With Israel’s 75th anniversary coming up next month, planning is underway for The Yom Ha’atzmaut Experience a very special community-wide Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration that is planned for Tuesday evening, April 25, at Teaneck’s Votee Park. “The goal is to make Yom Ha’atzmaut into a special day for our community, to celebrate Israel b’rov am, with many people together, and to really make a statement for those outside and inside our community that we are proudly Zionist and that Israel is a critical part of our lives,” explained Rinat Yisrael’s Rabbi Chaim Strauchler, who is also chairing the planning committee for what is expected to be an extraordinary event.
Rabbi Beni Krohn, of Young Israel of Teaneck, has been elected president of the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County (RCBC), succeeding Rabbi Zev Goldberg, rabbi of Young Israel of Fort Lee, who is concluding a two-year term.
In a seamless transition that took place at the end of September, Bergenfield residents Rivka Alter and Nechama Price took over the helm of the Yoetzet Halacha Initiative in Teaneck and its surrounding communities.
Since 2005, many congregations have designated a Shabbat in the spring, usually coordinating with Yom Ha’Zikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut, as Shabbat Chayal in support of IDF soldiers in their defense of Medinat Yisrael.