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Baruch atah adonai elohenu melech ha’olam asher kidshanu bemitzvotav vitzivanu lehadlik ner shel (shabbat ve) yom tov. Blessed art thou, O Lord Our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with Thy commandments, and commanded us to kindle these Sabbath and holiday lights. Amen. This is the prayer my mother said every […]
We have learned that a memorial service is being held today for the 25 year old Danbury woman who was killed in a crash by a wrong way driver last Sunday morning. Funeral services for Danielle Dempsey will take place today, beginning at 11am in the United Jewish Center on Deer Hill Avenue in Danbury. Interment will follow in the United Jewish Center Cemetery on Gray’s Bridge Road in Brookfield.
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Cantor Penny Kessler, the senior clergy and spiritual leader at the United Jewish Center in Danbury, has announced her retirement. Kessler has been leading the prayers at UJC for 28 years. It was back in 1978 when Kessler and her husband relocated from her original home in Brooklyn, to Danbury, where her spouse planned to open his dental practice. She worked as a secretary for a while and then in her husband’s dental office. She also raised three children as she planned on becoming a dental hygienist. Then one day she was given the opportunity to fill in for the cantor, and realized she had the knack. She started at UJC in July 1995 and never looked back.