Yom Kippur falls on a Tuesday night and Wednesday this year (2016) midweek at UAlbany. Classes are cancelled and travel time is allowed for, but many students do prefer to stay up here and pray as a campus community.

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Thanks to the long extended weekend with Rosh Hashanah falling on Monday and Tuesday this year, most students will be headed home to celebrate the holiday with family, especially since UAlbany gives off for most of the two-day Jewish New … Read the rest

Tishrei, the Hebrew month of the High Holidays, Sukkot and Simchat Torah, falls entirely in October 2016.

See this handy card tishreicard2016  for a calendar-at-a-glance of all our holidays prayers, meals and events on one sheet. In fact, the PDF … Read the rest

Labor Day weekend we have two back-to-back Minyan Brunches: Sunday 9/4 and Monday (Labor Day) 9/5. Both times at the crack of 11am, followed by a nice Bagel Brunch (one day with lox, another specialty the other day) and a … Read the rest