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Unexpected Alumni Twists – Winter 2026

While we didn’t plan any formal alumni reunions this Winter 2025-26, we did get to meet up with and celebrate with alumni, and some of it in quite unexpected ways!

CAR-TROUBLE

This alumnus only spent one year with us at … Read the rest

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Go Guesser Game & “with Great Wealth”

For our Welcome Back event for the Spring ’26 semester, our student board suggested some version of the Geo-Guessr game. So we asked students to submit pictures of their winter break places – for students at the event to guess … Read the rest

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UAlbany’s Split-A Logo

We got word via internal UAlbany memo that the University is officially sunsetting their longtime “Split-A” logo in favor of using the Minerva and Great Dane imaging as University at Albany branding.

(Personally I’d go with the iconic and ubiquitous … Read the rest

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Insight’s from Joseph’s Butler Baker Question at Rebbe’s 1973 Launch of the Public Menorah Campaign

In launching the Chabad campaign for public Menorah lightings, at a farbrengen on Chanukah 5734/1973, the Rebbe took inspiration from the biblical story of Joseph in prison, his interaction with the butler and the baker.

One morning Joseph awoke and … Read the rest

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The Yud Tes Kislev Sheva Brachos

It so happens that we hosted an alumna’s Sheva Brachos on Yud Tes Kislev, the 19th of Kislev, aka the Rosh Hashanah  of Chassidus. So we were thinking of a meaningful thought-provoking centerpiece that could be fitting both for the … Read the rest

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Two Ways to Keep Warm

There’s an old Chassidic saying that there are two ways to keep warm when it’s bitter cold out. You can warm yourself by putting on a thick heavy fur coat. Or you can warm yourself AND others by lighting a … Read the rest

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Jacob, Rashi and White-Bark Trees

In our Thanksgiving 2025 getaway to the Adirondacks we passed a whole bunch of birch/polar/aspen trees, the white bark trees, on our way up.

Made me think of this question I had about a Rashi in today’s Chumash Vayeitzei Day … Read the rest

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The Jay Covered Bridge

As part of our Thanksgiving 2025 getaway we visited the historic Covered Bridge in Jay NY, built in 1857. It’s a beautiful spot. On one side of the bridge the cragged rocks and descent create a roaring rapids, and just … Read the rest

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The Fridge, Tzfat Shabbat and Thanksgiving

It so happens that our big double-door kitchen fridge went on the blink and died earlier in the week. It served us well for close to ten years, but it’s a workhouse and we use (and abuse) it a lot. … Read the rest

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Pegisha 2025 Highlights

This page is in progress, we’ll be adding to this, and some photos in the next few days…

Chabad on Campus’ NYC Pegisha was the largest yet with 2000 registered students in attendance!

Below are some of Mendel’s highlights and … Read the rest

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