It’s about 2 in the morning, Sunday morning, Israeli time. I just returned home from the first night of selichos. Our synagogue has started a tradition of a musical first night of selichos. Saying the familiar liturgy combined with the niggunim from Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and others turned out to be more moving …
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Election Day
Last week was election day in Israel and it is a national holiday of sorts. That meant that I had to take off work (and of course do today’s work and tomorrow’s work tomorrow). The kids were out of school so I was required to spend the day playing and having fun with them. The …