There are many options for davening on Shabbat and this week I went to Shirah Chadasha on Friday evening. The service is semi-egalitarian with a mechitza and following the service we went to dinner at a fellow student’s house that was very close to the synagogue. The service was nice and the dinner was delicious. Renee and Karen who were out hosts had taken advantage of one of the myriad of take-out places set up for Shabbat and purchased many choices for our dinner. This is something that is very different from home. Rather than a ‘traditional’ Friday night chicken dinner, Shabbat meals here seem to be more diverse as there are so many more options for food.
On Shabbat morning, we davened at Yakar. The service was very nice and they offer their d’var torah between Shacharit and Musaf, before the Torah reading. They actually offered two drashot, one in English in one room and in Hebrew in another. The speaker was very interesting and there seemed to be many English speakers there, we ran into some fellow students there as well. Yakar also has a mechitza, it is a front back mechitza rather than one that divides the room in half sideways.
Blog Activity: Learn what a mechitza is and discuss if it matters in what direction the mechitza is located.
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