Magen AbrahamWest Long Branch, New Jersey

Congregation Magen Abraham

קהל קדוש מגן אברהם

The West Long Branch Shul. Five minyanim every Shabbat morning, one for every age, in a community that began as a minyan in our living rooms.

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The main sanctuary of Magen Abraham: white walls, panels of blue sodalite stone beside the green doors of the ark, and the great ring of light with the shul’s emblem

This Shabbat

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    Every Shabbat morning

    This week’s times
    • At sunriseThe netz minyanRabbi David CondiottiMain Sanctuary
    • 7:00ShaharitRabbi Mordechai DabbahMain Floor Midrash
    • 8:25ShaharitRabbi Reuben SemahMain Sanctuary
    • 8:30ShaharitRabbi Morris Mizrahi, with a class at 8:00Upstairs Midrash
    • 9:00The Father & Son minyanRabbi David EssesSocial Hall Midrash
    • 9:00Young Magen Abraham, the Kids MinyanPrizes, Divrei Torah, parasha questions and a meat Kiddush after prayersEvery Shabbat
    The doors of the main sanctuary: dark wood with tall panels of pale green glass by the Israeli glass artist Jeremy Langford, and brass handles
    The sanctuary doors, by the glass artist Jeremy Langford.

    From our living rooms to Monmouth Road

    1. 1978Families from Brooklyn settle west of Larchwood Avenue. Rabbi Isaac Dweck proposes a floating minyan, its Sefer Torah moving from home to home each month, under Rabbi Reuben Semah.
    2. Monmouth RoadA small house becomes the shul, on land that had been zoned for a church some 150 years before: “Hashem decided that this is where our Synagogue would be.”
    3. 1996“Just start, and Hashem will help,” said Rabbi Semah, and the community built the shul it prays in today, on a former asparagus farm.
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    The Pillars of Magen Abraham

    Our Pillars give every month so that our Rabbis, Hazzanim and Ba’alei Koreh are paid on time and in full.

    Every Shabbat, in every minyan, we read a Mi Sheberach with the names of our Pillars.

    מי שברך אבותינו אברהם יצחק ויעקב… הוא יברך וישמור וינצור ויעזור את כל התורמים

    Become a PillarOur Pillars
    The social hall set for a celebration: a round table in navy linen with white and blue flowers, and tall arrangements of blue delphiniums in gold bowls above the buffet

    Celebrate with us

    Our social hall and catering kitchen, for a brit milah, a sebet, a bar mitzvah, a l’chaim, an engagement or sheva berachot.

    • Weekend$3,600
    • Weekday$2,600

    Cleaning and catering fees may apply.

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    Support the shul

    Pay a pledge, an aliyah or your membership, give in someone’s honor or memory, or join the building campaign.

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    Visit us

    At 479 Monmouth Road, West Long Branch.

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