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Simchat Torah 2014 Extended Weekend

Yes, we have a last dinner in the Sukkah on Wed 10/15, and Friday Night 10/17 is at Shabbos House, too… but the one night not to miss is

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Simchat Torah UAlbany 2014

We’re nearing the end of the big Jewish holiday stretch. Yes. we still have a big...

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A Sukkot Sunday in 2014

Originally, we didn’t have much planned for this Sunday of Sukkot, after all it comes after a 3-day holiday when students were here celebrating for six festive meals… but it turned out to be quit...

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The Shabbos CandleLighting Matchbooks

This year marks 40 years since the Lubavitcher Rebbe launched his Shabbos Candle-Lighting campaign in 1974. It’s also 40 years since my parents, Rabbi Yisroel and Rochel Rubin, moved to Albany NY o...

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A Sukkah in Tashkent: The Barrel & A Dot

It was just a few of us in the Sukkah at the end of Shabbos of Sukkot, when Raizy’s father shared with us memories of his family’s Sukkah in Tashkent, then Russia:

by Rabbi Shlomo...