Shabbat in the summer

Friday, July 3 / 6:30 pm
Services leaders: Mary Lee and Jean Siegel
Oneg Discussion Leader: Steve Lee
Topic: My Israel
Temple member, Steve Lee, is a patent attorney who works with Teva, a pharmaceutical company in Israel. He travels to Israel frequently and is going to talk about his perceptions of the country over the years.

Friday, July 10 / 6:30 pm
Service leaders: Robin Sherman and Arie Moller
Oneg Discussion Leader: Anne Laurent
Topic: Where is God When We're Suffering?
The experience of illness and loss, whether it affects us or a loved one, often leads to a deep spiritual struggle. Faith is strengthened or shattered; our relationship to God can be profoundly and irremediably altered. This discussion will focus on an essential resource in this journey: bikkur cholim, or visiting the sick. After a brief explanation of the centrality of this mitzvah in the Jewish tradition, we will explore its immense spiritual potention, for sufferers and visitors alike. Anne Laurent, Temple member, is a rabbinical student who recently moved to the United States from France.

Friday, July 17 / 6:30 pm
Service leaders: Amy Winkelman and Gary Blackman
Oneg Discussion Leader: Ed Barocas, Legal Director for the ACLU
Topic: It's Post-9/11, Do You Know Where Your Civil Liberties Are?
Ed Barocas has served as Legal Director for the American Civil Liberties Union of NJ since May 2001. In this capacity he oversees the ACLU-NJ's legal program. He manages a docket of more than 30 cases, which touch every corner of civil liberties including free speech, religious freedon, equal protection, privacy, reproductive freedome and due process of law.

Friday, July 24 / 6:30 pm
Service Leaders: Brian O'Reilly and Arlene Kraus
Oneg Discussion Leader: Jerry Krivitzky
Topic: High Flying Mitzvot
Not all mitzvot are performed at ground level. In fact, those performed at 8,000 feet and above have many advantages and challenges. Montclair resident and Ner Tamid congregant, Jerry Krivitzky, knows about high altitude compassion. Jerry is a private pilot who flies out of Caldwell for Angelflight - a non-profit organization which matches patients with medical travel needs to charitable minded pilots. Jerry will speak on how he was ablet o extend his exciting hobby to a life transforming passion, and how he strives to do it as Jewishly as possible.

Friday, July 31 / 6:30 pm
Service Leaders: Jodi Nussbaum and Ken Cohen
Pot Luck Dinner to immediately follow services. Please bring a parve or dairy dish.

SATURDAY MORNINGS AT 10 AM

Worship & Torah Discussion led by:

July 4 - Gary Anolik and Ronni Pressman

July 11 - Stan Keyles and Michael Berlin

July 18 - Fred and Ronni Pressman

July 25 - Jerry and Trudi Krivitzky

 

 

networking support group meeting

Are you looking for what's next for your career? Maybe this is the best time to think about something different. Please join Beth Berns, LCSW and Joanna Zippel, TNT member and life coach, to explore what it takes to find, rebuild or retool your career path. For more information contact Beth Berns at bberns@nertamid.org.

Monday, July 27 / 7:30 pm

 

 

Chadashot

All current news and information about religious school is now posted in Chadashot, our new religious school online newsletter. From homework assignments, to class updates from our faculty, to the most current calendar of events, to mitzvah projects being done by our b'nai mitzvah students and opportunities to do mitzvot yourself, to Torah study, holiday information and so much more, Chadashot will be the place to find it all.

You will need to open a Google Sites account in order to access Chadashot. This is a quick and easy process. Please make sure to use the e-mail address where you usually receive religious school messages. Click here to open a Google Sites Account.

Once you have received account activation confirmation from Google Sites (via email), please click the following link to log in to Chadashot:

 http://sites.google.com/site/testtamid/

We hope you enjoy Chadashot and find it helpful. We welcome your comments. Please let us know what you think. If you experience any issues accessing the site please contact Maribel Leon at mleon@nertamid.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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