project Ezrah Annual Dinner is scheduled for Saturday, December 14th, Congregation Keter Torah, 8 PM. Rabbi Akiva Block is being honored. Register online at www.ezrah.org or call 201-569-9047

Join United Hatzalah of Israel for an evening of life-saving with world-renowned Israeli mentalist Lior Suchard. Fun for the whole family!
Tuesday, Dec 17th at 7pm. BergenPac. For more information, contact Dorene@Israelrescue.org, or call us at 646-833-7108.

The Canavan Foundation is looking to reach families affected by Canavan disease to support a natural history study that will aid researchers seeking a treatment for this serious, often fatal disease that has disproportionately affected Jewish families. If your family has been touched by Canavan disease or if you know anyone else who has been affected, please watch this video and help spread the word.

CCSA Support Group
CCSA welcomes anyone with a loved one who is suffering from substance abuse/addiction to our local support group, which meets every other Wednesday evening in Teaneck. The group is free of charge and is facilitated by professionals specializing in addiction. For more information and the location of the meeting, please email Time2TalkAddiction@gmail.com.

Boy Scout Troop 226 invites boys grades 6 through 12 to attend its Monday night meetings 7:30-9:00 PM at Teaneck Jewish Center. Utilizing outdoor activities, such as hiking, camping, canoeing, etc., the Shomer Shabbos Troop strives to provide youth training in character development, citizenship, and mental and personal fitness. For more information, please contact Danny Chazin at (201) 835-5338 or dchazin@aol.com.

Do you have a Bat Mitzvah gown/dress hanging in a closet?

Please consider donating it to the newly formed Teaneck Bat Mitzvah Gown Gemach.

Happy to pick up your dress or you can drop it off.

Enhance a simcha, and do a mitzvah!

To donate a dress or if you have any questions email reneeschneier@gmail.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