Welcome! We hope you had a fantastic summer.

Here at Chabad it's been a busy summer planning a fabulous semester of fun programs, social activities and inspirational classes for you to enjoy. We can't wait to start!

Shabbat Highlights  

For the safety of our community, RSVP is required for all Shabbat meals.  Text Shabbat to 607-797-0015 to RSVP.  Returning students:  answer a few quick questions to re-register!

* Light Shabbat candles in the Chabad social hall
* 6:30pm ~ Spirited Kabbalat Shabbat services
* 7:30pm ~ Delicious, full course, home cooked dinner 
* Dessert buffet 

* 9:30am ~ Shabbat morning services 
* 12:00pm ~ Shabbat lunch
* 1:40pm ~ Mincha services 
* 7:30pm ~ Seudah Shelishit 
* 8:30pm ~ Maariv and Havdallah

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Live downtown? Join Chabad at 60 Henry Street
Kabbalat Shabbat Services at 7:00pm
Dinner at 7:30pm
Text SHABBAT DOWNTOWN to RSVP

Minyan times for the Week of August 24

Sunday: Shacharit at 9:00 AM, Mincha/Maariv at 7:35 PM
Monday: Shacharit at 7:15 AM, Mincha/Maariv at  7:35 PM
Tuesday: Shacharit at 7:30 AM, Mincha/Maariv at  7:30 PM
Wednesday: Shacharit at 7:30 AM, Mincha at 6:15 PM, Maariv at 8:05 PM
Thursday: Shacharit at 7:30 AM, Mincha/Maariv at 7:30 PM
Friday: Shacharit at 7:30 AM

The Sinai Scholars Society offers a fresh and exciting context for Jewish life and learning, with thought-provoking classes, social activities, and national networking opportunities, offered to Jewish  students with limited formal Judaic schooling. Sinai Scholars  invites students to engage in an open community of study and self-discovery. The program includes eight classes, an exciting trip and Shabbaton, and a $450 stipend upon completion.

Classes will meet on Wednesday evenings, 8:00 PM, at Chabad, or Monday evenings, 8:00 PM, at Chabad Downtown.

For more information, visit  www.MySinaiScholars.com. 
 

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Want  to learn more about yourself, your history and heritage?  Take a look at JewishU!

Explore Judaism.
Easily.  Deeply.  Rewardingly.
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Choose from a wide variety of courses that demystify all things Jewish. From history to philosophy and everything in between, there is no better place to continue and enhance your Jewish education.  Whatever your Jewish background or level of Jewish studies, there is a course for you.

JewishU offers:
* Fascinating six-week mini courses
* JewishU credits redeemable for trips, cash, Jewish scholarships, or donations to charity
* A relaxed and welcoming environment

Classes begin Sep. 7.  Sign up now at www.JewishBU.com/JewishU!

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Attention Junior and Senior Women! Two offers just for you!

Are you looking to gain perspective on Jewish marriage and intimacy?

Check out Hilchot Niddah - an in depth exploration of the laws of Mikvah.

The class will be offered on Thursdays ( afternoon or evenings, or both). The  time will be determined by polling participants. If this is your last semester in Bing and you cannot do Thursday afternoon or evening please contact Rivky and she will set up another section.

JewishU credits available for this course.

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Are you interested in exploring the details of two great mitzvot that pertain to married Jewish women? 

Check out Hilchot Kisui Rosh and Pru Urvu (hair covering and being fruitful and multiplying).

The class will be offered on Monday nights at 8:00 PM.

JewishU credits available for this course.

We were created in G‑d’s image. What is His image? It is a vision. A vision that triggered the beginning of time.

From a point before and beyond all things, G‑d looked upon a moment in time to be. He saw there a soul, distant from Him in a turbulent world, yet yearning to return to Him and His oneness. And He saw the pleasure He would have from this reunion.

So He invested His infinite light into that finite image, and became one with that image, and in that image He created each one of us.

That vision that He saw, that was the moment now.