Blessing Israel Together

This year Israel Relief Aid wanted to do an event for Rosh Hashana that would benefit Holocaust Survivors, but are also always thinking about the new immigrants that continue to trek into their new homeland.

Simchat Torah, Sundown October 24 this year (October 23 in Israel), celebrates the renewal of the weekly reading cycle immediately after Sukkot. On Simchat Torah, we read the conclusion of Deuteronomy, the story of the death of Moses, and then immediately continue on with the account of creation in Genesis 1. Every ending brings a new beginning, and this is especially true of our study of Scripture.

I was thinking about the Feast of Tabernacles when I booked my train ticket to London and was rather tickled by the Virgin Trains slogan ‘Be bound for glory’, obviously based on the traditional gospel hit  This Train . If it means Virgin boss Richard Branson is spreading the good news, who’s complaining?  read more...

A wonderful Succot aid container from Holland has been set for unloading on Friday, mid-Succot! This container will stop first at a immigrant poverty-level aid center to give apartment furniture and clothing in Ashdod.

Sukkot  (Feast of Tabernacles) is Oct 17-23, 2016 and it commemorates the forty years of wandering of the people of Israel in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt ... and how Adonai miraculously provided for us.  He gave us manna to sustain us - thus the name of our Sukkot outreach this year -  Sukkot Manna Project.

Yom Kippur can be a long day, so it’s a welcome change of pace when we turn to the Book of Jonah in the afternoon. It’s a lively story with lots of fascinating connections to Yom Kippur.

Today we'll be observing Yom Kippur. We'll be back at sundown. G'mar Chatima Tova! May you be inscribed for good (in the Book of Life).

This year Israel Relief Aid wanted to do an event for Rosh Hashana that would benefit Holocaust Survivors, but are also always thinking about the new immigrants that continue to trek into their new homeland.

Last Sunday I was reading a newsletter from an aid center that Israel Relief Aid had just stocked with incontinence supplies for Holocaust Survivors in Sderot, explaining about the hard life there with unpredictable bombings. A few hours later, again Sderot was bombed!