Fwd: Navigating Widowhood; Using Timers on Shabbat; Fall Prevention

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Date: Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 5:46 PM
Subject: Navigating Widowhood; Using Timers on Shabbat; Fall Prevention
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Parshat Shelach   |   candle lighting times   |   donate Navigating Widowhood in the Frum Community Merri Ukraincik There is no universal experience of widowhood. Both in the immediacy of death and as the surviving spouse moves forward through his or her grief, mourning is too deeply personal, and painful, for it to be generic. Read More in Jewish Action PARSHAT SHELACH June 16-17, 2023 / 28 Sivan 5783   HAFTARAH Joshua 2:1-24   THIS SHABBAT Mevarchim Hachodesh for the month of Tammuz   SPECIAL DAYS Rosh Chodesh Tammuz is celebrated on Monday, June 19, through Tuesday, June 20. Around the OU First OU Advocacy Rabbinic Mission to DC OU Advocacy Rabbis leading a dozen major Orthodox Jewish congregations traveled to the nation's capital to advocate on behalf of their communities and their priorities. 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