Posts Tagged: Yom Kippur
It’s Not Enough to Tweet, You Must Also Push Send
We communicate every day with a remote aloofness that creates a virtual connection. We tweet, we facebook, we text, I.M, BBM, M&M- woops wrong M....
Occupy Wall Street and the Perversion of Jewish Values
While there has been some confusion as to what exactly they stand for, paraphernalia handed out by 'Occupy Wall Street' activists at Zuccotti Park sums...
Yom Kippur a No Go for Young Golfer Laetitia Beck
19 year old amateur golfer Laetitia Beck, a sophomore at Duke University in Durham NC announced that she would be declining a request to join...
What Are We Fighting For?
For Jews, the holy day of Yom Kippur being celebrated this weekend is recognized as a time for introspection and reckoning. Both individually and collectively, it...
Protest and Prayer Rise In Lower Manhattan
In Egypt, a young woman's voice calling for those who loved her to keep her alive invigorated the thousands who came to protest in Tahrir...
Death of a Visionary
I'm sitting here on my Macbook, trying to write my sermon for Yom Kippur. (Yes, rabbis also cram in our homework at the last minute)....
NYPD Pledges Vigilance Over Jewish High Holidays
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly hosted the Jewish community at NYPD Headquarters as part of the Annual High Holy Days Briefing. Speakers included Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Commissioner...
President Obama’s Hostility To Israel Continues
Not since 1973 and the Yom Kippur War when Egypt and Syria - with logistical help from other Arab countries -- joined forces in an...
