Aish Offering High Holiday Pop-Up Shuls
To create your own Pop Up Shul, log onto the site and choose from four styles of services with a downloadable machzor for each one.
To create your own Pop Up Shul, log onto the site and choose from four styles of services with a downloadable machzor for each one.
Robots can hold a conversation, but should they count in a minyan?
Once, on a mission to Israel, we needed a minyan for a prayer service during the airplane flight. We were a total of six men in our group, so we began to scan the plane for the remaining four for the requisite 10 men.
There was a crack and a gasp and then a murmur that traveled in a wave back through the rows of seats at Temple Beth Am’s Library Minyan on the first day of Rosh Hashanah.
Located in the northern part of Santa Barbara County, but as distant from chic Santa Barbara as one can imagine, Santa Maria is a blue-collar town dotted with fast-food and barbecue joints. In recent years, its population, at least half of which is Latino, has mushroomed to 100,000, fueled by agribusiness — including vineyards and wineries — and the city’s other growing industries.
There are good things we can only achieve together — if we can first come together. It\’s not clear how we do this when 10 friends, some cash and a Web site are enough to create a Jewish world unto themselves.
Dining, shopping, living, praying — VideoJew Jay Firestone shows you how it\’s done Los Angeles-style.
Talmud teaches that a righteous act is its own reward. But if that\’s not inducement enough, a rabbi in Woodland Hills is offering $10 cash plus a Krispy Kreme doughnut to teens who attend his 7 a.m. minyan.