First Bar Mitzvah Club Outing....BOWLING!!!

Rabbi Abergel Meets With Tour Guides

On Thursday Rabbi Abergel and the the JBC hosted an afternoon in order to promote interest in the Singaporean Jewish Community. Attending were about fifteen tour guides that gained valuable information about all our activities so they would be able to give proper info when giving tours. They were shown around the campus and had lunch with the Rabbi.

In case you were wondering, YES, we learn, too...

Monday Night's Gesher Event

At Monday Night's Gesher event Rabbi Menachem Leibtag of Yeshivat Har Eztion in Israel gave a presentation entitled "How we read the Bible; Why it divides us, and how it can unite us"

Farewell/Welcome Dinner at the Benjamins

On Thursday night a farewell dinner was hosted by Frank and Mavis Benjamin to say goodbye to Dr. Tony Rebuck and his wife Bernice, who have been an integral part of the Singapore jewish community for the last ten years, and to welcome the new batch of Chabad Boyz who will be spending the year in Singapore.

Sukkot in Singapore....

The Sukkah at the Magain Aboth Synagogue. Completely hand woven palm branch walls and arches...Tres cool!!
The Boyz.....
Albert shakes the Lulav and Etrog
Special synagogue setup for Sukkot... all the Parochet are hung...also tres cool....

Sukkot Community Party Pics!!!

Due to the rain, the Grand Community Sukkot B-B-Q was held on the 5th floor of the JBC. The children had loads of fun with Sukkot arts and crafts, the Dynamite Builders activity, and a magic show. The older children were busy with an ingenious treasure hunt (:-) The afternoon ended with announcing the winners of the model sukkah contest.....Congratulations to Yagel Arieli, Rena Abergel, and Esther Robbins!!!

Spreading the Sukkot Spirit

On Friday Eliyahu and Leibel took some time off from their busy schedule to visit some fellow Jews in the nearby malls and give them the opportunity to fulfill the Mitzvah of shaking the Lulav and Etrog....

Sukkot Gesher Event

On Wednesday night, following a sumptuous feast in the Grand JBC Sukkah, Professor Ehud Razin of Jerusalem gave a presentation showing many medical advances developed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Razin is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Hebrew University. Just in case you're wondering, Gesher is a social program designed to bridge (hence it's name) the diverse groups of Jews that live and work in Singapore.

TTC tours MAS....

On Sunday students from the Trinity Theological College were given a tour of Magain Aboth Synagogue by Yossi and Leibel.......

Yom Kippur....Easy Fast Everyone.....

Time is Relative By Simcha Levenberg

The human perspective of time is straightforward and linear. What happened in the past is behind us in the rearview mirror. The future looms ahead, just beyond the horizon. The now is upon us - right now. After this moment, time and life will march forward. If that was a good moment, it will be stored in the annals of the brain for future reference. If it was a tough time, it may be difficult to purge it from the archives of the mind. This is our memory. Some cherish their memories: a virtual scrapbook available for perusal at random intervals throughout the day. Fuzzy cats, rainbows, childhood friends, and homeruns during kickball games uplift them when the future looks grim. Others are haunted by the past. Shaken with the knowledge of their personal history and plagued by painful recollections of life's tribulations; they feel weighed down. Mourning the past, fearful about the future, unsure of their next step, for some memory can be a chronic illness.                  Granted, from the human perspective it's all history. Memory is just the highway mile marker of life's progression. At times, some memory maintenance may be in order. One might resign oneself to dedicated sessions with their psychologist to address particular failures and shortcomings. Alternatively, one could find solace in a few more milligrams of Zoloft to ease the stress and smooth the rough edges of the psyche. Let's thank G‑d, because He at least has a refreshing and positive spin on history and memory. G‑d's vantage is a 180-degree turn from the straight and narrow human perspective. He functions in the infinite pocket of the now, that includes both the past and future. A sandwich of time where all events have occurred, are occurring, and will occur-simultaneously. That sounds lovely for Him, but should we care? For it is here and now that we travel, stuck within the boundaries of time, plodding forward with fuzzy kittens or tragic thoughts following close behind. Can G‑d's transcendent mastery of time help us? Yes it can. Our missteps have not only been recorded on G‑d's funniest home videos but are actually taking place right now. Don't be crestfallen; He won't make fun of you for vomiting at the Junior Prom. Rise high, for the way of the Jewish spiritual warrior is transcendent. We have the latent power within us to go beyond the confines of the time space continuum and mend our wrongdoings. Teshuvah, repentance, is the ability to travel back to that moment and fix the issue. Since, from G‑d's vantage point – it's all going down right now, it is never too late.

Kapparot!!

Svia doesn't seem to be enjoying herself......
We love Albert!!!!
Poor guy had to do it for his entire family.....
Ewwwww.....It's a good thing the camera didn't capture what was on the floor.....

Shooker Home gets a Visit!!!

Last Friday the folks at the Shooker Home were visited by the Yeshiva Boyz. The boys sang songs and danced with them, and they all had a wonderful time together.....

SAVE THE DATE!!!!