Weekly Brief

The Township of Teaneck and the Jewish Community Council of Greater Teaneck
Invite our entire community in a show of solidarity with the Jewish Community of Pittsburgh and the victims of this mass shooting to a Candlelight Vigil.

Please join us at 7:00pm on Wednesday, October 30, 2018 at the Teaneck Municipal Green Corner of Teaneck Road & Cedar Lane.
In attendance: The Honorable Mayor Mohammed Hameeduddin, Rabbi Yosef Adler, The Rev. Dr. Marilyn Harris, Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky.

Bruce Prince & Manny Landau, Co-chairs of the Jewish Community of Greater Teaneck
Representing The Garden to Nurture Human Understanding: Steve Fox and David Langford

Music by: Jonathan Rimberg

Please join us for this important show of support,and kindly bring your own candles.

Click here to see the flier.

Parsha shiur: Thursday, November 1, 8:30pm, Rabbi Wiener

Sunday, November 4, 8:45am, Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Topic: Stories in Sefer Breishit That Explain How and Why We Daven.

Shabbat, November 9-10, Rabbanit Sally Mayer will visit as scholar-in-residence. The schedule for Shabbat is as follows: Friday night oneg, 7:45pm. Topic: ‘Can You Order Me a Ham on Rye?’ Lifnei Ivver in the Workplace and Beyond; Shabbat morning: Derashot at teen minyan, 8:30am minyan, and 9:00am minyan; Post-Mincha shiur on: Timeless Tradition Meets Modernity: When Halacha is Based on Outdated Science.

To sponsor the Scholar in Residence, sponsorships are available at $125. If you would like to sponsor, please email adulted@rinat.org

 
Rabbanit Sally Mayer serves as Rosh Midrasha at Midreshet Lindenbaum’s Overseas Program and teaches Talmud, Halakha, Parsha and Jewish Philosophy. Rabbanit Mayer holds a BA from Stern College, an MA in Medieval Jewish History from Yeshiva University, and studied at Drisha Institute in the Scholars Circle Program. Before moving to Israel with her family, she was a member of the core faculty that built Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls, where she chaired the Talmud Department.

Sunday, November 11, 8:00pm - Professor Jordan S. Penkower, Bar Ilan University
Topic: The Ten Commandments – from the Bible to Rembrandt

In a PowerPoint presentation, Prof. Penkower will review the history of depictions of the Tablets of the Covenant and the Ten Commandments inscribed thereon, from the Bible through the Middle Ages, in both Jewish and Christian Art.  In two of Rembrandt’s paintings, the last five Commandments can be read clearly.  We will discuss the shape of the Two Tablets, the division of the Ten Commandments, the division of the Sections (Parashot) and the Jewish sources upon which these representations are based.

Introducing Nerot’s first ever online Chanukah boutique!!
Click the link below to shop from your home AND support Rinat!
https://www.rinat.org/nerot.html
Keep checking back for more vendors joining!