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Saratoga Chabad's annual
SHALOM FESTIVAL 2010
in Saratoga Springs' historic and beautiful Congress Park
Sunday, August 15th, 2010, 11am-4pm |
featured:
 | Mentalist and Hypnotist Ronnie Baras |
| Temple Israel's "Shayna Meydel and the Shmendriks" Klezmer Band |
| Rafael Chaiken's Keyboard Music |
| Cellist Will Hayes Celestial Strings |
| Pai's Tai Kwan Do Peformance and Demonstration |
| Clown - Face-Painting and Balloon-Art |
| Shofar Factory Demo and Craft |
| Arts and Crafts Booth for Kids |
| Saratoga Apple Fresh Fruit Stand |
| Olson Photography and Art |
| Lily Whitepad's Fabulous (recycled) Craft Emporium |
| Kosher Hotdogs and Felafel Booth |
| Frenchy Loeb's Design Jewelry |
| and much more... |
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| Mentalist and hypnotist Ronnie
Baras of Maryland (with an Albany connection) tries to hypnotize the group
of people sitting on the left, during his second show at the Shalom
Festival. |
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| Ronnie Baras presented an old hypnotic trick
using the spinning black and white wheel. |
Ronnie presents a book to a participant, and he
accurately guessed the word she chose! |
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| Temple Israel's "Shayna Maydel and
The Shmendriks" led by Cantor Rogerio Marx, with guest volionist Yisrael
Sussman on right. |
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| The wind instruments of Temple
Israel's "Shayna Maydel and The Shmendriks." |
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| Rafael Chaiken played the opening music for the
first hour of the Shalom Festival. |
Will Hayes "Celestial Strings" played a variety
of Chassidic soulful melodies. |
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| Rabbi Shmuly at the Shofar Factory
explains the process to guests. |
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| The Shofar Factory Assistant. |
A Super Shofar Blower. |
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| A very happy orange-squeezer. |
Browsing "The Jewish Book Maven" selections. |
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| Two views of the Arts and Crafts
tent where several crafting options were available. |
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| The popular face-painting and balloon art tent. |
A pirate and butterfly. |
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| Efraim and Glens Fall friends. |
This giant Connect-Four game pits Dreidels
against Menorahs. |
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| Tefillin Mitzvah in Congress Park. One of the
famous springs is visible in the background. |
Rabbis Abba and Efraim a giant Besamim Spice Box
used for Saratoga Chabad's Broadway Havdalah Services. |
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| A spontaneous Mincha prayer service
in the park. |
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| Pai's Tai Kwan Do teams perform in
the park to the fascinated onlookers. On right some of the Shalom
Festival vendor tents are visible. |
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For more information contact Rabbi Abba at Saratoga Chabad:
saratora@aol.com / 518-526-0773 |
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Click below for Shalom Festivals by year:
2004,
2005,
2006,
2007, 2008,
2009 and the
Shalom Festival Index Page |
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