Shul Spiel: What's Happening in Local West Orange Synagogues

It’s a busy time at Congregation Ohr Torah. The following events, classes are coming up:

New kids group
New kids group from 9-10 a.m. Saturdays: For parents who would like to bring their kids to Shul early. There will be a free-play group led by one of our group leaders starting at 9 a.m. in the classrooms. This group will end at 10 a.m. when the regular groups begin.

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, Feb. 15 night at 7, Rabbi Spivak offers a class for teenage girls (at rotating houses). At 8 p.m., 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.

Mincha/Maariv Update
Mincha/Maariv services resume this week.

Ohr Torah Youth
NETS GAME!

Tomorrow night, 8 p.m.
Cost is $10 per ticket
Parents needed to volunteer for transportation and chaperoning beginning at 5:25 p.m.

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.