Rosh Hashanah at UAlbany

Dear friends.

Save the date for a Challah Babka Bake on Monday, Sept 30th.

High Holidays – Letters/Services/Holiday Meals Etc
All the Fall Jewish holidays are in October this year. See shabboshouse.org/highholidays2024  for the schedule of holidays and handy glimpse image you can download of meals and prayers here at Shabbos House. We have an High Holiday RSVP form there as well. Usually we don’t ask for RSVPs but as some students may be headed home for Rosh Hashanah, and more so for Yom Kippur which falls this year over Fall Break – it helps us be better prepared to know how many will be celebrating which holiday here with us.

The RSVP form also has an option if you need an explanatory letter for your professor for holiday absences or exam reschedules.

Oct 7th Living Memorial
Hillel and Shabbos House boards are working on a Living-Memorial concept to pay tribute to the lives lost on October 7th, one year ago. The focus will be on celebrating what some of the terror victims lived for, what they were passionate about, that was terribly cut short. Stay tuned for more details, and save the date: Monday afternoon October 7th.

There is also an October 7th memorial event in the community planned for that Monday evening. Would be meaningful to have a nice student representation. We’ll be arranging rides to attend. Leave time for security checks. And there’s also a smaller communal event on Sunday, October 6th, a little closer to campus. Ask us for more about goign to these events.

Note re: the new Kosher Price Chopper/Market 32:
The Kosher department at the old Price Chopper in Colonie has moved and morphed into the new Market32 now at 1730 Central Ave. The Bakery is Kosher, there’s a Kosher Deli Counter, a bunch of displays with Kosher prepared foods, and some nice Kosher sushi. Further down along the back of the store are more Kosher fridges (look for Blue Kosher sign) and aisles 7 and 13 also have good-size Kosher sections. It’s not accessible by bus, but we go pretty regularly and so do some upperclassmen.

Pegisha Weekend
This won’t be until November 15th but signups have to be in before the end of October. We go down to Crown Heights Brooklyn each year with a group of students to celebrate a mega Shabbat weekend with hundreds (often over 1,000) college students from Chabads all across the country. We go down together, stay as a group, but you get to meet students from far and near and there’s lots of quality programming – all in the heart of Crown Heights. The $36 covers the whole weekend and we arrange transportation, lodging and all. You can speak to us for more info and any questions, but registration has to be before October ends via: https://chabadoncampus.org/pegisha/ 

WInter Break Opportunities
We have a long ways to winter break, but not too soon to think about some exciting winter break opportunities. (1) Living-Links is a Chabad on Campus run trip to Poland. It’s a sad but meaningful memorable trip of Jewish heritage and history. Cost is $999 all expenses including airfare, and there may be some ways to reduce that cost. (2) Chabad on Campus offers up to $1000 in airfare travel grant to study & experience for 3 weeks in Israel. The 3 weeks room & board and program for 3 weeks at the new Mayanot in Jerusalem is $299 and there are subsidies towards that, too. (3) Snorkel & Study is a week-long program for girls in sunny Florida that many Shabbos House girls have enjoyed over the years. You pay airfare to Florida and around $50 and most students going receive scholarship for the program itself as long as you apply early enough.

It’s time now to wish each other Shana Tova! Rosh Hashanah is around the corner! May this really be a good, happy, healthy, sweet new year!

Love,
Mendel and Raizy

NEED A MEZUZAH? We have a bunch, and can get more soon. We ask for a $50 deposit and you can use it for the year. (Nowadays Mezuzahs cost us around $65).