by Sylvia Krakauer | Mar 3, 2024 | From the Rabbi
Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: As we all know, it is a universal truth that life is meant to have a start and a finish, a beginning that we all celebrate and an ending which we typically mourn. Hashem intended our lives to be abbreviated – hopefully...
by Sylvia Krakauer | Feb 4, 2024 | From the Rabbi
Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: I hope and trust you all had a happy Tu Bishvat, the most recent of our Jewish holidays. If you were fortunate enough to participate in a Tu Bishvat Seder, you may have the joy of sharing your experience with the many...
by Sylvia Krakauer | Dec 29, 2023 | From the Rabbi
Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: As you read this bulletin article, we will either be preparing for the upcoming fast of Asarah B’Tevet, the 10th day of the month of Tevet or we will have already observed the fast day on Friday, Dec. 22nd. This fast...
by Sylvia Krakauer | Nov 29, 2023 | From the Rabbi
Dear Bnai Shalom members, families and friends, With the ongoing situation continuing to play out in Eretz Yisrael, WE continue to daven for the wellbeing and safely of all the residents of our Holyland and for the safe return of all prisoners and hostages. As G-d’s...
by Sylvia Krakauer | Nov 12, 2023 | From the Rabbi
Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: Although recent horrible events in Israel and the nightmarish, unthinkable atrocities of barbaric magnitude have had an absurd, ignorant, and vehemently anti-Jewish effect HERE in the United States, (particularly –...
by Sylvia Krakauer | Sep 11, 2023 | From the Rabbi
Dear B’nai Shalom Families, Members, and Friends: As you read this month’s bulletin, Jews worldwide are thinking about, and preparing for the upcoming High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. This is part and parcel of the substantive and anticipatory getting...