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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 5:05 p.m. Torah: Exodus 18:1-20:23 Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6 (Ashkenaz); 6:1-13 (Sephard) Havdalah: 6:09 p.m.  In this week’s Torah reading, we learn that Yitro, Moshe’s father-in-law, traveled from his home in the Land of Midian into the Sinai Desert, bringing Moshe’s wife, Zipporah, and their two sons to be reunited with […]

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