Purple and Gold – UAlbany colors.
Purple is a composite color, a classic blend of opposite primary colors blue and red. Blue is cool, red is passionate; red is fire, blue is water. Even democrats and republicans have chosen blue … Read the rest
...This goes back a few weeks when went down to Brooklyn with a nice UAlbany group of guys for the 2023 Chabad on Campus International Pegisha. We got into Crown Heights, found parking, and went up to the Eastern Parkway. … Read the rest
...Have you heard of “The Microwave Fireplace”? Spend a relaxing evening in just 8 minutes!
It’s an old joke I read many years ago in “The Reader’s Digest” (is that still being published?) but also illustrative of an insight I … Read the rest
...As it dawned on us that a month was coming to pass since the horrific and brutal Hamas terror attacks that killed 1400 Israelis of all ages, we worked with UAlbany Hillel and the Judaic Studies Department at University at … Read the rest
...As 20th of Cheshvan is Rebbe Rashab’s birthday wanted to share this Harry Potter analogy and illustration that I shared with my middle school students earlier today.
Some may say it is sacrilegious to use fictional fanciful Harry Potter books … Read the rest
...The flyer for Shabbat utilized the TGIF-theme, and we shared how grateful we are for Shabbat, not only as an observance but also as a tremendous opportunity for communal support and connection especially in times like these. This is … Read the rest
...Our daughter is studying in Israel this year. What a year! She had a dilemma this week.
She’s up in Israel’s north. Her seminary’s housing arrangement is apartments in a large housing project complex. So they live alongside regular families. … Read the rest
...Last week we shared our initial thoughts just after the Simchas Torah holiday and the massive Hamas terror attack in Israel’s south. And later that first week of this war we shared another post of thoughts and messages (#2) … Read the rest
...It’s a few days in now. It feels like weeks since we got word on the Simchas Torah holiday of the devastating Hamas attacks in Israel and learned more of its barbaric gruesomeness each day. In an earlier initial post … Read the rest
...Each year we always share the message that we in the diaspora have custom to dance Hakafot on Shemini-Atzeret night in solidarity with Israel, and they dance (Sheniyot) with us on our Simchas Torah (when their one-day holiday ends) – … Read the rest
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