Weekly Brief

High Holiday Seat Reservations 5782

Early bird registration for High Holiday seats is now open for full members.  It is our intent, based on current CDC and state guidelines, to offer our Pre-Pandemic, business as usual seating this year.  We will continue to monitor CDC and State guidance with the hope that the situation will only continue to improve. Seat prices for members are unchanged from our 2019 pricing. To reserve seats, click here. To access a printable version of the High Holiday seating letter, click here. To access the FAQs, click here.

Please make sure to pay all outstanding amounts as soon as possible. Payments can be made by credit card or e-check at www.rinat.org. Please contact the office (via email at billing@rinat.org or by phone at 201-837-2795, ext. 102) if you have any questions.

To join Adult Education’s upcoming events notification whats app group, click here. 

This week's learning is sponsored by 
Leah & Jonathan Adler in memory of Leah’s mother, Rachel Balsam, רחל בת דוד וחנה, z”l.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2pm, Leah Silver's "Siddur v'Sidra." is uploaded weekly in audio and source sheet form onto what's app so it may be listened to when convenient. If interested, please join the whatsapp group by clicking here.

Tuesday, June 15th, 7pm– Beginner/Intermediate Ulpan Class with Keren Ashram.  To register, click here. To join, click here. Password: RinatUlpan.

Tuesday, June 15th, 8pm, Rabbi Adler's Women's Mishna Shiur. To join, click here. Note change of date for this week.

Tuesday, June 15th, 8pm- Advanced Ulpan Class with Keren Ashram.  To register, click here. To join, click here. Password: RinatUlpan.

Wednesday, June 16th, 12:15pm, Rabbi Adler's Women's Chumash Shiur. To join, click here. 

Wednesday, June 16th, 8pm, Rabbi Adler's Mishna Shiur. To join, click here. 

Thursday, June 17th, 8:45pm. Parshat Hashavua Shiur, Rabbi Adler. To join, click here.

Shabbat, June 19th, Youth groups from 9am-conculsion of 9am minyan. Drop off and pick up at in front of shul. Between 9:15am-10:15am, children will be escorted to Whittier park and supervised by our group leaders. Questions? E-mail youth@rinat.org. N/PK- 4th/5th grade groups. Davening, Parsha, games, with prepackaged snacks to go. Each group will be limited to 15 children per group and all need to wear a mask. Click here to register.

Shabbat, June 19th, 10:30am. Tot Shabbat outdoors, behind the Beit Midrash.

Shabbat, June 19th, 6pm- Backyard Lecture Series. Week 2 hosted at the Friedlander home, 314 Ogden. Join your friends on Shabbat afternoons in neighborhood backyards throughout the summer months (weather permitting). Rabbi Wiener will take you on “A Journey Through the Siddur.” The structure and content of the siddur will be analyzed beginning with Shabbat davening. To host a lecture, please contact Michelle at michelle.joey.london@gmail.com.

Shabbat, June 19th, 6:55pm. Pre-Mincha Shiur with Dr. Caroline Peyser, "Your Child's Gap Year in Israel: What You Should Know." To submit a question in advance, click here. Located in the Main Sanctuary.

Beginning Sunday, June 20th, 8:45- 9:30am. New weekly Daf Yomi series with Rabbi Wiener. To join, click here. Password: RinatUlpan. More details to follow.

Sunday, June 20th, 9:30am. Parsha with Rabbi Wiener for 3rd through 6th grade girls and boys. To join, click here. 

Sunday, June 20th, 9:30am- Shayna Goldberg Book Launch. “What Do You Really Want? Trusting Ourselves And Empowering Trust In Our Children.”  All attendees will receive an exclusive discount for the book. For more details, click here.  To join, click here.

Sunday, June 20th, 6:45pm- Plag Mincha/Maariv. Please note that this has been added for the benefit of those attending Rabbi Strauchler's shiur at 8pm.

Sunday, June 20th, 8pm- Shev Shemateta 101:  "An Introduction to Rabbinic Decision-Making." Rabbi Chaim Strauchler. "Halachic Epistemology: Rabbi Aryeh Leib Heller's Explanation for How We Know What We Know." Each shiur in the 7-part series addresses a self-contained topic and each can be understood without attending the other shiurim.  For more details, click here. To join, click here.

Monday, June 21st, 8pm. Rabbi Adler's Gemara Shiur.  To join,  click here

Sunday, June 27th, 9:30am- The Jewish Footprint in Seville- A Virtual Journey, presented by Moises Hassan-Amselem. For more details, click here. To join, click here.


Sunday, June 30th, 8:30pm- General Membership Meeting. Voting will take place online via Survey Monkey. To join, click here.

Sunday, July 4th, 9:30am- Agnon Lecture Series: Stories Ralated to the 3 Weeks with Rabbi Jeffrey Saks. Agnon's "The Kerchief." Please read the assigned story before the event. One can attend either one of the events or both. For more details, click here. To join, click here.

Monday, July 5th, 8:55am- Rabbi Donny Besser. Legal Holiday Shiur. "Bentching on a :חצי כוס A Key to Galut Survival." For more details, click here.  Located in the Social Hall. To join via Zoom, click here.

Sunday, July 11th, 9:30am- Agnon Lecture Series: Stories Related to the 3 Weeks with Rabbi Jeffrey Saks. Agnon's "Peace Eternal." Please read the assigned story before the event. One can attend either one of the events or both. For more details, click here. To join, click here.

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