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Opening Weekend Shabbat – Fall 2013

Summer flew by too quickly, and we didn’t get everything accomplished (including the work on this new website) but ready or not, the new semester is here!

It’s an exciting time to meet the...

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Starting College & the Barrel Race

One of our end of summer family rituals is to go to the local country fair. It gives the kids a chance to see animals, agriculture, etc. Perhaps the highlight was feeding the giraffe, even our littlest Esthe...

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Shmaltz Island and the College Lesson

This fanciful parable has been told at many a Jewish campsite, but this is basically the version I heard from my uncle Rabbi Moshe Chanowitz (at a Jewish teen overnight) and this is the one I recently told m...

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A March 2013 Alumni Letter to Shabbos House

Dear Mendel and Raizy,

I wanted to write to say thank you! You welcomed my husband and I into your home and taught us so much about Judaism and what living a Jewish life could be like. We found who &h...