Word: yom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan Jews to God-and to Orthodoxy-in surprising numbers. Even on ordinary Sabbaths his new synagogue in the round is filled, and more than half the worshipers are young adults under 30. But Riskin has prepared middle-aged men as well as teenagers for Bar Mitzvah, and last Yom Kippur gave an 80-year-old man his first prayer shawl...
World Reborn. This week Steven Riskin will preside at the festival he loves most: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which he calls the Day of Forgiveness. He is determined that his congregation shall find it not a day of sorrow but one of "total catharsis," when man can once again be completely free from sin, an innocent in a world reborn. "God loves us no matter how guilty we are," the rabbi reminded his congregation at a special midnight service in preparation for the High Holy Days. "He will stretch His arms out to us if only we will...
...Lutheranism. In a climactic all-night conversation in July 1913, Rosenzweig agreed to follow Rosenstock's lead, but vowed to enter the church "as a Jew," like the earliest Christians. While preparing for the leap, Rosenzweig went to services in a small Orthodox synagogue in Berlin on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. He never publicly revealed what happened to him at the service, but he emerged from it a changed man, no longer willing-or even able -to become a Christian. Later, in The Star of Redemption, he would write about that holiest of Jewish holy days...
Before October was over, Manhattan Lawyer Sidney B. Alexander had prepared a list of complaints against Schechter. Among them: "an unsightly looking mass of hippie-type hair," a "spirit of levity" in the Yom Kippur sermon, and an unseemly harping on the "doomsday theory." The charges were tabled by the temple's trustees, but the malediction lingered...
...diary, for which he had publication in mind from the start, Siegel lets it all hang out: the April Friday that he chose to give his "Sermon of the Year" on Portnoy's Complaint, and drew a Yom Kippur-sized crowd: the July day when he had to delay a wedding ceremony in order to satisfy the couple's wish that they be pronounced man and wife at the moment the astronauts landed on the moon: the mother who decided on a ruinous $15,000 bar mitzvah so that "we'll be able to face our neighbors...