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September 30, 2005
Happy Rosh Hashanah! Sad Yom Kippur?
I believe the Jewish high holidays are coming up next week. I could be wrong. They might have been this week. I'm a little fuzzy on all that. I think Rosh Hashanah (I would be amazed if I spelled that correctly) is the Jewish New Year, and I think Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement. And I also think Yom Kippur involves abstinence from eating, which, to a Jew, is as serious as a heart attack (which, ironically, is often the result of the Jewish diet).
But that's about all I know. I live on the West side of Los Angeles, which seems to me to be equally Jewish to the Upper West side of Manhattan -- i.e. about as Jewish as the audience at Yentl on Gay Pride day (see, because all the gay Streisand fans would be at the parade, leaving only the Jews...) There are several synagogues on my road between work and home. I could go to one for the holidays, but I wouldn't even know what I'm supposed to do when I get there.
Why am I mentioning all of this? Is it some sort of guilt, or envy of the more spiritual, or a desire to reconnect with a milleniums-old culture? No, it's just so I can say this...
PUNCHLINE: I must be the worst Jew since Jesus Christ.
Posted by JoshHornik at September 30, 2005 04:28 PM
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Ruby and I are making a small attempt to become passably Jewish here on the Upper West Side. Yesterday we helped bake some challah and then joined some friends for Rosh Hashanah dinner. Ruby's favorite part of the holiday were the candles; her least favorite was the honey. She also liked the part where all of the kids go into the bedroom to watch a Sesame Street video while the adults eat the real food.
Posted by: Lauri at October 5, 2005 05:43 PM