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  • Shabbat Shalom

    Nachamu-Comfort us a message for us this Shabbat shared by Elana Arian

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Help us help them and take a stand supporting Ukraine war victims

     

  • Shabbat Shalom

    Rabbi Cantor Angela Buchdahl and Cantor Azi Schwartz offer this blessing to Rabbi Eliot Cosgrove for his birthday, Bob Dylan’s Forever Young.  It is a prayer for us all this Shabbat.

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Shabbat Shalom

    The acapella group Y-Studs shares the Evolution of Shabbat with this fun medley.

    Take a few minutes and prepare for Shabbat.

    May this Shabbat bring us a moment of rest and beauty.

     

  • Shabbat Shalom

    This Shabbat, George Harrison’s epic song, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, played by legends, friends, and his son during the Concert for George, resonated with me after another difficult day.

    I hope you enjoy this music and Shabbat.

    Shabbat Shalom

     

  • Shabbat Shalom

    Moshav helps us welcome Shabbat with Shalom Aleichem.

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Don’t Buy this Kippah

    Don’t buy this kippah

    In fact, it is not for sale. We are not selling the Sunflower Ukrainian Kippah. Instead, we ask for your contributions to support the overwhelming needs of the Ukrainian and Polish people dealing with the horrible war that rages in Ukraine.

     

    The JCC of Krakow is on the front lines of helping people through this tragedy.

    With your donation, we are sending you this kippah as a way of saying thank you for your help and as a way for you to stand publicly, proudly,  and Jewishly in support of this humanitarian cause.

    Please join us.

    #standwithUkraine

    Kippah

     

     

  • Shabbat Shalom

    We welcome Shabbat, Kabbalat Shabbat with a series of Psalms beginning with Psalm 95.  Rabbi Rayzel Raphael takes the words, L’khu n’ran’nah, and shares, Rock to the Rockin Joy.

    Enjoy and Shabbat Shalom.

  • Shabbat Shalom

    Nefesh Mountain sings I lift my eyes to the mountain, Esa Enai.  It seems like a good musical introduction to the Shabbat before Shavuot.

    Wishing everyone Shabbat Shalom and Chag Shavuot Sameach as we are about to celebrate the gift of Torah.

  • Sharing the story of Poland and Ukraine

    Sharing the story of Poland and Ukraine

    I am deeply grateful to bear witness to the important stories coming from my mission to the JCC of Krakow in support of Poland and Ukraine and to bear witness.

    Thank you to Rabbi Jeremy Weisblatt of Temple Ohav Shalom in Allison Park outside Pittsburgh and to Rabbi David Ackerman of Beth Am Israel of Penn Valley, PA outside Philadelphia for graciously opening your shuls to me.

     

    Help us help them.  Please invite me to share this very Jewish and very human story with your community.