Word: emanu
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...little too radical for some. Ronald Sobel, senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, New York City's largest Reform synagogue, says that in elevating ritual to parity with ethics, the guidelines constitute "a distortion of the uniqueness of Reform Judaism." Since the principles are not compulsory, they will continue to be debated by Reform Jews everywhere. But after the measure passed in Pittsburgh, the "for" voters linked arms with the "against" voters, and all joined in the traditional prayer song Shehechiyanu. The words are Hebrew. Everybody knew them...
...Forgive me, people. You're going to fight him now or you're going to fight him later," said Richard J. Margolis, associate rabbi of Temple Emanu-E1 in Miami Beach, at a Friday evening service...