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Beth Mordecai Homecoming Weekend March 14-16, 2014 Schmooze! Eat! Reconnect! Reminisce! Celebrate Purim! REGISTER NOW for a glorious weekend celebration and homecoming for all those who have called or call Beth Mordecai their home. We urge you to join us and be a part of what will be a very memorable weekend. Download the entire registration packet with the links below Registration Packet Cover Letter Weekend Schedule Registration form — (fill out and mail by March 1st to Congregation Beth Mordecai 224 High Street Perth Amboy, NJ 08861) You can also save on postage and REGISTER ONLINE using the form below…
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2014/5774 (Triennial I) — The Secrets of the Torah There is something strange in the first word of this week’s Torah portion Vayikra, which also is the Hebrew namesake of the fourth book of the Torah called Leviticus. The final letter, the aleph, is smaller than the other letters. Why is that? Is it a typo, a scribal error? Or is there something more to this aleph ze-ira (small aleph) than simply its small stature, something that hints at the secrets embedded within each word and each letter of the Torah. We’ll figure it out together during this week’s class. […]
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Dear Hevreh, One of the benefits of being the rabbi in our community is being able to help facilitate and offer opportunities for the teaching of Torah by members of our congregation, such as Sharon Bender, Gary Blog, Harriet Pearlman, and most recently Marc Fertik who delivered the D’var Torah this past week while I was away in Scranton. These moments are especially beneficial for me because at times I can get very caught up in my own “rabbinic mind” of how to interpret and teach Jewish wisdom and hearing interpretations of Torah from new voices stemming from the unique […]
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Caring Committee Mission Statement The purpose of Beth Mordecai’s Caring Committee is to reach out to members of our community in times of need. We believe that this is what it means to be part of a caring Jewish congregation and community. We want to offer friendship, comfort and companionship especially at times when it is most needed. We want people to know we are a family in our Jewish Home for the Soul. Ways in which we can help: We will do our best to provide rides to the synagogue when needed. We will help to organize a minyan […]
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Check out the list of winners and more details of the race at www.perthamboyduckrace.com #1: Martin Edelstein (no. 00086) Prize: Panasonic 50″ TV (Retail value: $1,000) #2: Bonnie Topf (no. 04638) Prize: X-Box 1 Standard Edition (Retail value: $500) #3: Mark McDonough (no. 05251) Prize: iPad 2 (Retail value: $400) #4: Andrew Fritz (no. 00070) Prize: iPad 2 (Retail value $400) Post by Congregation Beth Mordecai. #5. Hillel Caplan (no. 03765) Prize: $100 Macy’s Gift Card #6: Steve Safran (no. 06555) $75 Macy’s Gift Card #7: Andrew Levinson (no. 04673) $50 Macy’s Gift Card
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Parashat Vayikra: The Secrets of the Torah There is something strange in the first word of this Watch More
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Homecoming Weekend, March 14-16! Experience the joy of memory as generations of Beth Mordecai members Watch More
Dear Hevreh, I have one thought to leave you today. Shabbat is good, so let's share in all of Watch More
(3/7/14) If you take a look around the internet or ask a number of Jewish leaders, you might get the feeling that a bar or bat mitzvah (plural = b’nei mitzvah) is not such a good thing. Too much time Read more
