Ahead of the High Holy Days, the Journal reached out to local area rabbis to ask them what themes they would be embracing in their Rosh Hashanah sermons for 5779 and what they’d like their communities to focus on in the coming year.
Click on the names to read their excerpts.
Rabbi Stan Levy and Rabbi Laura Owens
B’nai Horin
Rabbi Denise Eger
Congregation Kol Ami
Rabbi Mordecai Finley
Ohr HaTorah
Rabbi Moshe D. Bryski
Chabad of the Conejo
Rabbi Lori Shapiro
The Open Temple
Rabbi Adam Kligfeld
Temple Beth Am
Rabbi Gabriel Botnick
Mishkon Tephilo
Rabbi Jason Weiner
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Rabbi Stewart L. Vogel
Temple Aliyah, Woodland Hills
Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Sinai Temple
Rabbi Mark Borovitz
Beit T’Shuvah
Rabbi Richard Camras
Shomrei Torah, West Hills
Rabbi David Woznica
Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin Rabbinic Chair
Stephen Wise Temple
Rabbi Dennis Linson
Temple Judea of Laguna Hills
Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh
Temple Israel of Hollywood
Rabbi Zach Shapiro
Temple Akiba of Culver City
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