The idea that Jews are “white” is racist and deeply offensive to me. I grew up as a Jew in a very antisemitic part of Boston. After my Dad returned from his service in WWII Germany, his life was threatened by toughs. I still treasure the German “head breaker” cane he [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Yom Kippur’
September 22nd, 2015 - 6:05 pm § in Misc.
Frank Ordains an American Mass Murderer?
As he visits America, on the day when Jews celebrate the need to artone for OUR, that is the Jews’, errors, Pope Francis must be accused of celebrating one of HIS, that is the Church’s, worst atrocities .. the enslavement, ethnic genocide and deaths of California’s indigenous[...]
Asking Forgiveness Without Conditions is The Tradition at Yom Kippur
Photo: AP JEWS DO BAD THINGS TOO: Last year Israelis and Palestinians protested together after a firebomb was thrown at a synagogue followed by two dozen Muslim and Christian graves being vandalized by graffiti in the mixed Arab Jewish neighborhood of Jaffa, Israel, October 8, 2011, Yom Kippur, [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: as we approach Yom Kippur תשובה
Rabbenu Yonah of Gerona taught that anyone who someone commits a sin can make restoration by apology and by acts to repair the harm done. Tuesday night, instead of going to Drinking Liberally, Barb and I will go to services and there, with the other Jews of our congregation, we will beat our chests [...]