Divine Wedding
Rabbi Zoë Klein
March 11, 2004
Years ago, my husband and I climbed the alleged Mount Sinai, the Perseus shower streaked the Egyptian night sky with shooting stars.
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worship
Unacceptable
Michael Tolkin
October 23, 2003
After The New Republic\’s Gregg Easterbrook wrote in his online column that Jewish executives in Hollywood "worship money above all else," he apologized.
Finding Community
Hank Rosenfeld
September 25, 2003
Like many unaffiliated Angelenos between 30 and marriage, I face a problem every Rosh:
Are You There, God?
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
November 1, 2001
While the pain of the Sept. 11 attacks still churns like the smoke and dust that continue to rise out of Ground Zero, eight weeks has done something to begin our healing process.
Some of the rawness of our national wound is beginning to abate, allowing us to use the clarity and insight of the still-sharp lens of grief to encounter the big questions about God and humanity that the terrorists threw into our faces.
The questions, of course, are hardly new: How can we square the lethal expression of mass evil with our notion of a compassionate God? Were the attacks the hand of God, God\’s withdrawal from humanity, or simply the nature of God\’s universe?
New Stamp on Service
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
May 31, 2001
Late last summer at Adat Ari El, when work was going on in earnest to craft the new One Shabbat Morning service, Rabbi Moshe Rothblum recalled feeling some resentment at having to drop his High Holiday preparations to attend a One Shabbat Morning meeting.
Congregational Directory
Jewish Journal
September 21, 2000
The listings below are for Jewish congregations within the geographic area of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. Congregations in areas adjacent to Los Angeles Federation can be found by calling neighboring federations:
Teen Founds Jump-n-Jive Minyan
Beverly Gray
September 7, 2000
Most Shabbat worshippers expect decorum. But Adat Ari El\’s new Jump-n-Jive minyan is different. Its founder, Aaron Kaychuck, describes the monthly Saturday morning service as \”upbeat neo-Chassidic egalitarian.\” The service is unusual partly because it combines traditional Conservative liturgy with exuberant song and dance, set to the beat of an African hand-drum. It is also distinctive because Kaychuck, who leads the congregants in prayer, is 15 years old.
Let’s Celebrate! It’s Yom Kippur!
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 16, 1999
In the waning hours of Yom Kippur, the last rays of sun cast long shadows through the stained-glass windows. It is time for \”Ne\’ila,\” the final prayer in a day filled with prayer, when the gates on high, opened especially wide for this day, begin their final closing.
Pushing Each Other’s Buttons
Rabbi Abner Weiss
August 21, 1997
Predictably, it happened again. Conservative and Reform Jews choseto demonstrate their right to worship at the Kotel in their way, menand women together. This time, however, the worshipers had officialclearance. But their permit did not help. Sadly, but alsopredictably, Orthodox Jews prevented them from praying in their way.Passions flared. The scene became ugly. Religious extremists,unconcerned about Torah prohibitions against striking another person,became violent. Hurt and humiliated, the non-Orthodox worshipers wereforcibly removed by the police. And, of course, the media had beenprepped. The cameras were ready. They captured the tears of thevanquished and the jeers of the violent. The angry scenes wereflashed across the world.
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