no comments

A few days after Simchat Torah, October 2023

It’s a few days in now. It feels like weeks since we got word on the Simchas Torah holiday of the devastating Hamas attacks in Israel and learned more of its barbaric gruesomeness each day. In an

no comments

Simchat Torah 2023 News from Israel

Each year we always share the message that we in the diaspora have custom to dance Hakafot on Shemini-Atzeret night in solidarity with Israel, and they dance (Sheniyot) with us on our Simchas Torah (when the...

no comments

Esther Miriam’s “Bucket List” Project

by Esther Miriam (speech said at her Bas-Mitzvah celebration, Sukkot 5784/2023 explaining her Bas-Mitzvah “Bucket-List” project): 

Since I was young I had all these ideas of thin...

no comments

Keli Atah – and Esty (Rubin) Cohen

About the Alter Rebbe’s song “Keli Atah” & my sister Esty (Rubin) Cohen obm.

Tonight, after first two days of the Sukkot holiday, we hosted the annual communal Musical Night in t...

no comments

YK: Our Yom Kippur “Open Door” Appeal 5784/2023

Each year at the close of Neilah, the 5th and final prayer service of Yom Kippur, we do a “Yom Kippur Appeal”. Unlike most synagogues, this isn’t an appeal for money and charitable contribu...