Happy Rosh Hashanah to all my Jewish readers. I'll be going to services tomorrow at my new synagogue, and I'll be on the lookout for Burn Your Siddur moments. Last Yom Kippur, you may remember, the president of the shul I went to somehow managed to quote the Communist Manifesto in his fundraising schpiel.
UPDATE: No siddur-burning this year, I’m happy to report. A beautiful service, a moving sermon by the rabbi that defended Israel, bashed terrorism, and drew a line from excuse-making for the 1972 Munich massacre to 9/11- and on top of that, no fundraising schpiel. Best Synagogue Experience Ever, and I didn’t even need to pay a scalper.
Posted by Stephen Silver at October 4, 2005 01:48 AMI walked out (as I always do) of the shul-sanctioned panhandling. The way I see it, I hate being panhandled by crackheads on the street, I'm certainly not going to put up with it in Rosh Hashanah services.
(The sermon, though was interesting - about the Jews in China.)