Temple Ahavath Israel - Current Events

Please join Rabbi Avraham Maza and Congregation Ahavath Israel for our Purim Service, replete with Megillah Reading, Graggers, Children’s Costume Parade and Hamantaschen, on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. Rabbi Maza will read the Megillat Esther and Matthew Hindin will read his summaries of its chapters.

PASSOVER SEDER

On Friday, April 6, the first night of Passover, the synagogue will conduct a Community Seder with traditional foods prepared by a Kosher Passover caterer. The price is $45 per adult, $25 per child under 13. You must reserve your spot before March 6 and pre-pay. To reserve, call Michael Hindin at (718) 984-0142. Walk-ins will not be accepted.

YOM HASHOAH, HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE

Yom HaShoah is our day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945. The word “holocaust” means “burnt offering” and many Jews prefer the Hebrew word Shoah, which connotes catastrophe, calamity, disaster and destruction. Yom HaShoah occurs on 27 Nisan, to coincide with the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, and corresponds to Thursday, April 19 this year. Please join Rabbi Maza, Shoah survivor Benjamin Wayne and Congregation Ahavath Israel for our Yom HaShoah observance on Friday, April 20, 2012, at 7:00 p.m.