The Scene

The Ticket Dilemma
On The High Holidays

ALLISON KAPLAN
Special to the Jewish News

IV

ay back at my bat mitz-
vah, the rabbi explained
how I was becoming an
adult in the eyes of
Jewish law. But only now, 14 years later,
is my synagogue enforcing that status.
According to the congregation I
have attended since birth, I no longer
count as my parents' child.
Talk about tough love.
What this really means is it now
costs $75 if I want to go to High
Holiday services with my family.
Rolling Stones tickets don't even cost
that much.
Yet in shopping around for a
High Holiday venue — now that
I'm a castoff, er, adult — I find that

Rolling Stones
tickets
don t even cost
that much.

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$75 is actually a bar-
gain. Some syn-
agogues go
as high as
$300 for
non-mem-
ber High
Holiday tickets. I've
seen others advertise "Only $150
per person!" as if Rosh HaShana
and Yom Kippur were an end-of-
the-summer clearance sale.
Did Ticketmaster get hold of the
High Holiday account? As a Jewish
twentysomething, I find myself
somewhat disillusioned this time of
year. Okay, sure, Fryi getting married
in nine months. I'm financially
independent. Nobody tells me what
time to go to bed. I pack my own
lunches.

Allison Kaplan is a freelance writer in
Chicago.

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