British author Ian McEwan was chosen to receive the prestigious Jerusalem Prize. The biennial prize, which will be awarded next month in a ceremony on the opening night of the Jerusalem Book Fair, is Israel\’s highest literary honor for foreign writers. The award is given to an author whose works best exemplify the \”freedom of the individual in society.\”
As singles, trying on different slippers and hoping for a perfect fit, we have assayed to squeeze ourselves into many an improper shoe during the past year, blistering ourselves and others in the process, becoming callused as we try to move our lives forward.
\”I was brought up Jewish, but I\’m not religious in the least now, and I\’m sort of the typical secular Jew,\” Hirsch said. Current world events, \”coupled with getting older, being in my 50s,\” have forced him to re-examine his own spiritual values. \”This character in the play is doing that, as well as I\’m doing it now.\”
Calendar of Events in Los Angeles.
The case of the fugitive chicken.
Can an alcoholic who was poisoned with his father\’s anti-Semitism use a moment of naked exposure to confront his bigotry? Can he ever hope to cleanse himself of this deeply-seated hatred or is he forever doomed?
The writers of the machzor were pretty comprehensive in listing the multitude of sins we commit as a community over the course of the year.
At this Sept. 11 anniversary, we as a community are forced to remember where we were one year ago, when the world as we knew it turned upside down, and stayed that way.
At sundown on Monday we usher in the happiest day of our calendar, Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. For the next 10 days we\’ll be called upon to reexamine our lives — to wake up and not only smell the roses, but plant them for other people to enjoy.
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, begins at sundown on Sunday, Oct. 8, during which time a strict fast is observed.
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