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TorahNator

TorahNator

by | Feb 5, 2017 | Rabbi Barbara Aiello, Synagogue in Calabria

Thanks to the “TorahNator”  Seniors Access Shabbat Services   “I’m calling it the TorahNator,” said a smiling Dr. Sanford Stone.  “The minute I saw it I knew it was something special.” And special it is. For many years I have had the honor and...
Holocaust Memorial Day in Italy

Holocaust Memorial Day in Italy

by | Jan 9, 2017 | Yom HaShoah

Zachor!  Memories of my firstHolocaust Memorial Day in Italy   January 27, 1945 marks the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp where one million Jews were tortured, starved and murdered.. Sixty years later, in November 2005 the United Nations General Assembly...
Simchat Torah

Simchat Torah

by | Oct 24, 2016 | Simchat Torah

Simchat Torah – Facts About the Scroll Simchat Torah is the festival that celebrates, our two-spindled scroll that offers the world a plan for living an ethical life. In fact that’s why we have two spindles to secure the Torah. The spindles remind us that there are...
Kol Nidre

Kol Nidre

by | Oct 6, 2016 | Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur Begins with Kol Nidre (in English and Italian) “Kol Nidre,” These are  Aramaic words that begin a Jewish ritual that we Jews have done for 1,000 (one thousand) years.   Kol Nidre sono  le parole aramaiche con le quali comincia un ritulale ebraico che noi...
Sukkot

Sukkot

by | Oct 6, 2016 | Sukkot - Feast of the Tabernacles

Symbols of Sukkot The October Holiday That Binds Jews Together My daughter, Rosie called Purim, “Jewish Halloween,” and she called Sukkot, “Jewish camping.”  And building the sukkah, eating in it and sometimes even sleeping in it is really like...