News, Info & Resources for the Cleveland Orthodox Jewish Community
Restaurant Nights – February 4,5,6,9,10. Download a menu, make your reservations now and don’t miss out!
Also, we continue to have Sushi available for takeout on Tuesday & Friday. If you are interested in Sushi for Monday or Thursday, please check with me beforehand. Download a sushi menu.
NCSY is looking for professionals who would be willing to take Jewish Teens from Public Schools looking for jobs or internships that would keep them impressed and involved in the Jewish community-network and would rival jobs they might otherwise get at non-kosher restaurants or other not-best-case-scenario situations. Contact: Rabbi Arieh Friedner, City Director of Cleveland NCSY, 216-200-NCSY, www.Cleveland.NCSY.org
(Plain Dealer)
Apparently Cleveland had some catching up to do when it came to cold – really cold – weather.
We had gone nearly three years without a sub-zero day before the temperature dipped to 11-below zero at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on Jan. 6-7.
Now, if the forecast for the next couple of days holds true, we could have our third, fourth and fifth sub-zero days this month. That would be the most on record for a single month in Cleveland in 20 years, the Northeast Ohio Media Group found in going through daily weather reports.
Here is the newest issue of Halachically Speaking entitled “Secular Dates” offering very interesting haskofa and halacha on this topic.
Tzip Sonnenschein is now offering sheitel courses for high school girls and older. Learn the art of haircutting- layers, angles, amazing bangs… and drastically improve your blowing skills… Get your straight blow to come out even straighter with no frizz, height on top that really stays, and learn how to use a curling iron for curls and beach waves…
Creative Chocolates has added beautiful new pictures to our website www.creativechocs.com. Be sure to visit us and try our great selection to warm someone’s heart on these cold winter days. Order wrapped pink trays for girls, blue trays for boys, gold and silver trays for anyone who is making a simcha. We have a large variety of boxes to fill with your favorite pareve chocolates whether it is for a sholom zochor, bris, upsherin, kiddush, bar/bat mitzvah, thank you gift, birthday gift or birthday party, vort, sheva brochos favors or any occasion. Call 216-321-1131 and ask for Esther Leah Greenberger or just visit our website and place an order right on the contact page. We are always available to serve you. 
Torah LIFE Kollel’s monthly raffle has now started its second year but with a new twist! Every month in 2014, Torah LIFE Kollel, will be raffling off $750 in gift cards or gift certificates. For ONLY $8.33 a month, or $100 for the year, you can be entered into the monthly raffle, and you will have the zechus of supporting Torah.
By Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff (RabbiKaganoff.com)
Question #1:
“I was once told that there are places in the long Vehu Rachum prayer where one should stop and wait to hear keriyas haTorah. What are they, and why?”
Question #2:
“Why is the prayer Vehu Rachum recited only on Monday and Thursday?”
Question #3:
“In some shullen that I attend, there is often a bang on a shtender with an announcement that today is the yahrzeit of some great rebbe, and therefore we will skip Tachanun. What is the source of this practice?”
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There will be an open meeting for South Euclid residents to discuss the handling of juveniles and criminal activity in general. Judge Gayle Beyers, Juvenile Court Judge Allison Floyd and Detective Dave Volek will be present to answer questions and address concerns specific to your street.The meeting is Wednesday, Februrary 5th, 2014 7pm at City Hall. The community room is located on the second floor.
With sadness, we inform you of the passing of R’Dovid Bergstein. The funeral for R’ Dovid Bergstein o”h, is scheduled for Tuesday January 28, at 11am at the Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery, 3740 Ridge Road. There are no family members, so if possible we would like to have a minyan attending. Please advise if you can attend. Transportation is available. For further information, call Aaron Levine at: 216-548-9384
May the family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Ha’Makom yenachem eschem b’soch she’ar avay’lay Tzion v’Yerushalayim
Yesterday was the Yahrzeit of the Manchester Rosh HaYeshiva, HaRav Yehuda Zev B’R Moshe Yitzchak HaLevi Segal, Z’tl. HaRav Segal put the Koach HaPeh (power of speech) at the forefront of his Avodas Hashem (divine service) and assured others that they would experience personal Yeshuos (redemptions) through the proper study and application of Shemiras Halashon (careful speech). The concept of Yoseir MiMah She’Hayisi (more than I was previously) can especially be used with the words one allows himself to speak, for one can continuously edify and refine his speech and his manner of speech. ’I am going to cheat on my diet with this piece of cake.’; ’Can I steal a moment of your time?’; ‘What a disgusting bug!’; ‘That food is nasty’; ‘I have no patience for this!’; ’I can’t talk to you bye [click]’–are all examples of short statements which ultimately impact a person’s mindset and overall personality.
(Hakhel, Aneinu) If you are traveling in the United States with someone, i.e., an elderly or sick parent who will have difficulty waiting in the long security line, there is something you can do to expedite the screening process: You can call ‘TSACare’ 72 hours before flight time at 855-787-2227 and press 2 . You will speak to a person and give them the date, time, and airport you will be leaving and returning from. They will contact the TSA customer representative in that airport. They call back and give you the cell phone number of the representative who will be on duty at the time of your travel.
Shiva update for Neuman Family: R’ Raphael Aryeh, R’ Dovid, and R’ Moshe Neuman continue sitting shiva in Cleveland. R’ Yehoshua and Rav Binyomin Ahron return from Eretz Yisroel and will be sitting in Cleveland from Thursday mid-day. Shacharis 7:15am. Mincha 5:15. (Erev Shabbos 1:30pm). 14459 Summerfield in University Hts. Mourners get up Monday morning.
Video of Hespedim in Israel appear below courtesy of SimchaConnect.com:
Tzip Sonnenschein is now offering sheitel courses for high school girls and older. Learn the art of haircutting- layers, angles, amazing bangs… and drastically improve your blowing skills… Get your straight blow to come out even straighter with no frizz, height on top that really stays, and learn how to use a curling iron for curls and beach waves…
