Atheism as my path to High Holy Days enlightenment
Jewish Journal
September 9, 2015
Not long ago, I was having lunch with a colleague and we got around to the almost-always-perilous subject of religion.
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Holidays
Animal commissioners express support for humane treatment of chickens used for kapparot
Jewish Journal
September 9, 2015
The city of Los Angeles Animal Services department “will be ready and available” to respond to animal cruelty calls about kapparot, Mark Salazar, director of field operations at L.A. Animal Services said on the evening of Sept. 8 at a Los Angeles Board of Animal Services Commissioners meeting.
Rabbis’ High Holy Days sermons to emphasize spirituality, not politics
Ryan Torok
September 9, 2015
Over the last several weeks, Rabbi Yonah Bookstein of Pico Shul and Rabbi Kalman Topp of Beth Jacob Congregation have been gathering signatures from rabbis across the country opposed to the Iran nuclear agreement.
At Rosh Hashanah and Hajj, bridging two cultures through common roots
Jewish Journal
September 9, 2015
“Use words. Help me understand.”
Paying to pray? Not quite
Jewish Journal
September 9, 2015
We’ve all heard this story, and some of us have lived it: A Jewish individual or couple, new in town or newly seeking to reconnect with the Jewish community, walks into a worship space just before the start time of a High Holy Days service and starts to enter the sanctuary, only to be stopped by an usher, who asks, “Do you have a ticket?”
How do ‘twice-a-year Jews’ feel about that loaded label?
Jared Sichel
September 9, 2015
For most of his life, Matthew Michel has walked through the doors of a synagogue on only two occasions every year — the two weightiest holidays in the Jewish calendar and the two that involve the most self-reflection and introspection: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Shofar makers busily crafting a blast from the past
Jewish Journal
September 8, 2015
If there’s a business that’s seasonal, it’s that of selling shofars.
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