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Who shall live and who shall die: God’s iPhone, Rosh Hashanah 5769

The U\’netaneh Tokef prayer says: On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed: Who shall live and who shall die, who shall perish by water and who by fire, who by famine and who by thirst . God\’s got it on His iPhone, of course.

Is our fate really sealed? Is change possible?

Within the calendar that constitutes the Jewish cathedral in time, no days are more saturated with the experience of human nature, and with experiments in human change, than the Days of Awe. This is when we are asked, paradoxically, both to steep in our powerlessness to escape our species\’ fate, and yet also to try out behaviors that can rescue us from our destinies.

First Woman Heads Reform Conference

Rabbi Janet Marder has a surprising confession for someone who is making history as the first woman president of the Reform movement\’s 1,800-member Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR).

She\’s seriously shy.

\”I had years of stage fright before I had to stand up in a crowd,\” said Marder, senior rabbi at Reform Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, near San Jose. \”I still get pretty nervous.\”

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