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Upcoming – Last Week in Jan 2014

Here’s what’s happening at Jewish UAlbany in the last week of January 2014:

Sunday 1/26: Minyan Bagel Brunch
11am start, with Tefillin and morning prayer. Bagels, Sh

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Hup Cossack & The Bear Dance

“Hup Cossack” is a melody sung at Chassidic weddings and certain festive occasions. It begins slowly and builds increasing tempo as the song progresses. Here’s the story behind the melody &

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R’ Moshe Greenberg’s Gulag Shabbat

by Rabbi Schneur Greenberg

Rabbi Schneur Greenberg and his wife Estie run Chabad of Commerce Township/Walled Lake Michigan. Estie is Raizy’s sister and they are both away this weekend at the

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MLK and the Haftorah

This year #MLKDay falls in the week that we read the Torah portion of Mishpatim. The Haftorah (section of Prophets read aloud after the Torah reading on Sabbath mornings in synagogue) is from Jeremiah chapte

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No Echo

When speaking of the 2nd set of 10 Commandments, the Torah in Deuteronomy says: “It was a great voice, without end.” The Talmud comments on “without end” and says, there was no echo.<

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Jethro’s Vision

Yisro, or Yitro, (he had 7 names actually, so a little Ashkenasic/Sephardic dialect doesn’t matter much ) or Jethro in English – saw Moshe spending all day with people, adjudicating cases, listen

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Mendel’s Birthday Farbrengen

On the night before classes begin for Spring 2014, instead of Torah-Tuesday (which will begin next week) we’re having a guys farbrengen for Mendel’s birthday, 8:30pm at Shabbos House.

It w

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3rd & Final Winter Break Cozy-Shabbat

We didn’t plan on to do this weekend Jan 18-19, but we are going ahead and hosting one more Cozy-Shabbat before the Spring 2014 semester starts up next week.

Raizy will be away at our niece̵

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A Basi L’Gani Smorgasbord (tidbits from a Yud-Shvat Farbrengen)

For this year’s Albany Yud-Shvat Farbrengen (this year held at Shabbos House) we asked participants to share a Basi L’Gani tidbit, a favorite segment or message, to share as a part of a Basi L

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U-Turn at Sea: 2 Reasons, 2 Rebbes

This week’s Torah portion is about the Splitting of the Sea and the Song at the Sea. Today is also Yud-Shvat, the 10th of Shvat, which is the yartzeit of the 6th Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schn

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