Dear friends, I'm helping put together a shabbaton next week in Monsey with Zichron Shlomo and Isralight, featuring great speakers, a Shabbos filled with song,...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Mar 14, 2003 4:59 am
Dear friends, There is so much Jewish music happening in New York next week for Purim, there's something for everybody. Music is a great way to tap into the...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Mar 24, 2003 9:57 pm
Dear friends, I'm on the plane on the way back from Pittsburgh, where I spent the weekend at the UJC Eastern Regional Conference, with 700 Jewish leaders from...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Mar 28, 2003 8:38 pm
Dear friends, Today marks the yahrtzeit (anniversary of death) of my mother, Barbara (Blima Feiga bas Avraham) of blessed memory, who left this world 17 years...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Apr 4, 2003 12:09 am
Dear friends, Today is the first day the month of Nissan, the beginning of Springtime, and according to our tradition just as it was the month in which the...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Apr 11, 2003 10:48 pm
Dear friends, I won't be able to send an email next week since I'll be going to Minsk (in the former Soviet Union) to run the seders there, so I'm including...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Apr 29, 2003 9:41 pm
Dear friends, I'm back in the US after an incredible trip in the former USSR. My wife and I spent Pesach in Minsk: leading the seders and bringing some ruach...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
May 5, 2003 5:31 pm
Dear friends, Tomorrow night, Tuesday May 6 is Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, as we mark 55 years of the new state of Israel. There are different...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
May 16, 2003 11:22 pm
Dear friends, Today, Friday May 16, is the 14th day of the month of Iyar, one of the least known Biblical holidays: Pesach Sheni, the second Passover. See...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
May 23, 2003 9:42 pm
Dear friends, There is a beautiful tradition of bringing in the Shabbos with much singing and dancing. This custom was revived by the Chassidic movement two...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
May 30, 2003 10:12 pm
Dear friends, Today is Yom Yerushalayim, commemorating the liberation of Jerusalem in 1967. It marked the first time in two millennia that the holiest places...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Jun 4, 2003 10:39 pm
Dear friends, Tomorrow night, Thursday June 5, is the first night of Shavuos, commemorating the receiving of the Torah 3315 years ago at Mount Sinai. There is...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Jun 13, 2003 8:42 pm
Dear friends, This summer's kumsitz series was inaugurated last Sunday on a special kumsitz hike with the Jewish Outdoors Club. Thanks to the sixty hikers who...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Jun 20, 2003 10:26 pm
Dear friends, I regret to announce that in a couple of months I'm going to have to stop sending out these weekly Jewish music emails. I started a few years...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Jun 27, 2003 5:37 pm
Dear friends, This weekend there's a lot of great Jewish music going on. I guess it's the last chance before the summer really hits. I'll be performing to...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Jul 7, 2003 6:03 am
Dear friends, I'm writing this on a train heading back from a weekend in the beautiful town of Sharon, a tree-filled suburb of Boston. This is a wonderful...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Aug 6, 2003 11:52 pm
Dear friends, Here's this week's Jewish music update, after a month-long hiatus due to the music restrictions of the Three Weeks (and the crash of my laptop --...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Aug 22, 2003 9:43 am
Dear friends, In a few days I'm off to Israel for a year of learning, so this will be my final weekend in NYC: I'll be leading the davening with lots of...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Sep 12, 2003 2:11 pm
Dear friends, I'm in Israel now for a year of learning, so I'm not able to continue the NY musiclist from here. Instead I'm starting up again the Israel music...
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rebseth
Sep 18, 2003 7:17 pm
B"H Shalom Friends! Jewish Music Continues! My friend and teacher Reb Gili Houpt has entrusted me with the important duty of letting you all know about the...
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rebseth
Oct 9, 2003 4:27 pm
B"H Shalom Friends, I hope everyone is having a beautiful start to a year, please G-d, filled with blessings. Friday at sundown begins the holiday of ...
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rebseth
Oct 23, 2003 5:40 am
B"H Shalom Friends, This Sat. night begins the Jewish month of Cheshvan. It is often called "Mar" Cheshvan, meaning bitter, since the month lacks Jewish ...
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rebseth
Nov 5, 2003 8:33 pm
B"H Shalom Friends, This Monday evening, the 16th of Mar Cheshvan, commemorates the 9th yahrtzeit of Reb Shlomo Carlebach. Reb Shlomo's music and message ...
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rebseth
Nov 21, 2003 5:19 am
B"H Shalom Friends, This week Reva L' Sheva is in from Eretz Yisrael, on tour and supporting their latest release, a live double album entitled "Ten," marking...
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rebseth
Dec 5, 2003 5:52 pm
B"H Shalom Friends, As the snow storm approaches, I'm heading up to Monsey for a special Carlebach shabbos at the Community Synagogue of Monsey, home of my ...
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rebseth
Dec 19, 2003 2:28 am
B'H Shalom Friends, The joyous holiday of Chanukah begins this Friday evening. While we celebrate with the mitzvah of lighting candles, eating special foods,...
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rebseth
Jan 28, 2004 10:53 pm
B'H Shalom friends, Next Shabbos is the holiday of Tu B'Shvat- the 15th of the Jewish month of Shevat. The Talmud(Rosh Hashanah) tells us that the 15th of ...
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rebseth
Feb 13, 2004 2:53 am
B'H Dear Friends, Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! It's a boy! With much gratitude to the Almighty, my wife Na'ama and I announce the birth of our son! He was born this...
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rebseth
Mar 4, 2004 4:42 pm
B'H Shalom Friends, In celebration of Purim, enjoy these great music events! Tonight, Thursday, March 4th, @ 8pm Neshama Carlebach and her band get crazy in...
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rebseth
Apr 2, 2004 9:24 pm
B'H Shalom Friends, This Monday evening begins the holiday of Pesach where we remember the back-breaking labor our anscestors were forced to do while enslaved...
