\”It\’s the harmonies of Ravel and Debussy that attract jazz musicians,\” he said. \”I once showed Dizzy Gillespie Ravel\’s \’Histoires naturelles\’ for voice and piano. He heard one passage and said, \’Oh, this will go well with Monk\’s \’Round Midnight.\’ From then on we had to play it with the Ravel chords.\”
Sounded every morning during this month of Elul, the shofar is a call to review, rethink, renew, revitalize, to shake things up a bit, to go deeper. This season, a number of new books also challenge readers to think anew about their connection to Judaism and to Israel, to their ritual practice and religious lives.
In 2000, the pope undertook a pilgrimage to and formally recognized the State of Israel, inserting a note between the stones of the Western Wall.
The blue and white flag with the Star of David will be raised for the first time in front of the Israeli Consulate on Sunday, Sept. 28.
Parshat Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8) Throughout Moses\’ dark description of curses, the theme of enemies is prevalent. This, too, is part of the curses we wish to obliterate on Rosh Hashanah.
Concern about security at services and how to fund it persists among at least some of the small synagogues, which will now need to reallocate resources or decide to go without.
The Bush administration\’s refusal to deal with Syria is \”ridiculous,\” said James Baker, a former U.S. secretary of state.
While security presence on the High Holy Days is non-negotiable for most Jewish institutions, there are ways we can open our gates even with the presence of security.
The rocket landed Sunday not far from the home of Mayor Eli Moyal
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