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Posts Tagged: "Rosh Hashanah"

September 11, 2009: Jewish High Holidays

September 11, 2009: Jewish High Holidays

Rabbi Irwin Kula, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, says everything having to do with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is designed "to help us make teshuva, return to that deepest path that we know we want to be on."

Posted: Sep 11th, 2009  Comments: 1   Views: 1,977   
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September 11, 2009: Rabbi Irwin Kula Interview

September 11, 2009: Rabbi Irwin Kula Interview

"On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur thousands of people gather together and go through many, many prayers in which we ask ourselves, how have I done?"

Posted: Sep 11th, 2009  Comments: 2   Views: 1,167   
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September 14, 2007: Praying with the Sound of the Shofar

September 14, 2007: Praying with the Sound of the Shofar

Whether they are Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist or Reform, whether they gather on a California beach or in a New York City synagogue, Jews share at least one common element at their Rosh Hashanah observances: the shofar.

Posted: Sep 14th, 2007  Comments: 0   Views: 84   
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September 7, 2007: Children’s Shofar Factory

September 7, 2007: Children’s Shofar Factory

"Judaism is packed with symbols. The shofar is one of the main symbols that people identify with, you know, in terms of the High Holidays" says Rabbi Chaim Hershkowitz of Chabad's Jewish Children's Museum.

Posted: Sep 7th, 2007  Comments: 0   Views: 412   
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BELIEF & PRACTICE . Jewish High Holidays

BELIEF & PRACTICE . Jewish High Holidays

We talked with Rabbi Alan Lew of Congregation Beth Shalom in San Francisco, who has written about the High Holidays in his new book, THIS IS REAL AND YOU ARE COMPLETELY UNPREPARED.

Posted: Sep 26th, 2003  Comments: 0   Views: 1,881   
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