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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 – 25 ELUL 5781 JEWISHVOL 46, NO 1 JOURNALJEWISHJOURNAL.ORG THE INTERVIEW On Baseball, Family and Judaism PAGE 9 INSIDE: Special High Holiday Greetings Section Rabbis’ New Year’s Essays Photo: Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images APPLY FOR A GREAT MORTGAGE IN LESS TIME THAN IT TAKES TO READ THE PAPER. Use your smart phone to apply for a great mortgage in just 15 minutes. Apply now at MetroCU.org. Chelsea | Boston | Burlington | Framingham | Lawrence | Lynn | Melrose Newton | Peabody | Salem | Tewksbury | MetroCU.org | 877.MY.METRO NMLS# 198524 The Jewish Journal is a nonprofit newspaper supported by generous readers, committed advertisers and charitable organizations. Email [email protected]. 2 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 Learn more about our shared values and how you can help refugees at hias.org/highholidays ROP THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 3 Highly contagious delta variant changes temples’ High Holiday plans Shana Tova! Wishing you a healthy, happy, and sweet new year Marla Gay, ABR®, SRES® REALTOR® since 5777 Congregation Shirat Hayam’s Rabbi Michael Ragozin will lead in-person and livestreaming High Holiday services. Offi ces in Swampscott and Marblehead By Ethan M. Forman the second year in a row. if they were not vaccinated are [email protected] | 781.820.7892 JOURNAL STAFF While many shuls closed now requiring them regardless during the pandemic last year, of vaccination status. Some are SWAMPSCOTT – Rosh offering services via Zoom or asking members to show their Hashanah begins Monday eve- livestreaming, Chabad stayed little white vaccination cards. ning, Sept. 6, and in order to open using “multiple services, Some are surveying members to LISTEN TO COMMUNITY LEADER keep members safe, area tem- locations and times,” according find out if they wish to attend in JIM SHAINKER AND GUESTS ples are tightening up their to a message to members. person or online. COVID-19 health and safety “We were confident that this Some shuls are making space DISCUSS CURRENT EVENTS ~ LITERATURE ~ HOLIDAYS ~ guidelines. year we would be able to be outdoors for those who are POLITICS ~ ISRAEL ~ MUSIC ~ HALACHA ~ AND MORE For the High Holidays, back indoors and celebrate as unvaccinated to attend in per- Chabad of the North Shore usual. But G-d has other plans,” son. 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After a deadly terror attack more than $600,000 to support Steven A. Rosenberg immigrants and refuge-seekers The fund announcement also in Kabul last week that killed 13 refugee and immigrant services. [email protected] arrive in the United States each includes other ways the commu- U.S. military personnel and at “Though the U.S. govern- day, two faith-based organiza- nity can help, including provid- least 170 Afghans, reports say, ment provides a small stipend Associate Editor tions have joined together to ing leads on housing and spon- the humanitarian need has only to the Afghan refugees and the Ethan M. Forman offer urgently needed assistance sorship for families through the intensified in the rush to get resettlement agency, the full [email protected] to families and individuals set- Jewish Community Relations people to safety. cost of relocation will require the tling in Greater Boston. Council of Greater Boston. This is the third time that generosity of private donors,” Accounting Manager Combined Jewish “Our Jewish values and our CJP and Catholic Charities have MacKenzie said. “We are thank- Anne Waymouth Philanthropies and Catholic history compel us to act. As combined forces to help those ful for the opportunity to work [email protected] Charities last week announced Jews, we have been the stranger. seeking safety in the United together with CJP, as together Director of the Fund for Afghan Immigrants Doors have been closed to us. We States. Over the past five years, we are able to have a more sig- Advertising & Marketing and Refugees, amid news from know that pain of no one help- the organizations launched nificant impact on serving those Lois Kaplan Kabul of people desperately ing us – and so we know we must initiatives to help families and in need of all backgrounds.” [email protected] scrambling to find ways out of help,” Dr. Sarah Abramson, CJP’s children separated at the U.S. The community has the country. senior vice president of Strategy border, including legal aid for responded as well, with CJP Senior Strategic Media Manager The fund, with a link on CJP’s and Impact, said. “There are tens those seeking refugee status. and Catholic Charities receiv- Marcy Grand website, https://www.cjp.org, of thousands of people arriv- Kevin MacKenzie, CEO of ing nearly $50,000 from hun- [email protected] will provide direct support for ing in the United States every Catholic Charities, said the dreds of donors within two days Graphics, Web, new arrivals to Boston, includ- day. These are people who were funds will help fill the gap of launching the fundraising Russian Chronicle Editor ing food, housing, employment our allies during the 20-year war between the limited support effort. Yulia Zhorov assistance and other basic needs and they’re starting over, often provided by the federal govern- for Afghan families and individ- with nothing but the clothes on ment and the needs of arriving To learn more about the fund [email protected] uals settling in Greater Boston their backs. They need our help Afghan families. In 2017, CJP or to make a donation, visit Graphics, Web, Obituaries through Catholic Charities urgently to start new lives here.” and Catholic Charities raised www.cjp.org/FAIR. Andrew P. Fleischer [email protected] Administrative Assistant Linda Smidt [email protected] Editorial Cartoonist George Freedman Board of Overseers Johanna Matloff, President Bob Blayer, *Rick Borten, Andrew Caplan, Beverly Clark, Fred M. Cohen, Neil D. 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