While walking through the park between Dolev and Refaim at the 8 am rush hour I noticed young girls screeching and hurrying away from the path while others were fearful to enter the path. I approached slowly and saw a big tomcat near the bushes, rustling around in the leaves. I calmed the approaching girls [...]
I noticed that the neighbor's children were chasing a cat with a collar and bell on it. To save the cat I went over and retrieved it. There was a name and address on the collar. I called the owner and returned the cat to him.
The first day after being inspired by the Rav's suggestion of doing a random chesed, I felt disappointed that no opportunity had come my way for an act of chesed! I happened upon a young lady I know who lives in Gimmel and shared the Rav's words with her. She was enthusiastic and said to [...]
I met a lady in the lobby of the Maccabee Health Center who was confused as to how the new computer "kiosk" works for obtaining a number for the nurse, lab, etc, because she has difficulty with Hebrew. I helped her, and she said, "I now know why you were at Maccabee this morning: To [...]
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Mr. Reuven of our shul is a recent immigrant to Israel (oleh). He had a job interview and needed to learn some technical terms in Hebrew which are used in his field of expertise. Mr. Shimon of our shul works in the same field as Mr. Reuven. Mr. Shimon spent 20 minutes of his precious [...]
Date: 24-Oct-2015 11 Cheshvan 5776 Location: Ahavas Shalom Attending: Lev Seltzer, Micha Kushner, Yonah Kauffman, Ari Waldman, Avi Rosenberg Absent: Aryeh Beer, Alan Rubinstein Summary by Micha Kushner Air Conditioning There will be no A/C put on automatically during the week any more. It will only be set to go on during Shabbos. If someone [...]
Shabbos Newsletter Parshas Lech Lecha 5776 Reminders: Mincha tonight at 17:44. New shiur from the Rav on Shabbos afternoon, 15 minutes before the last Mincha. Standard Time returns after Shabbos. Change your clocks back one hour at 02:00. There are several davening time changes due to this - please see the newsletter for full details. [...]
Shabbos Newsletter Parshas Noach 5776 Reminders: Mincha tonight at 17:52. New shiur from the Rav on Shabbos afternoon, 15 minutes before the last mincha. See Aryeh Beer for Horaat Keva forms or to pay membership dues with a credit card. You can also arrange monthly payments with your credit card – just set it and [...]
Date: 08-Oct-2015 25 Tishrei 5776 Location: Ahavas Shalom Attending: Lev Seltzer, Aryeh Beer , Alan Rubinstein, Micha Kushner, Absent: Yonah Kauffman, Ari Waldman, Avi Rosenberg Summary by Micha Kushner Holiday Summary Rosh Hashanah Children’s noise caused problems for women to hear Shofar (and Bracha before). Maybe put “guard” at entrance to Annex. Maybe have extra [...]
