Bringing together Jews from communities of all sizes throughout Europe — with Orthodox, Reform and secular representatives, and age groups ranging from students to senior citizens — the meeting was unprecedented in size, scope and objective.
Girl meets clown.
Girl is fascinated by clown, who is a bona fide graduate of clown college and can walk on stilts.
When leaders from 119 North American Jewish federations met here this week, they did not make any earth-shattering decisions or vote on anything binding.
There\’s a wonderful implicit message in the fact that we always begin the annual Torah reading cycle just after Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. \”It is time to begin again,\” the reading cycle tells us. \”And the way to start is by putting the elements of our lives into their proper order.\”
There is a difference between love of tradition and an obsessive habit of looking backward.
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