i am rick powell, the president of the temple. we are thrilled you are here tonight. for security reasons, we are a little slow getting people checked in. first, let me wish all of you a happy and most importantly healthy new year. i would like to have our current trustees, past trustees and current president please stand up. that will be you, howard. thank you all for being here tonight. i am excited about this new year and all the wonderful things the kids will be doing. we are continuing to grow and we want the temple to be a welcoming hand to you. you are a part of your large family and we embrace each and every one of you. may our helping hand be extended to anyone in need. that is the great message that this temple brings to each and every one of you. as members, we each have a responsibility to ourselves and each other. we are so grateful to all of you for your continued support and commitment to helping us degree and be more effective each and every day. tonight is
and i devoted a little part of my time, not enough, not enough to try to give back the name, to give back a trice, to just a trace, to just figure the proper number to these outnumbered [inaudible] this is one thing. another thing is more deeply to what is properly more accurately related to what i call the genius of judaism. for me to be a jew means in a way which i try to express in this book to care about the other. the question of being a jew, i often hear, people ask me what about your jewish identity. i m always embarrassed by this idea of identity because i m not so sure that judaism is a matter of identity which means to be the same of ourself. the real challenge for a jew, the real stake, the real work is the relation not with the id, but with the other. and for me, the most challenging way to relate to the other is the way in which the most enigmatic prophet in my eyes, jonah, when he goes to nineveh, he goes to the proper embodi
that s a look at some of the programs booktv will be covering this week and many of these are content events are open to the public. [inaudible conversations] good evening. good evening, everyone. my apologies for the slight delay, but i m rick powell, the president wilshire boulevard, temple there were thrilled you here tonight but for security reasons we are a little slow getting people check into what you know each and everyone of you can appreciate. first let me wish all of you a very happy and most importantly a healthy new year. i would like to have our current trustees, our past trustees and our past presidents at the time please stand up. [applause] that would you, howard. thank you all for being here tonight. i am excited about this new year and all the wonderful things that this temple will be doing for our members and for our community as you see this evening here we are continuing to grow and we want to devote our purpose in our community. we want wilshire
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