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Tefillin Outside a College Bathroom

MensBathroomThis summer (5775 / 2015) we visited D. a UAlbany / Shabbos House alumnus of 1998 who was sitting shiva for his father. It was the last day of Shiva (week-long period of mourning after losing a loved one), actually … Read the rest

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Chipped Chocolate

Our daughter Bassie turns ten just after the first of the Hebrew month of Elul. We were on the road all Thursday before Shabbat with little time to make a homemade cake, so we stopped at a Jewish bakery on … Read the rest

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Join the Crowd – It’s Hakhel Year!

This is the front page letter in our Spring/Summer 2015 “What’s Cooking” Update Newsletter

JOIN THE CROWD – IT’S HAKHEL YEAR!

Generally speaking, at Shabbos House we’re not that focused on numbers. We pride ourselves on appreciating each individual student, … Read the rest

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Two Stories of Positive Pasts

A visiting psychologist from Israel shared these two stories “of positive pasts” at a summertime Cozy Shabbat from her many years of practice:

1) She had a religious patient in his 80’s who basically stopped talking. He lived with his

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The Money in the Honey (and Adhesive Judaism)

“The Money in the Honey” is a story told about young David is King Saul’s court. There’s a children’s book by this name, retelling this story, written and illustrated by Aidel Backman.

Back in ancient Israel, long before banks, a … Read the rest

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Tisha B’Av has Two Sides to it!

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Years ago, Rabbi Israel Rubin wrote this creative article about the two sides of Tisha B’Av based on a Talmudic story at the end of tractate Makkot. It was first published in the local “Jewish World” Newspaper (link is to … Read the rest

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Gardening and Exercising Life Lessons by the Cheins

Rabbi Zalman and Rochel Chein of Binghamton Chabad were visiting with us this summertime Shabbos and shared these life messages on Friday Night.

Rabbi Zalman – on Exercise: 

This week I got back onto the treadmill. You pick up speed, … Read the rest

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Putting the Brick Back on the Table

In December 2013 the Fast of the Tenth of Tevet (which commemorates the siege around Jerusalem that led to its destruction) fell on Friday, the eve of Shabbat. That Friday Night we put red bricks on each of the tables, … Read the rest

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Celebrating Destruction

THE THREE WEEKS

The Period of the Three Weeks between the fast days 17th of Tammuz and Tisha B’Av is a time of semi-mourning for the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple and the start of the long Jewish Diaspora. Traditionally, … Read the rest

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91st & Broadway, The Greystone Hotel!

I was rushing from the 96 StrGreystoneHotel2eet subway station towards the Young Israel of the Upper West Side on Broadway and 91st to make it to a Friday morning Bris of an alumn baby, when I looked up and … Read the rest

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