How I – As A Rabbi – Ran My Zoom Seder
Rabbi Hara E. Person
April 13, 2020
One benefit this Zoom seder offered was that we could include people who wouldn’t normally be able to attend.
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Calendars Remove Anti-Israel Day
Toby Axelrod, JTA
November 3, 2005
The annihilation of Israel is the raison d\’etre of the \”holiday\” that the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini created after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It is marked with anti-Israel demonstrations in some Islamic countries, as well as in cities with large Muslim populations outside the Islamic world.
Cantor Carries on Tennis Tradition
Tom Tugend
September 29, 2005
Located at Beverly and Crescent Heights boulevards, Beth Israel was founded in 1899 as the first Orthodox congregation in Los Angeles, and was also known as the Olive Street Shul.
Let My Students Go
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
April 21, 2005
Cecelie Wizenfeld is not alone in her efforts to find memorable ways of helping children connect with the holiday. While model seders, seder plate illustrations and handmade afikomen bags have become standard educational fare in the classroom, many Southland religious and day school teachers are finding that creative and unusual holiday projects make more of an impact.
Add Inclusiveness to Your Seder Table
Rabbi Julie Greenberg
April 21, 2005
For non-Jewish partners, even with the best good will, the seder experience can be strange and unfamiliar. Jewish family members prioritize coming together at this time of year.
Maccabee Meaning Changes With Time
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
December 2, 2004
Ironically, the Chanukah story, with its many tellings, preserves those nuances better than almost any other holiday in Jewish tradition. It celebrates a variety of ways to be Jewish — ways which have changed through the generations, the challenges and the times.
Bar Alters Test Date for Tisha B’Av
Tom Tugend
May 13, 2004
The State Bar of California, yielding to an eight-month lobbying effort, will excuse observant Jews from taking the bar examination on the mourning and fasting day of Tisha B\’Av on July 27.
Thanksgiving’s Sukkot Roots
Linda Morel
November 20, 2003
Did you know that Thanksgiving is really a Jewish holiday?
15 Years Ago: Cast Thy Sins Away
Amy Klein
September 25, 2003
If you\’ve ever been to Ocean Parkway — that long thoroughfare traversing all neighborhoods Brooklyn, connecting the BQE from "The City" (Manhattan), to the Belt Parkway from Long Island — you\’d have seen the two "island" streets lining the two outer streets like an Israeli flag, where old men played chess, young mothers strolled their children and we teenagers hung out.
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