Weekly Brief

Announcements & Upcoming Events

RINAT ANNUAL DINNER, JANUARY 7, 2017
Please join us for our Annual Dinner on Motzei Shabbat, January 7, 2017, honoring 
Amy and Chanan Vogel, our Young Leadership Awardees, Nissan Clark and Eli Davidovics, representing our Rinat CSS volunteers, as Sruli Guttman Service Awardees, and Paula and Howard Friedman, our Keter Shem Tov Awardees. Please be generous, as the dinner is one of our most significant fundraising events, critical to maintaining our extensive operations and activities.  Please register at http://www.rinat.org/dinner.
Please sign up to learn Tanach for the siyum at the dinner. (Learning sign up is at the bottom of the dinner registration page.)

Communal Kiddush - Next Shabbat, Parshat Vayishlach, December 17 after the 9am Shacharit
Sponsorship Levels are: Big Kahuna - $1000, Big Cholent -$250, Hot Kugel - $180, Chopped Liver -$100
Please sign up at: http://www.rinat.org/kiddush.

Rav Glickman shiur: Tuesday, December 6 8:00pm

Feldenkrais Exercise: Wednesday, December 7 11:00am

Parsha shiur: Thursday, December 8, 8:30pm - Rabbi Yaakov Blau. Topic: Was Lavan a navi? 

Rinat Youth Shabbat Meals
Cost $15 Child - $40 Family max; sign up at: www.rinat.org/youthmeals.
December 9 | Friday Night Dinner - Grades 2 - 3 Boys & Girls
December 10 | Shabbat Lunch - Kindergarten & First Grade Boys & Girls. Walking groups will be provided following each meal.

Latkefest: THIS Motzei Shabbat, December 10, 7:00-8:30pm, 
Join Rinat Youth for an evening of competitive dreideling, Latke Bingo, decorating sufganiot, and a dairy dinner! We will have music, prizes and lots of fun. To sign up, please go to: https://www.rinat.org/latkefest.

This Shabbat afternoon, December 10, 2016, between mincha and maariv, a special shiur by Rabbi Dr. Meir Sendor of Tal Orot who will address "Shabbat of the Holy Quantum Field." 

Sunday, December 11, 2016 at 8:45 am, Rabbi Alex Israel of Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi will speak on: "Jewish Violence: Empowerment or Endangerment -  the story of Dinah - A massacre or a justified retribution?"

Shabbat, December 16-17, 2016, we will host Rabbi Dr. Michael Berger of Emory University as a Scholar in Residence. Schedule is as follows: After Kabbalat Shabbat - dvar halacha. At the Friday night Oneg Shabbat (at 8pm) he will address: “Haredi in the Coal Mine: What the Ultra-Orthodox Teach Us About Being Religious in America”. At the 9:00 am Shabbat morning service he will deliver the Derasha. After mincha on Shabbat afternoon he will address: "Mai Chanukah? Rav Yitzchak Hutner on the Revolution of Chanukah".

Sunday, December 18, 5:00-9:00pm: Rinat's Annual Chanukah Boutique - 
Amazing vendors, gifts for all ages and genders. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! Your shopping supports our Congregation. Shop early and shop often!! 

Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 8:00pm, Rabbi Daniel Fridman of Jewish Center of Teaneck will be speaking on: "The Beauty of Yefet in the Tents of Shem:  The Challenge of the Torah-Chochmah Synthesis in Light of Chanukah".