Friday, February 20, 2009

Ramapo Message

DATE:         February 20, 2009

CONTACT: Elaine Silverberg
845-357-5100 xt 324
silverberge@ramapo-ny.gov

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

UPDATE

MAPLE AVENUE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT
This is an update on the Maple Avenue reconstruction project beginning  the week of February 23rd.
One lane will be open for travel eastbound (in the direction of Spring Valley).
There will be curb and sidewalk installation on the North side of Maple Avenue from Phyllis Terrace to Maple Terrace.
There will be pipe replacement at the corner of Monsey Blvd and Maple Avenue.
Decorative light poles will be installed on the South side of Maple Avenue.
Depending on the weather, landscaping work will begin on the south side of Maple Avenue.
The re-construction project covers the location of Maple Avenue between Monsey Blvd and Saddle River Road. When completed, residents will enjoy a new and wider roadway, new sidewalks, new curbs, bus turning lanes, improved lighting, new traffic lights and improved drainage.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Feb. 20 & 21 SHABBOS PARSHAS MISHPATIM SHEKOLIM

B"H
Congregation Anshei Sfard of Wesley Hills
      42 Powder Horn Drive
              Mount Carmel
 Rav Pincus Schwarz: Tel. 354-2660       fax 354-0261
Community News below. 
  Hatzolah- 425-1600                Eruv:  888-805-ERUV(3788) Rocklanderuv.org,
heading: www.microsoft.com/mac  (heading for Entourage)

Call 9-1-1 in case of Fire.



"The greatest misers with money are often the biggest spendthrifts with  desires."
                         --   Rabbi Moshe ibn-Ezra

May you live to be 120,

THE SHUL SCHEDULE

Candle lighting for Erev Shabbat, is at 5:19P
These times are for:  Suffern, NY 10901   GMT -05:00 (U.S. Eastern)
DO NOT DEPEND ON ZMANIM AT THE FINAL MOMENT.

Mincha  5:30P
Repeat the Shm’a after 6:27P

SHABBAT:   
Schacharit: 8:50A
Mincha: 5:15P   
Mariv not before 6:29P
Sunset: 5:38P

Sunday:  
Schacharit: 7:50A
Mincha Sunday 5:25P
Sunset: 5:37P

Weekday
Schacharit- 6:40A
Rosh Chodesh:  Tuesday & Wednesday.
  

 Shabbat Details:
SHABBOS PARSHAS MISHPATIM
PARSHAS SHEKOLIM
FEB. 21, 27 SHEVAT


Kiddish and Shalosh Seudas Sponsor : To sponsor this Kiddish see the Gabbai.
Kiddish will be served in the reception area of the Main Sanctuary.

Eruv and Weather
 Eruv Status: ERUV HOTLINE 888-805-ERUV (3788) or
http://www.rocklanderuv.org/pages/home.php
1    S. Monsey/Airmont    2 Monsey/Spring Valley    Call 646-222-0503 for status.
The following are UP   
3 Forshay/W Wesley Hills    4 E Wesley Hills/New Hempstead   5 Pomona
6  Good Sam Hospital     7  Helen Hayes Hospital

Weather :
Friday  Flurries      High 36°F    
Clouds, early clearing Low  20°F
Shabbat :
Few Snow Showers     High  39°F
Snow  Showers        Overnight Low  26°F
Sunday:  Snow Showers   High  37°F
Snow Shower    21°F

We are urged to devote at least fifteen minutes a day for our Brothers and Sisters in Yisroel.
 Recite Tehillim 20, 83,121,130 and 142.



DAILY DOSE:
Creating a Need for Wisdom
By Tzvi Freeman
If G–d had made a perfect world, what need would there be for wisdom?
So He left shattered vessels for us to repair. And in doing so, we engage a wisdom deeper
than that which fashioned the earth, the sun and the stars.

Reflector Belts:
Wesley Hill Residents:  Wesley Hill Town.
Everyone else: Ramapo- from 9A to 5P.  (Office of St. Lawrence).

Shul Information:
Shul Schedule: http://www.godaven.com/searchzip.asp?zip=10901
Old and current email  available from:
Www.Yahoo.com/groups/WesleyHillShuls.
http://ansheisfard.blogspot.com/

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Schedule

Sunday Mincha: 5:20P

Schacharit Monday, to Friday: 6:40A.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

FEB. 13 &14, SHABBOS PARSHAS YISRO

B"H
Congregation Anshei Sfard of Wesley Hills
      42 Powder Horn Drive
              Mount Carmel
 Rav Pincus Schwarz: Tel. 354-2660       fax 354-0261
Community News below. 
 Sisterhood – Rebetizen: Tel. 354-2660
  Hatzolah- 425-1600                Eruv:  888-805-ERUV(3788) Rocklanderuv.org,
Shul Information:
Shul Schedule: http://www.godaven.com/searchzip.asp?zip=10901
Old and current email  available from:
Www.Yahoo.com/groups/WesleyHillShuls.
http://ansheisfard.blogspot.com/
heading: www.microsoft.com/mac  (heading for Entourage)
Call 9-1-1 in case of Fire.
 
Schacharit: 6:40A

May you live to be 120,

THE SHUL SCHEDULE
Candle lighting for Erev Shabbat, is at 5:10P
These times are for:  Suffern, NY 10901   GMT -05:00 (U.S. Eastern)

DO NOT DEPEND ON ZMANIM AT THE FINAL MOMENT.

Mincha  5:20P
Repeat the Shm’a after 6:18P

SHABBAT:   
Schacharit: 8:50A
Mincha: 5:05P   
Mariv not before 6:29P
Sunset: 5:38P

Sunday and Monday (President’s Day):
Schacharit: 7:50A
Mincha Sunday 5:15P
Monday Mincha:  TBA
Sunset: 5:31P

Weekday
Tuesday to Friday:
Schacharit- 6:40A

 Shabbat Details:
SHABBOS PARSHAS YISRO
Torah Portion:     Exodus 18:1 - 20:23
Haftarah for Ashkenazim: Isaiah 6:1 - 7:6; 9:5 - 9:6
Haftarah for Sephardim: Isaiah 6:1 - 6:13

Kiddish and Shalosh Seudas Sponsor : To sponsor this Kiddish see the Gabbai
Kiddish will be served in the reception area of the Main Sanctuary.

"A good saying at the right moment,
is like a piece of bread during a
famine."
Chassidic saying

Eruv and Weather
 Eruv Status: ERUV HOTLINE 888-805-ERUV (3788) or
http://www.rocklanderuv.org/pages/home.php


Weather :
Partly Cloudy      High 42°F
                            Low  25°F
Shabbat :
Few Snow Showers    High  38°F
Few Snow Showers       Overnight Low  22°F

Sunday:  Partly Cloudy   High  33°F
    20°F

Tehillim:
 Specifically, Jews are urged to devote at least fifteen minutes a day  
 to recite Psalms 20, 83,121,130 and 142.

DAILY DOSE:
Bread from Heaven
Your place is the wilderness. The bread you eat falls from heaven.
The basket you collect it in is your attitude.
Clutch your basket tight and your manna will have no place to rest.
Open it up and look to the heavens and your basket will always be full.
Tzvi Freeman
Daily Dose from the Rebee

Maaneh Rach, ch.5; Rabbi Pliskin's Gateway to Happiness, p.175)
If you give up your demands for more possessions
and material matters, you will save yourself much needless sadness.
Sadness does not come from lacking possessions,
 but from your "lack of acceptance" at not having them.
Next time, when you are unable to acquire something,
 accept that you do not have it --
and avoid adding emotional pain to your practical problem of not having that thing.
Should you avoid material possessions?
 No. Just don't make oneself sad about those things you do not have.

Websites:
The BIRKAT HACHAMA TEFILLAH
http://www.kehillaton.com/en/docs/birkat_hachama.pdf

Abraham Lincoln and the Jewish Community.
http://booksgoogle.com/books?id=-OxMjGRkFXwC&printsec=titlepage
Abraham Lincoln & the Jews, a 1909 book.
Author: Markens, Isaac, 1846-1928
The best book available on the history  of Order Number 11.
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/10/abraham_lincoln_and_the_jews.html
http://wwwtorah.org/features/firstperson/lincoln.html
<http://www.torah.org/features/firstperson/lincoln.html>
The Sephardic Perspective
http://www.alfassa.com/blog/2008/12/abraham-lincoln-friend-of-the.html
http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/aje/results2.php?category=x
Was Lincoln Jewish?
http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=6938

Community News:
National DO NOT CALL REGISTRY
You may enter landline or cell phone numbers.  Up to 3 numbers at a time.
https://www.donotcallgov/register/reg.aspx

Cell Phone for Soldiers:
Instructions:
http://cellphonesforsoldiers.com/donatePhone.html
A donation receipt can be printed out.
 Cell phone eraser:
http://www.recellular.com/recycling/data_eraser/default.asp
Printing labels: (Postage Paid)
http://cellphonesforsoldiers.com/shippingLabel_generic_print.html

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Community Message

From:
David Goldsmith
mayor@wesleyhills.org


COUNTY OF ROCKLAND
OFFICE OF FIRE and EMERGENCY SERVICES
Rockland County Fire Training Center
35 Firemen's Memorial Drive
Pomona, New York 10970
(845) 364-8800
(845) 364-8961 Fax

February 9, 2009

A full volume test of the new alert and notification sirens located
throughout the emergency planning zone will be held Wednesday February 11,
2009 between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. The sirens will sound for four
minutes.

In an actual emergency, the new sirens would sound simultaneously at full
volume for four minutes. The sirens are not a signal to evacuate but rather
to alert the public to tune to their local Emergency Alert System (EAS)
radio or television station (100.7 FM-WHUD) for important information.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Office of Fire & Emergency Services at
1-800-942-1450, should you have any questions.

Sincerely,
Nicholas A. Longo, Jr.
Program Coordinator

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Breaking News Wesley Hills- Water Main Break

Water main break in Wesley Hills closes Route 202; road covered with ice;
BY JANE LERNER AND ROB RYSER
THE JOURNAL NEWS • FEBRUARY 4, 2009

WESLEY HILLS - Police and emergency work crews are at the scene of a water main break near the corner of Route 202 at Wilder Road, according to United Water.
The break in the 16-inch main was reported shortly after 6 a.m. today, according to utility spokesman Steve Goudsmith
"With freezing temperatures, water main breaks are not uncommon this time of year," Goudsmith said.
Ramapo police were diverting traffic off Route 202.
The road was covered in ice near the site of the water main break.
Several customers in the area have reported low water pressure or no water service, Goudsmith said.
The utility will decide later in the day if it needs to issue a warning to boil water before using it.

See the online edition of the Rockland Journal tomorrow.
http://www.lohud.com
Video currently on
 http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009902040391
Also from
http://monseychabad.blogspot.com/2009/02/water-main-break-in-wesley-hills-causes.html
Water Main Break in Wesley Hills Causes Low Water Pressure or No Water Service to Many Residents
By Jane Lerner and Rob Ryser, The Journal News

WESLEY HILLS - Police and emergency work crews are at the scene of a water main break near the corner of Route 202 at Wilder Road, according to United Water.

The break in the 16-inch main was reported shortly after 6 a.m. today, according to utility spokesman Steve Goudsmith

"With freezing temperatures, water main breaks are not uncommon this time of year," Goudsmith said.

Ramapo police were diverting traffic off Route 202.

The road was covered in ice near the site of the water main break.

Several customers in the area have reported low water pressure or no water service, Goudsmith said.

The utility will decide later in the day if it needs to issue a warning to boil water before using it.

Feb. 6 & 7 Parshas Beshalach SHABBOS SHIRAH Tu B'ShvatF

B"H
Congregation Anshei Sfard of Wesley Hills
      42 Powder Horn Drive
              Mount Carmel
 Rav Pincus Schwarz: Tel. 354-2660       fax 354-0261
Community News below. 
 Sisterhood – Rebetizen: Tel. 354-2660
  Hatzolah- 425-1600                Eruv:  888-805-ERUV(3788) Rocklanderuv.org,
Shul Information:
Shul Schedule: http://www.godaven.com/searchzip.asp?zip=10901
Old and current email  available from:
Www.Yahoo.com/groups/WesleyHillShuls.
http://ansheisfard.blogspot.com/
heading: www.microsoft.com/mac  (heading for Entourage)
Call 9-1-1 in case of Fire.

Wednesday,     Feb. 4
David Goldsmith
Wesley Hills Town
Please note that the January Planning Board meeting
has been rescheduled to Wednesday, February 4th at 7:30 pm.
The Zoning Board meeting will not be rescheduled.
 The next regular meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 18th at 8:00 pm.




May you live to be 120,

THE SHUL SCHEDULE
Candle lighting for Erev Shabbat, is at 5:01P
These times are for:  Suffern, NY 10901   GMT -05:00 (U.S. Eastern)
DO NOT DEPEND ON ZMANIM AT THE FINAL MOMENT.

Mincha  5:10P
Repeat the Shm’a after 6:09P

SHABBAT:   
Schacharit: 8:50A
Mincha: 4:55P   
Mariv not before 6:11P
Sunset: 5:21P

Sunday :
Schacharit: 7:50A
Mincha Sunday 5:10P
Sunset: 5:21P

Weekday
Monday to Friday:  (Including Lincoln’s Birthday, Feb. 12)-
Schacharit- 6:40A
February 9th:  Monday   15th of Sh'vat, 5769
Tu B'Shvat    No Tachnun.
New Moon:
The final time for the sanctification  of the New Moon of Shevat,
night Until 11:16 PM, Feb. 9 (16 Shevat).


Shabbat  Details:
 SHABBOS SHIRAH
PARSHAS BESHALACH


Torah Portion:     Exodus 13:17 - 17:16
Haftarah for Ashkenazim: Judges 4:4 - 5:31
Haftarah for Sephardim: Judges 5:1 - 5:31

Kiddish and Shalosh Seudas Sponsor : Sol Singer & family.
Kiddish will be served in the reception area of the Main Sanctuary.

Eruv and Weather
 
Eruv Status: ERUV HOTLINE 888-805-ERUV (3788) or
http://www.rocklanderuv.org/pages/home.php
The size of The New York Country Club Karfuf has been reduced.
It is now permitted to carry on Hempstead Road north of Williams,
the entire length of Brick Church, and the entire length of Union Road.
Please see map (#4) online.
3 major repairs to the outer boundary were made this week.
1    S. Monsey/Airmont  2Monsey/Spring Valley
Under R' Yechiel Steinmetz's Hashgocho  Call 646-222-0503 for status.
The following are UP   
3 Forshay/W Wesley Hills    4 E Wesley Hills/New Hempstead   5 Pomona
6  Good Sam Hospital     7  Helen Hayes Hospital

Weather :
Weather :  Current change-
http://www.weather.com/
Partly Cloudy      High 35°F
Mostly Clear         Low  23°F
Shabbat :
Partly Cloudy     High 45°F
Partly Cloudy    Overnight Low 35°F
Sunday:  Partly Cloudy   High  47°F
Partly Cloudy    26°F

Tehillim:
We  are urged to devote at least fifteen minutes a day
 for our Brothers and Sisters in Israel.
Recite  Psalms 20, 83,121,130 and 142.   


DAILY DOSE:
The Image
How you treat others is how G-d treats you.
How you forgive them is how He forgives you.
How you see them is how He sees you.
When you show empathy for the plight of another human being,
G-d takes empathy in your plight.
When others slight you and you ignore the call to vengeance that burns inside,
 G-d erases all memory of your failures toward Him. When you see the image
of G-d in another human being, then the image of G-d becomes revealed within you.
Tzvi Freeman
Daily Dose from the Rebee

Abraham Lincoln and the Jewish Community.
http://books.google.com/books?id=-OxMjGRkFXwC&printsec=titlepage
Abraham Lincoln & the Jews, a 1909 book.
Author: Markens, Isaac, 1846-1928
The best book available on the history  of Order Number 11.
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/10/abraham_lincoln_and_the_jews.html
http://wwwtorah.org/features/firstperson/lincoln.html
The Sephardic Perspective
http://www.alfassa.com/blog/2008/12/abraham-lincoln-friend-of-the.html
http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/aje/results2.php?category=x
Was Lincoln Jewish?
http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=6938

ARTSCROLL IS having a 33% off list price sale.  To Feb. 18 2008.
http://www.artscroll.com/
See bookstores in area for same discount.

Recycle:
Staples will issue $3 back on a Staple Rewards card (not a credit card)
For each empty ink cartridge.  Any company.  See www.Staples.com for information.