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What's Happening?
at Shabbos House and the UAlbany Jewish Community...

see also the detailed google-calendar on the Schedule/Calendar page
 

Looking forward to
Fall 2010
  • Freshmen Weekend Shabbat - welcomes freshmen and upper-classman already moved in..
  • See the new Fall 2010 "Torah-Tuesday" schedule and list of topics...
  • New Program, Mendel's Manhattan Mondays - an alumni study group, several times a year
  • Shabbos House will be hosting Rosh Hashanah Services for those remaining up here...
  • Shabbos House and UAlbany Hillel will be co-sponsoring Yom Kippur Services on Campus
  • Please Note: major renovation construction has begun to the front of the campus center building
  • Rosh Hashanah and both Sukkot holidays are 3-day weekends including a Shabbos
  • possible Chol HaMoed Sukkot Israeli Concert evening with JERNY and UAlbany Hillel
  • The Simchat Torah Celebration will be Thursday Night September 30th
  • We booked relationships speaker Doron Kornbluth from Israel for Sunday, October 24th, stay tuned...
  • Look for 3 bet Medrash Nights on Thursday for peer study sessions, with community as well...
Summer 2010
  • Up in Albany? Check our Schedule Page Google-Calendar for the Summer Cozy-Shabbat schedule.
  • Traveling to Alumni Simchas: engagements, weddings, brissen - may we share Simchas!
  • Chani's Bas-Mitzvah on Sunday June 27th...
  • Ben Z. is representing Shabbos House at the Living Legacy Student Leadership Conference in Washington DC in connection with the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 16th yartzeit...
  • Sara Esther Crispe (creator and editor of www.TheJewishWoman.org) speaks for the Jewish Women Connection at Shabbos House on "Finding Your Other Whole" Wed 7/28/2010 7:30pm
  • NYC Alumni Reunion in NYC, Sunday August 1st, 1-3pm at Chabad Loft 144 5th bet 19 & 20 in NYC
  • we mailed the Spring 2010 / 5770 Update Newsletter should arrive in homes before the end of July.
  • Two last Sundays of Summer have 2 alumni weddings each, may we always celebrate Simchas!
  • Sidewalks are complete between Shabbos House and Stuyvesant Plaza on both sides, work continues now further up Fuller Road, especially at Tricentennial Drive
  • planning and preparing for Fall 2010 semester events and programming...
Looking back
at Spring 2010
  • see "Torah-Tuesday" topics and schedule for Spring 2010 - find out also about "TorahTRAX"
  • Check our Google-Calendar for alternating Shabbos Schedule,
  • Tu Bishvat Shabbat - last weekend in January - guest speakers on Friday Night and Shabbat Lunch

  • Cozy Shabbat Weekends: Presidents Week & Pre-Passover (small weekends for those up here...)

  • Mendel and Raizy's Birthday Farbrengens at the start of the semester

  • 2 JWC events + the communal Spa for Body and Soul in Malta with 90210 producer

  • Hillel events including Semi-Formal, Lounge Nights, Laser-Tag and more..

  • Purim 2010 on Sat Night at Shabbos House, Sunday Carnival in CC Ballroom

  • 7th and 8th Days of Passover 2010 Meals at Shabbos House after Passover/Spring Break

  • Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Vigil on the Academic Podium Small Fountain

  • Grad Party and Graduation Weekend events at Shabbos House

  • UAlbany Hillel Finals Week Destressors include Water-Balloon Fight on Collins Circle

  • Save the date for Chani's Bas-Mitzvah on Sunday June 27th at the new Shabbos House
Fall and Spring "WC" Newsletters now online You can view our 8-page "What's Cooking?" newsletter updates online. We mail them twice a year to homes of students, alumni and friends of Shabbos House. Please send us your earthly address if we don't have it, and please update us when you move. Thanks!

Click here for an index of our past newsletters in PDF format:  What's Cooking Newsletter PDF Index or see the most recent "What's Cooking?" newsletter update for the Fall 2009 semester.
 

Torah-Tuesdays New topics and schedule for Spring 2009 see our Torah-Tuesdays Page. Also look for a new student-led Torah sharing program at Shabbat lunch once monthly - we're looking for students to spearhead this new program.
Study & Trip Opportunities
w/Shabbos House
Check our Study and Trip opportunities page, for enriching Jewish study immersion programs and experiences. affiliated with Shabbos House and national Chabad on Campus. Obviously we have many opportunities for formal and informal Jewish learning right here on campus, check out our Torah-Tuesday study schedules or contact Mendel and Raizy for one-on-one learning, group study, or simply if you have a question, issue or problem you'd like to discuss. Also check out the UAlbany Dept of Judaic Studies for secularly accredited programs in Hebrew, history, literature and other courses through the University.
UnityTorah.com It's a huge Mitzvah to own your own letter in a Torah Scroll, and this special Torah effort unites college students, alumni and families across the USA in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Israel. Each letter is only $1 and can be purchased online at www.UnityTorah.com
Fuller Road Jewish As Nanotech expands on Fuller Road, and better access is built with new sidewalks and the Fuller Road make-over, Shabbos House looks forward to serving as a "Fuller Road Jewish Center" for those at Executive Park at Stuyvesant Plaza and at the growing Albany NanoTech complex just up Fuller Road, as part of the regional Nano-Chabad Initiative.
"What's Cooking?" Update You can view our newsletter updates online. If you'd like to get these things at home, send us your earthly address, please update us when you move. Thanks!

Click here for (PDF format) in the
 What's Cooking Newsletter PDF Index


 
Cookbook Available!  "A Taste of Shabbos House" Cookbook  costs $20 each, plus $2.50 (s/h). But after many copies sold - it is now out of print. It is now back in print!!

90 pages coil-bound, with over 130 recipes (tried and tested!) used at Shabbos House, peppered with Torah and student quotes on the food experience at Shabbos House.

This fundraiser was made possible by the diligent efforts of Adam Kofinas (SH intern Spring '04, incoming Hillel Student President Fall '04). Thanks so much!

Contact Shabbos House for your copy!
518-438-4227 / shabbos@albany.net or mail@shabboshouse.com

 

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Back by popular demand...
The SUKKALEH Song
the nightly Sukkah anthem at Shabbos House, which lasts long after the holiday
is translated from an old Yiddish song.

My Sukkahleh is small,
not fancy at all,
but is specially dear to me.
Schach I threw on a bit,
hoping to cover it,
there I'd sit and think. (2X)

The wind was a cold one,
the cracked walls were old ones,
the candles were flickering low.
At times as if dying,
but suddenly rising,
as if they did not want to go. (2X)

My sweet little daughter
sensing the danger,
got scared and started to cry.
Father, she cried,
don't stay there outside,
the Sukkah is going to fall! (2X)

Fear not my child,
it's been quite a while,
the Sukkahleh still stands strong.
The wind has been worse, my dear,
but it's almost 2000 years,
yet the Sukkahleh still stands strong! (2X)

 

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