INSIDERS: High Holidays @ Hilton Post Oak

Uptown - See you there!

• Tonight: Continue class on Basic Mitzvot: Its source, application and mystique. 8-9pm
• Shabbos Parshas Devarim / Chazon: Friday, July 20: Services at 7:30 pm (open to everyone - kids, young adults and young at heart!) ; Candle Lighting at 8:04pm
  Please RSVP! Young Adults Shabbaton - A Friday night dinner for young adults (professionals, singles & couples) with good food, company and spirit!  
• Saturday, July 21: Morning Services at 10 am followed by Kiddush Kiddush Sponsored by Albert & Rosita Goan in memory of her son Aryeh ben Avraham Singer, a"h
  Mincha Services & class in Ethics of our Fathers (Chapter 3) at 8:15 pm; Havdala & Shabbat Ends at 9:06 pm
• Friday, July 27, Lunch & Learn at Coane & Associates; 12-1pm The 9th of Av: Destruction & Renewal, the Kabbala of Challenge. RSVP to [email protected]
• Tuesday July 31: Last Mommy & Me – 9:30-11am (Skip July 24 in observance of Tisha B’Av)
  From our inbox: Chanie, Look at the challah we made in Mommy and Me class!  It's gorgeous.  Sophie stood near the oven the whole time it was baking.  We loved the experience. Thank you, Olga and Sophie
• Tuesday, July 31: Uptown Lunch & Learn – 12-1:15 pm (Skip July 24 in observance of Tisha B’Av)
• The past two years at the Houstonian Hotel & Paviolion on Post Oak we had special inclusive environment where everyone feels comfortable and welcome in a beautiful, exquisite setting.
  For this year we have secured the Hilton Post Oak Hotel for services, dinners and break fasts on Rosh Hashana (Sept 12-14) & Yom Kippur (Sept. 21-22). Look out for more online, in your inbox and mailboxes as we roll all the details out! 

In other news….

• July 4, America’s (and my legal) birthday was spent at Funplex with the (then) almost new Aggies. The kids had a grand time! (It was very interesting to hear Matisyahu’s hit “King without a crown” played over the sound system while we encircled the indoor(!) Ferris wheel. The place was in much better condition when I was growing up, but, we had a great time anyway…
• I was very touched and humbled to see so many of you at the farbrengen at my home and even more so at the surprise-show-up for Friday night at Uptown. Thank you for your kind wishes and for the Mitzvos done in my honor.
• The Chabad Lubavitch Center construction is finally taking shape with the structural steel. See www.chabadtexas.org/building for new pics and videos…
• On July 8-9 I attended the Regional Conference of Shluchim with some great Southern hospitality in Atlanta, Georgia at the beautiful Chabad House there nestled in a beautiful wooded (memorial like) neighborhood. The region covers the states of FL, LA, SC, NC, TX, AL, GA and Puerto Rico. Two days of great sessions and camaraderie…. On Sunday night a couple hundred members of the community turned out for a dessert reception.
• After their first Shabbos at Texas A&M with a table full of students on Friday night, Sunday took us and the kids for a personal visit to this newest Chabad outpost. We had a great BBQ and left their house a mess. What a treat! Here is a pic I swiped from their SD Card of Rabbi Yossi and kids Menachem, Lazer & Leible crossing the Texas border on the way down from the east coast. Manya is behind the camera... I guess! Visit their new website at www.jewishaggies.com. If you know of any students at or headed to A&M, give them a holler!
• Tisha B’av is this Monday night and Tuesday (July 23-24). Join us for services at Chabad Lubavitch Center on Fondren Rd. Click here for times. Visit www.chabadtexas.org/holidays/3weeks for guides, calendar, times, insights, multimedia and more. 

See you Shabbos!

Rabbi Chaim & Chanie