I checked my phone one morning to get this picture from Elliott W, a UAlbany and Shabbos House alumnus, wearing Tefillin at the South Pole – THE SOUTH POLE!
He later told me that it was 36 degrees below Zero … Read the rest
This week my daughter (5th grade at Maimonides Albany) was working on a homework project for school on “Island of the Blue Dolphins” by Scott O’Dell. We had to read one chapter at a time together, and fill out a … Read the rest
We were sitting around at Kosher on Fuller on Thursday night, October 31st, and I asked Yoni S. what he thought I should speak about on Friday Night at the Hillel Shabbat dinner? Yoni said, if the Torah portion is … Read the rest
Not the tea (though I like Chai-Spice). The Hebrew word Chai which means life, live, alive.
This Simchat Torah two of the songs we sang repeatedly, maybe every Hakafah circuit were “Am Yisrael Chai” and “David Melech Yisrael Chai vKayam” … Read the rest
In the 1970’s when Zeide Galperin was already in NY but before he was married, his cousin Chaim Dovid Tsinman (of blessed memory, he passed away on Shemini Atzeret some years ago) asked the legendary Chassid (an iconic Chabad symbol … Read the rest
I grew up in Tashkent, in Uzebekistan, then part of the Soviet Union. Sukkot was always an important celebration for our family, and the close-knit Chassidic community we were part of. I shared previously shared about… Read the rest
Leading up to Simchat Torah 2024, the Hebrew anniversary of the terrible attacks of October 7th, there are many posts and online videos about why and how to dance this Simchas Torah, the first anniversary of the attacks, and in
In downtown Albany, across from the Federal Building and Park on North Pearl Street, and just down the street on Clinton Ave from the Palace Theater, and just across Broadway from the entrance to the Skyway linear park – there’s … Read the rest
I checked my phone one morning to get this picture from Elliott W, a UAlbany and Shabbos House alumnus, wearing Tefillin at the South Pole – THE SOUTH POLE!