Tag Archives: minyan

Finding A Shul In The San Fernando Valley

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Luke Ford

Sara* emails: Mr. Ford, Since your website is so comprehensive and otherwise helpful in navigating Jewish LA, I thought I would take a chance and ask you if you know of anything interesting going on at any shul in the … Continue reading →

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The Minyan Offers Human Solidarity

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Elazar Muskin writes: Author Hillel Halkin, reviewing the Koren Sacks Siddur in the spring 2010 Jewish Review of Books, recounts a charming story that he heard from his father: “My father, who prayed with great kavanah [concentration] yet was … Continue reading →

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Florida family has 45 guests at Thanksgiving dinner

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Luke Ford

I’m reading this story from the Drudge Report and thinking about the Happy Minyan. Its stalwarts Stuart and Enny Wax regularly had Shabbat dinner for a hundred people for about two years until they had kids. The kind of hospitality … Continue reading →

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The Moshav Band Plays The Happy Minyan Saturday Night

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Luke Ford

I heard the crowd got so excited that they started throwing their sheitels on stage. A friend says: “A group of women started dancing together and the men rushed out with a makeshift mechitza to put around them. I was … Continue reading →

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Thank G-d For The PDA

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Luke Ford

Thanks to PDAs like the iPhone and the Blackberry, the pious Jew can now call up his required prayers any time he needs them. He can hold up his PDA and sway back and forth talking to HaShem from the … Continue reading →

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