Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
We are delighted to have you celebrate your simcha at Darkhei Noam. The Bar or Bat Mitzvah can choose from participating in Torah Reading, leading services, and giving a Dvar Torah in shul.
Please start by emailing admin@dnoam.org. We will send you the Bar/Bat Mitzvah guide and have a member of our Bar/Bat Mitzvah committee contact you to begin the process to help you prepare for your event.
Please be aware that we have extensive guidelines, many of which have to do with the constraints of our space, and that it is crucial for you to speak to our coordinator before you engage in any planning. Each celebration can be customized to fit your family's needs and our team of coordinators and gabbais will work to ensure your weekend festivities run smoothly.
It is advisable to plan a Bar or Bat mitzvah as far in advance as possible because we have various expectations of the bar or bat mitzvah which require several months of planning. We request that anyone planning a simcha at Darkhei Noam be a member in good standing.
Darkhei Noam Bnei Mitzvah Cohort
Darkhei Noam Bnei Mitzvah Cohort Meeting - a new Darkhei Noam initiative for youth celebrating their Bar/Bat Mitzvah in the next few months.
Join the Bnei Mitzvah cohort for the NEXT session -March 15, 2025
Rabbinical student Chris Penello will speak about tashlumim, the practice of making up a missed prayer at the next service. The discussion will explore balancing responsibility in davening with self-compassion when we fall short.
For more information please email Deena Nerwen
Sun, April 20 2025
22 Nisan 5785
Today's Sefirah Count Is 7
היום שבעה ימים שהם שבוע אחד לעמר |
Today's Calendar
Pesach |
Yizkor |
Sefirat HaOmer- counting the Omer. : 12:00am |
Passover 2025- Schedule : 12:00am |
Havdalah : 8:22pm |
This week's Torah portion is Parshat Shmini
Shabbat, Apr 26 |
Candle Lighting
Friday, Apr 25, 7:28pm |
Havdalah
Sunday, Apr 20, 8:22pm |
Pesach & Yizkor
Sunday, Apr 20 |
Upcoming Events
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Saturday ,
AprApril 12 , 2025
Shabbat, Apr 12th 8:14p to Sunday, Apr 20th 8:22p
Please pay careful attention to the times and locations for the Darkhei Noam shacharit services this Pesach. -
Sunday ,
AprApril 13 , 2025
Sunday, Apr 13th 9:00p to Sunday, Jun 1st 12:00p
Sefirat haOmer, the counting of the omer/”sheaf,” refers to the commandment to count the 49 days from the second day of Pesach until Shavuot. In biblical times, these 7 weeks comprised the grain harvest, beginning with barley (for which the barley omer offering was brought on Pesach) and concluding with wheat (on Shavuot). Although we no longer bring these offerings at the Temple, we continue to count the 49 days. While the biblical origin of sefirat ha’omer is agricultural, this time period also connects Pesach, the celebration of Israelite liberation from slavery, and Shavuot, the culmination of that liberation process whereby the Israelites became a realized nation with their own Torah. Counting the omer each year can remind us to always elevate ourselves from an enslaved mentality to one of freedom. We perform the counting each evening after sundown. We recite a bracha and then officially count the day of the omer, indicated by weeks and days. If the counting at night is missed, we count in the morning/during the day but without a bracha. If a whole day is missed, we continue counting the rest of the omer but without a bracha. The bracha and formula for counting the omer each night can be found here: Siddur Sim Shalom Sefirat haOmer -
Wednesday ,
AprApril 23 , 2025
Wednesday, Apr 23rd 8:00p to Thursday, Apr 24th 8:00p
Yom HaShoah is the Jewish memorial day commemorating the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their allies in the 1940s. Darkhei Noam will be joining the other synagogue communities of the Upper West Side in the annual Reading of the Names organized by the JCC. This year, the overnight program will be held at West Side Institutional Synagogue and will include participation by Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. If you’d like to volunteer to read names during Darkhei’s time slot, please contact Barry Langman -
Saturday ,
MayMay 3 , 2025
Shabbat, May 3rd 1:00p to 3:00p
Celebrate Israel with Darkhei Noam. Join us for a family friendly Shabbat lunch. The program includes children's programing, a special speaker and musical performance and sing along. -
Friday ,
JunJune 13 , 2025
Friday, Jun 13th 7:00p to Shabbat, Jun 14th 8:00p
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