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, 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

9:15am Shacharit

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

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

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").

Sat, September 21 2019 21 Elul 5779