Friday, February 7 - Friday, March 14, 2025

7 - 14 Adar 5785

Parshat Tetzaveh

Shabbat Zachor

Day 519

Shabbat Zachor

On the Shabbat before Purim, the holiday on which we celebrate the foiling of Haman the Amalekite's plot to destroy the Jewish people, the weekly Torah reading is supplemented with the Zachor ("Remember!") reading (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) in which we are commanded to remember the evil of Amalek and to eradicate it from the face of the earth.

When the Israelites left Egypt, no nation dared pick a fight with them. Who would start up with a people whose G‑d just smacked around the mighty Egypt with ten awesome plagues, and drowned the surviving few in the sea? Only Amalek, driven by profound hatred which defied logic, came to wage battle.

The special Zachor haftorah (I Samuel 15:2-34) discusses G‑d's command to King Saul to destroy the people of Amalek.

"Parshat Zachor" is the second of four special readings added during or immediately before the month of Adar (the other three being Shekalim, Parah and Hachodesh).

Friday night, March 7, 2025

Kabbalat Shabbat and Arvit Services

6:00 PM

Rabbi Blank will lead Kabbalat and Maariv Services. Candlelighting is at 5:36 PM

Saturday, March 8, 2025

9:00 AM

Shabbat Morning Services

Rabbi Blank will be leading Pesukei D'Zimra and Shacharit, as well as reading Torah and giving the D'var Torah. Mira Berenbaum will lead Musaf, and Michael Massen will chant the Haftarahh. Following services there will be a kiddush.

Kiddush this Shabbat is not sponsored.

If you are interested in sponsoring kiddush, please contact the synagogue office. Thank you.

SATURDAY, March 8, 2025

2:30 PM

WALKING FOR THE RELEASE OF THE HOSTAGES HELD BY HAMAS - 519 Days in captivity.

Michelle Sarna, who with her husband, Rabbi Yehuda, leads the NYU-Bronfman Center, has organized the students and local community in a walk around Washington Square Park and Union Square Park to help bring awareness to the plight of the hostages being held in Gaza and to show support for the people of Israel. We coordinate with the local police who usually accompany us so as to avoid any hostile confrontations.

This Shabbat we meet at 2:30 PM in front of the Bronfman Center (7 East 10th Street) and carry posters as we walk around Washington Square Park, then Union Square Park, and finish with words and prayers.

The plan is for this to continue to be a weekly activity until all the hostages are freed. Please join us. עם ישראל חי

Saturday, March 8, 2025

6:45 PM

CSFA Online Havdalah

Join your CSFA friends for a short online Zoom Havdalah service.

Shabbat ends at 6:45 PM

To join CLICK HERE or

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85899668980

Monday, March 10, 2025

CSFA Mah Jonng

For additional information on CSFA's Mah Jonng group, please call the synagogue office

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Parsha HaShavua Class with Rabbi Blank

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Class WILL meet this week.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

6:30 PM

CSFA Board of Trustees Meeting

Thursday, March 13, 2025

PURIM - 8:00 PM

Friday, March 14 in the morning

TOMORROW - FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2025

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We also remember

Dr. Sam Winningham, Rita Winer, Modesto Llamas, Susan Mingelgrin,

Inge Gaffney, Peter Cooper, and Norma Massen

We also honor the memory of those

who were killed by terrorists on the streets of Israel, in Gaza,

and on the border with Lebanon.

עם ישראל חי

We pray for those who have been wounded and

for those who are still being held hostage in Gaza.