Not the tea (though I like Chai-Spice). The Hebrew word Chai which means life, live, alive.
This Simchat Torah two of the songs we sang repeatedly, maybe every Hakafah circuit were “Am Yisrael C...
In the 1970’s when Zeide Galperin was already in NY but before he was married, his cousin Chaim Dovid Tsinman (of blessed memory, he passed away on Shemini Atzeret some years ago) asked the legendary C...
by Rabbi Shlomo Galperin
I grew up in Tashkent, in Uzebekistan, then part of the Soviet Union. Sukkot was always an important celebration for our family, and the close-knit Chassidic communit...
Leading up to Simchat Torah 2024, the Hebrew anniversary of the terrible attacks of October 7th, there are many posts and onl...
In downtown Albany, across from the Federal Building and Park on North Pearl Street, and just down the street on Clinton Ave from the Palace Theater, and just across Broadway from the entrance to the Skyway ...