FridayLight @ UAlbany
Part of a Jewish Women's National Shabbat Candle-Lighting Campaign

A Special Women's Event:
Friday, September 29th, 5:00pm @ Shabbos House
with UAlbany's Jewish Women's Connection (with sponsorship by Shabbos House Chabad, UAlbany Hillel, California Chabad's Friday Light National Effort and the Ufaratzta Fund for Chabad on Campus).

• Hors D'oeuvres & Mocktails

• Candle-Lighting ceremony

• FridayLight Necklace Gift

• Walkover after to Campus Center for Prayers (7pm) & Hillel Dinner (8pm)

For more information on this national effort visit: www.FridayLight.org
For local candle-lighting times at UAlbany see our: candle-times page.

Here are the candles lit-up for Shabbat in the shape of "UALBANY"
The program/event booklet, printed in flaming red, on an even redder tablecloth.	Mushkie and Chani sing "My Mothers Shabbos Candles" see lyrics  below	Aviva (Hillel Director) and Arielle, sit (and smile!) behind assorted Mocktail punch pitchers
Sarah and Jessica among the FridayLighters.	Each Mocktail pitcher had a different drink was so labeled.	Raizy explains the significance, talks about the Shabbat Candle FAQ's

Below is an old favorite song that Raizy taught Mushkie and Chani, they sang it at FridayLight...

MY MOTHER'S SHABBOS CANDLES

Amongst the smiles, amongst the tears
of my childhood sweet and bitter years
there’s a picture that my memory fondly frames
and through it shine two tiny flames.

My mother’s Shabbos candles
they made our home so bright
which faithfully she lighted
with a prayer on Friday Night

and then around the table
we gathered and we heard
our father chant the Kiddush
his heart in every word.

Our humble home became a mansion
in that mystic glow
our hearts were filled with hopes and dreams
and thoughts of long ago

Yet still the tragic story
of Israel’s darkest nights
have never dimmed the glory
of my mother’s Shabbos lights.

 

This FridayLight event is sponsored by The UAlbany Jewish Women's Connection, Shabbos House Chabad Center, UAlbany Hilllel, California Chabad's National FridayLight Effort and the Ufartzta Fund for Chabad on Campus.
 

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