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Italian in the Sukkah: Living More Vowel-esque

This Sukkot 5785/2024 we did an international food theme to keep variety for the many festive meals of the holiday. Our first night in the Sukkah was Italian night. We served garlic-bread, meatballs and spaghetti, minestrone soup, biscotti and more. … Read the rest

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YK: “Take Breaks” Appeal 5785/2024

As most synagogues do, each year we do a Yom-Kippur appeal. But unlike most synagogues our appeal isn’t for money and donations (we’re a college campus community) instead its about an annual mindset or mitzvah, a perspective emphasis, or an … Read the rest

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YK: Stepping Up on Yom Kippur – A Story

I read this heartfelt powerful story on Twitter on the day before Yom Kippur. This is the story and message I shared with our Yom Kippur service entering Kol Nidrei this 5785/2024. And its something I thought about much of … Read the rest

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First October 7th Anniversary Same Week as Yom Kippur

That’s how it falls this year, 2024, Yom Kippur later in the same week as the first secular-year anniversary of October 7th. We did a Torah-Tuesday class this week exploring concepts and messages to be learned from this. We’ll try … Read the rest

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Thoughts especially for this Yom Kippur 5785/2024

Preparing and sharing some inspiration, messages and relevance for this particular Yom Kippur 5785/2024. For past years Yom-Kippur inspiration see our Yom Kippur Collection. 

OCT 7TH IN SAME WEEK AS YOM KIPPUR
That’s how it falls this year, 2024, … Read the rest

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The Mets – and Rosh Hashanah – in October 2024

So as of Erev Rosh Hashanah 2024, the Mets will play at least one game in October.

This year (2024) all the Jewish Fall holidays are in October, you might consider them to be as the playoff season in some … Read the rest

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Foliage Change at Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah 5785/2024 falls late this year. All the Jewish Fall holidays are in October this year, including Rosh Hashanah, which is always always in September.

This has foliage implications! Usually the change in foliage starts after Rosh Hashanah, sometimes … Read the rest

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Erev Rosh Hashanah at the Post Office, Rosh Hashanah with National Grid

We’ve been working on a special mailing to Shabbos House donors in the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah 5785/2024, and for various reasons we went with first-class postage instead of the bulk-mail rate. We took one completed package and … Read the rest

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Why This Rosh Hashanah (5785/2024) is Different

No doubt, each year is special and unique and each Rosh Hashanah has a quality or dimension (and divine revelation) all its own, as Alter Rebbe emphasizes in his Tanya-Iggeret HaKodesh. But this Rosh Hashanah 5785, just under a year … Read the rest

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Lessons from the Pagers Operation

The Pager/Beeper story was really quite something, it was so extraordinary, it seemed to be the stuff of science-fiction or fanciful spy movies.

But the Baal Shem Tov taught that there are spiritual life messages in all things that we … Read the rest

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