Chabad House at SU Grad Students & YJP

Although there is a pause of in-person activities for all SU students, Chbaad invites all NON-SU students to take part in Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah celebrations. All social distance protocols are adhered to. Please PM Us if you plan on attending. Chag Sameach!

Sukkot is right around the corner! RSVP: https://docs.google.com//1g6ndZkyl2PKZdWSkqM0IqjEN/prefill

looking forward to greeting you in the largest Sukkah in CNY

RBG DOES YOM KIPPUR - YOU CAN TOO ! A federal law instituted in 1916 requires the American Supreme Court to open the new sessionafter the long summer breakon ...the first Monday in October. But in the year 2016, Monday, October 3rd, was Rosh Hashanah. Three of the Jewish judges sitting on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, were not present on the opening day. What caused this unprecedented change in protocol? The opening session lasted only about five minutes and consisted largely of admitting new attorneys to the Supreme Court bar, but because it was Rosh Hashanah, they would not hear any arguments in cases until Tuesday. But how did it happen that the U.S. Supreme Court, the mainstay of traditional law, yielded in this matter? So let me tell you the remarkable story, shared by Ruth Ginsburg herself at a dinner in the year 2003. That year, Yom Kippur fell out on the first Monday of October. So the two Jewish judges, Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Rehnquist, and requested a delay in the opening in deference to Yom Kippur, but he was not persuaded. He said, 'Why should we delay? We always hold our Friday conferences on Friday, even if it is Good Friday!' Why should Yom Kippur be given more prominence than Good Friday? So, Ruth Ginsburg replied, 'So move that conference to Thursday; that would be fine for us.' The Chief was still not persuaded. So Ruth Ginsburg said, Lawyers wait their entire career to appear before the Supreme Court. For many of them, it is a once in a lifetime chance to argue in the Supreme Court. What if a Jewish lawyer wanted to appear in court on this Yom Kippur? We should not make that lawyer choose between observing his or her faith and appearing before the Court! That argument persuaded the Chief Justice. From that day onward, if RH or YK fall on the first Monday of October, the court will open up for five minutes, but no arguments will be heard so that no lawyer should have to choose between Judaism and a career!

Like it or not the the Jewish year of 5780 is coming to a close and 5781 is LITERALLY right around the corner!! Join us this Rosh Hashanah as we usher in the new year. It’s been a tough one, and we want the new one to be the best yet! Meaninful services each followed by a delicious home-cooked-three-course meal. RSVPs are a must! https://forms.gle/e4idriCCFLzknupV9

Today in Jewish History: On Sept 1st, 1939, corresponding with Today's Herew date of the 17th of Elul, One of the most tragic events of Jewish History began: The outbreak of WWII. With the death of over 6 million Jews, the Holocaust tested and tried the human faith and belief in G-d. Nearly 10 years after this destruction of the Jewish people, 2 young survivors- Mr Abraham Rappaport and Mrs Rose (Rubin), parents to our very own Rebbetzin Chanie Rapoport met at a singles weekend in the catskills in the summer of 1954. Together they raised a family which has multiplied many times over. And that is their answer to hitler-may his name be erased. We are not just existing-we are thriving!

With My Whole Broken Heart is an emotionally-gripping 45-minute documentary featuring the heart-wrenching stories of Ruth and Judea Pearl and Sheri Mandell, whose children's lives were claimed by terror and their inspiring responses to their horrific experiences. The documentary also follows the lives of two of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald who emerged from the darkness and transformed the Jewish landscape. Join Rabbi Rapooort for a deeper discussi...on and video presentation " With all my Broken Heart" Thursday, July 30th at 2:00 PM & again at 6:00 PM. Zoom Meeting ID: 880 4476 3527 Passcode: 442986 See more

Legendary Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, recently spoke out loudly and forcefully, against the pervasive anti-Semitism in Hollywood and professional sports. His co...ndemnation though refreshing is not surprising. You might say it runs in the family. On April 11, 1945, the American third army smashed through the gates of the infamous concentration camp known as Buchenwald. The horrors of what they found there shocked soldier and general alike. Gen. Eisenhower, knowing that one day there would be those who would attempt to deny those horrors ever took place, made the local German population participate in the burial of the thousands of murdered men, women, and children, whose bodies lay exposed throughout the camp. One of those American liberators was Ferdinand L. Alcindor. As a black man who knew personally the experience of discrimination and hate, he was profoundly moved. Seeing a little Jewish boy standing between the survivors, he hoisted him up, and held him high above the heads of the Germans standing there. "Look at this sweet kid" he hollered, "he isn't even eight yet. This was your enemy, he threatened the Third Reich. He is the one against whom you waged war, and murdered millions like him." Ferdinand never forgot what he witnessed. On his deathbed he asked his son to travel to Israel and track down that little boy he had hoisted above his strong shoulders all those years ago. A promise his son would keep in 2011. Ferdinand's son was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., though you know him as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, that little Jewish boy who survived Buchenwald, would grow up to become the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau.

What Goes Around: Perspectives on Pandemics in Jewish History Part 2 Thursday, July 16th @ 8 pm. Join Rabbi Rapoport & find out what the Wisdom of over 3000 years has to say on these matters. ... Zoom Meeting ID: 834 0965 7030

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Thursday, Tammuz 17, 5780 July 9, 2020 Fast of Tammuz 17 Today's Laws & Customs Fast Day Tammuz 17 is a fast day, devoted to mourning the breaching of Jerus...alem's walls and the other tragic events that occurred on this day (see "Today in Jewish History") and repenting and rectifying their causes. We refrain from all food and drink from "daybreak" (about an hour before sunrise, depending on location) until nightfall. Special prayers and Torah readings are added to the day's services. Link: Halachic times for Tammuz 17 "The Three Weeks" Begin The 17th of Tammuz also marks the beginning of The Three Weeks period of mourning which culminates on the 9th of Av, commemorating the conquest of Jerusalem, the destruction of the Holy Temple and the dispersion of the Jewish people. Weddings and other joyful events are not held during this period; like mourners, we do not cut our hair, and various pleasurable activities are limited or proscribed. (Consult the Code of Jewish Law (Shulchan Aruch) or a qualified rabbi regarding specific proscriptions). The Lubavitcher Rebbe urged that the Three Weeks should be a time of increased giving of charity and Torah study (in keeping with the verse (Isaiah 1:27), "Zion shall be redeemed by law, and her returnees by charity"), particularly the study of those portions of Torah that deal with the laws and the deeper significance of the Holy Temple. Links: TheThreeWeeks.com Some Laws and Customs of the Three Weeks About Holy Temple Today in Jewish History Moses Breaks Tablets (1313 BCE) The Talmud (Taanit 28b) lists five tragic events in Jewish history that occurred on Tammuz 17, on account of which a fast was instituted on this day (see Laws & Customs"). The first of these occurred in 1313 BCE, forty days after the Giving of the Torah on Sivan 6. Upon descending Mount Sinai and witnessing Israel's worship of the Golden Calf (see "Today in Jewish History" for yesterday, Tammuz 16), Moses smashed the Tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments which he was carrying down from the mountain. (for the other four tragedies of Tammuz 17, see below) Links: Broken & Whole The 120-Day Version of the Human Story Moses Breaks the Tablets Temple Service Disrupted (423 BCE) The daily sacrificial offerings (Korban Tamid) in the Holy Temple were discontinued, three weeks before the Babylonians' destruction of the First Temple in 423 BCE. Jerusalem Walls Breached (69 CE) The other three national tragedies mourned on Tammuz 17 are connected with the Roman conquest of Jerusalem and their destruction of the Second Temple in the year 69 CE: --The walls of the besieged city of Jerusalem were breached. --The Roman general Apostomus burned the Torah and, --placed an idol in the Holy Temple. The fighting in Jerusalem continued for three weeks until the 9th of Av, when the Holy Temple was set aflame. Links: The Destruction of the Holy Temple The Three Weeks

Monday, Tammuz 14, 5780 July 6, 2020 Today in Jewish History Jews of Schaffhausen (Switzerland) Burned at the Stake (1401)... After the postilion (coach driver) of the governor killed the four-year-old son of a councilor, charges were lodged against a Jew named Michael Vinelmann, a former resident of Basel, alleging that he had promised the murderer three gulden for the blood of the child. The murderer was broken on the wheel, and the Jew burned alive without trial. Shortly before, a similar accusation had been brought against the Jews of Schaffhausen and been successfully refuted. When news of Michael Vinelmann's fate was brought to Schaffhausen, several of the Jews of the city fled and were soon captured. They were taken back to Schaffhausen, where they were thrown into a dungeon and terribly tortured. Unable to endure the pain, they "confessed" to the crime of which they had been accused, whereupon all the Jews living in Schaffhausen were condemned to death. Thirty Jews were burned alive. Four weeks later, eighteen men and women died at the stake in Winterthur in a similar context.