by Sylvia Krakauer | Dec 3, 2025 | From the Rabbi
Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: With the next holiday on our Jewish calendar, the festive chag of Chanukah, soon to be upon us, I share with you the following listing of mitzvot, traditions, customs, and rules concerning the holiday. I hope this is...
by Sylvia Krakauer | Nov 6, 2025 | From the Rabbi
Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: Having now completed the entire cycle of the “September-October”-Tishrei holidays, we have the longest “drought” and empty space on our Jewish calendar until the next time we come to a...
by Sylvia Krakauer | Sep 9, 2025 | 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...
by Sylvia Krakauer | Aug 5, 2025 | From the Rabbi
Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: I begin this bulletin article with my heartfelt thanks to all of the wonderful shul people who reached out to me in one form or another and have conveyed warm wishes of recuperation and recovery. I am most grateful for...
by Sylvia Krakauer | Jul 2, 2025 | From the Rabbi
Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: Undoubtedly, you are all just as astounded as we are with having witnessed the revealed miracles of Hashem as He led the brave Israeli Defense Force fighter planes and bombers and their skilled, patient, well-trained...