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Chabad House, Center for Jewish Life (Orthodox) Rabbi Yossi Hecht All services take place at 13030 CR 103 Oxford, Fla. 352-330-4466 www.ourchabad.org Services are free of charge. Please RSVP. Wed. Sept. 20, Erev Rosh Hashanah, 7 p.m., Dinner, 8:15 p.m. (reservation only) Thurs. Sept. 21, Rosh Hashanah, 10 a.m.; Torah reading, 11:45 a.m.; Shofar, 12:30; Tashlich, 4 p.m. at the Pond alongside Walmart on CR 466; Kiddush after services; evening service, 8 p.m. open to all; dinner, 8:45 (RSVP only) Fri. Sept. 22, Rosh Hashanah II service, 10 a.m.;... Full story
October 2016 The new year started off late (according to our Gregorian calendar). Tishrei 1, 5777 was on Oct. 3, 2016. New enterprises began, such as Zayde’s Kosher Catering, an extension of Zayde’s Kosher Kitchen, which was already established in the Rosen Plaza Hotel—the only hotel in town with a kosher kitchen to serve all its hotel guests. Now the kosher service is available for anyone who wants any event catered by a completely kosher service. And what a way to enter the new year! Florida’s 550,000-strong Jewish community braced for the... Full story
NEW YORK (JTA)-Latif Jiji looks over this year's crop at Chateau Latif with an expression of satisfaction. If you've never heard of Chateau Latif, you're not alone. In fact, your favorite sommelier probably hasn't heard of it, either. It's not from the south of France, nor is it from Napa Valley. Rather, it's terroir is the Upper East Side of Manhattan. As far as he knows, Jiji is the only winemaker in Manhattan who grows his own grapes on the island. The "chateau" is the brownstone that Jiji,... Full story
LOS ANGELES (JTA)-For Rosh Hashanah, many of us eat an apple dipped in honey as an auspicious sign for a sweet new year. The symbolism is clear, and the ritual as easy to pull off as squeezing a bear-shaped plastic bottle of honey. But what kind of a year could you expect from eating leeks, spinach and a fish head? A year of being a contestant on "Chopped"? Many Sephardic Jews practice a custom at Rosh Hashanah dinner called "yehi ratzones"-"may it be God's will"-which calls for a kind of... Full story
By Debra Kamin TEL AVIV (JTA)—Rabbi Talia Avnon-Benvinste grew up secular. Her family felt deeply and culturally Jewish, but beyond the regular Israeli rhythms of holidays and shared history, didn’t observe religious customs. But when, in the 1980s, Avnon-Benvinste turned 12, she shocked her family by telling them she wanted a religious ceremony to celebrate her bat mitzvah. Avnon-Benvinste’s family was on a kibbutz in Israel—not in the United States, where Reform Jewish congregations offer religious coming-of-age ceremonies to girls as well as... Full story
