Rabbi Block

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Rabbi Akiva Block joined the Kesher family as its rabbi in August 2010. He received his BA in Jewish Studies from Yeshiva University, and is pursuing his MA in Medieval Jewish History at Bernard Revel Graduate School of YU. Rabbi Block is a graduate of the Bella and Harry Wexner Kollel Elyon, a prestigious post-rabbinical Talmud fellowship at RIETS. In addition to serving as rabbi at Kesher, he teaches Talmud at SAR High School in Riverdale, NY. Rabbi Block and his wife Debbie reside in Englewood and are the proud parents of Micha, Ezra, Libby and Ateret.

Rabbi Block can be reached at rabbiblock@keshernj.com

Sat, July 24 2021
15 Av 5781

This Week at Kesher

Today's Calendar

Shabbat Nachamu

Tu B'Av

Shacharit

: 9:15am

Mincha

: 8:00pm

Havdalah

: 9:08pm

Tomorrow's Calendar

Mincha/Maariv

: 8:25pm

Shacharit

: 8:45pm

Friday Night

Mincha

: 7:00pm

Candle Lighting

: 7:56pm

Shabbat Day

Shacharit

: 9:15am

Mincha

: 7:55pm

Havdalah

: 9:00pm

This week's Torah portion is Parshat Vaetchanan

Candle Lighting

Shabbat, Jul 24, 8:01pm

Havdalah

Motzei Shabbat, Jul 24, 9:08pm

Shabbat Nachamu & Tu B'Av

Shabbat, Jul 24

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Sunday ,
AugAugust 1 , 2021

Kesher Family BBQ
Sunday, Aug 1st 4:00p to 7:00p

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KESHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Shabbat Youth Groups Come to You!

Michael or Avigayil will be coming to your neighborhood on Shabbat between 11:15am-12:15pm over the coming weeks to bring some Divrei Torah & Shabbat fun to the kids. The meeting place will be outdoors, socially distanced, by a chosen home (TBD), weather permitting.

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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

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