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On Shabbat of Hanukkah synagogues around the world read from the section of Genesis that details the impressive success of Joseph under the most difficult of circumstances.
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Rabbi Yehuda Septimus
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12/6/12
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One of the most important values celebrated during the Hanukkah holiday is captured in a passage near the end of the haftorah that we read in synagogue on the Saturday morning of the holiday.
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Rabbi Andrew Warmflash
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12/6/12
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Hanukkah seems to be a strange holiday.
The Jewish people have always been proud of being called the “People of the Book.”
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Rabbi Yaakov Feitman
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12/5/12
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These past few weeks have been a most difficult time for our community. Sandy was New York’s Hurricane Katrina, but as a community, we pulled together with that indomitable Jewish chutzpah and New York spirit which shouts in word and deed for all to hear, “You won’t get us — you won’t bring us down — we can take whatever man or nature brings our way and emerge stronger and more resolute than before.” This, too, is the message that our holiday of Hanukkah, through the millennia, has transmitted to the world.
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Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum
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12/5/12
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Marking two years of the Levi Yitzhak Library in Cedarhurst
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Opened in memory of Levi Yitzhak Wolowik, the small but vibrant Cedarhurst library that bears his name celebrated its two-year anniversary with a day of activities, festivities and workshops on Dec. 2.
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12/5/12
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Despite the hardships being endured by the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, followed by a nor’easter, the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) had more than 350 guests at its high school’s open house on Nov. 11.
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11/14/12
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Boys sorted the heated socks, teenage girls played and colored with younger children, the women cooked food and brought it out to families, men moved generators on dollies, and volunteers readied to go out on another run delivering needed items to distressed community members as snow from a nor’easter fell on Nov. 7.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/14/12
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Updated July 23 at 11:20 a.m.
In response to the terrorist attack on young Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria on July 20, the Nassau County Police have increased patrols at Jewish institutions including shuls, temples and yeshivas at the request of Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/20/12
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Chabad celebrated Friendship Circle volunteers
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The Jean Fischman Chabad Center of the Five Towns recognized its Friendship circle teenage volunteers for their year round work at the sixth annual volunteer recognition dinner at Chabad in Cedarhurst on June 4.
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6/20/12
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The Jewish holiday of Shavout will be celebrated on May 27-28. It marks the time when God gave the Torah to the Hebrews. Rabbis Eliot Skiddell and Andrew Warmflash reflect on the holiday's meaning.
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5/24/12
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