Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah November 13, 2025 22 Cheshvan 5786 Parashat Chayei Sara As soon as it’s November, I can’t help but start thinking about Thanksgiving. I have always loved Thanksgiving. I’m sure that food has played a large part in my love affair with Thanksgiving—after all, I do love the food of Thanksgiving. But there’s more to it than that. Thanksgiving is the one American holiday on which Jews are the same as every other American. Many other so-called Ame

Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah November 6, 2025 15 Cheshvan 5786 Parashat Vayera We may not be able to agree as to whether we should be happy or sad about the election results from Tuesday. However, we can ALL agree on one thing—we are all grateful that the political ads will finally stop (at least for a while!). As we all know, political campaigns go negative because the negative ads seem to work. Anger motivates people to vote more than any other emotion. Campaigns try

Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah October 30, 2025 8 Cheshvan 5786 Parashat Lech Lecha Warren Buffet is well known for being a contrarian investor. His famous advice is, “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” Needless to say, he’s done pretty well with that strategy of not just following the crowd. In this week’s Torah portion, we are introduced to another well-known contrarian—our patriarch Abraham. When everyone else was worshiping idols, h

Thursday, November 13th - Joint Men's Club / Women's Group Scotch & Siddur  Directly after Minyan on zoom or in person at the home of Pam Appel and Mark Beatty, 45 Evergreen Road in Summit

Friday, November 14 th  – PJ Tot Shabbat 5:15pm, Tot Shabbat and refreshments immediately following Wear your PJs, bring your pillow, blanket and favorite stuffed animal

Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah October 23, 2025 3 Cheshvan 5786 Parashat Noach So, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas seems to be holding. It’s not exactly peace, but it’s not war either. It reminds me of the end of the Great Flood about which we read in this week’s Torah portion. After 150 days on the Ark, God took note of Noah and all the creatures with him. And then the Torah tells us that “the waters subsided (Gen. 8:1).” The earth was still covered in water, ever

Next Grotta Event! Artificial Intelligence! Understanding it! Using it! Staying safe! Wednesday, November 5 at 11 a.m. at Congregation Beth Hatikvah Click here to register.

Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah October 16, 2025 24 Tishri 5786 Bereshit I downloaded a new book to my iPad about two weeks ago, but I haven’t read a single word yet. I have two pretty good explanations for why that is. First of all, I have been greatly distracted by the events in Israel leading up to the ceasefire and the release of the last living hostages. Second, there have been a few Jewish holidays recently that have kept me pretty busy. But the truth is that I have

Fill-The-Truck!  Sun, Oct 26th, 930am-12pmBooksmiles Collection event! Bring your books and periodicals in any condition and help COS Fill the Truck for Booksmiles  -- which has just put its 4 MILLIONTH book into the hands of underprivileged children. Check out www.booksmiles.org to learn more.

Information Session Via Zoom with Mayan Chin Jacobi of Magnolia Israel Tours October 26th at 12pm On the Shul Zoom Zoom Link here , Meeting ID: 908 273 8130, Password: NJ07901

Sunday, Oct 19, SJCC. Brunch at 9:45 a.m. Guest speaker, Heidi Block, at 10:30 a.m. WG members are free, click here . $25 for guests/nonmembers. Free for Visionaries.

Information Session Via Zoom October 26th at 12pm On the Shul Zoom Zoom Link here , Meeting ID: 908 273 8130, Password: NJ07901

Wed, Oct 22 at 7 p.m. An evening event with Secret Service Director Sean Curran.

Sunday, Oct 19, SJCC. Brunch at 9:45 a.m. Guest speaker, Heidi Block, at 10:30 a.m. WG members are free, click here . $25 for guests/nonmembers. Free for Visionaries.

Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah October 9, 2025 17 Tishri 5786 Intermediate Day There’s a beautiful tradition of welcoming special...

Shemini Atzeret Festival Services with Yizkor Tuesday, October 14th at 9:30am, kiddush following

Sunday, October 12th at 10:30am No RSVP necessary - please join us!

Join us for Simchat Torah! Monday, October 13. Sushi dinner at 5:45pm and then festival services at 6:30pm Please register on Shulcloud...

Tuesday, October 7th at 9:30am

Sukkot Tot Shabbat Friday, October 10th at 4:45pm