Renee Ghert-Zand is a reporter and feature writer for The Times of Israel.
From left: John Berchtold as Isaac and Sammi Rotibi as Nate in The Forbidden Wish (Underdog Overkill Productions)
John Berchtold as Isaac in The Forbidden Wish (Underdog Overkill Productions)
Scene from The Forbidden Wish (Underdog Overkill Productions)
From left: Sammi Rotibi as Nate and John Berchtold as Isaac in The Forbidden Wish (Underdog Overkill Productions)
Obsidian doll that belonged to young son of Rabbi Nate (Sammi Rotibi) in The Forbidden Wish (Underdog Overkill Productions)
The film “The Forbidden Wish” begins with a young man entering an American synagogue the day before Yom Kippur. He encounters the rabbi, who is rehearsing his Kol Nidre sermon for the eve of the Day of Atonement. The young man asks the rabbi to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish mourner’s prayer.
Persuadé d être mort, un jeune homme demande à un rabbin de réciter le kaddish
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(JTA) Rabbi Paul Kipnes watched helplessly as 11 of his congregants died over the span of 11 days in January from COVID or COVID-related illness. The losses along with another five congregant deaths that same month compelled him to pour out his grief in a blog post titled “After 11 Deaths in 11 Days, I Had it Out with God.”
“I’m so angry. At You, All Powerful One,” Kipnes wrote. “God damn You, God! … What kind of Divine develops a world defined during the 21st century by the deaths of so many people?”
Proud Boy got raw deal
At no time was he accused of breaking any law, much less convicted of it. The article’s only reason for his dismissal was his past affiliation with folks who hold unpopular ideas.
The labels placed on the Proud Boys by politicized groups like the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center have led to this man’s guilt by association, and this is a very dangerous slippery slope.
The history of our own people should make us vigilant to support everyone’s rights to their own opinions and only judge people for their actions. After all, our own religious teachings have been attacked time and time again as unpopular regardless of our actions.
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Laya Cooperman’s kosher cake business all started with one custom order. It was for a friend, whose husband’s birthday fell on Tisha B’Av, a day of mourning on the Jewish calendar. She asked Cooperman if she could make a cake that was a replica of the Beit HaMikdash, or the Second Temple in Jerusalem its fall is one of the tragic occasions mourned on that day.
To the best of her abilities, Cooperman replicated it in cake form.
“When I look back at it, I kind of cringe,” the Berkeley resident said. “It’s really amazing how much I’ve learned in the past two years.”
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