Tuesday, December 29, 2020

FW: Is it ok to celebrate New Years Day?

Correct link Appreciating the Torah Personalities Who Left Us in 2020 Rabbi Reuven Brand by Dec 27, 2020




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Date: 12/29/20 11:03 AM (GMT-06:00)
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Subject: Is it ok to celebrate New Years Day?

Using the Secular Calendar

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Center for the Jewish Future

December 29-January 4 • Tevet 14-20

This learning on the site this week was sponsored:
•by the Gittleman Family l'ilui nishmas R' Shlomo Shmuel ben R Yitzchok z"l
•by Shulamith and Joel Cohn and Family לזכר נשמת שמחה בן יעקב הכהן
•by Dr. Gabriel Sosne in honor of Aliza on their 31st wedding anniversary
•by Debbie Nossbaum in loving memory of her father, Nathan Werdiger, נתן בן שלמה אלימלך
•in memory of Zeidy Benci
•for a refuah shleimah for Yehoshua Melekh ben Sarah Shendel
•by Alan and Fran Broder to commemorate the yahrzeit of their beloved uncle, Julius Creeger, Yehuda Leib ben Shmuel Moshe, A'H
•by the Gittleman Family for a refuah shleimah for Aryeh Leib Ben Faiga

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