December 2016 News

On Sunday, December 25, 2016 our community joined to celebrate the first day of Chanukah at Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn’s Chanukah Wonderland for kids. With carnival games, bounce houses, Chanukah arts and crafts, donuts, face painting, latkes, and pizza, Chanukah fun was had by all! After lighting the delicious chocolate s’mores menorah all the children received real Chanukah gelt and prizes.

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On Wednesday, December 28^th members of the JTeen Club joined together to celebrate the 5^th night of Chanukah. Together the teens lit Chanukah candles, had a delicious pizza dinner followed of course, by jelly donuts and chocolate gelt!  Dreidel wars and words of inspiration from Rabbi Mendel added to the wonderful event.

JTeen Club Teen Talks generally meets Thursday evenings at 7:30 pm and is for boys and girls ages 13-16. Teen Talks is the perfect social interaction for Jewish teens in a dynamic Jewish experience. Teen Talks will focus on exciting subjects that teens have to face day to day and serve as active partners in giving back to the community in a meaningful way.

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On Thursday, December 22, 2016 Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn's JTeen Club, gathered together to help prepare for upcoming Chanukah festivities.  The teens prepared materials for Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn's Chanukah Wonderland and baked Chanukah cookies all while having an awesome time with friends!

JTeen Club Teen Talks meets every Thursday evening at 7:30 pm and is for boys and girls ages 13-16. Teen Talks is the perfect social interaction for Jewish teens in a dynamic Jewish experience. Teen Talks will focus on exciting subjects that teens have to face day to day and serve as active partners in giving back to the community in a meaningful way.

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Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn just concluded a brand new six week Kaballah course with great attendance and interest.

The course, entitled The Identity and Journey of Your Soul and led by Rabbi Mendel Zaltzman, discussed how being a living human is to have a soul - actually two of them. The class encompassed the deep intellectual understanding of each soul and practical discussion on how to use the nature of each soul to maximize potential in life such as one’s love life, child rearing, and peace of mind.

The Kaballah course had more than twenty adults attending the series, and was viewed as a wonderful new addition to the Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn calendar.

The second series of the Kaballah course will focus on the soul of Jewish observances as a model for educating our children.  The course will begin on January 10, 2017 and will run on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 pm for four weeks.  The course is open to the public, with registration, and is $36 per person for all four weeks.

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On Wednesday night, December 7^th more than 50 women joined together for an evening of art and wine at Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn.

Women painted their own Shabbat themed canvases, under the direction of art instructor Alina Kontorovsky, while enjoying wine and desserts with friends.

Participants were also treated to words of Torah by Mrs. Elke Zaltzman, who discussed how diversity in life creates beauty, in relation to the story of Chanukah, how the Jewish people fought for their rights to be different. So to, in art, the beauty is in incorporating multiple colors together.

The paint and wine event was part of a series of Women’s Night Out events coordinated by Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn.  For more information on future events please visit www.JewishFairLawn.org.

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