At our upcoming Passover Seders, we will be rehashing the ten plagues inflicted by God on the Egyptians. What I find interesting about the plagues is that each of the plagues was based on a natural occurrence, but with some sort of supernatural twist. Frogs, for example, are natural, but the…
Last year we hosted the inaugural Community Shabbat dinner at the Albany JCC. I wrote about it being a “catastrophic success.” We planned for 150 people to comfortably eat dinner in the auditorium and ended needing a 400-person, heated tent for the parking lot.
What is the Community Sha…
Maybe you didn’t notice, but every year I use this space to plug Purim as one of my two favorite holidays and encourage everyone to find a synagogue to attend for the celebration. I didn’t do it this year.
I struggled. Purim is fun. So much fun, in fact, that we start increasing our joy…
About 15 years ago, the Israeli government approached the Eshkol Regional Council with an offer to build a new reinforced school for the region, with the understanding that the kibbutz kids and the moshav kids would unite in the one building.
A few pieces of background information:
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