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Oct 23, 2020

Opportunity

When the pandemic first hit, we mobilized quickly to address our community’s most urgent needs. We partnered with Jewish Family Services (JFS) and the Albany County Department for Aging to bring a kosher meals-on-wheels program to the homebound and offered grocery shopping and delivery to …

Oct 16, 2020

Virtual GA

I take a minimum of 40 hours Continuing Professional Education (CPE) every year to stay current and maintain my CPA license in New York State, even though I haven’t done very much with that license in a long time. I worked too hard to earn the license, and if things don’t work out for me…

Oct 9, 2020

PB&J

In a normal year, I would use this article on the Friday before Simchat Torah to encourage everyone to go to synagogue. I would tell you to bring your children. I would tell you that it is one of my two favorite holidays to celebrate with the community and how much fun it is.
 
If this we…

Oct 2, 2020

An extra hour

We’ve all pondered the question of what we would do if we had a few extra hours each week. Perhaps we’d take up a new hobby or get a few projects done around the house. Well, thanks to COVID, I haven’t been to an in-person committee meeting in seven months and find myself home most nig…

Sep 25, 2020

Better Prepared

We weren’t really prepared for Passover. Social distancing was too new. Synagogues were closed. Households made seders alone or over Zoom.

But we’ve had months of prep time for Rosh Hashanah, and we’ve seen a lot of creativity, both in homes and in synagogues.

Synagogues offered stre…