Preparing for the year end and the new year

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Brought to you by: CENTER for the ART of PERFORMANCE at UCLA Preparing for the year end and the new year by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Photo by Lynn Pelkey The beginning and end of each year are times that stimulate all of us to think. Even those who are not in the habit of making a daily "accounting of this world" (Bava Batra 78b) tend to do so at these moments, these days that are so conducive to examining, summing up and planning.  More.  Workers clean the cracks of the Western Wall ahead of Rosh Hashanah. Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters Revisiting the year in news: keep worrying by Shmuel Rosner, Rosner's Domain Twelve months in a year, 12 articles or events I want to revisit at the end of the Jewish year. Clockwise, from top-left: Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Rabbi Aaron Panken and Rabbi Denise Eger Rabbis' High Holy Days sermons to emphasize spirituality, not politics by Ryan Torok, Staff Writer Over the last several weeks, Rabbi Yonah Bookstein of Pico Shul and Rabbi Kalman Topp of Beth Jacob Congregation have been gathering signatures from rabbis across the country opposed to the Iran nuclear agreement. So far, more than 1,200 have signed on. Here the writer displays her grandfather's shofar. Photo by Tess Cutler Blowing the shofar can be a dangerous exercise in chutzpah by Tess Cutler, Contributing Writer "Hold her tongue!" That's what I remember: my sister calling out for someone to hold my tongue. Brought to you by: CENTER for the ART of PERFORMANCE at UCLA FOLLOW US:     Forward this email This email was sent to phillipphillip787@gmail.com by news@jewishjournal.com |   Rapid removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | About our service provider. TRIBE Media Corp. | 3250 Wilshire Boulevard | Suite 1250 | Los Angeles | CA | 90010