Dear friends, I'm involved with this great organization called Isralight, which brings spirituality to Jews of all religious backgrounds, and in addition to...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Nov 19, 2002 11:49 pm
Dear friends, Chaim David Saracik is in the middle of another concert tour from the Holy Land. An internationally renowned musician, he plays music that is...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Nov 28, 2002 12:10 am
Dear friends, There are so many Jewish music events going on around the city for Chanukah. I just wanted to take this opportunity to express hakaras hatov...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Dec 6, 2002 1:54 am
Dear friends, Even though Chanukah is drawing to an end, we still continue to celebrate, and even on a higher level than before. See the bottom for some words...
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Gili Houpt <houpt@...
gilhoupt
Dec 13, 2002 9:17 pm
Dear friends, Now that Chanukah is over, there's a bit of a lull in the Jewish music scene around New York. But there's still some great stuff going on, so...
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Gili Houpt <houpt@...
gilhoupt
Dec 20, 2002 9:58 am
Dear friends, Today, Friday Dec 20 - Sunday Dec 22, Dec. 20-22 Shabbaton weekend in Crown Heights featuring Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson, speaking on "Pleased to...
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Gili Houpt <houpt@...
gilhoupt
Jan 3, 2003 9:24 pm
Dear friends, I just got back from the Isralight Retreat near Orlando, an incredible week of experiencing the spirituality of Judaism in a beautiful natural...
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Gili Houpt <houpt@...
gilhoupt
Jan 10, 2003 11:25 am
Dear friends, I've got a musically busy weekend coming up: from being the chazan in shul, to leading a shalesheudos program, from an appearance with my band...
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Gili Houpt <houpt@...
gilhoupt
Jan 17, 2003 7:29 pm
Dear friends, Tonight, Friday, Jan 17, is Tu B'Shvat, Jewish New Year for the trees. The weekend is also known as Shabbat Shira, (Sabbath of Song) since the...
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Gili Houpt <houpt@...
gilhoupt
Jan 24, 2003 2:17 am
Dear friends, In this week's Torah portion we read of the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people. While many Jews unfourtunately view this as a burden, it...
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Gili Houpt <houpt@...
gilhoupt
Jan 31, 2003 1:28 am
Dear friends, Tonight, Thursday, Jan 30 at 8pm, Piamenta playing the Sixth Annual Yud Shvat Concert at Yeshiva University, in Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam...
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Gili Houpt <houpt@...
gilhoupt
Feb 7, 2003 9:18 pm
Dear friends, Tonight, Friday, February 7 at 5:10PM if you can brave the snow, come to davening at Congregation Ramath Orah, 550 W110 St. I'll be leading...
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Gili Houpt <houpt@...
gilhoupt
Feb 20, 2003 11:02 am
Dear friends, I just returned from the Isralight Retreat in sunny Florida (sorry I didn't have access to email last week) and I'm back in NY where after three...
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Gili Houpt <houpt@...
gilhoupt
Feb 28, 2003 2:14 am
Dear friends, It is troubling with everything going on Israel that we are so far removed from and feel so powerless to help our Israeli brethren. But the next...
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Gili Houpt
gilhoupt
Mar 7, 2003 10:16 am
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...
