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Graduation Weekend 2024

We have a series of events here at Shabbos House that weekend that families of students are very welcome!

To be best prepared we’re asking parents and families of graduates to please use this

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Metzorah & Matzah as Bread of Healing

As the Jewish calendar falls out this 5784/2024, we read Metzora (the Torah portion about the healing process of a leper) on the Shabbat just before Pesach/Passover. This year, more than usual, there’s...

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Why was Rabbi Akiva the Host?

Some of our students and alumni know that Mendel’s father, Rabbi Israel Rubin wrote a whole scholarly book delving into the famous Seder in Bnei Brak where the 5 Rabbis stayed up all night, as famously...

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Day before Passover in a Dorm

Here’s a basic essentials list of what needs to be done in the 24 hours before Passover in a dorm room. Obviously, there are extras that may ideal if possible, but here are the basics.

C...

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“Tortured Poet” just before Passover.

I am totally out of my depth here, personally unfamiliar with any of the lyrics or the persona, (so take all this with many grains of salt,) but the title of the much ballyhooed album release caught my atten...