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2 | September 10, 2020 Jews prepare for a High Holiday season of resilience

By Shira Hanau, Philissa Cramer socially distanced prayer services learned to the most-attended during their streamed services. (JTA) — For many Jews, a for Orthodox Jews who do not services of the year. In many cases, Orthodox high point of services on Rosh use technology on holidays. There will be no packed synagogues are separating their Hashanah and Yom Kippur is the “How do you do Rosh sanctuaries. Some synagogues service leaders from congregants, Unetaneh Tokef prayer, which Hashanah on your own?” said that are convening in person sometimes with Plexiglas wonders who will live and who Rabbi Vanessa Ochs, a professor — almost all Orthodox — are sheaths, and discouraging will die in the year ahead. of Jewish studies at the University taking dramatic steps to keep congregants from singing. This year, that question will of Virginia. “Our community congregants safe, including “There are people who are take on added resonance, as the hasn’t invented that yet.” limiting attendance and singing through masks, through High Holidays fall six months When Passover arrived shortening services to allow for Plexiglas, through masks plus into a global pandemic that weeks into the pandemic, there multiple shifts. face shields plus Plexiglas,” has reshaped lives, battered was little time to rethink age- The long sermons that said Joanna Dulkin, a cantor at institutions and killed hundreds old communal traditions for a are often a centerpiece of the Congregation Adath Jeshurun in of thousands of people, including moment that required isolation. holidays are being truncated — Minnetonka, Minnesota, which many in Jewish communities. Five months later, congregations to safeguard against distraction is holding services online. “We Photo: Courtesy of Weiner At the same time, the have a great deal of experience — for Jews watching from home did make the decision that we Rabbi Jason Weiner announced in prayer will be experienced in albeit unplanned and unwanted and to limit virus exposure for would rather not feel like we are July that he planned to put a mask on his shofar during the High Holiday dramatically new ways: on the — creating meaningful Jewish those inside synagogues. leading services through a war season, a choice that many others are same computer that usually is experiences that are safe amid With singing considered zone.” now making to ensure that they do not home to work or school for most a global crisis, and they are among the most dangerous But Dulkin, who is the vice spread the coronavirus when blowing American Jews, and in solo or applying the lessons they’ve activities possible, choirs will not president of the Conservative the ram’s horn. convene, nor will congregants’ movement’s Cantors Assembly, singing together because it feeds voices rise together in song. said that even though her me as well,” she said. Instead, in many non-Orthodox congregation has come up The shofar will be heard in new synagogues, cantors and others with creative ways to deliver ways. Rather than crowding their are taping services in advance an elevated musical experience congregants into the sanctuary outdoors or recording themselves during the High Holidays, she to hear the shofar blast, rabbis individually, then mixing their also feels a sense of loss. in many communities are fine- voices to produce videos to air “I’ll miss the sound of everyone tuning schedules for shofar-

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North Texas synagogues have a variety of services planned for the High Holidays beginning with Selichot this Saturday, Sept. 12. Most services require prior registration, membership and or tickets to participate though some will stream their services on Facebook Live. Orthodox synagogues require advance registration for in-person services as well. Check with your synagogue for the most up-to- date information.

Photo: Courtesy of Rabbi Binyamin Blau blowing in local neighborhoods A socially distanced outdoor service at the Green Road Synagogue in Cleveland, and public spaces. Many plan to August 2020. apply a face mask on the open end Sholom, an Orthodox synagogue Moffet, a Phoenix native who has of the ram’s horn in accordance in Washington, D.C. led a London-area synagogue for with expert advice about how Simmering below the three years. His synagogue, like to protect against spreading the surface in the planning of all but a handful in England, is virus. many synagogues are deep fears not streaming services, but he “I’ve been practicing and that the pandemic’s extension does plan to offer congregants trying it,” said Rabbi Jason through the High Holiday season one live experience on Rosh Weiner, a chaplain at Cedars- may harm Jewish institutions Hashanah: a shofar blast from Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for the long haul. Though many the top of the 11th-century St. who was among the first to share have been seeing increased Albans Cathedral in their city. publicly that he planned to mask attendance at virtual services, And some see the pandemic, his shofar, which he plans to without the annual cash infusion and the Zoom High Holidays, blow multiple times throughout that ticket sales for in-person accelerating trends that already the hospital rather than in the High Holiday services bring, were present in Jewish life for single large service he typically and with community members years. holds for doctors, patients and under financial pressure and “I think it’s important for us Photo: Fisher family their families. “It’s hard to hear potentially less able to pay to realize that what’s happening The Fisher Family, Laurel and Mark and son Ethan, pre-record the fi rst aliyah for a difference.” dues, congregations across the because of the pandemic is an Temple Shalom’s Rosh Hashanah morning service. The sounds of children will denominational spectrum aren’t extension of what was happening be absent, too. With child care sure how they’ll make ends meet over the last couple of decades,” expect high-quality productions season is sure to endure, as it has settings carrying special risks, this year. said Rick Recht, a popular over homegrown services. for centuries already. family services are not taking “They’re expecting that their song leader and performer in For his part, Recht said he “Unetaneh Tokef is in,” place in most synagogues that are revenue will be down, in some the Reform and Conservative believes the two styles can coexist said Rabbi Binyamin Blau of open. Some are holding regular ways, for the next year,” said movements. in thriving Jewish communities. Cleveland’s Orthodox Green services in shifts so parents can Amy Asin, the Union for Reform Recht is working with two “I feel that we’re heading Road Synagogue, referring to the take turns staying home with Judaism’s vice president for other song leaders to provide a toward a new paradigm of a prayer that asks who will live and their children. strengthening congregations. package of customizable video hybrid, virtual and physical,” he who will die, which specifically Some synagogues are trying But the need to make services for kids and families that said. mentions the specter of plague. to help families navigate the adjustments has also spurred synagogues can pay to provide to Whatever long-term changes “We’re not cutting that out.” holidays at home, including innovations that many rabbis say congregants. It’s an arrangement this unprecedented High Holiday by putting together boxes of are needed. that even some participating season may portend, and however Ben Harris and Ben Sales contributed report- supplies to be used instead of or “Catastrophe is absolutely the synagogues recognize could Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur ing. in addition to family services at mother of creativity in Jewish create a dangerous precedent are being experienced this year, home. life,” said Rabbi Adam Zagoria- — having congregants come to the spiritual core of the holiday “What we’ve learned over these months is that to create an If you or someone you know is homebound and has been impacted by the coronavirus online program is not just to take an in-person program and just to Please visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/dallascovidneeds put it online, it’s a new field of engagement,” said Rabba Rachel Kohl Finegold of Congregation The Jewish Federation, led by the Health Crisis Management Team, is orchestrating the delivery of Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal, essential needs to those most impacted by social distancing and quarantine due to COVID-19. who is planning to send an apple cake mix to families in a If you have an urgent need, please call the help line below container that can then serve as 214-615-5241| M-TH 9am-5pm | Fri 9am-3pm a “gratitude jar” all year. “You need something tangible.” Stay Safe. 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Annual championship for orders of sliced brisket by the DETAILS reimagined pound, smoked Jack’s Gourmet • For more information or to Sausage and smoked turkey legs. place orders until Oct. 12, visit By Deb Silverthorn All items will be prepared by E dallaskosherbbq.com. The Sixth Annual Dallas & J Carolina BBQ’s Ken Foster • In addition to ordering your Kosher BBQ Championship alongside Congregation Beth barbecue, check out the silent will adapt to the pandemic era Torah Men’s Club members auction, with autographed this year, but some things won’t and under the supervision of barbecue books, an Outdoor Fun and Que package and raffl e change, including delicious Dallas Kosher. Baked beans with tickets for a Traeger Pro 780 kosher barbecue and a giving- shredded brisket, coleslaw and smoker package. back spirit. a variety of non-dairy Ben and • To register to give blood, visit The reimagined event will Jerry’s ice cream fl avors are also cbt.news/blooddrive20. be held Oct. 25, with pickup of available. preordered items available from “In the last three years I’ve 1 to 4 p.m. at Sunnyland Outdoor learned about kosher guidelines, “This year it’s about the nachas Living in Far North Dallas. their signifi cance, importance and the tochen, the substance Advance orders are available from and their connection to the of camaraderie,” said Dallas “In the last three years I’ve learned about Photos: David Duchin/dspnphotos.com now through Oct. 12. Jewish people. It’s a privilege for Kosher Director of Supervision kosher guidelines, their signifi cance, From 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 25, “We couldn’t let the year go us to honor that,” said Foster, Rabbi David Shawel. “We have importance and their connection to the Chaim the Bull will welcome those by without connecting, without a previous Dallas Kosher BBQ the opportunity for the kavanah, Jewish people. It’s a privilege for us to picking up orders at the Drive Thru honor that,” said Ken Foster, the 2018 Edition of the Dallas Kosher BBQ sharing the goodness of the Championship winner. “We’ve the focus, on bringing together Championship. The dallaskosherbbq. kehillah Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship Reserve fl avors of kosher barbecue and competed here, we know what our , our community, as Grand Champion previous winner, who com website is open through Oct. the goodness of our community good food means to people and Jews.” is readying to prepare food for this year’s 12 for orders of sliced brisket by coming together,” said Brian we’re ready to prepare it fresh and This year, while the festival Drive-Thru Edition. “We’ve competed the pound, smoked Jack’s Gourmet Rubenstein, who with Sandy Dorf delicious.” atmosphere will be different, here, we know what good food means to Sausage, smoked turkey legs, baked people and we’re ready to prepare it and it beans, coleslaw and non-dairy Ben and Jeff Markowitz co-chairs the The Championship, one of there will be opportunities to give will be fresh and delicious.” and Jerry’s ice cream. annual event. the country’s premier kosher blood via the American Red Cross “We’ve changed the ‘how,’ but barbecue contests, has previously and drop off nonperishable foods CEO Cathy Barker. “The numbers thank them enough and we thank we know this will be a very special hosted teams from Chicago, for the Jewish Family Service’s are growing as unemployment the community for helping by event that is safe, delicious and Dallas, Kansas City and Miami. Food Pantry. JFS will also benefi t benefi ts have run out and people, coming out and ordering your that allows us to give back to our The teams battle it out in from some of the event’s proceeds. even with savings, are fi nding barbecue.” charitable partners.” the Sunnyland Outdoor Living “While we are immensely themselves in situations that they Rubenstein said that although All items must be ordered parking lot starting after proud of our impact this far, we never could have dreamed of.” he’ll miss the gathering and the and paid for, in advance and Shabbat, and on Sunday the arena know our work has just begun. Barker added, “Our services competition, “the event’s spirit none will be available the day transforms into a community In recent years, we served around are much more critical right now will be here. 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By Penny Schwartz daily prayers like the Shema for New Year at a time when holiday Amberin Huq’s brightly colored story, set in the early 20th century, is going to sleep, to blessings for BOSTON (JTA) — Sparkling traditions are being upended due to illustrations are new, too. perfect for ages 7 to 10. Shabbat and special occasions. stars and the light of the full harvest the coronavirus pandemic. Having This year’s crop of newcomers Rosh Hashanah begins on the Each blessing, explained in lively moon comfort a young boy and his to deal with quarantine and perhaps also features the latest in the popular night of Sept. 18. Yom Kippur, the rhyming verse from the point older sister as they fall asleep in their school at home, families can take Sammy Spider series that has Day of Atonement, starts on the of view of the friendly Sammy family sukkah. pleasure turning the pages of these delighted kids for years. evening of Sept. 27. Spider, is written in Hebrew, That’s a scene in “Night Lights,” crisp new reads. Earlier this year, the Rosh Up next is Sukkot, the seven- transliteration and a simple an endearing new illustrated “Night Lights” was published Hashanah middle grade novel day fall harvest festival, when Jews English translation. The blessings children’s book by Barbara Diamond originally 25 years ago. The “Rachel’s Roses,” by Ferida Wolff and build small huts at their homes to recited over Shabbat candles, Goldin, one of the country’s most characters of the mother and sister illustrated by Margeaux Lucas, was recall the ancient Israelites who wine and challah are perfect for highly acclaimed Jewish children’s are featured more prominently in the named a notable middle grade novel wandered through the desert for 40 Rosh Hashanah, which begins this book authors. new shorter, refreshed text, Diamond in this year’s Sydney Taylor Book years after the Exodus from Egypt. year on Shabbat. Kids will enjoy It’s one of four new engaging Goldin told the Jewish Telegraphic Award for Jewish children’s books. The fall holidays wrap up with the spotting Sammy Spider dangling books for kids to usher in the Jewish Agency in a phone conversation. The heartwarming immigrant celebration of Simchat Torah, when from his web on the brightly the cycle of reading the Torah begins colored pages that embellish the anew. book. A holiday with ancient roots, Sukkot resonates with many issues of the day, Diamond Goldin observed, from its environmental and nature themes to a reminder of the plight of those who live in temporary shelters today, including refugees, a point she makes in her author’s note.

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By Tina Wasserman the meat and combine with the gravy two to three minutes until bright Passover might have the before reheating in a microwave. green, remove from hot water and four questions that are open for Whatever you do, don’t reheat your place in a bowl of ice water to set discussion but this Rosh Hashanah brisket in the oven! The oven will the color. Once finished, drain and has only one, and it is rhetorical: make it dry and overcooked. wrap in paper towel. Refrigerate for Why is this year different from up to five days. To eat, either serve all other years? For me it is not 2. CHICKEN SOUP cold or reheat in the microwave. rushing to get to services, not sitting near many of the people I feel very Strained of all meat and 7. VEGETABLES close to, not looking for those vegetables, chicken soup can be acquaintances that helped shape refrigerated for up to one week or Planning on grilling or oven who I am from those days 35 years frozen. roasting additional vegetables for ago when I started volunteering and Tina’s Tidbit: Freeze the meat your Rosh Hashanah dinner? Make giving back to my community. And, without skin and bone, and use it them three to four days in advance yes, this year I will not be feeding to make the best, most flavorful and refrigerate them. Serve at room and hugging the hundred people chicken salad you’ve ever had. temperature, or heat them up in the who have touched my life in the best microwave before serving. possible way. But the Holy Days are 3. GEFILTE FISH here and we still need to give thanks 8. POTATO KUGEL for many things that occurred Whether you make it as a loaf or Photo: Dave Carlin this year and still need to pray for rolled into balls, gefilte fish freezes If your kugel has enough eggs Chicken soup a year that is filled with hope and beautifully. Freeze the loaf right to bind the ingredients, once understanding for ourselves and our in the pan. Freeze shaped balls on completely cooked and cooled you Remove the vegetables to nibble on correct Potato Kugel for you to country. AND we still need to share a baking sheet, and once frozen, can freeze in an airtight container. and save the carrot for later use in the enhance to your liking. a festive meal even if it is only with remove and place in a freezer zip- Defrost slowly in the refrigerator soup. Strain the soup so that it is nice friends on Zoom like you might lock bag, then return to freezer. and reheat in a 325-degree oven. If and clear. • 6-8 large potatoes, raw have done on Passover. Shortly before you’re ready to eat, you like your kugels edible, be sure • 3 eggs, beaten well Despite the lack of numbers to defrost it in the refrigerator. I once not to reheat them in a microwave! 5. Place the soup in a clean pot and • 1 tablespoon salt feed, there are certain foods that you ate previously frozen gefilte fish 7 Here are four recipes that are add the carrots. Heat until nice and hot. • ½ teaspoon freshly ground pepper will miss if you don’t eat them for months after it was made and it my bare-bones basic must-haves Serve as is or with precooked matzo • ½ cup matzo or cracker meal Rosh Hashanah this year. No eating tasted just as good as the first time. for Yontiff. You might not consider balls or kreplach. • 1 medium onion, grated a baked potato with cottage cheese Teiglach on your list but it is from • ¼ cup oil or rendered chicken fat in your sweatpants! Set the table, 4. TEIGLACH my youth and I bring it to Adlene Tina’s Tidbits: wear something you haven’t put on Harrison each year because it’s on 1. Wash and grate the raw potatoes by for a while and enjoy some food that Teiglach is that beautiful tower her list as well! • Always cut up your chicken before hand or in a processor fitted with the you have prepared in advance that of crisp dough balls cooked in making soup; you expose more of the grating disc; there is no need to peel you can also freeze portions of for honeyed syrup that can be tough to CHICKEN SOUP interior of the meat to the water and potatoes. Place potatoes in a strainer, weeks to come. get just right. For many of us, when will produce a much richer-flavored rinse with cold water and drain well. Here are some of my tips and we attempt to make this dish we • 1 4-5 pound fowl or yearling (soup soup. recipes for classic holiday foods that end up with undercooked dough chicken); roaster will do 2. Grate the onion as you did the can be made in advance so that you or overcooked, hard syrup. Here’s a • 5 quarts water or water to cover • Even if you don’t keep kosher, use potatoes. If you are using a processor, can leisurely watch your services foolproof solution: Bake the teiglach • 1 parsnip, peeled and cut into thirds kosher chickens or organic chickens to change to the cutting blade, add ¼ of online and not worry if you are balls in advance and freeze them. (optional) make the soup. I once made this recipe the grated potatoes to the onion and overcooking the kugel. When you’re ready to assemble, • 1 large onion, peeled but left whole in a friend’s home using a well-known pulse on and off to make a coarse paste. I wish you all a healthy, contented which can be two to three days (pierce with a knife a few times) non-kosher chicken. The chicken Add to the grated raw potatoes in a and sweet New Year! before you’re ready to eat, defrost the • 1 turnip, peeled and left whole shrank in half because it had been large bowl. balls, make the syrup and assemble. • 2 stalks celery with leaves cut into plumped with water, and the soup 1. BRISKET thirds tasted like the chicken “ran” through it! 3. Add the eggs and the remaining 5. KREPLACH • 3 or more carrots, peeled and sliced ingredients including the ¼ cup oil or You probably know that brisket into 1-inch lengths • An alternative to clear soup is to chicken fat. tastes best if you cook it the day Kreplach are more than just • Fresh dill, 3 or more sprigs to taste remove the vegetables and herbs from before — but did you know that it Jewish dumplings. It’s traditional • Fresh parsley, 3 sprigs or more if the broth and then re-combine the 4. Oil a 2-quart casserole, and pour can still taste great prepared weeks Rosh Hashanah food because it’s parsnip isn’t being used vegetables with the broth in a blender potato mixture into the prepared pan. in advance? Just make sure that once sealed, signifying our hopes for • Salt and freshly ground black pepper until the mixture is opaque and creamy. Drizzle an additional tablespoon of oil you’ve prepared the brisket, you being sealed in the Book of Life. to taste over the top of the mixture and lightly separate the meat from the gravy. Once you’ve prepared your kreplach, POTATO KUGEL spread with your hand to distribute the Leave the meat whole and place it in freeze them on a parchment lined 1. Cut the chicken into pieces. Place oil. a freezer bag or plastic wrap. Freeze baking sheet, and then remove pieces in a large soup pot and cover There’s a famous Yiddish song the gravy in a separate container. kreplach and place in a freezer bag. with water. that says, “Monday a potato, 5. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven Tina’s Tidbit: When using No need to defrost; simply place Tuesday a potato... and for Shabbat for 45 minutes or until top is crisp and a freezer bag, place a straw in a frozen kreplach directly into soup 2. Bring the water to a boil and simmer a potato Kugel!” Whole books golden. partially closed bag and suck out and heat until soup is hot and for 30 minutes, skimming the top of the with variations have been written all the air through the straw until kreplach are warm. liquid of all the brown foam. about Kugel as well. As they should Tina’s Tidbits: you see the bag collapse around since a Kugel, or pudding, was an the contents of the bag. While 6. ASPARAGUS 3. Add the remaining ingredients and inexpensive way to bulk up an • Potatoes absorb a great deal of salt, still sucking, pull the straw out cook over low heat until the chicken ingredient like potatoes or carrots to so more salt than you would normally and completely seal the bag. This Asparagus season is almost is quite tender and the vegetables are fill up a family. If your grandmother need must be added to make your will help to protect the flavor and over, so Rosh Hashanah is a great soft, about 2 to 3 hours. fried her onions first, do so. If Kugel taste right. consistency of all your frozen foods. opportunity to get your fix in mushrooms and carrots were added When it’s almost time to eat, until next summer. Blanch your 4. Remove the chicken with a slotted in your family’s Kugel, go ahead. • The reason potatoes discolor is the defrost the meat and the gravy, slice asparagus in boiling salted water for spoon. Discard the dill and parsley. This is a delicious, proportionately oxidation of the potato starch in the JEWISH FOODIE September 10, 2020 | 9 tuber. If the potato is rinsed well and a pot and not in the oven. Brisket long ½-inch-wide snakes and cut a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes. Remove • Always stir hot sugar syrup with a drained, your Kugel will not be gray on was not always the meat of choice into 1⁄3-inch pieces. Roll dough pieces from heat and add the teiglach balls, wooden spoon or heatproof silicon the inside. because it was expensive, but slow briefl y in your hands to make balls nuts and cherries or raisins to the spatula. Metal will get too hot to cooking makes even the toughest and place them on ungreased cookie honey mixture and stir to coat well. handle and a plastic spatula will melt. • Never grate your onion with your meat tender, especially if you slice it sheets. Bake for 20-22 minutes or until Place in a pie plate or individual tart potato because when you drain the against the grain. golden brown. Cool completely or tins mounded to form a pyramid. • This is not the year to pick at the mixture you will lose a great deal of the freeze until later use. tower of teiglach with your fi ngertips onion fl avor. • Although I rarely give you a recipe Tina’s Tidbits: while sharing with others. Consider with garlic powder as an ingredient, 5. When you are ready to complete putting small servings in mini- CLASSIC POT ROAST this recipe calls for it so that the garlic recipe, combine the honey, sugar, • Balls of dough may be frozen after muffi n papers or cupcake papers so fl avor permeates the dish without orange zest and ginger in a heavy they cool and defrosted when you are everyone can have a taste but not The title says it all! This is the adding a bitter, burnt garlic fl avor. 3-quart saucepan and bring slowly to ready to assemble. share germs. basic way to make a rich-tasting pot roast whose gravy just begs for • The rich color and taste of the that mound of mashed potatoes, gravy are directly proportional to the potato kugel or Kasha Varnishkes length of time the onions are cooked. to soak up the gravy. Besides, this If you make a pot roast and deem it is the way my mother always made “tasteless,” there’s a good chance that TASTE THE FLAVOR OF A it! Enjoy! you were in a rush and didn’t take the time to brown the onions suffi ciently • 1 4-5 pound piece of brisket or chuck and the fi nal product was bland. roast SWEET • ¼ cup vegetable oil • This dish, like most meat dishes, • 2 large onions tastes 10 times better the next day, • 1 teaspoon of salt or to taste not to mention the fact that the meat • Freshly ground black pepper to taste is much easier to slice cold. NEW YEAR (about ¼ to ½ teaspoon) NEW YEAR • 1 teaspoon or more garlic powder (or 2 • Potatoes and carrots could be added teaspoons fi nely chopped fresh garlic) to the gravy during cooking if you like.

1. Slice the onions in half lengthwise TEIGLACH and then slice each half into thin strips. I remember signs in bakery 2. Heat the oil in a large pot or Dutch windows before the High Holidays oven for 30 seconds. Add the sliced that implored patrons to place their onion and sauté over moderately hot orders for Teiglach early. Sitting heat until the onions are very dark around the table after all the guests but not yet burnt. left and pulling at the sticky balls of dough was so much fun and 3. Wash off the meat and pat dry. Add stays in my memory today. to the large pot and sear on all sides. (Searing adds fl avor to the gravy and • 3 eggs helps prevent the meat from drying • 3 tablespoons oil out.) • ½ teaspoon vanilla • 2 tablespoons water 4. Sprinkle the meat with the salt, • 2½ cups fl our pepper and garlic powder and add • ¼ teaspoon salt enough water to almost cover the • ¼ teaspoon ginger meat. • 1 teaspoon baking powder • 1 pound wildfl ower honey (any 5. Cover the pot and bring the liquid honey is OK but wildfl ower is the to a simmer. Reduce the heat to low best) and cook the meat until the gravy • ½ cup sugar has reduced — it will be thin but will • ½ teaspoon ginger be richly fl avored — and the meat is • 1 piece of orange zest, 2 inches tender. Check for seasonings. Remove long, ½ inch wide the meat and cool the meat and the • 1 cup toasted hazelnuts gravy separately. • ½ cup candied cherries or raisins

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I’m not an educated man so I don’t ASK THE gogue service is a very crucial one of our area’s Jewish institutions up to that stan- know how to sing the service myself or blow the RABBI part of the Rosh Hashanah without asking for any recognition. dard.” shofar, so what am I to do? How can I celebrate celebration. The shul is not, Next Monday, Jennifer Williams In close to a Rosh Hashanah this year? Or, perhaps, with many By Rabbi however, the end-all, and will cover her typewriter for the last decade, Jennifer temples and synagogues closed, Rosh Hashanah is Yerachmiel Rosh Hashanah is very much time and lock the door to Tiferet Is- has also worked canceled this year? D. Fried present with or without a rael behind her. IN MY with five Tiferet Mort W. synagogue. There were many Jennifer has been the linchpin MIND’S I presidents, and Dear Mort, times in our long and often there for more than nine years. “No two were Sadly, you are far from being the only one Her title was “office manager,” but By Harriet alike,” she said. who will not be attending services in 2020 out of her position covered far more than P. Gross “Each brought a concern for your safety. Many, many Jews share see FRIED, p.14 that. She brought to the shul many different flavor organizational and creative skills to my position, that she used daily, while she also and I admire them all; each selfless- learned much about something that ly served the synagogue and their was new to her: Judaism. community in hopes of making dif- Explaining a High When I asked how she ever found ferences in the lives of others.” this job, Jennifer said she just read The day-in, day-out tasks — an ad, and cold-called; soon, after repetitive ones, like tracking and an interview with Rabbi Shawn Zell ordering supplies and keeping the Holiday prayer and the congregation’s president, calendar and photo wall displays she received a quick callback. What up to date — are “really no dif- matched most for Tiferet was her ferent from any small business or Dear Families, when singing “On Rosh Hashanah it is written previous work at the community nonprofit,” she said. “What’s made I look at all the Jewish educators out there and on Yom Kippur it is sealed.” He then goes newspaper in White Hall, Arkan- the difference for me is the mem- writing on the upcoming holidays and all the on to share these thoughts: sas, her hometown; there, her title bers. When I interviewed for Tife- rabbis working on High Holiday sermons and “At that moment, I realize was also office manager, but “I did ret, I spoke about how working in wonder how they come up with something that not all of us will be here a little of everything,” Jennifer told a small community is really like new!! These holidays have been around forever next year. These people — me, “from office work to selling ad- building a family, and I feel that’s and it seems like everything that could have congregants, friends, family vertising to designing ads, to com- exactly what’s happened. These been said has been. I am not being humble but — it is a sad but inescapable munity engagement. And I loved relationships have been incredibly real — I know I can’t do better than all those fact that some will die over it!” meaningful for me, and I’m going “famous” teachers out there but I can share the course of the coming year. Then I asked her about the high to miss them all, very much.” Jen- something that is new for me or has helped me SHALOM Our lives are a gift. We per- points of her years at Tiferet. “I nifer also notes that particularly in a new way. We begin anew each day ready to FROM THE form teshuvah not to appease learned so much in my time here,” because both the Cook-off and the learn or else what is life all about? Remember SHABBAT LADY a distant and invisible deity, she said. “I loved planning for the Community Mikvah are there at as the days, months, years pass, we each are in but rather to remind us of High Holy Days, and attending ser- Tiferet, “I’ve had the unique op- a different place so the lessons come often at a By Laura our value to one another and vices to ensure the days went well portunity and pleasure to serve the time when we are ready for them. My advice is Seymour strengthen our relationships — a special opportunity to meet entire Dallas Jewish community. I to be open and ready! with each other. We give tze- with so many of our members in will definitely leave a piece of my So, I read something new about a prayer that dakah to better the lives of those around us. one place. But of course, the high- heart behind.” has always bothered me — the Unetaneh Tokef. And we engage in prayer to further develop the light of any year was the Dallas Ko- So the day of goodbyes is next You know that one that says that at this time bonds of our connection to Judaism and our sher Chili Cook-off. How could it Monday; Jennifer will leave soon of the year there is this big book of life that community. not be? For at least one day of the after to join husband David, who’s we hope we will have our names in for another “Our job is not to temporarily put on our year, 3000 people or more joined already started a new job in Au- year — if we are worthy. The idea is that God best behavior in order to convince God to let together in community and friend- rora, Colorado, where she’ll also has the book opened on Rosh Hashanah and it us live for another year. Instead, we acknowl- ship, with a little friendly competi- be looking for a new job of her will close on Yom Kippur and after that, it is edge that our time here on earth is limited and tion. To be a part of making that own. “I’ve heard there’s a very ac- what it is! Then the prayer goes on to list all the our lives tenuous. The true and vital message of happen was a huge honor for me.” tive Jewish community in Denver, ways we might meet our end: who by fire and Unetaneh Tokef requires us to ask ourselves not She cites working with Rabbi which is quite near,” she says, “so who by water, who by plague and who by fam- who shall live, but how shall we live?” Zell as “being a bigger education perhaps there might be a place for ine, who by sword and who by wild beast, etcet- This message is powerful and uplifting and, than I ever received in a classroom. me there?” era. I have read many newer interpretations or most important, gives us direction not only With him, I have sat in on bar mitz- She’s already trained her succes- what each of these “methods” mean in today’s how to “save” ourselves but to truly make a dif- vah training, wedding planning, sor, Teresa Baldwin, who’s held a world, but the bottom line is that it will hap- ference in the world. This summer at camp we funeral arrangements, Yiddish similar position at a church. “She’s pen! However, there is a line that offers hope: sang Elana Arian’s song “My Voice Can Change classes and more,” she said, “acting going to be a great fit for Tiferet,” “But repentance, prayer, and deeds of charity the World.” Together with our children of all as a sounding board and checker of Jennifer promises. I asked her to re- can annul the severity of the decree.” ages at camp, we embraced this idea that we can details. I also had the opportunity mind the “newby” to keep a stock How do we come to terms with this prayer? all do our part to change the world. That is the to work with his wife. It takes an in- of Hershey’s Kisses on hand for visi- A recent article by Cantor Matt Axelrod on the message for the High Holidays, for the year and credible woman to be a Rebbitzen, tors like me… Unetaneh Tokef shares that he is moved to tears forever. In their words . . . September 10, 2020 | 13 Elul: month of accounting and teshuvah

The theme of this month of with God and healing Unlike positive mitzvahs, to understand it or learn from it. In not want to face the past. This Elul, often called the “month of an injury. Taken whose purpose is to bring general, Jewish life prescribes short creates a layer of emotional static, accounting,” is teshuvah. Just like a together, we gain a better light into world, negative windows for the purpose of reflection an underlying sense or discontent business that requires periodic review understanding of this mitzvahs are prescriptions and correction — before saying or feeling that things are not as they and analysis, we look back at the past pervasive term. Plugging to avoid damage, where Shema at the end of each night, should be. year to determine where we stand in the relationship aspect, “sin” becomes like a self- before a new month (Rosh Chodesh), To combat this internal disconnect, and what areas needs improvement. teshuvah involves our inflicted wound. And there and a more comprehensive review in during organized periods of calm Teshuvah, in general, entails a attempt to repair mistakes, D’VAR is only one day a year with Elul. The process involves a detached review and reflection, the person change of heart, a shift in perspective or to fill a void left by TORAH the spiritual power to heal look at one’s actions, like watching opens that mental door and begins to come closer to God. The missed opportunities. But the soul of all blemishes. the film of one’s day or year without to look inside and address unresolved uniqueness of this month is a more even when this is sincere By Rabbi Dan The commentaries judgment, just to learn. pieces of their life, provoking a purer intense focus that begins with an and complete, there may Lewin explain that the process Then comes the assessment regret and resolution. Mystically, active initiative to reflect and refine still be the need for the soul of teshuvah is not simply and projection. To begin, one may this effort of teshuvah begins to ourselves. Rather than waiting for to heal. crucial for human development, divide this review into the two main remove the coarseness and blockage, some big external event to move This leads to another Hebrew but an actual commandment in the categories — a private relationship reminiscent of the verse in this week’s us, or to hear some stirring melody buzzword that makes an appearance Torah. Furthermore, it is unique with God (spiritual life) and human Torah portion: “And the Lord, your on Rosh Hashanah that provokes around this time of year: kaparah, in its ability to uplift (and pervade) relationships — and pinpoint in each God, will circumcise your heart… introspection, we prepare now. It is a often translated as “atonement.” other mitzvahs and in its dependency area: What is the main thing that [so that you may] love the Lord your self-initiated change. Simply put, teshuvah is what we do on the person’s heart. Unlike deeds I want to stay away from/change, God with all your heart and with all At the same time, we are assured — our feelings and effort — while which can be overserved and and main thing that needs to be your soul, for the sake of your life.” assistance during Elul, an added force kaparah is the result. In human measured by outside observers, enhanced. (Devarim 30:6) which the mystical texts call the 13 relationships, for example, our words teshuvah is an honest and intimate Now, one may ask: Why so In addition to renewing the attributes of mercy — momentum to and attempt to repair a rift or restore dialogue that takes place internally. much emphasis on introspection? relationship with God, this make the necessary changes. harmony may fall short; it all depends At the same time, a mitzvah Furthermore, continually reviewing introspective process has the effect whether the other person accepts our cannot be vague — it must have the past and looking into the of clearing the person’s spiritual Defining terms sincerity and effort. But in the divine parameters. The basic requirement future seemingly takes away from system, in turn freeing up mental system, teshuvah will always lead to for teshuvah is two movements of the ultimate spiritual goal of and emotional space to be fully The Hebrew word teshuvah is kaparah. Only the process may not the heart, which can be translated as mindfulness and being in the present available during future interactions often mistranslated as “repentance.” always be instant. “regret” about the past and “resolve” moment — the ability to focus one’s and, furthermore, to meet each day But the concept entails more than the for the future. To be sure, you may energy and be completely engaged with joy. gloomy connotations that come with The process indeed regret the mistake, but and productive. The bottom line is that when that word. More literally, teshuvah is without intending to avoid repeating Yet, the nature of a person is often teshuvah — review, regret and “to return.” These two words convey In the Talmud’s (Tractate Yoma) it. Or you can resolve never to repeat the opposite; without the proper resolve — is done with focus, at the profoundly different messages about introduction to the process of gaining it, yet without feeling bad about the review and feeling regret, a person right time (without the emotions the internal dynamic. The former kaparah, there is a notable difference past. Both components — a clear cannot be fully present and happy. spilling over), the communication conception involves a struggle to between positive and negative emotion about the past and future — The commentaries explain that between soul, mind, heart, and become a different person — because mitzvahs: those requiring active are necessary. although certain people find it easy action is restored and the person feels you are not good enough — while engagement versus those that involve to bury mistakes, move on without a greater peace. the latter entails a restoration process resistance. With trying to make up Reviewing actions feeling bad, and still be productive — So, as we head into the final of uncovering your truest self, a for a positive mitzvah, our teshuvah the soul keeps track. It knows where stretch of Elul, looking toward soul layer that was tainted by harsh is met with instant acceptance. All Back to this “month of things stand and desperately tries to the New Year with new blessings circumstances and poor choices. negative mitzvahs, however, require accounting,” the first step is always send a message to the mind. But the and opportunities, we seek to put When explaining what teshuvah the day of Yom Kippur to completely getting the data to review. For if you mind is occupied with other thoughts ourselves in the best position to leave encompasses, two analogies are cleanse the soul. This is where the don’t know the mistake (or have and — whether due to self-protection behind past shortcomings and shape employed: an ongoing relationship analogy of an injury serves to clarify. forgotten about it), there is no chance or distraction — the person does our future. Stand united against antisemitism

Seventy-nine years ago I mention this not While many might think that grow community. For “united” we today, on Sept. 6, 1941, only as an important antisemitism is only “a Jewish must stand both as a Jewish and Nazi Germany announced historical reminder of problem,” Rabbi Jonathan Sacks world community or “divided” that all Jews over the the past but even more declares it to be otherwise. Sacks, we will fall into an ever-growing age of 6 living in the so as a cautionary tale for the former chief rabbi of the UK society of bigotry and hate. I hear country and all German our futures. For evil, hate and world-renowned intellectual, people trying to monopolize hate territories would have to and antisemitism are on once said, “Antisemitism is today for political reasons and begin wearing a Star of GUEST the rise on our college never ultimately about Jews. It is this must never be done for we David. The Jews of Vilna COLUMN campuses (BDS), within about a profound human failure are all intertwined in history. were also confined to the halls of Congress, in to accept the fact that we are The Holocaust is an example “their ghetto” on this day. By Rabbi the corridors of power, diverse and must create space of this, for while 6 million Jews Israel is one of the examples and Eventually, Nazi Germany Andrew Bloom from the left and from for diversity if we are to preserve were murdered at the hands of antioxidants to the spread of this was defeated four years the right. Add to this, our humanity.” In other words, Hitler, another 5 million were also evil, and thus it is time that we take later; however, during those four antisemitism being disguised allowing antisemitism to grow murdered for being “others” and on the Israeli mentality of never years, that “Yellow Star of David” as anti-Zionism, and we have a and be legitimized on all levels is a “different” at that time. backing down. Our futures are signified the eventual murder of triangle of hate (left, right and threat not only to Jews around the It is time to stand up and not dependent on this non-wavering 6 million Jews at the hands of the anti-Israel) that for the first time world, but to all humanity. put our heads in the sand. For outlook. Nazis during the Holocaust — the are working together with each Therefore we must band evil can only be fought with pride, Holocaust being the perpetuation of other instead of separately. Thus, together, as we do here in Fort effort and recognition that hate Andrew Bloom is the rabbi at Congregation evil in the world. the danger has increased. Worth, in order to fight hate and is still alive within our society. Ahavath Sholom in Fort Worth. 14 | September 10, 2020 Robert Weinger reveals his Jewish journey Shofar: a love song

By Deborah Fineblum (JNS)— As first-chair trumpet in the Orville Wright Junior High School band in Los Angeles in 1966, Robbie Weinger didn’t know it, but he was training his lips for their destiny: to enable their owner to become one of the world’s master shofar blowers. Weinger (who now goes by Robert) and other shofar-blowers have never been more sought-after as they are this year during the global coronavirus pandemic with so many synagogues either closed for business or accepting limited or outside Photo: Courtesy Photo: Screenshot Robert Weinger blowing two shofars in perfect harmony. seating for the High Holidays. A young Robbie Weinger blowing the trumpet. That’s why when Jews the world a self-described “Hebrew-school Francisco. He was 52. “That day, I shofar business full-time. By 2017, he Hogla, a tiny sand-blown speck on over are looking for someone to blow rebel” who grew up to be a business felt for the first time that there was had made aliyah. the map in the shadow of the ancient shofar for them, Weinger plans to executive and “a secular Jew to the a supernal force managing my life,” Throughout this journey, the town of Jericho. It was here that be in Jerusalem, part of a team of core.” he says. “It brought me to my knees, man will tell you that he was inspired the Israelites entered the land and, shofar-sounders dividing up the city And now? Not only is he known and I wept like a baby.” by his father. After all, Jack Weinger the priests blew the shofars and the by neighborhood so that citizens can in Israel and beyond as “shofar Another awakening came in was born just before Rosh Hashanah people shouted, collapsing the city’s fulfill the commandment to hear man,” Weinger is one of the world’s 2008, when he fell deeply in love with in 1917 and died exactly 100 years walls. the shofar blown on the Jewish New tops blowers — a true baal tekiah the ancient instrument. The ram’s later on Rosh Hashanah 2017. His The shop is stocked with Year. Rosh Hashanah begins after who’s running a shofar center in the horn was first referenced in the Torah painting, “The Great Shofar,” is hundreds of shofars in every size and sundown on Sept. 18 and continues middle of the Judean Desert. when God used it some 3,700 years now the insignia of the shop his son shape, fashioned from the horns of until sundown on Sept. 20. Weinger will tell you it all began ago to call the Israelites together to runs 7,567 miles from his California kudu, gemsbok, goat, and, of course, Weinger’s life has taken with his personal “burning bush” hear the Ten Commandments at the birthplace. the traditional ram, many of them something of a leap. As a kid, he encounter in 2003 on Mount Diablo foot of Mount Sinai. It didn’t take that son long to was not only a trumpeter but also (Devil Mountain) outside of San By 2008, Weinger was in the establish Shofar So Great in Beit see WEINGER, p.15

the star-filled sky and the bright full story of Noah’s Ark, award-winning Noah’s wife and sons complain, BOOKS moon that coincides with Sukkot. author Leslie Kimmelman infuses a “Could things get any worse?” — a continued from p.6 Maybe their ancestors did have night kid-friendly Jewish sense of humor. refrain that kids can repeat page lights in the desert, after all. The story imagines how bad things after page. their grandpa, who has a cold. The sweet story will strike a can get when Noah and his family Just when readers think the Readers will soon figure out that chord with many kids who fear the shelter through 40 days of the kvetching will never stop, Noah gets Daniel is a little anxious. There’s no dark. Amberin Huq’s expressive biblical flood in the ark’s crowded the crew working together to fix a electricity, his sister teases him, so he illustrations glow with the golden quarters along with pairs of all their leak that threatens them all. They can’t have his night light. He brings hues of fall and glisten with the lights animal friends. The story of Noah begin to cooperate and care for each his teddy bear, but in the shadows, of the night. is read aloud from the Torah in the other. Daniel imagines scary faces in the synagogue two weeks after Simchat Kids will dive in to Mineker’s “Worse and Worse on Noah’s Ark” squashes that hang as decorations. Torah. cartoon-like illustrations of zebras, Leslie Kimmelman; illustrated by As the night grows darker, Naomi In “Worse and Worse,” the parrots, growling lions and sloths Vivian Mineker realizes she needs a little reassurance, animals get seasick, peacocks bicker hanging upside down. An author’s Apples & Honey Press; ages 4 to 8 too. Looking up through the sukkah’s with the zebras and the skunks make note prompts conversation about Photo: Apples & Honey Press branches, the siblings see the glow of In this upbeat spin on the biblical quite a stink. As the troubles amass, empathy.

Are we a servant of our Cre- You are invited to say the More important than eat- community where there will be FRIED ator; are we “on His team” or on prayer service the best you can, ing sweet foods is to actually be outdoor shofar blowing with the continued from p.12 some other team? Part of being even without singing it, in Eng- sweet, joyous and content. How practice of social distancing. I on “God’s team” is accepting lish, and God understands Eng- we are on Rosh Hashanah af- will be doing it outside once or bitter diaspora history when His decrees with joy, with the lish very well. Try to focus upon fects the entire year. twice at my house. That might shuls were shut down by the au- knowledge that whatever situa- the meaning of the words, the It’s especially important to be a safe way to hear the shofar thorities and our ancestors were tion he puts us in is, ultimately, focus on coronating the King. recap, in your mind, your good on the second day of Rosh Ha- forced to pray in private. The for the good. Celebrate the day of His corona- deeds and perhaps deeds that shanah this year (the first day, stories abound of how, even in We need to look at even the tion by having festive meals on could have been better, and to shofar is not blown this year as the concentration camps, Jews more difficult situations as an Rosh Hashanah eve and during resolve on Rosh Hashanah to do it falls out on Shabbos). found ways to pray and even risk opportunity to show our sub- the day. Prepare and partake of better this coming year. That is May you and all the read- their lives to blow the shofar. mission to God’s will and accept the “simanim,” the apple dipped the process of teshuvah or re- ers be blessed with a New Year Rosh Hashanah is both a day it with joy. This year we are pre- in honey and other fruits and pentance, which begins on Rosh where you will be inscribed in of judgment and a day of joy. We sented with the opportunity to vegetables which go together Hashanah and the 10 days up the Book of Life of the righ- are joyous to have the oppor- show Him that we are still His with a short prayer, asking God until — and including — Yom teous, and with good health, tunity of living another year to servants even when we cannot for a sweet New Year, one which Kippur. prosperity, nachas and growth be a servant of our Creator. We serve Him as we are accustomed will be successful, joyous and There will be numerous lo- in your Jewish pride and con- are judged for that very thing: to. healthy. cations throughout the Jewish nection. OBITUARY September 10, 2020 | 15

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Photo: Courtesy The shofar is a prophetic instrument — hearing it awakens the power of Jewish “The people here are pioneers taking history in every heart,” says Weinger. a dusty piece of land and making the desert bloom like our ancestors did the power of Jewish history in he’s saying, ‘Listen, God is here.’” thousands of years ago.” every heart,” says Weinger. “It’s as Of course, the pandemic has if God speaks through it directly ‘Every neighborhood needs cooled off many, though not all, of to His people and everyone who someone’ the tours, and most of Weinger’s hears this sound — young and sales are conducted online these old, observant and secular — has Smack dab in the season days. He also reports a decided an intense spiritual experience, of of COVID-19, High Holidays TexSCAN Week of GENERATORS uptick since the Jewish world woke crying to God for mercy as opposed 2020 (5781) are shaping up to be Sept. 6, 2020 GENERAC Standby Generators. 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