Shul Spiel: What's Happening at West Orange Shuls

Teen Minyan
There is a teen minyan this Shabbat at 9:15 a.m. 

Junior Congregation
Junior Congregation will be meeting this week at 9:45 a.m. All children below the age of bar/bat mitzvah are invited to participate. 

Rabbi Spivak’s Torah Classes
On Wednesday night at 7 p.m. Rabbi Spivak offers a class for teenage girls (at rotating houses). At 8 p.m. on Wednesday night Rabbi Spivak’s class on Chumash Methodology and Commentators takes place at the shul. 

Mishnah Berurah Class
Rabbi Grosberg’s Mishnah Berurah class for teenagers meets on Shabbat between Mincha and Maariv.

News from the Youth Committee
In a continuing effort to enable mothers of young children to come to shul, the Youth Committee has worked with the board to set up a private area for nursing mothers.

This area, which has been set up in the women’s restroom, has a private curtain that can be closed as necessary.

There is also a new comfortable armchair that was donated by the Routhenstein family and a new changing table donated by the Rosenblat family.

The shul would like to ask that this area be reserved for nursing mothers and that the curtain be kept open unless the area is being used for nursing.

Additionally, a changing table has been put back into the men’s restroom. Thank you to the Routhenstein and Rosenblat families for their donations. 

Hanukkah Party
The Children’s Hanukkah Party held this past Sunday in the social hall was a huge success. There were close to 30 kids who participated in various cookie decorating and arts & crafts events. Congratulations to Gaby Chamama and Dahlia Maron won first and second places in the art contest. The shul would like to thank our Youth Directors Reuven and Jessica for their hard work, as well as Debra Rinn, Marcy Fink and Shoshana Tennenberg who worked closely with the youth directors to ensure that this event would be a success. The next Youth Committee event titled “Crazy Olympics” will be held on Saturday night, Jan. 7 at the shul for 3rd grade and up. More information to follow.

Jeffrey Berger / Stephanie Shatkin Scholar-in-Residence
Congregation Ohr Torah is excited to announce the second annual Jeffrey Berger / Stephanie Shatkin Memorial Lectures. Rabbi Elchanan Adler will be a Scholar-In-Residence for the Shabbat of Feb. 10-11 and speaking three times over Shabbat.

He will speak at dinner Friday night at Ohr Torah, at davening Shabbat morning, and at Seudah Shlishit Shabbat afternoon.

Rabbi Adler is a Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS, Yeshiva University, where he is an occupant of the Eva, Morris and Jack Rubin Chair in Rabbinics.

The cost of Friday night dinner will be $18 per person or $72 maximum per family. Seudah Shlishit is open to the community. Sponsorships are available for $180.

The Scholar-In-Residence Shabbat is being held in memory of Karen Berger's first husband, Jeffrey Berger and Elia Weixelbaum's first wife, Stephanie Shatkin.

If you are interested in being a sponsor for the Scholar-In-Residence Shabbat or coming to the dinner, please contact Elia Weixelbaum at e.weixelbaum.1@alumni.nyu.edu.