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Eliezer’s Long-shot & Rivka’s Courage

ELIEZER’S LONG-SHOT

This week in Chayei Sara we read the story of Abraham sending Eliezer on a mission to find a wife for his son Yitzchak. Eliezer traveled from the center-south of Israel back ...

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Fall of the Berlin Wall – and Tefillin

Today (November 9th 2014) marks the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It actually took some time longer, but this is the day that the first part of the wall began to symbolically come ...

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#HappyToGo! JSAM 2014 UAlbany

#HappyToGo! This  is our 4th year participating in the UJA of NY’s JSAM – Jewish Social Action Month initiative. Past years UAlbany JSAM themes were Action for Addiction at Albany(2013), Supp...

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Heaven, Hell & The Afterlife – and the Midterm Election

The Torah-Tues class topic for Nov 4, 2014 is “Heaven, Hell and the Afterlife: What Jews believe and why it matters.” It’s not something talked about much, but believe it or not, we get que...

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Abraham in Terach’s Footsteps

Everyone knows G-d’s first words to Abraham: “Lech Lecha! Go unto you, from your homeland, your birthplace and father’s home, to the land that I will show you.” This charge began the ...