Announcements:

Dear Friends,

We are very pleased to welcome you back to services at the MFJC being held in our Parking Lot on Shabbat, Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays.Attendance will be by subscription only. Services will be conducted outdoors in our parking lot and attendees will be limited to 50 people. We will continue to “Zoom” weekday services for those who are unable to attend in person.

In order to provide a reasonably safe environment we ask that you follow these guidelines:

Practice social distancing and wear a face mask while on the shul premises.
Please do not attend if you are not well.
You must sign up in advance to attend. Follow this link to Signup
Please be aware that the building is closed.
Bathroom’s are limited to absolute necessity. Please note, services range to a maximum of 1.5 hours.
Bring your own siddur, chumash and tallit.
Tent covering will not protect in severe storms. In such a case, minyan will not meet.

YOU MUST sign up to attend!
Follow this Link to sign up

We pray that this is just the beginning toward fully reopening our shul community!

MFJC’s Need To Know During Our Building Closure:

Dear MFJC Family,

While the physical Building is closed, we are thinking of ways to stay spiritually connected. Let’s reach out to the vulnerable among us; let’s check in with our neighbors and friends more regularly; let’s commit ourselves to prayer and Torah study. A little bit of light chases away a great deal of darkness. Please be in touch and help us all stay connected!

Lifting Our Spirits – Staying Connected

The Challenge of being apart is somewhat lessened by the possibilities of connecting via Zoom and other platforms.

Please take advantage of the offerings and we will continue to tweak as our needs demand

Please Note: Zoom Links are NOT provided online in order to protect the security of our online meetings. Be sure you are receiving and reading the weekly Email for each week’s offerings and updates

1. Daily Prayer – Every Morning we will convene on Zoom for Morning services, 730AM

Every Morning we will recite a Mourners Kaddish at the opening and close of Services. We will recite the Rabbis Kaddish following our Dvar Halacha at the very end of services

2. Pirkei Avot Zoom Study – Wednesday Evenings, 8PM

3. Torah Class on the Weekly Torah Portion – Thursday Zoom Session, 10:10AM

4. Kids Jew Zoom – Tuesdays, 4:30PM – a place for kids to sing, pray, study torah, and practice Hebrew and connect with Rabbi

5. Erev Shabbat – Fridays 6:00PM – We Welcome Shabbat together with blessings, Song and words of Torah

6. Havdalah – Saturday Nights – With Music, We Say Goodbye to Shabbat together and Get Ready for a New Week. This Zoom begins approximately 5 minutes after Shabbat ends.

7. Talmud Study – Sunday Mornings, after Tefillah, Approximately 8:30AM, we study Tractate Sanhedrin via Zoom

8. Tehillim Zoom, Every Thursday, 9:15PM – we meet to pray for healing, health, a help.

How Can We Help You? How Can You Help Us?

During these uncertain times, it is more important than ever that we support one another so that we can be sure each one of us has what we need to stay safe and well. The ways we offer support will likely unfold over time as the situation changes and as our needs change.

Please let us know if you are home bound and may need material support of food, money, medical attention, phone check-ins -please let us know by replying to this note.

Likewise, if you are available to help out by making phone calls or helping fill the needs of the home bound or those who are unwell, please let us know by replying to this note.

In the Torah, when building the Temple, Moshe calls for donations of time and materials. The response is so robust, even excessive, says the Torah, that the engineers call for the community to hold back their donations.

This is a time when our community is being called to give from itself. Let’s model ourselves after that first Jewish community that heard the call for help in the face of a need and they gave generously from their hearts.

Contact Rabbi Menashe or the office or Gregg Russo if you are able to help or need support rabbi@mtfjc.org or office@mtfjc.org or president@mtfjc.org

Please Stay in Touch and Stay Connected

Welcome to Mount Freedom Jewish Center

We are an open Modern Orthodox synagogue located in the green suburbs of Randolph, New Jersey. Our family friendly congregation is made up of multigenerational members with diverse Jewish observances, who come from various towns within beautiful Morris County. We hope you enjoy exploring our website, and invite you to visit us in person. Please feel free to call our synagogue office at 973-895-2100 and speak with our Executive Director, David Paris or our Rabbi, Menashe East, with any questions you may have.