IYYAR, 5777 – SIVAN 5777 MAY 2017 SHANA TOVA – WISHING YOU A SWEET 5779! The Jewish Journalof san antonio ELUL 5778 – TISHREI 5779 Published by The Jewish Federation of San Antonio SEPTEMBER 2018 The Jewish Journal is going digital starting next month This will be the last printed issue which produces and distributes the Jewish Journal PLEASE NOTE: at no cost to the community. of The Jewish Journal of San Antonio We will need your email addresses by September 15 if you don’t want What do you need to do now to ensure for most of our readers. to miss out on the October issue. you don’t miss an issue? Beginning next month, The Jewish Journal is For Digital Issue Readers: going digital, and will be emailed 11 times a year in a growing number of readers who prefer getting To start receiving the new digital version of The an easy to read and navigate flipbook format. their news online. 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We all ish leaders in the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania on “For everything there is a season, must grow and hopefully evolve into Aug. 26, 2018. and a time to every purpose under better versions of ourselves as we do. Netanyahu meets leaders of heaven (3:1).” We will read the book So too at the Jewish Federation – of Ecclesiastes during the holiday of change is always happening. The “big Lithuanian Jewish community Sukkot, invoking the freshness of a change” we are planning for presently at Choral Synagogue new year following Rosh Hashanah is that of The Jewish Journal. The and Yom Kippur. Jewish Federation of San Antonio (JTA) — Israeli Prime Jewish people. We are in the season of change and is very proud to be able to produce WHAT’S HAPPENING Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his new beginnings. For some of us, like a Jewish community newspaper See what your Netanyahu told leaders wife, Sara, on August me, it is bittersweet. 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