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September 1, 2010
September brings High Holidays to Temple Shaare Tefilah BY DAWN C. FITZGERALD For the congregation of Temple Shaare Tefilah, along with Rabbi Andrea M. Gouze, September is a month of filled with reflection, family, and feasts. Rosh Hashanah is more popularly known for the celebration of the New Year of the Jewish calendar. But Rosh Hashanah actually is more complex than that, having four different parts. • It is considered a Day of Judgment as Jewish people examine their year’s past deeds and ask for forgiveness of their sins. • It is a Day of the Shofar, in which a large Ram’s horn is blown in the
temple to proclaim the beginning of the 10-day period known in Jewish culture as the High Holidays. Rabbi Gouze has fond childhood memories of the Shofar being blown during Temple services. She states the Shofar is “a wake up call to what we were doing wrong…it breaks us out of our routine.” • It is a Day of Remembrance in which Jewish people review their history and pray for Israel. • And it is known as New Year’s Day. According to Rabbi Gouze, “Rosh Hashanah is solemn yet joyous; it celebrates the creation of the
world.” On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, this year on September 9, there are temple services. After services, some congregants then head to a body of running water to wash away their sins - called Tashlikh. According to Gouze, for many years, the Tashlikh was not performed, “But it is starting to come back,” she says. Her Congregation would go to a locale and throw crumbs of bread into the water Rabbi Andrea M. Gouze of Norwood’s Temple Shaare Tefilah demonstrates the traditional blowing of the Shofar. symbolizing “throwing away crumbs of sins,” said Rabbi formed but in a new locale. The relocated as well. Gouze. “And the ducks and birds Temple moved from their building Rosh Hashanah is associated with on Nichols Street to its new localoved it,” she said with a smile. tion on Commerce Way. The locaHIGH HOLIDAYS This year, Tashlikh will be per- tion of this ritual now has to be continued on page 3
Norwood Memorial Airport: a Fixture in Town Since World War II BY CAITLIN FROST
In 1942, the federal government built the Norwood Airport in order to support the war effort. It was used in World War II as a practice take-off-and-landing-base for Navy pilots based at Squantum Naval Air Station. At the end of the war, the federal government relinquished the airport and the town of Norwood was left with a beautiful infrastructure. Through a
town meeting vote, the airport came under the direct control of the municipality, and has been owned by Norwood since 1946. There are 37 public use airports in Massachusetts—38 if you count Boston Logan—and the Norwood Airport is one of the busier facilities. Pilots, government agencies, and the military, along with working professionals and private businesses from around the country
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use the airport. “We do not cater to commercial airlines; we cannot land them. We’re strictly for non-commercial airline use,” Airport Manager Russ Maguire said. “People tend to think this airport is used strictly for the rich and famous, but it’s for the general flying public’s use. There are 10 businesses that base at the Norwood Airport, and we have everything from flight schools to
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aircraft maintenance shops here.” The airport encompasses 680 acres and bases more than 200 aircraft that includes single and multi-engine turboprops, pistons, jets, and helicopters. Excluding Logan, Norwood is the second highest aircraft tiedown base in Massachusetts. Annually, the airport logs 80,000-100,000 flight operations. There are two major runways that run East and West, and North and South, as well as several major
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access roads. The airport offers corporate, charter, and personal
transport; flight training; electronic news gathering (Channel 5 and 25); aerial spraying; pipeline patrols; airborne law enforcement; aircraft fueling and maintenance; as well as provides medical evacuations and organ donor flights. Along with air traffic control, the on-site businesses employ about 100 professionals. Celebrities, business executives—such as local Ernie Boch—regional and national politicians, and government officials routinely use the airport.
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