Dear friends,
There’s still time to share a few quick Chanukah Menorah meditations and inspiration: Mendel’s father Rabbi Israel Rubin wrote these “Eight Lights” many years ago, we posted them to share with you. And we’re working on another set of meaningful messages learned from the flames themselves. Like Chanukah, its a work in progress that we started writing and hope to add to soon, see them at Listening to the Flames. Both are short and sweet and some nice food for Chanukah thought! Oh, and did we tell you about the 1400+ books that arrived at our doorstep at the tail end of the semester? Here are Life Lessons from Unexpected Delivery of 1500 of the Same Book!
OUR “SHARE YOUR LIGHT” CHALLENGE
Light Menorah each night of Chanukah, take a picture and tag @shabboshouse to help spread the light and share Chanukah social community, each night’s photo tagged is another chance to win a post-Chanukah giftcard! Three winners!
ALUMNI CHANUKAH VENDORS
Some alumni do some really nice handcrafted gift items, and we wanted to share links to their shops or contacts.
We’ll hopefully email this out (best we know) on Saturday night for the 4th night of Chanukah.
MANY THANKS AGAIN!
The annual campaign is crucial for Shabbos House. 352 donors (including, alumni, parents, friends, faculty and even students) and a team of generous matchers came through in big and small ways (it all matters!), all adding up to raise $126,465 in 50 hours in this year’s 2024 “FOCUS!” matched crowdfunding campaign! This covers more than a third of Shabbos House annual expenses and goes a very long way to make Shabbos House meals, programming and events, services and resources possible for this generation of students. We’re very grateful for the support and friendship and investment of so many!
THE SHABBOS HOUSE COLORING CALENDAR
Thanks to alumna Ellen Liebenthal (’16) for creating a wonderful coloring book calendar for Shabbos House. We mailed out a whole bunch of them at the start of the Jewish Year but got swamped with the start of the semester and quite a few came back with wrong addresses. If you’d like yours – please email us with your correct physical home address. We’d like to send out another mailing of them in early January.
COZY-SHABBATS IN JANUARY
We’re likely doing Cozy-Shabbat all weekends in January until the Spring Semester begins. Sometimes alumni like to come up visit for the quieter smaller Cozy-Shabbat style weekends during academic breaks.
Best wishes for a very happy, luminous Chanukah!
Love,
Mendel and Raizy
Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center
Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center