Ramapo Message

News from Ramapo town supervisor
Christopher p. st. Lawrence

Date: August 19, 2009
Contact: Elaine Silverberg
845-357-5100 xt 324
silverberge@ramapo-ny.gov <mailto:silverberge@ramapo-ny.gov>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
update
Maple Avenue RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT

This is an update on the Maple Avenue reconstruction project for the week of
August 22nd, 2009.

Beginning Saturday August 22nd, milling of the Maple Avenue road surface
will begin in preparation for paving of the roadway.

Paving is expected to commence beginning Monday August 24th. The new roadway
will be paved along Maple Avenue from Acer Court to Saddle River Road.

³I am delighted to have been able to bring this project to completion before
the new school year begins, as I had promised², stated Supervisor
Christopher St. Lawrence. He continued, ³Students, pedestrians and motorists
will enjoy a safer, upgraded and attractive new roadway.²

By the time paving is completed, almost all of the new curbs will have been
installed. The small portion of roadway across Route 306, which is part of
the New York State right-of-way, will be paved after the new light control
devices are installed.

The Maple Avenue re-construction project covers the location of Maple Avenue
between Acer Court and Saddle River Road. When completed, residents will
enjoy a new and wider roadway, new sidewalks, new curbs, bus turning lanes,
improved street lighting, new traffic lights, improved light control devices
and improved drainage.

August21 & 22 Parshas Shoftim

B"H
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C O N G R E G A T I O N  A N S H E I  S F A R D  O F  W E S L E Y  H I L L S
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     42 Powder Horn Drive
              Mount Carmel
 Rav Pincus Schwarz: Tel. 354-2660       fax 354-0261
heading: www.microsoft.com/mac  (heading for Entourage)

Hatzolah- 425-1600                Eruv:  888-805-ERUV(3788) Rocklanderuv.org,

Call 9-1-1 in case of Fire.

May you live to be 120,

THE SHUL SCHEDULE
 
Hadlakas Neros for Erev Shabbat, is at 7:28P
Motzaei Shabbat: 8:30P       Rabbeinu Tam:  8:59P  
These times are for:  Suffern, NY 10901   GMT -05:00 (U.S. Eastern)
DO NOT DEPEND ON ZMANIM AT THE FINAL MOMENT.

WELCOMING THE HOLY SHABBOS

Mincha  7P
Repeat the Shm’a after 8:36P

SHABBAT:  

Schacharit: 8:50A
Class:  6:20P
Chapter 6 of Pirkei Avos.
Mincha: 7:25P
Mariv  not before 8:34P
Sunset: 7:44

Services Schedule for the Week:

Schacharit  Sunday: 7:50A
Mincha for the week: 7:30P
Weekday Schacharit: 6:40A

Shabbat Details:
2nd of Elul, 5769
Parshas Shoftim
Kiddish and Shalosh Seudas Sponsor :Aaron Weg & family.
Kiddish will be served in the reception area of the Main Beis Medrash.

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

Weather : (Probability of T Storms when indicated)-
Last Updated Wednesday, Aug 18, 6:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Friday  
Scattered T Storms     High 85°F   Humidity 80%            30% chance
Night Scattered T Storms     Low  69°F   Humidity 89%   60% chance
Shabbat :
Scattered T Storms     High  82°F  Humidity:  75%     40% chance
 Showers        Overnight Low  64°F  Humidity 79%    40% chance
Sunday:  
Isolated Tstorms       High  81°F    Humidity 64%   10% chance
Night Partly Cloudy     68°F    Humidity 72%

DAILY DOSE:
Reason To Celebrate
If you did things right, celebrate that you have a G-d who appreciates your good work.
And if you fell on your face, celebrate that you have
a G-d who does not abandon you when you fall.
Perhaps you might even allow Him to pick you up.
By Tzvi Freeman
 From the wisdom of  Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, of righteous memory

HEALTH CARE TELE TOWN HALL MEETING
17TH DISTRICT
CONGRESSMAN ELIOT ENGEL
Email:
http://engel.house.gov/
Phone : (202) 225-2464
Fax: (202) 225-5513
Office hours :
Monday-Friday 9 am - 5 pm

Rockland
261 West Nyack Road
West Nyack, NY 10994
Phone : (845) 735-1000
Office hours :
Monday-Friday 9 am - 5 pm

Hatzolah- 425-1600                Eruv:  888-805-ERUV(3788) Rocklanderuv.org,

Yamim Nora'im September 18 - September 28

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C O N G R E G A T I O N  A N S H E I  S F A R D  O F  W E S L E Y  H I L L S
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     42 Powder Horn Drive
              Mount Carmel
 Rav Pincus Schwarz: Tel. 354-2660       fax 354-0261

    YAMIM NORA’IM                              
 
These are the days of Yamim Nora'im 5770:
 Rosh Ha Shana   Friday Night  September 18             
  Saturday & Sunday September 19 & 20
  Yom Kippur        
  Sunday Night September 27  Monday September 28

ONCE AGAIN CONGREGATION ANSHEI SFARD OF WESLEY HILLS IS PROUD
 TO OFFER SEATS FOR THE YAMIM NORA'IM TO THE WESLEY HILLS  COMMUNITY.
 THE COST OF SEATS ARE THE SAME AS IN PREVIOUS YEARS.
THERE ARE NO MEMBERSHIP FEES OR BUILDING FUND IN OUR COMMUNITY SHUL.

THE COST OF SEATS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

  COUPLES: $450

  ADULT:   $250
 
  CHILDREN:   $50 EACH

  GUESTS: $100

THE FAMILY MAXIMUM IS $600

 Please bring in checks for the seats,
 pledges and any other amount owed for the year 5769 before  Rosh HaShana.
 If you have not received a 5969 balance/receipt please see Shoimey Golomb, the Gabbi.

Reservation for a seat or seats.
Print out the following, clip  and give to the Gabbi S. Golumb or the Rabbi:


 Name: ______________________________                    

Tel:  _______________________       

Email______________@_______________                      


Men's Sections: _______ seat(s)    
    
For one holiday indicate:

(______ Rosh Hashana             _______Yom Kippur)

Women's Section:______ seat(s)

For one holiday indicate:  

 (______ Rosh Hashana             _______Yom Kippur)

____ I had a seat(s) last year and  wish the same seat(s).

Best Wishes to K'lal Yisrael for a K'siva V'Chasima Tova

Kiddish for Shabbat

B”H
The following is an addition to the Shul mail for
Parshas Eikev
Kiddish and Shalosh Seudas Sponsor : S. Golumb & Family.
The Kiddish is in Memory of the terrible helicopter that occurred in the Grand Canyon in August of 2001.

Kiddish will be served in the reception area of the Main Sanctuary  after Services.


Hadlakas Neros for Erev Shabbat, is at 7:47P
Motzaei Shabbat:  8:50P  R. Taam’s nightfall:  9:18P
These times are for:  Suffern, NY 10901   GMT -05:00 (U.S. Eastern)
DO NOT DEPEND ON ZMANIM AT THE FINAL MOMENT.



The Attachment are photo images.
Images: Emergency workers wheel a victim of a tour helicopter crash to UMC on Aug. 10, 2001. The
 victim, Chana Daskal, broke her back, lost both legs and was burned over 80 percent of her body.
Photo by K.M. Cannon.

Chana Daskal survived an Aug. 10, 2001,
 helicopter crash that killed her husband, David, and five others.
Photo by The Associated Press.

News Article from the NY Times:

5 From a Brooklyn Family Die in a Helicopter Crash
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: Sunday, August 12, 2001

Federal investigators examined the wreckage of a sightseeing helicopter on a red-rock escarpment near the Grand Canyon yesterday for clues to the cause of a crash that killed the pilot and five members of a Brooklyn family and left a sixth clinging to life with extensive burns.

The sole survivor, Shawna Daskal, 23, suffered third-degree burns over 80 percent of her body when the helicopter went down and burst into flames on Friday afternoon near the canyon's western edge. She remained in critical condition yesterday in a trauma center at University Medical Center in Las Vegas

The pilot was identified last night as Kevin Innocenti, 27, an experienced flyer who had worked for about a year with the tour operator, Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters. The names of the five tourists killed in the accident were not immediately released, but the police described them, and the survivor, as members of an Orthodox Jewish family from Brooklyn. Since the crash occurred just before the start of the Sabbath, a rabbi was being consulted on the proper handling of the family's bodies, which had not been removed by late yesterday.

Steve Johnson, a spokesman for the Mohave County, Ariz., sheriff's office, said that investigators and rescue teams were on the remote desert site -- between Grand Canyon National Park and Lake Mead National Recreation Area, about 70 miles east of Las Vegas -- and that the bodies of the family members would be removed one or two at a time by helicopter to Kingman, the county seat, before being flown on to New York.

The cause of the crash -- the worst canyon tour accident since a plane went down and killed 8 of 10 occupants on Feb. 13, 1995 -- was not immediately determined by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, said Lauren Peduzzi, a safety board spokeswoman.

The investigators found only a blue tail assembly and twisted rotor blades in the helicopter's charred debris.

''It was demolished,'' Mr. Johnson said of the helicopter. ''The only things recognizable were the tail and rotor blades.''

The chopper, an American Eurocopter AS350 operated by Papillon out of McCarren International Airport at Las Vegas, was apparently returning to its base after a canyon tour when it went down at 2:35 p.m., four miles east of Meadview, Ariz., a hamlet that overlooks Lake Mead's south shore.

The scene is a roadless, desolate slope, 3,700 feet up the 5,600-foot Grand Wash Cliffs, whose striking red rocks make it a popular flyover for many of the 90,000 aerial tours that ferry 800,000 tourists a year over the canyon.

Mr. Johnson said that all six passengers were apparently hurled from the helicopter by the crash impact. ''The only one who was not thrown clear was the pilot,'' he said.

Another Papillon sightseeing helicopter was flying in the area. Its pilot and passengers did not witness the crash, but spotted smoke rising from Grand Wash Cliffs. The second helicopter ''flew over the area and recognized it as being one of their helicopters and called it in,'' Mr. Johnson said.

Rescue helicopters from Papillon, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Grand Canyon National Park responded. One landed and Ms. Daskal was found alive amid the bodies, the scrub brush and burning wreckage. She was flown to Las Vegas by medical helicopter, whose paramedics reported that she was conscious but had suffered extensive burns. A trauma team of 15 specialists was mobilized at the University Medical Center, said a spokesman, Rick Plummer.

Robert Graff, vice president of marketing for Papillon, said the company had canceled its schedule of tourist flights yesterday out of respect for the dead, and the company issued a statement of sympathy for the families of the passengers and pilot.

Relatives of the dead gathered at the company's airport offices on Friday and were being assisted by a Las Vegas rabbi and other counselors, officials said.

Tisha B' Av

For Tisha B’ Av  -  Added to the Kinnot and a Talmudic Portion.


Free downloads  from Artscroll:

http://www.artscroll.com/

1. Kinnot for the Six Million.
   

  The destruction of the Six Million is our own generation's stark connection to the eternal Tishah B'Av. Two great and inspiring spiritual leaders of our time, The Bobover Rebbe and Rav Shimon Schwab composed Kinnos lamenting and memorializing the unspeakable tragedy. Adopted by many congregations worldwide, these painful laments are read on Tishah B’Av.


2.A Section of the Talmudic Portion Discussing the Temple’s destruction.
Single pages (NO ENGLISH)  Gittin 55b-56a

Tisha B'Av Webcasts

Tisha B'Av  2009 Webcasts and presentations-

Yeshiva University  Tisha B’Av 2009  Reading material:
http://www.yutorah.org/togo/5769/tishabav/articles/Tisha_Bav_To-Go_-_5769.pdf
Rabbi  Kenneth Brander
Rabbi Reuven Brand
Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman
Rabbi Josh Flug
Rabbi Eliyakim Koenigsberg
Ms. Miriam Kruka
Dr. David Pelcovitz
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter
Plus a collection of insights to the Tisha B’Av Kinnot

YU Webcast-
Mourning for Jerusalem 2009
Rabbi Dr. Jacob Schactrer
Senior Scholar, Center for the Jewish Future
University
Webcast:  Schedule: 8:30 Shacharit • 9:15 Opening Shiur
11:00 Recital and Learning of Kinot • 5:00 Mincha
(Requirements:  Adobe Flash Player)  
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

Orthodox Union Webcasts for  Tisha B’Av:
http://program.ouradio.org/content/files/9av69.pdf
Live Webcast
Tisha B’Av Kinot
“Evil, Our Enemy”

Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Young Israel of Woodmere

July 30, 2009
(Thursday)

Time: 9A to 1P EDT
Webcast from  Woodmere, NY


Rabbi Steven Weil
“The Tragedy that Transcends Generations”
1P  to 4P EDT
Webcast from Los Angeles, CA

REGISTRATION:
http://www.ou.org/holidays/tishabav


Windows Media Player Download:
In order to listen to the Webcast you need the latest Window Player download:
Windows Computer-
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology=

Bar Mitzvah Shabbat Nachamu

B”H
 Aug. 1  Vaeschanan       Shabbos Nachamu
The entire Congregation is invited to the Bar Mitzvah of Menachem Rozner.
After services the   Kiddish will be served  in the Main Sanctuary.
Please be on time.
Services: 8:50A
Kiddish:  Approximately 11:15A.

Mazel Tov to the Rozner family.