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Gal.
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(prayer for healing), for the survivors
of the 9-11 attacks and the families of
victims, and such suggestions as light-
ing a yahrtzeit candle (anniversary
memorial candle).
Like other heads of rabbinical
Renewal Of Trust
organizations, Rabbi Jerome Epstein,
"Rosh Hashanah is a time when we
executive vice president of United
renew our trust in God," says Rabbi
Synagogue, says he has heard from
Yochanan Polter of the Birmingham-
pulpit rabbis that they are finding it
Bloomfield Chai Center in
difficult to craft messages this year.
Bloomfield Hills.
"Most rabbis are trying to balance
"There are many times when one feels
being
sensitive to people who have lost
that it is because of their greatness that
individuals
on that day, and the
they have reached a certain goal, and
national crisis, with the need to move
that the world is in their control. I think
on with one's life and have a resolve to
history tells a different story now. Man
come away froth this in a
does not control the world. The
stronger way," he says.
only one we can put our faith
"But people are struggling.
in is God. On this Rosh
It's
not something where
Hashanah, I think we all can
words
alone make a difference
identify and appreciate this
— it's the tone as well."
message a lot more," he says.
As Rabbi Eric Yoffie, presi-
One effort at finding long-
dent of the Reform movement's
term affect in the 9-11
Union of American Hebrew
attacks, is the recently pub-
Congregations, put it, "There
lished anthology Living Words Rabbi Klein
l
are no easy answers.__In a 20- to
IV A Spiritual Source Book for
25-minute sermon, we're not
an Age of Terror, published by
going to solve these problems."
a
Jewish
journal.
ShMa,
Still, like the other congre-
In past years, the annual
gational groups, the UAHC
anthology served as a collec-
has posted suggested liturgy
tion of High Holiday writ-
for its member synagogues on
ings, but in this past year, edi-
its Web site, and officials like
tor Susan Berrin says many of
Rabbi Yoffie have discussed 9-
the pieces she gathered con-
11 with member rabbis in
cerned the attacks.
national conference calls.
Berrin saw "Sept. 11, 5762 - Rabbi Polter
For Rabbi Mark Diamond,
as a moment in Jewish histo-
executive vice president of the
ry," she says.
Southern California Board of
Rabbi Penzner and others
Rabbis, fear takes shape
contributed to what Berrin
almost every time he drives
says should serve as a guide -
past an airport on his way to
for educators and rabbis.
work in Los Angeles.
This latest edition has sold
"I see small planes landing
1,700 copies so far — triple
about two miles from my
the usual number, she says.
house, and if it looks like
Rabbis are getting other
help in coming to terms with
Rabbi Bergstein they're banking too steeply
over the San Fernando Valley,
this past year after 9-11 from
my heart skips a beat," he says.
their movements' umbrella
One way that Rabbi
organizations
Diamond will deal with this fear is in
The Orthodox Union is posting a
the High Holidays message he'll bring
video message from Rabbi Tzvi Hersh
to his congregants at Temple Ramat
Weinreb, the group's executive vice
Zion in Northridge, Calif.
president, which reflects on "our
"Israelis kiss their kids good-bye in
fragility; our vulnerability and the
the
morning and wonder if they'll be
nature of good and evil," he says.
reunited at dinnertime. And on 9-11, a
The O.U. is also sending out a
whole bunch of people went off to work
Hebrew poem about tragedy by
and never came home again," he says.
Moshe Sokolow, a Yeshiva University
"The sacred gift of life, the notion
professor, which rabbis can incorpo-
of the everyday miracles of life — we
rate into services.
should never, ever take them for grant-
Similarly, the United Synagogue of
ed. We don't know how long we're
Conservative Judaism also e-mailed to
going to be here."
its members a package titled "Project
— Shelli Liebman Dorfrr aan
Zachor," which includes readings from
contributed to this story.
specific psalms, the Mi She-beirach
into our prayers and mitzvot as well as
increase 10 percent in our tzedakah,
the life blood of our communities."
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