Welcome to Ahavas Sholom – an Historic Landmark and Sacred Space

Until Further Notice

All Religious Service, Events, and Activities

Will Be on Zoom

To receive emails announcing the Zoom Links for Services call Jeff Haveson at 973-207-3095.

On the Shabbat of Saturday, March 6th, Isabela Dias Freedman conducted an adult education session on the new Coronavirus, COVID-19. Isabela, who has a PhD in Genetics and is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, has worked for 5 years with infectious diseases.

As we now grapple with the virus, Isabela has provided us with a number of links for further information.

List of disinfectants for use against the novel coronavirus/COVID-19

COVID-19: Information

Prepare you home for COVID-19

COVID-19: What you need to know

Are you at higher risk for severe illness?

Coronavirus Guidelines

What is the novel coronavirus?

What you need to know about coronavirus

Prepare for Covid-19

Stop the Spread of Germs

Share the facts about Covid-19

Antimicrobial products for use against Covid-19

During Kiddush, on Saturday, March 21st, we were planning to have a guest speaker, Sarah Junkin Woodard of the Center for Development in Central America (CDCA), the Nicaraguan project of the non-profit, the Jubilee House Community, which works to help alleviate poverty in Nicaragua.

Since we are unable to hear Sarah a synagogue, here are some links to information about her work.

Center for Development in Central America (CDCA)

CDCA Coffee

“Reinventing Eve,” the new exhibit at the Jewish Museum of New Jersey, which was supposed to open on Sunday, March 29th has been postponed until further notice.

To keep up to date on what’s happening in our community, read the CAS Scroll newsletter. Click the newsletter button above to read the latest newsletter.

If you have any questions about any of the above information call Jeff at 973-207-3095.

Mission Statement

As the oldest continuously operating synagogue in the City of Newark, Congregation Ahavas Sholom is an Egalitarian Conservative Synagogue with a traditional service that welcomes all Jews, fulfills their spiritual needs, provides educational and cultural experiences.

The synagogue’s mission states that Ahavas Sholom is passionately committed to the pursuit of Tikun Olam (repair of the world) and Tzedakah (social justice). Ahavas Sholom recognizes as part of Tikun Olam that it has an obligation to the environment, physical space and activities of the community. We therefore consider support for the conservation of open space, the creation of both passive and active recreation in Newark and among communities within its metropolitan area to be part of our mission.

Ahavas Sholom is characteristic of other religious institutions in Newark. Just as many inner-city churches draw the greater part of their members from outside the city itself, Ahavas Sholom now has relatively few congregants who live in Newark.

American cities are redeveloping in part as their unsurpassed cultural and religious institutions attract suburbanites to meaningful experiences. Ahavas Sholom is holy ground. It inspires those who step through its doors to pray, think, and learn, and to care about each other’s lives and the life of the community.

Bottom Row: Tim Bezalel Lee of Newark, Rabbi Simon Rosenbach, and Daviyd Hawkins of Newark. Top Row: Wanda Rubinstein Gohler of Newark, Flora Sonners of Parsippany, Alla Eicheldinger of Newark, Marianne Moy of Roselle Park, Joan Podnos of West Orange and Linda Bloom of Bloomfield.

On Saturday, March 16, 2019, the Ahavas Sholom community celebrated eight of our members who were called up to the Torah as adult B’nei Mitzvah.

For many weeks the group studied and prepared for this day, under the leadership of Rabbi Simon Rosenbach.

They are men and women, mostly in their 60’s, from many differet Jewish backgrounds, who have been waiting a lifetime for this opportunity.

Some were born outside the United States, some were born into another religion, and some were just never given this opportunity as a 12 or 13 year old.

To read the New Jersey Jewish News article about our eight adult B’nei Mitzvah click here.

If you have any questions please call Jeff at 973-207-3095.

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Congregation Ahavas Sholom meets every Shabbat morning, starting at 9:00 a.m. for services and Kiddush lunch.

On periodic Friday evenings we hold Friday night services followed by a communal Shabbat dinner.

We also come together for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Succot, Shemini Atzeret, Simchat Torah, Chanukah, Tu B’Shvat, Purim, Pesach, Shavuot, and Tisha B’Av.

Please join us for Shabbat or the holidays if you are coming into Newark for business or pleasure.

If you need information on hotels, motels, restaurants, and Jewish life in the greater Newark area call Jeff at 973-207-3095.

Directions

From Downtown Newark

Take Broad Street north. Instead of turning left onto Bloomfield Place, continue straight.
One block later turn left onto Gouvernor Street, and then right onto Broadway.
Drive 1 long block. You’ll see the Synagogue on the right and immediately
turn right into the parking lot between the Synagogue and Clinton Memorial AME Zion Church.

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From Essex County

Bloomfield Avenue east into Newark.
One mile beyond Branch Brook Park, near the bottom of the hill,
turn left onto Crittenden Street, marked by a Verizon building on the near left and “Lou Caputo Florist” on the

far left corner.

Two short blocks on Crittenden. Turn right where Crittenden ends onto Broadway, and
immediately •turn left into the parking lot between Clinton Memorial AME Zion Church and the Synagogue.

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From Garden State Parkway or Route 280

Garden State Parkway to exit 145 (Route 280 east).
Route 280 east to “First Street, Newark” left –hand exit.
Left onto First Street—one-half mile to its end at Park Avenue.
Right on Park Avenue. Cross Branch Brook Park and continue one-half mile down the hill.
Park Avenue. ends at Bloomfield Avenue. Cross Bloomfield Avenue.
Onto Crittenden Street—two short blocks on Crittenden.
Turn right where Crittenden ends onto Broadway, and
Immediately turn left into the parking lot (between Clinton Memorial AME Zion Church and the Synagogue).

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From New York City or New Jersey Turnpike

George Washington Bridge or Lincoln Tunnel to NJ Turnpike (Route 95).
Exit 15W (Route 280). 280 west for three miles.
Immediately after the Passaic River drawbridge, take Exit 15A (Route 21 South). Keep straight.
DO NOT take left turn for 21 South. Proceed straight to North Broad Street, where take a right
Follow North Broad Street. for 1/2 mile and take the left just after Bloomfield Place take
Left onto Gouverneur Street. to its end. Right onto Broadway.
Drive one long block You’ll see the Synagogue on the right and immediately
Turn right into the parking lot between the Synagogue and Clinton Memorial AME Zion Church.

Ahavas Sholom – an Historic Landmark and Sacred Space

Newark's Last Remaining Synagogue born of the Great European Migration at the turn of the 20th Century