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September 15, 2007 | K. Connie Kang, Times Staff Writer
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy vision. -- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, (1907-1972) theologian and philosopher In their longing to connect with God, human beings through the ages have prayed. They pray to adore and worship, to repent and seek forgiveness, to express gratitude and ask for help. They also pray to mark holy days, as an estimated 1.2 billion Muslims and about 14 million Jews around the world are doing this holy season.
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September 23, 2006 | K. Connie Kang, Times Staff Writer
Joining 1.28 billion Muslims and 14.9 million Jews around the world, Southern California adherents of the two faith traditions are observing their respective holy seasons starting today. It's the first full day of Rosh Hashana -- the Jewish New Year -- and also the beginning of the month of Ramadan. Rosh Hashana, the start of the 10 High Holy Days leading up to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, began at sundown Friday. Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, prayer and charity, started today.
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September 7, 2006 | Louis Sahagun, Times Staff Writer
Concerned for the safety of their congregants during High Holy Days, more than 60 Jewish security chiefs gathered at the Anti-Defamation League's headquarters Wednesday to learn how to, as one of them put it, "harden our targets." It was the second such meeting sponsored this year by the ADL, which normally hosts just one annually. "With the situation in Israel becoming inflammatory this summer, we felt another security briefing was justified," ADL regional director Amanda Susskind said.
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September 18, 2004 | Larry B. Stammer, Times Staff Writer
As Jews entered the High Holy Days this week in the midst of reports of genocide in Sudan, one of the nation's leading rabbis is exhorting Jews to make good a vow born out of the ashes of the Holocaust: "Never again!" The appeal by Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino may sound more like a theme for Yom Hashoah -- Holocaust Remembrance Day -- than for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which began at sundown Wednesday.
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September 20, 2003 | Larry B. Stammer, Times Staff Writer
The findings of a new population study on Jews in America would seem tailor-made for Rosh Hashana sermons at Southern California synagogues as rabbis prepare for the start of the High Holy Days next week. After all, the National Jewish Population Study found that a significantly smaller percentage of Jews in the Western United States than those in the Northeast or Midwest will be observing the High Holy Days, which begin at sundown Friday with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
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September 7, 2002 | LARRY B. STAMMER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Jewish high holy days, a 10-day period of introspection, reconciliation and forgiveness that began Friday night, fall this year when the unforgivable--the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of a year ago--remains fresh in the memory of the nation. The conjunction of the first anniversary of the attacks on New York and Washington and the holy days, which begin with Rosh Hashana--the Jewish New Year--and end Sept.