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…