Weekly E-News 5786

Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2026

Menu

Vegetable Lasagna

Vegetable Tian

Caprese Salad

Garlic Bread

Fruit

Cookies

Kiddush prepared by Beth Bosman

& Elise Shernoff.

Birthdays

Monday, Jan 19th - Cookie Gale

Wednesday, Jan 21st - Simara Blumenfeld &

Daisy Reiss (10th)

Thursday, Jan 22nd - Marcy Konter

Anniversaries

Tuesday, Jan 20th - Simara & Brian Blumenfeld

In Person Service Times

Tuesday: 7:30 AM

Wednesday: 8:00 AM

Friday: 8:00 AM

Shabbat: 9:45 AM

This Shabbat

Parashat Vaera 5786 / פָּרָשַׁת וָאֵרָא

Shabbat Mevarekhim Haḥodesh

17 January 2026 / 28 Tevet 5786

Candle Lighting 5:26 PM / Havdalah 6:24 PM

Torah Portion: Exodus 6:2-9:35

Vaera (“I Appeared”) opens as God promises to redeem the enslaved Israelites and bring them to the Promised Land. When Pharaoh repeatedly refuses to let the Israelites go, God sends a series of plagues: water turning to blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, death of livestock, boils, and hail.

1: 6:2-5 · 351 

2: 6:6-9 · 352 

3: 6:10-13 · 353 

4: 6:14-19 · 354 

5: 6:20-25 · 355 

6: 6:26-28 · 355 

7: 6:29-7:7 · 356 

M: 7:5-7 · 357 

Haftarah: Ezekiel 28:25-29:21 · 370

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Yahrzeits 

Thursday night/Friday, Jan 16 - 27 Tevet

Rhoda Hess - grandmother of Daniel Skidmore-Hess

Annie Hirsch - grandmother of Stanley Rosenberg

Henry Miller - grandfather of Edward Cohen

Friday night/Saturday, Jan 17 - 28 Tevet

Berthe Gomel - mother of Rachel Israel

Ashley Samuels - wife of Scott Samuels

Saturday night/Sunday, Jan 18 - 29 Tevet

Helen Cweibel - mother of Marvin Cweibel

Eva Konter - mother of Michael Konter

Louis Menevitch - grandfather of Linda Sacks

Sunday night/Monday, Jan 19 - 1 Shevat

Neal Aaron - father of Kenneth Aaron

Henry Feingold - grandfather of Mark Schwartz

Lawson Hayes - brother of Garrett Kaminsky

Michael Strear - father of Jennifer Rich

Monday night/Tuesday, Jan 20 - 2 Shevat

Jonathan Blumenfeld - brother of Brian Blumenfeld

Bertram Freed - father of Suzanne Konter

Joseph Geffen - father of Morris & Ted Geffen

Esther S. Rubinstein - sister of Gale Hirsh

Tuesday night/Wednesday, Jan 21 - 3 Shevat

Lester Swallwood - father of Steven Swallwood

Fanny Zoller - grandmother of Michael Zoller

Wednesday night/Thursday, Jan 22 - 4 Shevat

Yafa Ehrlich - grandmother of Motti Locker

Thursday night/Friday, Jan 23 - 5 Shevat

David Fiegleman - father of Arlene Wizwer

Goldie Schmalheiser - grandmother of Lynn Reeves & Paul Cranman,

great-grandmother of Kasey Berman & Morgan McGhie

Commemoration of the Yahrzeit begins the evening of the first noted date.



Congregation Agudath Achim

Donor Dues

Benefactor

$9,999 - $5000

Melvyn & Eleanor Galin



 Leader

$3,599 - $1,800

Stephen & Annette Friedman

Ed Price

Patron

$1,799 - $720

Aaron & Dayle Levy

Allan & Arlene Ratner

Sherwin & Sara Robin

Sol & Stephanie Zerden

Michael & Linda Zoller

Chai Member

$719 - $360

Michelle & Matthew Allan

Gerald Caplan

Linda & Joe Cooper

AM Goldkrand

Paul & Harriet Kulbersh

Stacy & Jeffrey Lasky

Andrew & Leslie Walcoff



Supporters

 $359 - $100 

Lynn Berkowitz

Adam & Lauren Fins

Ted & Adelle Geffen

Doug & Lisa Goldstein

Seth Grenald

David & Gale Hirsh

Jonathan & Tova Javetz

Harriet Karlin

Michael & Suzanne Konter

Larry & Betsy Lehner

Steve & Linda Sacks

Victor & Elise Shernoff

Judy Todtfeld

Thanks to these donors for going above and beyond by participating in the Donor Dues Program this 2025-2026 fiscal year. If you would like to participate by making this additional commitment, please contact the office. 

Community News

Workman's Circle Credit Union has made a generous donation to AA in recognition of the benefits we bring to the Savannah community. In appreciation of this donation, please consider doing business with Workman's Circle.

Montag Gallery

December 19 - January 30: Teake Zuidema

Teake Zuidema grew up in the Netherlands, where he studied cultural anthropology and specialized in the use of photography and film in anthropological research. He completed his fieldwork and made a documentary while living in a community of Maya campesinos in Mexico. Next, he became a freelance photographer. During his career, he photographed wars in Middle America, religious rituals and customs in Brazil and Bhutan, and worked for travel magazines and newspapers such as National Geographic Traveler and The Guardian. He studied photography and darkroom techniques at the Photographic Center De Moor in Amsterdam.

In 1995, he moved to Pittsburgh, where he produced photo stories about ecology, science, and technology. After moving to Savannah in 2021, he turned to landscape photography, traveling along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina, and became a member of the former Kobo Gallery downtown. In 2025, with a Sea Grant from the University of Georgia, he exhibited his project “Living on the Edge” at ARTS Southeast, which explored the difficult lives of trees living on the edges of the forest and the marsh, the forest and the river, and the forest and the beach.

Savannah MLK Day Parade, Jan 19th, 10AM

Join Savannah Jewish Federation as we march in the 48th Annual Savannah MLK Day Parade. The theme this year is "A Fight With Courage, A Victory for Love."

Whether you walk or ride, all ages are welcome and encouraged!

Healthy snacks, water, hot chocolate and guaranteed fun provided!

Register today to secure your spot in the Parade Brigade!

Rabbi David Cantor

Morgan McGhie, President

Motti Locker, Executive Director

Congregation Agudath Achim | office@agudath-achim.com | 912-352-4737 | www.agudath-achim.com