High Holy Days 2020 5781
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE It was just before Purim when we made the decision to take the Megillah reading on-line as the world was quickly moving into lockdown. This was quickly followed by our weekly Shabbat service and the Pesach Seder becoming available via live stream and a daily minyan service commenced over Zoom. The speed and effectiveness with which we moved our Shul’s events on-line was the envy of many congregations throughout the city as they struggled to make the decisions on how to best make their Shuls accessible to their members. The emotional, financial, psychological, and spiritual challenges we have faced over the past six months, and that we continue to face, have demanded levels of creativity, practicality and cooperation in all aspects of daily life that we never required before. The challenges range from the seemingly everyday: How do we get groceries safely? How can we get our hair cut?, to the much more consequential: How can we safely see grandparents and older friends and be able to assist them if they should need help or become ill? How do our children get educated? These are very sobering and difficult issues. However challenging this time has been, it has also presented us with the opportunity for reflection, re-evaluation, and hopefully and eventually, positive change. At Beth Torah we continue to see such positive changes. I am grateful to be able to work with Rabbi Yossi who has shown great creativity and sensitivity in his services and his communications with members over the past several months. While the decision to have our High Holiday services only on-line this year was the proper decision to ensure the health and safety of our members, it too was a very difficult one. I could not forget Rabbi Yossi’s address to the congregation last Rosh Hashanah which emphasized the importance of community and now my concern for the effect that not gathering together would have on our Shul’s community. As I have watched the plans for this year’s holidays evolve and discussed them with the Rabbi, I am confident that we will still be able to provide meaningful services which will engage all of us and our families. It will be different this year, but we will all be able to start the year 5781 on a hopeful and uplifting note and with the hope that as the year progresses life will return to normal.
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Throughout this past year and especially over the last few months, our office staff have done an incredible job to keep the virtual Shul office running in an efficient manner; our Gabbayim embraced the Zoom technology and, along with Cantor Ben brought us our new daily minyan; and I am most appreciative of the effort and time that members of the Board of Trustees and the Executive have spent to support the Shul and make recommendations to help the Shul move forward during these tumultuous times. Of course, it is the spiritual leadership from Rabbi Yossi that makes Beth Torah the special place that we are all very proud to be able to call “our Shul�. On behalf of my family, Gayle, Noah, Samara and Joshua, I wish all of you a safe and healthy 5781. Shana Tova, David Lewis
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RABBI YOSSI’S MESSAGE Dear Friends, Members and Community, This has been a year of uncertainty. Unpredictably so. It has been a year of change and adaptation. Unwillingly but necessarily. We are being tested as never before by a pandemic that has affected us all unequally. It has brought out the best in many, the worst in some and a new awareness of life's fickle reality. Synagogue life is no different, at Shul we have been on the same roller-coaster of emotions and experiences. There are so many decisions to be made, so much information to process, changes to be implemented, and always, we worry about our members. Our live-stream, minyan and programs have proven the possibility of a warm connection even virtually and the phone calls of our volunteers have spoken volumes about our care for all of our community. Our Dignity Fund has ensured that anyone experiencing hardship will be helped, that too was made possible only through the generosity of members who chose to remain anonymous. Our Executive, to whom I am so grateful for their caring professionalism continue to work non-stop to adapt to the current situation and appreciate the support of a very committed Board of Directors. Our management and staff are working so hard every day and they make all of what we do possible. We are a very fortunate community in that our caring and commitment have so far transcended distance. Everyone who has renewed our membership has cast a vote in favour of the greater possibility of synagogue life; that Shul is more than a building; its a repository of hope and inspiration.
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At Beth Torah, we have committed that until we are safely together again, we will do all within our capacity to continue inspiring, connecting, helping, caring and loving our community. With the continued support of my family and our Synagogue leadership, I have committed to give my heart and soul to you, an extraordinary congregation. We must also remain safe, so that we call on no one to give their life. No doubt its been a long if not difficult road, lets hope that the new year brings health, good news and continued caring for all. Wishing you all sweetness despite the bitter. Shana Tovah U'metukah. I look forward to seeing you all soon, virtually for now. Much love from Mickey, Allegra and me. Rabbi Yossi Sapirman
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HIGH HOLIDAY SCHEDULE EREV ROSH HASHANAH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 5:30 & 6:30 PM Live streamed services (6:30 PM service is a repetition of 5:30 PM service) ROSH HASHANAH I & SHABBAT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 8:00 AM Live streamed Rosh Hashanah services (Shabbat, no shofar service) 2:00 PM Live streamed Rosh is On community service ROSH HASHANAH II SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 8:00 AM Live streamed Rosh Hashanah services 9:45 AM Live streamed Shofar service (approximately) SHABBAT SHUVAH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 8:45 AM Live streamed Shabbat services KOL NIDRE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 6:30 PM Live streamed Kol Nidre services YOM KIPPUR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 8:00 AM Live streamed Yom Kippur services 10:00 AM Live streamed Yizkor service 2:00 PM Live streamed Rosh Hour Community services 6:30 PM Live streamed Mincha service and Reading of the Book of Jonah 7:00 PM Live streamed Ne’ilah: “Closing of the Gates,” followed by Havdalah and Shofar SUKKOT I AND SHABBAT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 8:45 AM Live streamed Shabbat and Sukkot services SUKKOT II SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 8:45 AM Live streamed Sukkot services SHMINI ATZERET, SHABBAT AND EREV SIMCHAT TORAH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 8:45 AM Live streamed Shmini Atzeret services 10:45 AM Live streamed Yizkor service 6:00 PM Service and Torah Celebration TBA SIMCHAT TORAH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 8:45 AM Live streamed Simchat Torah services
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IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO ATONE By Etgar Keret
day noise that makes them more palatable. It’s the
Translated By Sondra Silverston
holiday when you come face to face with your life as it is, and there’s no stupid reality show to divert
Yom Kippur was always my favorite holiday. Even in
your attention, no news updates, no chocolate-chip
nursery school, when all the other kids liked Purim
ice cream cone to offer you some consolation.
because of the costumes, Hanukkah because of the latkes, and Passover because of the long vacation,
For me, Yom Kippur was and remains the holiday,
I was hooked on Yom Kippur. If holidays were like
always. That’s why, even though it’s been years
kids, I once thought when I was still a boy, then
since I’ve bothered to wish people a happy new year
Purim and Hanukkah would be the most popular in
on Rosh Hashanah, or since I’ve taken the trouble
class, Rosh Hashanah would be the most beautiful,
to dress up on Purim, as Yom Kippur approaches,
and Yom Kippur would be a kind of weirdo, a loner,
I still apologize to people I feel I’ve hurt. It doesn’t
but the most interesting of all. When I think about
happen too many times, but when I finally call to
that now, “a kind of weirdo, a loner, but the most
ask for someone’s forgiveness and I’m waiting in
interesting of all” is exactly how I saw myself then,
embarrassment for the phone to be answered,
so maybe the real reason I loved Yom Kippur so
still praying deep down that no one will pick up
much is that I thought it was like me. The thing is
so that I can settle for an apologetic message on
that even though I’m not a kind of weirdo anymore,
the answering machine, I feel with every bone in
definitely not a loner, and grown-up enough now
my body that there’s something very healthy about
to understand that I’m not the most interesting, I’m
being compelled to ask for forgiveness. So, maybe
still in love with that holiday.
it’s easier to love a holiday that commands you to eat jelly doughnuts than a holiday that requires
Maybe it’s because Yom Kippur is the only holiday
you to put yourself in a vulnerable, uncomfortable
I know that, because of its very nature, recognizes
position, but when you’re finally done, you feel that,
human weakness. If on Passover, Moses and God
thanks to that weird holiday, you’ve gotten rid of
settled accounts with the Egyptians, on Hanukkah
a burden that has been oppressing you for a very
Judah Maccabee beat the crap out of the Greeks,
long time without your even knowing how much.
and on Israeli Independence day we fought bravely against the Arabs and won our country, on Yom
My strangest Yom Kippur apology story begins
Kippur we’re not a heroic dynasty or a people, but
when I was 4. One of the kids in my new preschool
a collection of individuals who look in the mirror,
group was a pretty, sweet girl named Noa. She was
are ashamed of what demands shame, and ask
quiet and smiley, two qualities I was not blessed
forgiveness for what can be forgiven. And maybe
with, and when I once accidentally touched her
that was actually the quality that attracted me
thick blonde hair, it felt like sticky cotton candy. I
to Yom Kippur from the very beginning, that it is
really wanted to play with her but didn’t exactly
the most private of all our holidays, a day when
know how to do it, so after six months of looking at
you stand alone before your deeds and their
her from a distance, I decided to make a move, and
consequences without TV, without bustling cafés
one morning, when I saw her running next to me in
and restaurants, without stores crammed with
the yard, I stuck out my foot and tripped her.
merchandise, without all the rest of the day-to-
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Noa fell and hurt herself. She started to cry, and
to her somehow: buy her a Popsicle, lend her my
when the teacher ran over to help her, Noa pointed
sports bicycle for a week, or I didn’t know what,
at me and said, “He did it. He tripped me.” The
something.
teacher, who liked me very much, asked me if it was true, and I immediately said no. The teacher
But instead of all that, the only thing that came
rebuked Noa, “Etgar is a good boy who never
out of my mouth was her name, “Noa,” in a very
lies. Why are you making up such terrible things
shrill voice. Noa stopped, took off her headphones,
about him? You should be ashamed of yourself!”
and studied me. “I’m Etgar,” I said, “Etgar Keret.
Noa, who’d almost stopped crying, started all over
We were once in the same preschool together.”
again, and the teacher stroked my head and walked
She smiled and said she remembered preschool
off angrily. Right then I wanted to tell Noa I was
but didn’t remember me. I told her about how I
sorry and confess to the teacher that I’d lied, but I
tripped her and lied, and how she cried because of
couldn’t find the courage. Meanwhile, another girl
the affront and a little because of the pain, but she
helped Noa walk over to the fountain so she could
didn’t remember any of it.
wash her scraped knee, and I remained standing in the yard.
“It was a long time ago,” she said, half-apologetically.
Noa wasn’t in kindergarten or in elementary school
“But I remember,” I persisted, “and soon it’s going
with me. In high school, during a break one day, a
to be Yom Kippur, and I wanted to apologize.”
girl in my class mentioned Noa’s full name and said she was a real grind, studying in the biology track.
“Apologize for something stupid you did when
It was the first month of school, Rosh Hashanah
you were 4?” she said and smiled that lovely smile
had already passed, and Yom Kippur was on the
I remembered from preschool, then added, “Were
way, and when school ended that day, I waited for
you this weird back in preschool, too?” She laughed
Noa near her classroom. She was almost the last
and so did I, because the truth is I really was weird
one out, orange headphones on her head and a
in preschool. “Apology accepted,” she said after a
Sony Walkman in her hand. She looked completely
brief pause, and then put her orange headphones
different from how I remembered her from when I
over her ears and left.
was 4; she barely smiled and had a lot of pimples on her face, but her hair was still thick and blonde
I remember going home from school on that day.
and still looked like cotton candy. I went up to her,
I rode my bike, the pedals turned easily, the road
legs weak. It’s always hard to say you’re sorry, but
felt smooth, and even the uphill parts felt like they
saying it after 13 years is especially hard. I wanted
were downhill. I never saw her again, but since then,
to tell her that since that day in the preschool yard
whenever I have a strong urge not to tell the truth,
I’d tried hard not to lie, and that every time I felt the
I think of her outside her high-school classroom,
urge, I remembered her, her hair in tangles, crying
smiling broadly, her face full of pimples, saying she
and hurt in the yard, and immediately quashed
accepted my apology. Then I take a deep breath,
the impulse and told the truth. I wanted to tell her
and lie.
that soon I’d be a man and go into the army and everything, and that when I looked back on my
Etgar Keret is a Tel Aviv-based filmmaker and fiction
life, what I did to her then, at the age of 4, was the
writer. He writes a regular column from Israel for
thing I was most ashamed of, and that even though
Tablet. He will be doing a Q & A for the Beth Torah
so much time had passed, I wanted to make it up
Book Club.
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HIGH HOLIDAYS 5781 This is a year that’s unlike all the others, We can’t congregate with our shul sisters and brothers, The building is empty, but not so our hearts, We’re together in spirit, though in fact we’re apart. And we look to the future, as the new year unfolds, Uncertain of what that future may hold, And though we are anxious, and though we feel fear, Our prayers are the same as they are every year, We ask for forgiveness, for peace and good health, For these, as we know, are the true meaning of wealth, These prayers have withstood the passage of years, They give hope and comfort though we may shed some tears; Some things, we have learned, are beyond our power, But there’s much we can do in each waking hour: We can reach out to others with care and compassion; Let this be the year that we all take some action, Let kindness and love guide all that we do, To repair the world, for me and for you, We can change how we act and change how we feel, And our efforts will serve to help and to heal. With wishes that soon we will meet again, I wish happy new year to you, my dear friends.
- Sharron Elkouby, Beth Torah Poet-in-Residence
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CANTOR BEN’S MESSAGE Dear Friends, We find ourselves in unprecedented times. In our lifetimes we have never not had the opportunity to gather in Shul for communal Prayer on the High Holidays. The way in which we pray this year will be different, but our powerful and stirring Liturgical text remains constant as it has for centuries. We can still feel very connected and united as a people and as a Congregation. If we look at these texts, our High Holiday Liturgy is replete with Prayers that are written mostly in the plural. This illustrates the communal intent of worship. For instance, the Areshet Sefateinu Prayer asks “May the Prayers of our lips be pleasing to you, exalted G-d who hears our Shofar sounds....”. There is a wonderful rendition of the Prayer found on YouTube entitled Cantors Barry Braun and Ezra Sher Sing Areshet Sefateinu Medley. The music brings the text to life as good music does. Listen to when the Cantors sing the words Lekol Tekeeateinu - “who hears our Shofar sounds”. Listen to how they use their voices to emulate the Tekeea blast – one long note that acts as a summons or the sound of a King’s coronation. This can be found by Googling “My Jewish Learning shofar blasts”. In the Kol Nidre Service, the Ya-aleh Prayer begins “May our supplication rise at nightfall, our plea approach Your presence in the morning...”. The music to this Prayer composed by Mordechai Ben David is performed by a child prodigy and can be found on YouTube by searching for Ya’ala - Mezamrim, Yoily Glick. Notice how the first verse is sung in middle voice and then to illustrate the powerful rise of our supplication, the child singer jumps an octave higher to really make the “rise” palpable for all listening / Praying. While nearly all of the High Holiday Liturgy is written in the plural, there is an exception: the Hineni Prayer, often referred to as the Cantor’s Prayer. It’s a humbling Prayer where the Cantor states “Here I stand, deficient in good deeds.....I have come to plead with You on behalf of Your people Israel who have sent me, though I am unworthy of this sacred task”. While written in the singular, I have always felt when chanting this passage the duality of sole responsibility and at the same time the communal support of my Congregation and community. There is a tradition of the Cantor entering from the back of the Sanctuary and slowly approaching
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the Bima while singing this Prayer. This can be seen on YouTube by “Cantor Moshe Oysher - Hineni Live Video”. See how the Cantor enters by himself and then approaches the Bima and is supported and enveloped by his Congregation. We have all been affected worldwide and in all walks of life by this pandemic; yet on a personal level, each one of us is living through a different experience. Our perspective is influenced by what our families and friends have endured and hopefully survived. At times we feel as though we are speaking and acting in the plural as we are all going through this together, and at other times we may feel very singular, alone and isolated. This is aptly illustrated in The Unetane Tokef Prayer which draws a comparison of all of us to sheep by saying “...on this day all of us pass before You, one by one like a flock of sheep.” This is musically brought to life by Dudu Fisher in his rendition of Untana Tokef which can be found on YouTube. The Choir uses Staccato to give the feeling of sheep marching one by one. The sheep by themselves march one by one but they are part of a group. Each of us as individuals has had to take measures on our own to stay safe for self preservation and also because we have people that love us and depend upon us. And to be a part of the Beth Torah community means that we are not alone, that although we may not be in the same physical space this High Holidays we are connected and we are all hoping and praying for a better world. And know that Jews worldwide are chanting the same exact Prayers as they have done for centuries and G-d willing will continue to do. May you and your families be blessed with only good health and happiness and from my family to yours, wishing you a sweet and happy Shana Tova! Sincerely , Cantor Ben, Karen, Emily and Ryan
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OUTSIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS By Lisa Trank
endlessly tall eucalyptus, with their menthol-laced smell and splotched-bark trunks.
For some, Rosh Hashanah means davening in synagogue. For me, this time of year has come to signify something else: stepping outside the confines of the synagogue, and reconnecting to the natural world.
The culmination of the session was Shabbat. I walked with my bunk mates and counselor into a space that I knew, even at 9, was sacred. Roughly hewn benches stood in rows, underneath a canopy of trees, we sat facing an ark that opened to a rock wall.
I grew up in an observant Reform Jewish household in Southern California in the 1960s. This translated into attending Sunday school, Hebrew school, becoming a bat mitzvah, and going to High Holiday services at our small temple in Downey, California— one that my father and uncle, Eastern European immigrants, helped build. I even liked listening to my father sing the prayers in his quiet, off-key voice.
I’d always been a kid who could never get enough of being outside. I remember my mom’s voice calling out into the darkening evening, pulling me off the schoolyard behind our house, or my favorite corner of our backyard. Until that first summer at camp, I’d never equated being Jewish with nature, but that experience merged my love of the outdoors with my emerging sense of being Jewish as an individual, as well as within a community. Until then, I didn’t know I could feel Jewish beyond the walls of the temple. I was hooked.
Rosh Hashanah has always been my favorite holiday. It marks the turning of the calendar toward shorter days and cooler nights, even though in Southern California we usually sweated through our High Holiday outfits with the early fall heat wave and Santa Ana winds that inevitably hit. I savored the sweet honey and tart apples from our pre-swimming pool backyard. I cherished going to the Fairfax district with my mom to shop for special foods, looked forward every year to my Aunt Lena’s legendary honey cake. I loved the large, boisterous family gatherings with a table overflowing with food, laughter, and stories. I especially anticipated going to synagogue where the entire community came together, highlighted by my cousin Steve’s masterful blowing of the shofar.
After a few summers, I graduated to the camp on the hill for older kids, Gindling Hilltop. Instead of sitting under the sacred tree canopy, the entire camp trekked along a narrow path to a hill where an ark opened to the Pacific Ocean. As the Torah was removed, I could see the ocean’s tide, could smell the salt, could even see dolphins amid the waves. After that summer, when I returned home and went to High Holiday services, instead of joy and comfort, I felt distance and a sense of claustrophobia. I never felt the same inside a synagogue again. I left Southern California for college and with it, replaced my Jewish life with that of an aspiring actress. Art became my religion, theater my temple. I moved from the West Coast to New York City, the most Jewish city in our country, and felt no need to make any extra effort, not in a place that shut down for Yom Kippur.
For my young self, being in temple was an extension of our home and I never thought I’d want to be anywhere else. But when I turned 9, I was finally allowed to attend sleep-away summer camp at the legendary Camp Hess Kramer nestled in the hills of the Malibu coast. My first session was only 10 days long, but since it was my first time away from home for more than one night, those days felt like an eternity. Camp was a magical place, filled with songs and Jewish pride, but also trees I’d never experienced in my suburban neighborhood: I was surrounded by and felt embraced by the expansive coast live oaks and
After years in the hard-edged, noisy city, I moved to Colorado with my soon-to-be husband. That summer, we stood together on a mountaintop in Boulder, exchanging wedding vows on a windy summer night. The chuppah poles shook and threatened to lift our marriage tallit into the sky.
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We parked our car and started walking onto a trail. We spotted red-winged blackbirds, lily pads the size of dinner plates. Our fingers grazed the tops of tufted grasses. We walked along a creek and found a place to sit. A calm had settled over us as we listened to the water’s path along the worn rocks. I thought of Rabbi Akiva and the water wearing away at the hardness of a rock. We found a grove of golden aspens and a softening occurred as the aspen leaves quivering in the wind entered my own breathing.
While the space harkened back to my days at camp, the oaks and eucalyptus replaced by pine and blue spruce, I’d not yet reconnected to that part of myself I’d left in Malibu when I was a kid. We became parents and our children attended Hebrew school, became bat mitzvah, and went to Jewish summer camp. It felt important, especially in our town with little Jewish presence, for our children to grow up in a Jewish home and to support the small storefront shul that had opened. Our family became reliable regulars at the shul, and while I enjoyed the sense of community, something again was missing. I’d fallen into the pattern of dutifully showing up to shul more out of habit and obligation than out of anything that sung to my soul like my days at camp, or exchanging vows on that mountainside.
We walked more, and talked quietly about what the year had meant, and what this day signified. I sat on a mossy log and looked up and around. I was surrounded by trees and that feeling from decades before landed right back in my heart. That early, seminal childhood experience in the synagogue canopy; of the ark, the Torah, and the sea, the tide returning millions of times a day. I’d traded the ocean and eucalyptus for mountains and aspen trees, but the feeling was the same. I felt quiet, calm. I recited the Shema over and over again, to myself, with my husband, and the rock had been softened.
Two years ago, another shift happened. Perhaps it was the brilliance of a certain blue sky that means autumn in Colorado has arrived for a short, precious time before the first snowfall. Perhaps it was photos of bright golden trees friends were posting on Facebook. Perhaps it was that our kids had stopped coming with us to services, more absorbed in school than shul. All of this added up to a familiar restlessness and a deep knowing I had to take Rosh Hashanah, and myself, outside. I knew that I could not spend Rosh Hashanah inside a synagogue. I announced this to my husband, who had become a regular of the minyan crew at our local shul.
Last November, my beloved camps were burned to the ground during the devastating Woolsey Fire. My canopy synagogue and the ark on the hill were destroyed, as was much of the rest of my childhood Jewish outdoor haven. The place I had returned to for so many years was now going to have to start all over, the small saplings emerging out of the ash. A return of sorts.
“I’m going up to Brainard Lake for Rosh Hashanah,” I announced.
This year, on my Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage, I’m seeking solace, refuge, and quiet answers that only trees can provide. Aspen trees, like our struggling and embattled Jewish community, are a deeply connected ecosystem; each one a singular organism, but part of something much larger than the single unit. In this time of climate crisis, in this time of bearing ourselves against a new wave of antagonism, I feel an urgency to return to the aspens, to walk among them, to bathe in their golden light, to whisper the Shema to the quivering leaves.
“You’re not going to shul?” he asked, nervously. “No. I have to see the aspen trees. I can’t be inside. I want you to come with me, but I’m going.” Rosh Hashanah morning, we drove a little more than an hour from our house. We drank our coffee in silence. The tension was palpable. We both felt like we were playing hooky and it felt dangerous and exhilarating, kind of like our wedding. As we drove into higher elevation and the bright golden trees came into view, our bodies relaxed, our breathing no longer that of truant congregants. I marveled at the regrowth only five years after the devastating 2013 Colorado floods and said a prayer of thanks for the ability to return and rebuild.
Lisa Trank is a Colorado-based writer. Her work has been published in the Saturday Evening Post, Kveller, the University of Denver Journal, Tiferet, as well as a number of anthologies.
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SEPHARDIC ROSH HASHANAH JEWELED RICE
INGREDIENTS: • 1 ½ tsp salt • 1 tsp sweet paprika • ½ tsp turmeric • ¼ tsp cumin • ⅛ tsp black pepper • 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil divided, plus 1 tsp • 2 medium size onions, diced small • 10 dried apricots, quartered
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6 dried figs (we used Smyrna), quartered ¼ cup dried cherries ¼ cups pistachios or pumpkin seeds 1 cup long grain rice (Jasmine, Basmati or whatever you prefer) 1 cup water 1 ½ tsp fresh lemon or orange zest 1 cup pomegranate seeds
METHOD: 1. Combine salt, sweet paprika, turmeric, cumin and black pepper in a small bowl. Set aside. 2. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a deep, non stick skillet with a lid. Add rice and spices and stir well. 3. Cook over medium heat for about 3-4 minutes, stirring constantly and making sure the rice gets well coated with the oil and the spices. 4. Add 1 cup of water. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat to low. Cook for 20 minutes, remove from heat and let it sit for 15 minutes covered. 5. In the meantime, heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a non stick skillet. 6. Add onions and cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes stirring frequently, adding water 1 tablespoon at a time if necessary, to prevent from burning. 7. Transfer onions to a plate and in the same skillet, heat 1 teaspoon of olive oil. Add dried fruit and pistachios or pumpkin seeds and cook over medium low for 2-3 minutes, stirring frequently. 8. Once the rice is ready, fluff it with a fork, add onions, dried fruit, pistachios and lemon or orange zest and toss well. 9. Right before serving sprinkle pomegranate seeds on the rice.
- Recipe by Vicky Cohen and Ruth Fox
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UNTIL (DEDICATED TO THE RABBI, CANTOR, AND MEMBERS OF BETH TORAH CONGREGATION) Until the day we meet again, and I can shake your hand, Until we’re all un-masked again, each woman, child and man, Until all our simple pleasures will be safe for us once more, Until we can welcome everyone who comes through our synagogue’s door, Until healing comes to an ailing world, until caution and fear disappear, Until we can comfort, and hug and kiss all those whom we hold dear, Until we can be together, I tell you this, and it’s true: Until then, dear friends and neighbours, know that I‘m thinking of you.
- Sharron Elkouby, Beth Torah Poet-in-Residence
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TOP 10 YOUTUBE KIDS VIDEOS FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS
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THE ROSH HASHANAH SHABOOM! SPECIAL: BE THE BEST ME
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SHANA TOVA, HAPPY NEW YEAR (ROSH HASHANAH SONG FOR CHILDREN)
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SHALOM SESAME: THE STICKY SHOFAR PART I, II, AND III
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COME TOGETHER AND ROCK HASHANAH! (A ROSH HASHANAH RESOLUTIONS SONG)
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SHOFAR CALLIN': THE ROSH HASHANAH SONG FOR THE JEWISH NEW YEAR
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FOR IDS 10 K VIDEOS S P O T Y E TUB L I DA YO U I G H H O H THE
REALLY, REALLY SORRY: FOR YOM KIPPUR, THE SPARKS SAY SLICHA!
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YOM KIPPUR: A BOOK OF JONAH SONG FOR KIDS ON THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS
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ENDINGS & BEGINNINGS: EXPLAINING SIMCHAT TORAH WITH PARSHAT BERESHIT
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THE LEGO SUKKOT MOVIE: JEWISH HOLIDAYS 101
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DIY JEWISH SLIME! HOW TO MAKE THE BEST KIDDUSH SLIME EVER!
THE HIGH HOLIDAYS, ACCORDING TO DANIEL TIGER By Miriam Steinberg-Egeth, Kveller “What’s teshuvah?” my 3-year-old daughter asked as we were getting dressed for services on the first day of Rosh Hashanah and talking about the holiday. I explained that during this time of year from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, we can change things about ourselves and how we act in the world. I said, “If you don’t like how something is going, you can turn it around.” She thought for a moment, then her face lit up and she said, “Like Daniel Tiger says!” Before I could figure out what the heck she was talking about, she sang, “When something seems bad, turn it around and find something good.” “Yes,” I said. “Like that. That’s what teshuvah means.” Each episode of “Daniel Tiger,” a cartoon based on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” teaches a life lesson through the characters’ experiences and then hammers it home through a short and catchy musical phrase. The phrases stay with you. Some of them have literally haunted my dreams, but they have also come in handy: “You gotta try new foods because they might taste good,” gets sung about once a day in our house, as does, “When you feel frustrated, take a step back and ask for help.” This is about as quality as children’s television programming can get, and when my daughter made this connection between a Jewish life lesson and a preschool life lesson, I beamed. (It also helped me feel less guilty about how much TV she watches.) An hour later, we were getting ready to go to services in the rain, and her brand new extremely sparkly Rosh Hashanah shoes got wet. Just as she started to cry, I sang, “When something seems bad, turn it around and find something good.” We spent the rest of our walk talking about good things about the rain: Without it, there would be no “Singin’ in the Rain,” which is quite possibly her favorite thing in the world. The plants would be thirsty. There would be no rainbows. Throughout the day, visiting friends, going to the playground, eating dinner, I sang this line at least a dozen times. After dinner, we made popcorn, and honestly, it wasn’t that good, and I thought she was done with it, so I absentmindedly ate the rest. Then she asked for the popcorn and was horrified that it was gone. “When something seems bad, turn it around
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and find something good.” I made another batch of popcorn, much better than the first. We turned it around. Over and over again these words resonated. Over and over again they had a meaningful impact on the psyche of a 3-year-old. Over and over again they made teshuvah real for her and for me. I marveled at the fact that I had never before used this particular Daniel Tiger-ism in our daily interactions. It is so easy and inevitable for a 3-year-old to be derailed by the minutiae of routine inconveniences. This aggravatingly simple ditty gave us a way to refocus our energy on seeing the positive. I also marveled at the fact that, in the course of one day (and not just any day!), singing this song had an immediate impact on our collective perspective. My next thought was this: Do we have this many opportunities every day to turn things around? I think the answer is yes, and if so, then our obligation to do teshuvah is not only impactful and relevant this time of year but is also ever-present, cumulative, and simple. If you’re driving the wrong direction on the way to work, turn around. If you’re going on the wrong path towards being the person you want to be, change your course. When you see it through a 3-year-old’s eyes, it’s all obvious. “Aliza, you’re too far away. Come on back.” I say that 100 times a day. Each time when she comes back, she’s doing ageappropriate teshuvah. Of course, the more difficult part is translating this realization and figuring out what the ageappropriate teshuvah is for me. Or maybe it could be simple for me, too. Maybe the things that I’m doing wrong have such obvious fixes that the people around me can’t believe I haven’t just turned around. I’ve certainly felt that way about other people and their problems. Maybe the real goal of these 10 days is to strip our problems, our inadequacies, and our disappointments down to a 3-year-old’s comprehension level, so that, as adults, we can clearly see the solution. “When something seems bad, turn it around, and find something good.” I know, life is not actually a 3-year-old’s television show. There are, in fact, some really terrible things going on in the world on both political and personal levels. And yet, if you sing this song to yourself even once a week, even once a year, and it helps you to turn around, then, like my daughter, and like me, you’ve learned something about teshuvah.
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MOROCCAN HARIRA SOUP In the Suissa home in Casablanca, and then in Montreal, this soup was served at festive meals and the break fast of Yom Kippur. INGREDIENTS: • 2 cups diced onions • 2 cups diced celery • 1 cup chopped parsley • 1 cup chopped cilantro • ¼ cup olive or vegetable oil • ½ teaspoon ground turmeric • ½ teaspoon dried red chili (optional) • 1-2 teaspoon salt • 1 teaspoon pepper • 1 cup green lentils, rinsed • 1 can (15 ounce) garbanzo beans, peeled
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1 can (15 ounce) crushed tomatoes or 4 medium chopped fresh tomatoes 2 quarts or more good chicken broth* 1 egg ¼ cup fresh lemon juice ¼ cup flour 4 cups cold water ¾ cup extra fine egg noodles Half of a cooked chicken, cubed or shredded, white and dark meat (from chicken used to make broth) ¼ cup chopped cilantro
METHOD: 1. Whisk together flour and water, set aside. 2. Beat egg and lemon juice, set aside. 3. Heat oil and add onion, celery, cilantro, parsley, turmeric, chili (if desired) and 1 teaspoon salt. 4. Sauté over medium/high heat until well-cooked and blended, about 10 minutes. 5. Add 1 quart of the stock, lentils, garbanzos and tomatoes, bring to a boil. 6. Reduce heat and simmer until lentils are tender but not too mushy, about 20-25 minutes. 7. Add remaining stock, chicken, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon pepper and continue to simmer another 5 minutes. 8. While stirring slowly, stream in egg/lemon mixture, followed by half of the flour/water mixture. 9. Bring to a low boil. Stir in noodles. 10. At any point, add a bit of stock, water or flour mixture to desired consistency. The soup should be hearty and somewhat thick. 11. Stir in remaining 1/4 cup cilantro. Add salt to taste.
- Recipe by Meme Suissa
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HIGH HOLIDAY HAIKUS A pandemic year Teaches us a hard lesson What is important Humanity prays For a new year of healing For one and for all Nothing’s forever Neither good times nor bad times But there’s always hope A new year begins Full of possibilities: Peace, joy and good health for all May we be inscribed For a year of health and peace And let’s say Amen
- Sharron Elkouby, Beth Torah Poet-in-Residence
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DIY APPLE-STAMPED CARD SUPPLIES: • Knife • Apple • Paper towel • Red acrylic paint • Paper plate • Package of 20 blank cards • Metallic markers METHOD: 1. Carefully cut the apple in half from top to bottom (try to leave the stem intact while cutting). Blot the cut sides on paper towel so that the apple halves will be as dry as possible. 2. 2. Squirt or pour a small amount of paint onto the paper plate. 3. Dip the cut side of the apple into paint, taking care to completely cover the dipped side with paint. 4. Stamp the apple onto the card and carefully lift the apple so that the apple stamp does not smudge. Repeat dipping the same apple half in paint, stamping as many times as necessary. Allow to dry. 5. Use metallic markers to write Shana Tova on the card. 6. Repeat for remaining cards.
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CONDOLENCES We offer our sincerest condolences to the following families on their losses since March 15, 2020. May you know no more sorrow.
LEV ALEINIKOV, father and father-in-law of Anna Aleinikov and Andrew Morris.
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SEPTEMBER 19, 20 & 28, 2020 Living Jewishly presents: Living the High Holidays! Three afternoons of bespoke virtual programming meant to bring us all even closer together during these high and holy days. After enjoying a meaningful morning with Beth Torah, join us in the afternoon, starting at 1pm, as we explore a variety of holiday related themes created with your whole family in mind. On September 19th, on the first day of Rosh Hashana, we will begin conversations that will continue the next day and conclude on Yom Kippur. Throughout the program, we hope to delight you with special interludes meant to inspire and amplify the character of these most important dates in the Jewish Calendar. We hope you and your family will join us.
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