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Heichal HaTorah is excited to welcome the community to join in their new Community Night Seder program beginning this coming Monday night, February 7. Coordinated by Rabbi Yitzi Genack, the program introduces several unique concepts and opportunities for advanced learning and academic learning support.

The plan underway to reopen Eretz Yisrael in the aftermath of the omicron variant is no simple feat.

On Sunday morning, October 17, Congregation Beth Aaron of Teaneck, for the second time, hosted the Tefillin Awareness Project/Hanacha K’Halacha (TAP) at its morning minyanim.

By Pearl Markovitz | January 21, 2021 The sisterhood of Congregation Beth Aaron, headed by Debbie Sheffey and Gabriellle Silverberg, invited Dr. Michelle Sarna, wife of the UAE Chief Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, to address the community on Zoom this past Sunday evening, January 16. A large group of participants took advantage of this opportunity to hear what is actually happening on the ground across the world with Jewish residents in a Muslim country. The Jewish presence in the UAE began...

Not In Our Town Billings holds virtual Martin Luther King Jr. service Sunday and last updated 2021-01-17 20:25:31-05 BILLINGS — The racial equality group Not In Our Town Billings held a virtual Martin Luther King Jr. Day service Sunday with a theme of "bridge over troubled waters" where different local faith leaders offered their thoughts on the advice King would have for the people of today. Pastor Melvin Terry of All Nations Church and president of the Black Heritage Foundation spoke fir...

Felder’s burnt shul, a place I called home The flames that ripped through the landmark Congregation Beth Aaron last Thursday, totally destroying the Boro Park minyan factory and its upstairs apartments, elicited a melancholy wave of nostalgia for those who have known the shul as “Felder’s” since its founding seven decades ago. “When your father was niftar,” one man told State Senator Simcha Felder, the son of shul founder Rav Tzvi Mordechai Felder ztz”l, “I felt that he was stil...

Fire rips through Brooklyn synagogue By FOX 5 NY Staff Published  Firefighters rescued several people including children from the Congregation Beth Aaron in Borough Park. NEW YORK - Dozens of firefighters responded to a blaze that ripped through a synagogue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn Wednesday. Video from the scene showed flames and smoke shooting out from the two-story building of the Congregation Beth Aaron at 4901 18th Avenue. 60 firefighters put out the fire that erupted at a...

What is Hanukkah All About? We Ask Billings Student Rabbi Looking at your calendar you may notice that Thursday (12/10) is Hanukkah. Like many Montanans, I knew very little about the Jewish holiday. In fact, I would bet that for most of us, our only exposure to Hanukkah is Adam Sandlers famous song. Longtime residents of Billings may remember the awful hate-crime circumstances that escalated on December 2, 1993 when a brick was thrown through the bedroom window of 6 year old Jewish boy. The wi...