Every Shabbat day 50-70 guests come together at the home of Louis Kemp in David’s Village, right next to Mamilla in Jerusalem. Every age, color, nationality and religious level, and some married couples, however, Louis specializes in singles coming together. Before he made aliyah a couple of years ago, at his home in Pacific Palisades he would host 500 person singles events. Since I have been the hostess with the mostess at our Shabbat Lunch extraordinaire, I have personally seen numerous couples meet and start dating, and just recently three engagements!

There is a group of volunteers that gather every Wednesday to cook fresh and delicious food, curated by Daryl Temkin. He is the heart of the operation and creates the menus, buys the fresh ingredients, and guides all of us to make plenty and tasty treats every week for the ultimate Shabbat experience. Daryl leads us with beautiful words from the Torah portion of the week and sings the Kiddush blessing on the wine, and Louis makes the blessings on washing our hands and Hamotzie Lechem Min Haaretz, as the room quietly waits to say Amen and take their first bite of Challah bread.

Rabbi Mordechai Ben Avraham,........

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