WHAT'S NEW - WHAT'S HAPPENING - MAH KOREH?

Follow Us on Facebook and Twitter For The Latest Updates About Synagogue Life

For the latest news, information and teachings follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Having an engaging website is great, however we have found using email, text and the facebook and twitter social media platforms seems to be the best way to communicate in our fast paced world. So please connect with us.  Help us keep you informed by connecting with us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/simchathalevNY and by pressing the "like" button on Facebook: http://facebook.com/SimchatHaLev. Each week we email the congregation news of upcoming events. Please make sure that we also have your latest email address and cell phone numbers. Please also let us know if you are not receiving our email news or our periodic automated voice recorded announcements. 

Hebrew School Update - Attendance Is Important!

We need your children to attend all classes. Of course, please do not send them to Hebrew school if they are ill. However, please understand that asking to have your child leave early regularly to attend dance or athletic practices disrupts their learning and the learning environment.  Please also try to make every effort to drop your child off on time so that we can begin the class on time. For information on Hebrew school closings, please check the Hebrew school calendar at: http://www.simchathalev.org/school-calendar or contact Jenn in the synagogue office at 516-922-42224 ext. 18. We hope the weather will stay this way throughout the school year, but we are realistic.  Hebrew school closings:  In the event of inclement weather, you will be notified by telephone. Closings will also be posted on Facebook and on News12.com.

Help Us Teach Your Children The Mitzvah of Giving Tzedakah

Simchat HaLev congregants care about each other, the community, and our world. How? By demonstrating kindness with a caring heart, generosity, and helpfulness, by supporting one another as we face life's challenges, and by celebrating important moments.  As a community of faith, we reach out to help our neighbors are we are taught: "You shall not oppress the stranger for you know the experience of having yourself been a stranger in the land of Egypt."  As a congregation, we partner with G-d to repair our world by getting personally involved. Teach these words to your children.  Teach them the mitzvah of giving Tzedakah.  Encourage them to save the extra change they have and each week when you are leaving your home, remind them of this mitzvah.  Together, both you and your child will be doing a wonderful act of kindness. As a member family, we want to perform the mitzvah of providing financial support to the efforts of Congregation Simchat HaLev. To Donate Now, please click the button donate:

Easy Mitzvah: Be A Simchat HaLev Ambassador.  Help Lead Services!

Volunteers are still needed. As we have learned in the Torah, Abraham welcomed the strangers into the tent.  We are looking for a select few who would be interested in serving in the sacred role of Ambassador. The Ambassador is a volunteer who helps others feel welcome at services, programs and is involved in other forms of outreach. We want everyone to feel welcomed into our sacred tent, we need you to help make that happen. If you are one that attend services regularly and want to help make us a place of welcome, call Jenn today at 516-922-4224 ext. 18 or email: jenn@simchathalev.org.

WORDS OF TORAH - FROM THE RABBI'S STUDY:

What is Diversity? Working Towards A Time When All Will Be Treated The Same

We are not there yet!  Rabbi Jay and the staff of Congregation Simchat HaLev is committed to the vision of welcoming all people equally under our tent.  To do this, we must all understand the definition of diversity and how it relates to synagogue life. We will continue to pray and will work hard together to bring about a time when all in our midst will embrace diversity regardless of race, culture, gender, ethnic background, social status, sexual preference, language spoken, mental capacity, learning style and physical ability. And then, diversity will no longer need a definition. It begins with each and every one of us.

Elul - The month of Introspection: Start A New Tradition - A New Ritual

Start a new tradition: It's an easy one that will help you in your every day life. The month leading up to the Jewish New Year is called the period of Chesbon HaNefesh,  Chesbon HaNefesh means examining our Soul. As we begin to prepare for the Jewish New Year, why not begin to examine your soul.  Start journaling with GD.  All it takes is a marble notebook, and a few minutes before you go to sleep.  For those that wrote "Dear Diary...", you are already a step ahead of the game.  Think about the gifts that you have, the things you long for, the day.  Was it a day that you felt good about, a day that you could do something differently.  Dialoguing with GD may be difficult at first for some, however with faith and practice you will begin to be able to get closer to GD.  Start today.  GD is listening. Begin the conversation.

Family Time: Surviving  Power Outages, Cable, Internet and Phone Issues

Thank you Gd and All Those that helped to restore power, cable, internet and phone. Many of us were without these essentials for an extended period of time.  Many of us sustained damages, financial expenditures and great annoyances.  However each one of us Thank you Gd survived.  For some spending time as a family was a welcomed change.  Does it take an earthquake? A Hurricane? A Tropical storm? A power outage. Think about how you survived.  It was with the support and presence of family members, friends, and devoted workers. Prior to this, how often were you grateful for power, cable, internet and phone.  It takes a lot of dedicated people to provide what we take for granted.  It's also kind of like life, when everything is going smoothly, we expect it to continue and we take it for granted that it will just happen. When it doesn't...  Oy!!!!   We get angry, we lose faith, we get frustrated.  Maybe what we can learn from this is that we are blessed to have the wonderful things and people in our life.  Take a moment to Thank Gd for the blessings in your life.  Amen.

Congregation Simchat HaLev

Simchat HaLev is a welcoming, inclusive and nurturing congregation; a sacred community traveling the journey of life. Some of our congregants identify themselves as Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, Renewal, Secular, some "just" Jewish and others "not technically" Jewish.

With intention, Congregation Simchat HaLev is a small and intimate congregation. We are a family; a house of prayer and learning, infused with tradition. Working hard to diminish hatred, bullying, pain and suffering; committed to adding love, caring and kindness; learning from and embracing the diversity of All people created in G-d's image. Rabbi Jay and our team of Jewish professionals will walk the path with you by providing Judaism that is accessible, engaging, G-d centered and spiritually based.

Looking for a spiritual home? Simchat HaLev is that congregation.  Contact us - Let's talk.

About Us

Simchat HaLev is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit Jewish organization under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Jay Weinstein. Simchat HaLev provides individuals, couples and families with spiritual Judaism, a synagogue, family education, fee-for-service rabbinic counseling and life cycle clergy officiation.