ROFEH Toy Drive 5777
This year, we will be joining over a dozen other shuls and schools in Greater Boston in participating in ROFEH International’s Annual Chanukah / Holiday Toy Drive. ROFEH will disperse the toys that we collect to children at Boston Children’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
All donated toys need to be new and unwrapped. Please refer to the 2016 Toy Donation Guidelines.
You can drop off toys in the box near the coat room at shul by Thursday morning, December 22nd.
We encourage you to participate and to help bring a smile to a child’s face this Chanukah!
For more information about ROFEH, you can see their website below.
Local Costco to start carrying Kosher Foods!
We’re very excited to announce that after some discussion, the local Costco in Everett has agreed to start carrying some of their kosher products. They have begun to bring in a small selection of the products they carry in their Waltham and Dedham locations, and will bring in a few more products over the coming weeks. Below are photos of the kosher products they currently have in stock.
We encourage you to shop at this Costco and buy out their Kosher products. If this test is a success for them, they will bring in more products! If there are specific items you want that they do not have, please email the shul and we will contact Costco management, or call Costco at 617-544-4806 and ask for Pete.
Additionally, the BJs in Medford has expressed interest in carrying Kosher products to meet our needs, and we hope to have positive updates on that for you in the near future as well.
Pruzbul 5775
At the end of the Shmitta year, all outstanding loans are nullified as the Torah states
“that this is the manner of the release; to release the hand of every creditor from what he lent his friend; he shall not exact from his friend or his brother, because time of the release for the Lord has arrived”
(Devarim 15:2)
This will take place at the end of this year’s Jewish calendar. By writing a document known as “Pruzbul” you assign the collection of the debts to a Beit Din (a Rabbinically-sanctioned court) which prevents the cancellation from occurring. The court then allows you to collect the debt in their stead.
The latest this can be done by is the day before Rosh Hashana, September 13, 2015. You can see examples of the document at the RCA and Star-K. The rabbi is available to administer a pruzbul for you. Contact him at (781) 322-5686 or at rabbi@bethisraelmalden.org.
New Eruv Expansion is Up & Ready!
We are also very excited that the much anticipated eruv expansion has been completed and as of this week is up and operational! Many thanks go to Rabbi Rabinowitz and Dr. Jesse Hefter of the Greater Boston Eruv Corporation for all their hard work in making this happen, and to the City of Malden for their support. The extended eruv runs down Boundary Road, Vista Street, Gale Street, Charles Street across the Fellsway to Wicklow Avenue, to Malden Street, John Street, and Medford Street to the MBTA tracks.
Below are some photos of the Kinyan Kesef:
