Category
atonement
On Yom Kippur, must we ask forgiveness for communal wrongs?
Jewish Journal
September 15, 2015
On Yom Kippur, as we focus on our personal faults, how do we acknowledge those shortcomings that are more communal?
Now there’s an app for atonement – meet eScapegoat
Tess Cutler
September 23, 2014
The confessions come flooding in at this time of year to the Twitter feed of the atonement app eScapegoat.
Sunday’s protestors sought kaporot concessions
Jewish Journal
September 9, 2013
With chants of “Shonda,” and “Shame,” a group of around 75 protestors demonstrated on Sept. 8 in front of two sites on Pico Blvd where kaporot ceremonies were taking place.
Atonement chickens — swung and tossed
Jewish Journal
September 3, 2013
A few days before Yom Kippur, thousands of white-feathered chickens land on Pico Boulevard. Not there to be broiled, boiled or fricasseed in any of the nearby kosher restaurants in this predominantly Jewish business district, they nonetheless have arrived in time to be served up.
In the rabbi’s words: A difficult conversation
Rabbi Laura Geller
September 3, 2013
The conversation is supposed to begin like this: “Will you forgive me for anything I might have said or done this year that has hurt you?”
Israel Police on high alert ahead of Yom Kippur
Jewish Journal
October 7, 2011
Israel Police have been holding talks with Israeli Arab representatives in bid to diffuse tensions ahead of Yom Kippur, after the burning of an Upper-Galilee mosque earlier this week. Police hope that calm will be restored in time for Yom Kippur on Saturday.
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