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Click here for the 2019 Young Israel of West Hartford Three Weeks and Tisha B'Av Guide & Schedule!
Click Here for the full Shavuot 5779-2019 Schedule
with Some Many Different Exciting Programs Happening...
Join Us and Let's Learn Some Torah Together!
1. ALL NIGHT Tikun Leil Shavuot Program
2. LATE LATE NIGHT SHOW - The Teen Tikun Leil
3. PARENT-CHILD Shavuot Learning
4. Tikun Yom Shavuot - 2nd Day of Shavuot Learning
5. Shavuot Community BBQ Luncheon
Check out this year’s Young Israel of West Hartford Pesach Guide.
It’s packed with important Pesach tidbits, our Pesach schedule and exciting information about upcoming Pesach programing all happening at Young Israel!
Rabbi Brander will be available at the Young Israel of West Hartford to become your agent for the selling of your Chametz at the following times:
- After morning minyan on Tuesday (4/16), Wednesday (4/17) and Thursdays (4/11 & 4/18)
- In the evenings:
Sunday, April 7th, 7:30PM – 8:30 PM
Thursday, April 11th, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Tuesday, April 16th, 7:35 PM – 8:30 PM
- Sunday Morning, April 14th, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Download your form here or pick one up in the Young Israel lobby.
DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS?
Do you have questions that you have always wanted to ask but never had the opportunity? Always wanted to ask but were afraid to?
Join us Shabbat Morning, September 22nd, for a special Q & A sermon! Ask the questions you have always had but never had the chance to ask. Submit your questions ahead of time and submit them anonymously if you wish.
SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION BY CLICKING HERE
DONATE or BUY TICKETS to the Siyum
2626 Albany Avenue
West Hartford, Connecticut
In the lead up to our Annual Fundraiser, Young Israel of West Hartford is coming together to collectively study all twenty four books of the Hebrew Bible. The Siym and dinner is a celebration of this achievement as we honor the Davidovics and Robinson Families' dedication to Torah learning and Torah values which are at the core of our Young Israel community.
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Ever study the entire Bible? Curious about some of those more obscure books?
The Young Israel of West Hartford is embarking on a campaign to complete the entire TANACH for our annual event June 10!
Want to take part? No problem! SIGN UP HERE
As we lead up to this Siyum Tanach, Celebration for the Completion of the Bible, we will be devoting classes and our Shavuot learning to exploring different aspects of our Tanach!
Shabbat 5/5: Extra-Biblical Flood Accounts and a Message from the Biblical Flood by Dr. Deena Grant
Shabbat 5/12: Jerusalem: Now & Then - An Exploration of the Archeology of the ancient city of Jerusalem by Rabbi Tuvia Brander
Shabbat 5/26: Explorations in Samuel by Tsion Cohen
Click Here for the full Shavuot 5778-2018 Schedule
With Some Many Different Exciting Programs Happening...
Join Us and Let's Learn Some Torah Together!
The Tikun Leil Shavuot Program
UP ALL NIGHT SHAVUOT - The Teen Tikun Leil
Parent & Child Learn'n'Dinner
Shavuot BBQ Luncheon
Check out this year’s Young Israel of West Hartford Pesach Guide. It’s packed with important Pesach tidbits, our Pesach schedule and exciting information about upcoming Pesach programing all happening at Young Israel!
Need to Sell your Chametz?
Rabbi Brander is available to become your agent to selling your Chametz at the following times:
- After morning minyan Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays beginning 3/22.
- Thursday Evening, 3/22, 7:15 PM – 8:15 PM
- Sunday Morning, 2/25, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
- Sunday Evening, 3/25, 7:30PM – 8:30PM
- Wednesday Evening, 3/28, 7:25 PM – 8:25 PM
Forms can be downloaded here or found in the Young Israel lobby.
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Shabbat Shuva Sermon:
U'Netaneh Tokef: The Story Behind The Story
Shabbat Shuva • September 23, 2017 • 5:15 PM
Join us for this end of the summer gathering, see old friends and welcome new ones...
and don't miss our very own Young Israel Mini Golf Course!
Click here to see our 3 Weeks and Tisha B'Av Guide and Schedule
Click here for the full Shavuot 5777/2017 Schedule
- The Tikun Leil Shavuot Program
- The Teen Tikun Leil
- 25th Annual Yahrzeit Memorial Lecture
- Parent & Child Learn'n'Dinner
- Shavout BBQ Luncheon
We also are excited to welcome our Shavuot Scholar-in-Residence, Rabbi Yosef Bronstein.
Rabbi Yosef Bronstein resides in Washington Heights, NY with his wife, Batya, a psychologist, and children, Talya and Yehuda. He is a professor of Jewish Philosophy at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women and Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies Honors Program where he spreads his passion for the philosophies of Rav Kook, Rabbi Soloveitchik and the Lubavitcher Rebbe. In addition, he is pursuing a PhD in Talmudic Studies at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. He received semikha from RIETS, an MA in Talmudic Studies from Revel, and completed RIETS Wexner Kollel Elyon. While in Israel, he studied at Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh, Yeshivat Har Etzion and Merkaz HaRav. Most importantly, his favorite color is purple.
Every year as Pesach rolls around we are faced with same challenge: Can we reenact redemption? Can we feel redeemed? What does that even mean?
Join us this Shabbat HaGadol at 6:00 PM as we examine the mode of redemption buried in our seder in the hopes of understanding redemption in 2017.
Prepare for Pesach!
Five Easy Steps!
Step 1 - Review the wine list from Skyview and make your choices.
Step 2 - Write your selections on our order form & fill out the Matzah order form.
Step 3 - Bring your completed forms & checks to YIWH or 37 Miamis Road
Step 4 – Pick up your wine and matzah orders
Step 5 - Slowly savor the wine and enjoy a joyful Pesach
Of course, don't forget to join us for an fine evening of wine tasting and cheese as well as a special presentation by Rabbi Brander entitled "How To Choose The Best Wines For Your Seder"! This Saturday night, 3/18, at 8:45 PM at the Kesler Home (24 Westwood Road).
Of course, don't forget to join us for an fine evening of wine tasting and cheese as well as a special presentation by Rabbi Brander entitled "How To Choose The Best Wines For Your Seder?"! This Saturday night, 3/18, at 8:45 PM at the Kesler Home (24 Westwood Road)
Questions ? Contact Steve Luger (swluger2@yahoo..com)
Purim 5777 @ Young Israel
Submit your 5-minute-or-less Purim shpiel as a video or live show script to admin@youngisrael.org by Mar. 5. All submissions must reference the Young Israel of West Hartford at least once. Please contact Eli Aroesty at programming@youngisraelwh.org with any questions.
We are extremely excited to host Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom for the Shabbat of March 3 & 4. We will have the opportunity to hear from him a number of times over the weekend including Friday night at a special Friday night dinner at the Young Israel, after minyan Shabbat morning and in a special session Sunday morning with the Federation at the JCC. See below for a full schedule and topics!
Please join us! For more information, please contact Lauren at admin@youngisraelwh.org.
Schedule
Friday, 3/3, Shabbat Dinner & Oneg
Israeli Society: Does Fear Trump Love?
5:30 PM Candle lighting and Kabbalat Shabbat services at Young Israel of West Hartford
6:45 PM Shabbat Dinner (by reservation only)
$22/adult, $15/child, children under 3 are free; space is limited
Dessert and Community Oneg with Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom: ~8:00 pm
Shabbat, 3/4, Morning Sermon
An Insider Look At The Israeli Rabbinate: Challenges & Opportunities
Sermon by Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom after services at 11:00am (approx.) followed by Kiddush.
Sunday, 3/5
From a Dream to Reality: Ethiopian Aliya In Israel
Community Program with Ethiopian-Israeli Rabbi Sharon Z. Shalom, Ph.D.: 10:30am
RSVP to Stacy Jennings at sjennings@jewishhartford.org or 860.727.6130
Bio: Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom
Born Zaude Tesfai in a small village in the Tigre region of Ethiopia, Rabbi Sharon Z. Shalom was nine years old in 1984, when he embarked on a 1,500 trek without his family, to the Sudan, a journey that was to bring him to Israel, during the airlift mission, Operation Moses.
Given a new Hebrew name and grieving for his family whom, as he was told, had died on the way to Sudan, Sharon Shalom went to live at the Emunah Children’s Centre in Afula, a residential home for immigrant and at-risk children. Emunah Afula was his home and haven for the next four years. His family, by the way, had miraculously survived, although Sharon would not hear this incredible news for more than two years after making Aliyah.
In coming years Sharon Shalom, would complete high school, study at Yehivat Har Etzion, serve in the army in the infantry officer, prior to gaining his BA, MA and PhD from the Bar Ilan University. The title of his doctoral dissertation is “Judaism of Faith? A case study on Theology of the Ethiopian Jewish Community Beta Yisrael”. Rabbi Sharon Shalom was only the second Ethiopian immigrant to receive semicha (ordination) from the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yisrael Meir Lau.
Rabbi Shalom was 37 years old when appointed as the rabbi of the Kdoshei Yisrael Synagogue in Kiryat Gat, then made up of mainly holocaust survivors. Under his leadership Kdoshei Yisrael has become a vibrant community with members originating from Russia, Ethiopia, Morocco, Tunisia and of course, Israel.
Rabbi Sharon currently works as a faculty lecturer at both the Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv Universities. In addition, he is an inspirational lecturer and sought after speaker in Israel and around the world, and the author of numerous published articles.
In 2012 Rabbi Sharon Shalom published his original book From Sinai To Ethiopia: The Halachic World and Ethiopian Jewish Thought. The book includes “Shulchan HaOrit”, the table of light, a halachic guide for Beta Yisrael. This groundbreaking book, has generated much discussion, controversy and expansion of knowledge, and was republished in English in 2015. Rabbi Sharon is currently under contract with a leading Israeli publisher for an additional book, soon to be published.
Rabbi Sharon Z. Shalom is married to Swiss-born Avital, a social worker and art therapist. The couple live in the Southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat with their 5 wonderful children - Roi, Nadav, Ziv, Gil and Tohar.
PROVE IT---Join our chulent cookoff!
Go to YoungIsraelWH.org/Chulent
Just love Chulent?
Join us on Shabbat morning, 1/21, to taste test West Hartford's best Chulents!
Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Friday Night Oneg
7:45 PM at the Bruce home
116 Brewster Road
Who is Chosen, Who is Blessed and Who is Best?
Using Algebra to explain the complicated stories in Bereishit
Pre-Shacharit Shiur
8:15 AM in the sanctuary
in place of the Chayei Adam Class
What Mitzvot Did The Avot Keep?
Shabbat Morning Sermon
following davening
From Creation to Civilization to Revelation:
The meaning of Shabbat in light of Genesis
Shabbat Afternoon Class
during Seudah Shlishit
Stories in Breishit That Explain How & Why We Pray
YU GPATS Fellow
SELICHOT
Kumzits & Selichot
Saturday Night, September 24, 2016
Kumzits: 12:20am | Selichot: 12:43am
Join us each night until Yom Kippur for Selichot at 9:00pm in the main sanctuary. Check the bulletin for more details.
Click here to view the full Three Weeks and Tisha B'Av Guide and Schedule
Special Presentation
Purification & Preservation: Challenges of Ideology in the Israel Defense Forces Today
Rabbi Shalom Hammer
This Monday, August 8th, 6:45 PM at the Young Israel of West Hartford. Jointly sponsored by Young Israel of West Hartford and Beth David Synagogue.
TISHA B'AV
SHABBAT, AUGUST 13
Shabbat Afternoon Class 5:00 pm Mincha 5:45 pm Regular Seudah Shlishit to be completed by 7:52 pm Fast Begins 7:53 pm
Shabbat Ends 8:37 pm Maariv & Eichah 9:00 pm Please remember to wear non-leather shoes
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14
Shacharit and Kinot 8:30 am
Following our local recitation of Kinot, we will be connecting to the YU live stream of Kinot and their discussion presented by Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter
Chatzot (Midday) 12:56 pm Early Mincha (Beth David Synagogue) 2:00 pm
Tisha B’Av Film Presentations
JEREMIAH: THE LIFE & PROPHECIES OF THE PROPHET
4:30 pm – 6:15 pm
A HERO IN HEAVEN: A TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL LEVIN Z’TL
6:30 pm – 7:15 pm
Mincha 7:25 pm Maariv 8:00 pm Fast Ends 8:37 pm
Click here to view full Shavuot Schedule
Shavuot is here and there is a lot happening at Young Israel!
Come join us for a class or two or even the entire night! Don't forget to RSVP for our communal Shavout BBQ and of course, don't miss our exciting parent-child learning program and our special Teen Tikun Leil Shavuot.
Tikun Leil Shavuot
Prepare to receive the Torah with a night full of learning, insights and yummy food. Beginning at 11:45 PM, join us for a series of stimulating sessions as well as a special Teen Tikun Program. See Shavuot Schedule for more details.
YIWH Communal Shavuot BBQ!
Join friends and family for wonderful BBQ Yom Tov lunch on the second day of Shavuot, June 13th. To sign up or more information, click here or email info@youngisraelwh.org.
Parent Child Shavuot Learning June 12th
Come learn Torah with your children as part of this annual Young Israel tradition. Materials will be provided for study with separate programs for 1-4 and 5-8 grades. Join us on June 12th, 1st day of Shavuot from 5:00-6:15 PM. A dairy dinner will be served.
Pre-Pesach Wine Sale
Four Easy Steps!
Step 1 - Review the Skyview Pesach Wine Sale List and make your choices.
Step 2 - Write your selections on our order form and calculate total.
Step 3 - Bring your completed form & check to YIWH or the Feldman Residence (46 Stoneham Drive)
Step 4 - Slowly savor the wine and enjoy a joyful Pesach
For questions, please contact Steven at swluger2@yahoo.com.
Purim 5776
An Evening of Discovery
Secrets Of The Bible
Unearthed At The City of David
The City of David is the site of hte most stunning archeological excavations in Israel, with discoveries tracing the history of Jerusalem over the last 4000 years.
Come and hear about the excavations and view genuine artifacts which are shocking the world with evidence of the Bible, and of the unbreakable ties between the Jewish people and the land of Israel.
Multimedia and Artifacts Presentation by Ze'ev Orenstein, Director at the City of David Foundation
For more info: Alex ashlyank@gmail.com 617.833.9551
Friday Night Communal Chinese Dinner
Young Israel of West Hartford invites you to join us on Friday night December 25 for a Shabbat Chinese Dinner.
Candle lighting and services will take place at 4:06 pm at the Young Israel (2240 Albany Ave.). Dinner will follow at approximately 5:00 pm.
The cost is $12.50 per a person with a family maximum of $55. There is no charge for children under 5.
Food is being catered from Kosher Express in Fair Lawn, NJ.
A Sampling of Events from 2014
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Today's Calendar
Fast of Gedalia |
Fast Begins : 5:31am |
Shacharit & Selichot : 8:00am |
Mincha/Maariv : 5:55pm |
Fast Ends : 6:50pm |
Selichot : 9:00pm |
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Shabbat Info
Friday Night
Mincha : 3:15pm |
Mincha : 3:30pm |
Candle Lighting : 5:57pm |
Kol Nidre : 6:00pm |
Fast Begins : 6:07pm |
Shabbat Day
Shacharit : 8:30am |
Mincha : 4:40pm |
Neilah : 5:40pm |
Fast Ends & Maariv Followed by Shofar : 6:55pm |
Eruv Status
Today's Zemanim
Alot Hashachar | 5:32am |
Earliest Tallit | 6:04am |
Netz (Sunrise) | 6:54am |
Latest Shema | 9:46am |
Zman Tefillah | 10:43am |
Chatzot (Midday) | 12:38pm |
Mincha Gedola | 1:07pm |
Mincha Ketana | 3:59pm |
Plag HaMincha | 5:11pm |
Shkiah (Sunset) | 6:23pm |
Tzeit Hakochavim | 7:04pm |
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