Candlelighting: Readings: Shabbat candles: 4:11 p.m. Torah: Gen. 47:28-50:26 Haftarah: I Kings 2:1-12 Havdalah: 5:14 p.m. The results of the recent survey of the Jewish community, conducted by the Pew Research Center, are disheartening. Assimilation is rapidly on the rise; a dark sense of extinction looms. One in five Jews, 22 percent, describe themselves as […]
