High HOLIDAY reflections Lisa and David Leon
Taking advantage of mild weather 8903 Three Chopt Road, Richmond, VA 23229 • 804-285-0962 Mon – Fri 7am – 10pm • Sat 7am – 7pm • Sun 7am – 5pm
We have been putting up a sukkah since our girls have been going to Strelitz Early
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Childhood Center and now the Hebrew
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Academy of Tidewater.
Kosher Cut up Chickens................................................................$2.88/lb
The whole family enjoys decorating
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it. And with other sukkahs in our bud-
Benzi Gefilte Fish ..........................................................................$6.99/rol
ding shtetl of Middle Plantation, we try
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to have friends over for dinner and visit
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our friends’. Luckily, the weather here is usually mild which makes for enjoyable
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Emily, Isabella and Daphne in their sukkah.
and winds last year made for a shortened, but memorable season as we needed to
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dismantle our sukkah for safety reasons. But it certainly was a lesson in the challenges
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dinners. Unfortunately, the heavy rains
of living in temporary structures.
Growth rate steady as Israel’s population reaches 8.58 million Israel will have a population of 8.585 million citizens this Rosh Hashanah. The growth rate, 2 percent, was similar to previous years, according to an annual report released Tuesday, September 27 by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics. The country’s Jewish population, which makes up nearly three quarters of the country at 6.419 million, grew at a rate of 1.9 percent, while the Arab population, which makes up just over a fifth of the country at 1.786 million, grew at a rate of 2.2 percent. Other groups, including non-Arab Christians and those identifying with other religions, which make up 4.4 percent of the population at 380,000, grew at a rate of 3.8 percent. The birth rate surpassed the death rate, with 189,000 births and 46,000 deaths. In the past Jewish year, 30,000 people moved to Israel, including 25,000 new immigrants. (JTA)
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May the New Year bring you and your family good health and happiness.
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