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Embrace the Day, Invite the ‘Stranger’

Edmund Case September 16, 2004

My earliest High Holiday memory goes back to about age 7. It was the night before Yom Kippur and my parents had gone off to the synagogue, leaving my 10-year-old brother and me with a babysitter. I forgot that I wasn\’t supposed to eat anything that night, went into the kitchen, got on a chair to get a banana from the top of the refrigerator, peeled it halfway down and put it into my mouth.

My brother shouted, \”You can\’t do that!\”

A Parent’s Mercy

Dafna Breines September 16, 2004

It was about this time last year that my 2 1¼2-year-old son decided to begin his terrible twos. At first we hoped that we\’d been given a reprieve, but we soon discovered otherwise. He was apparently intent on making up for lost time.

Not Your Grandma’s Honey Cake

Linda Morel September 9, 2004

It wouldn\’t be the second night of Rosh Hashanah if our friends didn\’t come for dinner, contributing a cornucopia of dishes, especially divine desserts. There are enough pastries covering the buffet to keep judges at the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest busy for a week.

It’s Time to Change

Jane Ulman September 2, 2004

It\’s not the birth of the prehominid that scientists have named \”Toumai\” that marks the beginning of our moral evolution, but rather the birth of Adam and Eve.

New Year, New Changes

Rob Eshman September 2, 2004

Last week I was driving to a family celebration at Leisure World in Laguna Hills when I noticed something very odd about the weather: Fall was in the air.

Rosh Hashanah 5765

Jewish Journal September 2, 2004

Rosh Hashanah celebrates the birthday of the world. The Jewish/Hebrew calendar follows the cycle of the moon. The English/Gregorian calendar follows the cycle of the sun. Both calendars are divided into 12 months.

Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Meal

Judy Zeidler September 2, 2004

The apple, even more than the bibical pomegranate, has become the symbolic first fruit to be eaten during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which will be observed at sundown, Wednesday, Sept. 15.

During Rosh Hashanah, tradition calls for a perfect apple to be pared and cut into as many pieces as there are people present. A piece of the apple is dipped in honey and passed to each person at the table before the meal begins to symbolize a sweet and joyous New Year.

Evolution of Reform Judaism Progressing

Joe Berkofsky November 13, 2003

At Temple Congregation Ohabei Shalom in Nashville, Tenn., congregants newly trained in the ancient skill of shofar blowing sounded the ceremonial ram\’s horn for the first time this past Rosh Hashanah. It was the first time a lay member of the 150-year-old synagogue had blown the shofar.

\”It was quite a pivotal moment\” for the 800-family congregation, said its rabbi, Mark Schiftan.

Deeply rooted in classical Reform Judaism, the temple\’s services until recently were marked by choirs and English-only prayer. This Reform movement charter synagogue is undergoing upheaval, and it is not alone.

Soldiers Celebrate High Holidays in Iraq

Joe Berkofsky October 2, 2003

When Rabbi Mitchell Ackerson blew the shofar this past Rosh Hashanah, it reverberated throughout one of Saddam Hussein\’s former palaces. More than 100 Jewish members of the U.S. forces stationed in Iraq attended the High Holiday services at the former Iraqi dictator\’s Baghdad compound.

They seemed shocked and awed, not least by the echo.

Then under a late afternoon sun, the group performed the customary Tashlich ceremony outside the palace, casting pieces of bread representing sins into a private lake once owned by the Iraqi dictator\’s sons, Uday and Qusay.

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