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Spend Your Second Seder at BK Saturday, April 23rd   "Getting out of a Tight Spot: How to move through anxiety to a whole new life, aka, what it takes to get out of Egypt". Fun for young and old and in-between!   www.bnaikeshet.org/passover   for details and to reserve a place at the table. Click here for tickets and more info

Sell Your Chometz Make arrangements now to have Rabbi Ariann sell your Chometz.   Click here to review the Contract for Selling Chometz and to enter into a binding agreement with Rabbi Ariann.

This Week and Next

Friday Night - 7:30 - For Men Only   Comedy Night. We’ll dine on an assortment of Bar Food, once again graciously prepared by master chef Sam Sheps. We’ll eat, drink, and schmooze, we’ll see a documentary film about the history of Catskills Comedy, after which we’ll share some jokes in a true nightclub atmosphere. Join us at Bnai Keshet's Kaplan Minyan on Saturday morning, April 9th, beginning at 10:30am with songs and prayers.   Dinah PoKempner, General Counsel of Human Rights Watch, will speak on “Judaism and Modern Human Rights: How Congruent are these Systems?” PoKempner will explore the relationship between Jews and human rights causes and what Jews can contribute to advancing human rights. Click for more information.

Don't miss: Habitat for Humanity Birthdays Anniversaries Tuesday, April 5 (Adar II 26) 8:00a BK Office Closed 6:30p Teens - Movie Night Keeping the Faith  Spend the evening with a priest and a rabbi who have fallen in love for the same woman.  Ben Stiller and Edward Norton touch on some interesting, personal, deep, and emotional topics in this hilarious movie.   Wednesday, April 6 (Adar II 27) 8:00a Meditation Minyan 4:15p Bet Midrash (3rd to 5th Grades) Thursday, April 7 (Adar II 28) 7:30p Chevra Chinuch Meeting Erev Shabbat, April 8 (Adar II 29) 7:30a Morning Minyan 7:30p Men Who Cook & Other Things - Comedy Night Shabbat, April 9: Rosh Chodesh Nisan, Parshat HaChodesh, Tazria (Nisan 1) No Bet Midrash 9:00a Sacred Chanting with Beth Sandweiss & Melissa Schaffer   BKers will join to chant melodic, rhythmic repetitions of sacred phrases derived from liturgy and Torah. Chant is an ancient practice that connects us to Judaism, God and Torah in a personal way. Anyone who wishes to can do it: all you need to bring with you is your heart and spirit.  This week Chant will be led by Beth Sandweiss, Chant and Meditation teacher at Bnai Keshet, as well as throughout New Jersey and New York, and beyond! Come and prepare for Pesach! 9:00a Torah Study with Jessica Siegel 10:00a Shacharit 10:30a Kaplan Minyan 12:30p Conversational Hebrew 4:00p Jewish Meditation Center Monday, April 11 (Nisan 3) No Bet Midrash 6:00p MESH Tuesday, April 12 (Nisan 4) BK Office Closed Wednesday, April 13 (Nisan 5) No Bet Midrash 8:00a Meditation Minyan Erev Shabbat, April 15 (Nisan 7) 7:30a Morning Minyan Shabbat, April 16: Shabbat HaGadol, Metzora (Nisan 8) No Bet Midrash 9:00a Israel Today 10:00a Shacharit 4:00p Jewish Meditation Center

Habitat for Humanity

Gimme Shelter- BK builds for Paterson's Habitat for Humanity Wednesday, April 27- Passover Week- BK's Annual Trek Plan to kibbutz, dig, schlep, hammer- just another day in the life of our congregation! We will meet at Bnai Keshet at 8 am, recite some blessings and then caravan to Paterson Bring friends and family (16 and older) and a bagged lunch   RSVP!!! Needed for us to plan: Email Marian Golan

Birthdays & Anniversaries

Yom Huledet Sameach 4/5   Tuesday   Dayna Bandman 4/6   Wednesday   Madeleine Goldstein (10) 4/6   Wednesday   Arielle Fouks (21) 4/6   Wednesday   Samuel Myerowitz (12) 4/7   Thursday   Ira Karasick 4/7   Thursday   Stephen Orlofsky 4/7   Thursday   Matthew Paley (8) 4/7   Thursday   Sarah Paley (8) 4/8   Friday   Jill Stein 4/8   Friday   Michael Greene 4/8   Friday   Maxwell Weintraub (16) 4/9   Saturday   Layng Pew 4/9   Saturday   Julian Berg (21) 4/9   Saturday   Gabrielle Glaser 4/10   Sunday   Wendy Callaghan 4/10   Sunday   Eli Rudall-Stulberg (10) 4/10   Sunday   Janis Orlofsky 4/11   Monday   Phoebe Grace (19) 4/11   Monday   Maya Lisandra Grosz 4/11   Monday   Lia Scheier (9)

Happy Anniversary 4/2   Linda & Fred Greenberg 49 th Anniversary 4/3   Cheryl & Marc Slutzky 45 th Anniversary 4/19   Laurie Waite-Fellner & Martin Fellner 24 th Anniversary 4/23   Melanie & Kent Lerner 17 th Anniversary