…A Cantor's Perspective By Jacob Kamaras JNS.org T he holiest days on the Jewish cal- endar, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, are largely spent in syna- gogue. Yet prayer isn't usually the focus when Jews prepare for the High Holidays, observes Cantor Arik Wollheim. "Hopefully people go through this pro- cess of repentance and they give charity, but what about prayer?" Wollheim tells JNS.org. "People neglect that. How many people open the pray...…
…Where The Heart Is At Yom Kippur, a heads-up about chest thumping during Viddui prayer. Edmon J. Rodman JTA 0 n Yom Kippur, when we beat our chests during the confes- sion, maybe we should be knocking instead on our heads. After all, isn't that where all the trouble starts? On this most physically demanding of Jewish days, Jewish tradition has us beat the heart side of our chests, as if to say this is the source of our falling short. Duri...…
…The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe Did Sukkot help shape Thanksgiving? Robert Gluck I JNS.org D id Sukkot help shape America's Thanksgiving? According to one of the fore- most experts on American Judaism, Dr. Jonathan Sarna, the biblical holiday did not exactly guide the Puritans' thinking during colonial times, but they were gen- erally influenced by the idea of thanking God for their bounty. "The Puritans ...…
…Sukkot Gimme Shelter I am buying homeless signs for Sukkot this year. I Rob Eshman LOS ANGELES (Jewish Journal) I started building my sukkah in December. To those of you who are sukkah DIYers, you know how ridicu- lous this sounds. A sukkah is the ritual but that Jews build each year on the holiday of Sukkot, which begins this year on the evening of Sept. 18. You set it up after Yom Kippur; you take it down after the eight days of Sukkot...…
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…>> analysis Friend Of Israel Australians elect new prime minister; change in Mideast policy expected. Is! Leibler Israel Hayom A ustralia's election results are good news for the Israel- Australia relationship. Labor party incumbent Kevin Rudd, who held office for less than three months follow- ing an intra-party political "coup" against former Prime Minister Julia Gillard, lost in a landslide, bringing an end to six years of Labor govern...…
…>> Send letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com Editorial Change Should Help Better Position Akiva L ike any Jewish institu- tion, Yeshivat Akiva must change to stay relevant, attract students and donors, and ultimately, prosper. In his second year at the Zionist day school in Southfield, Rabbi Tzvi Klugerman, head of school, is clearly committed to change. As the JN cover story "Multi-Grade Upgrade" (Aug. 22) Rabbi reports, Akiva prom- Klug...…
…Brotherhood from page 46 shows Yusuf al-Quaradawi, an Egyptian Islamic scholar and spiritual leader associ- ated with the Muslim Brotherhood, telling National Security Council staffers at the White House: "We will conquer Europe; we will conquer America! Not through sword, but through dawah [proselytizing on behalf of Islam]." Of course, the Brotherhood hatched Israel archenemy Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, to terrorize the Jewish state....…
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…Extraordinary Risks Observing Yom Kippur in the shadow of death. Rafael Medoff I JNS.ong H olocaust memoirs and eyewit- ness testimony record how Jews living under Nazi rule repeatedly took extraordinary risks to mark Yom Kippur in some way. Despite the grave dangers involved, and even though Jewish law permits eating or performing labor on the Day of Atonement in order to save one's life, many Jews endured unimagi- nable suffering in orde...…
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