Today is October 26, 2020 -
Today is October 26, 2020 -
10-10 Norma Avenue, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
Phone: 201-796-5040
Email: info@fljc.com
Please note that due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation, activities in the building including services, classes, schools, meetings, and tenants are suspended indefinitely. Communications will be updated here to keep everyone informed about resumption of services. Should you need to reach the office staff, send your email to info@fljc.com. We will continue to monitor the situation and will send regular updates. Thank you for your cooperation. Together, we will see this through and remain, as we have always been, a United Community.
Through the use of Zoom we are offering services at home Sunday—Thursday evenings, Shabbat Friday night and Saturday morning services and Saturday evening Havdalah. We are also offering classes via Zoom. Check here and at our FLJC/CBI Facebook page for updates.
The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel is a Conservative, traditional-egalitarian synagogue that has been at the center of Jewish life in Fair Lawn and neighboring communities for the past seventy years. We are a welcoming and inclusive congregation in which all members are made to feel comfortable and at home. We take great pride in our vibrant community, and look forward to sharing our traditions with new members and passing on our legacy to future generations.
We offer evening minyanim and weekly Shabbat services throughout the year in addition to services for all Jewish holidays. Our synagogue is dedicated to education for learners of any age, with an active Religious School and Adult Education program. Other important arms of FLJC/CBI include an active Men’s Progress club and vibrant Sisterhood program, both of which provide plenty of opportunities for tzedakah projects, special events and various activities. Read more.
The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel is proud to welcome Rabbi Rachel Salston to our community.
“I am so excited and honored to be joining the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel,” said Rabbi Salston. “This has been an uncommon hiring process, amidst COVID-19, but I am so glad that we have found each other. Even though I have only been to the synagogue once in person, I feel at home in the community, which is so much more than the building. We are a community that cares about each other, prayer, and Judaism.”
Rabbi Salston is a graduate of Brandeis University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience with a minor in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. She then attended the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, earning her rabbinic ordination as well as the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's Award for Congregational Leadership, in 2018. While in California, Rabbi Salston served as a rabbinic intern at Burbank Temple Emanu-El in Burbank, CA, where she led worship services, taught Torah and prayer classes, and ran Tot Shabbat and preschool celebrations.
Following her ordination, Rabbi Salston returned to the East Coast, serving as the Ritual Director at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City before becoming Chaplain at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. She also served as a part-time Rabbi at the East Brunswick Jewish Center in East Brunswick, NJ.
Rabbi Salston is a Soferet STaM (Ritual Scribe) and specializes in Torah scroll repair and restoration, using archival and scribal techniques. As such, she is a valuable resource to the Jewish community on issues related to the fitness and usability of Torah scrolls.
Rabbi Salston has a passion for social justice and human rights, and has traveled to Thailand with American Jewish World Service and to India with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
In her spare time, she enjoys baking, needlework, yoga, and running.
