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Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows”   A bitter irony of Israel’s recent election of two new chief rabbis is that the only group that […]

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In his thoughtful and provocative new book, “The American Jewish Story Through Cinema” (University of Texas Press), Eric A. Goldman refers to Hollywood films about American Jewish life as “a Haggadah,” the Passover text that is savored and studied annually. “The Haggadah is a unique book in Judaism,” Goldman says. “It’s not a prayer book, […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Candles: 6:52 p.m. Torah: Leviticus 16:1-34; 18:1-30; Numbers 29:7-11 Haftarah: Isaiah 57:14-58:14; Book of Jonah; Micah 7:18-20 Yom Kippur ends: 7:49 p.m. Just as the shadows of the great gates are falling, we read the strange story of a man who is swallowed by a whale. Why, when our bellies are at their […]

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