Congregation Beth Mordecai
Congregation Beth Mordecai
An inclusive congregation affiliated with the Conservative Movement.
Your Jewish Home for the Soul!
An inclusive congregation affiliated with the Conservative Movement.
Your Jewish Home for the Soul!
April 12, 2015 By bethmordecai no comments.
Join Rabbi Saks for an ONLINE opportunity to recite Yizkor for your loved one. If we get 10 LIVE we will recite the Mourner's Kaddish.
Feel free to watch at your convenience and insert the name of your loved one at the appropriate moment.
Category : Holidays Online Learning Online Yizkor Passover Tag : 5775 online online learning passover yizkor
September 19, 2014 By bethmordecai no comments.
Please join us for Yom Kippur and the 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah in our MAIN sanctuary. Not in a catering wing with a television or a speaker with a piped in service. You will be in our main service with our own Rabbi Saks and our Canter, Rabbi Bronwen Mullin. It is the custom of this synagogue to offer FREE services for those days to those that wish to attend and cannot afford a ticket. The first day of Rosh Hashanah and Kol Nidre do require a very affordable ticket. Please call our office at 732-442-1373 Monday through Thursday from 10-2. If we are not in please leave a message and we will call you back.
Category : Holidays home Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Tag : Rosh Hashanah Tickets Yom Kippur
August 27, 2014 By bethmordecai no comments.
Dear Hevreh, Today is the second day of Rosh Hodesh Elul, the beginning of the month which proceeds the High Holidays and thus helps us prepare ourselves to make the High Holidays a meaningful experience. Each day of Elul, Jews are called upon to blow the shofar, our ancient instrument for inner change. By blowing the shofar each day we create an opportunity to hear what its piercing call is trying to tell us (or remind us) on how to be our best selves. Each day this month the shofar reminds to make every moment count. As part of our collective preparation for the High Holiday season, we will use the power of the shofar to help remind ourselves what we need[...]
Category : Holidays Rabbi Rabbi's Journal Tag : #ShofarChallenge Elul flourish high holidays rabbi rabbi's journal Rosh Hodesh shofar video YouTube
August 26, 2014 By bethmordecai no comments.
Dear Hevreh, It's amazing what a few phone calls and emails can do. Last Friday morning, I emailed and called some members of our community to let them know about a special minhah service we were having before our regular Friday night service so that one of our members could recite Kaddish on the day of his father's yahrtzeit. It just took a few emails and phone calls and before you know it...we had a full house in our chapel at 7:45 pm! It's incredible how technology can make it so much easier to get in contact with people and how we can rally people together in such a short period of time. The type of fast communication we take for granted[...]
Category : Holidays Rabbi Rabbi's Journal Tag : bonfires Elul emails israel minyan Palestine Palestinian rabbi rabbi's journal Rosh Hodesh small time
August 5, 2014 By bethmordecai no comments.
Dear Hevreh,
Last night, our community gathered with Marlboro Jewish Center, Temple Beth Ahm, and Congregation Beth Ohr for a special communal observance of Tisha B'av. A number of the rabbis, including myself, had an opportunity to teach a little about the holiday prior to readingM'gillat Eikhah. I was particularly fascinated by the teaching of Rabbi Lisa Malik on the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, perhaps the most famous story related to the destruction of the second Temple.
The story, which you can find here, seemed pregnant with such meaning that I took the time today with one of our members to study it in more depth. (By the way, please feel free to drop in during[...]
Category : Holidays Rabbi Rabbi's Journal Tishah B'av Uncategorized Tag : Bar Kamtza Congregation Beth Ahm Congregation Beth Ohr destruction fasting holidays jerusalem Kamtza Marlboro Jewish Center rabbi Rabbi Lisa Malik Rabbi Michael Pont Rabbi Yochanan Rabbi Yohanan rabbi's journal talmud Temple tisha b'av tishah b'av zealotry
June 3, 2014 By bethmordecai no comments.
*Sermon for Friday night of "Cantor Showcase of Unique Torah" (Shabbat prior to Shavuot) – May 30, 2014
Our Unique and Godly Torah
Rabbi Ari Saks
Some of you may remember a story my father told during my installation on this same bimah over a year and a half ago. I was a little boy in Benton Harbor and my father and I had just come back from shul on Simhat Torah. As we approached home I started making a frantic pointing motion in a not-so-specific direction (with the requisite grunting of a child). So my father, in attempting to respond my neediness, took me on a walk trying to follow my random pointing. Eventually we ended up back at shul where my pointing got[...]
Category : Bulletin Articles Cantorial Showcase Holidays home Rabbi Sermons Shabbat Shavuot Tag : bulletin articles Cantorial Showcase godly holidays neil gillman norman lamm pirkei avot potential rabbeinu yonah rabbi revelation sermons shabbat shavuot unique torah
January 13, 2014 By bethmordecai no comments.
In honor of the Jewish birthday of the Trees, Tu B'shvat, please join us as for a special Family Shabbat at 11 am as we explore the gifts of trees through the prism of Shel Silverstein's award winning book "The Giving Tree." This hour long program appropriate for kids and adults of all ages will include storytelling, singing, Shabbat appropriate activities, lots of tasty "tree" food, and much more! So don't miss out on this very special birthday celebration.
Kiddush Luncheon to follow
Category : Family Shabbat Holidays Tu B'shvat Tag : family shabbat giving tree holidays shel silverstein tu b'shvat
December 5, 2013 By bethmordecai no comments.
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Category : Hanukkah Holidays Israeli News Tag : hanukkah israel maoz tzur science technion
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Category : Hanukkah Holidays Tag : hanukkah parody thanksgiving thanksgivukkah videos
November 28, 2013 By bethmordecai no comments.
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Category : American Jewish News Hanukkah Holidays Jewish Culture and History Jewish Current Events Tag : america american jewish news hanukkah jewish culture and history jewish current events rabbi sharon brous thanksgiving thanksgivukkah