Rosh Hashana begins at sundown Sunday with free services being held throughout the county while several congregations will stream their services marking the Jewish New Year.
Hollywood Temple Beth El marks its 100th High Holy Days Services today at 8 p.m. Those interested in attending can register here.
The JEM Center in Beverly Hills will hold a Rosh Hashana Eve service at 6:50 p.m. Sunday, a traditional service at 10 a.m. Monday, an evening service at 6:45 p.m. and another service at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Registration can be made by calling 310-772-0000 or online at www.jemcommunitycenter.com/events/high-holiday-services-2022-2022-09-26-10-00.
The Laugh Factory will conduct a free service at 11 a.m. Monday. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 323-656-1336. The club will announce details of the streaming of the service Sunday.
This will be the 39th consecutive year that The Laugh Factory has provided free High Holy Days services.
Stephen Wise Temple, a Reform congregation in Bel-Air, will stream what it is billing as a family-friendly Erev Rosh Hashana service at 5:30 p.m. Sunday and an adult-focused service at 7:30 p.m. at WiseLA.org/online/, Facebook.com/WiseLA and YouTube.com/WiseTempleLA.
A “tot service” will be streamed at 9:30 a.m. Monday and a kindergarten through sixth grade service at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Facebook.com/WiseSchoolLA. Adult-focused services will be streamed at 9 a.m. Monday and 12:30 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday at WiseLA.org/online/, Facebook.com/WiseLA and YouTube.com/WiseTempleLA.
A digital worship supplement is available at www.wisela.org/3d-flip- book/high-holy-days-2022-5783-supplement/.
Shomrei Torah Synagogue, a Conservative congregation in West Hills, will stream musical and traditional Erev Rosh Hashana services at 6 p.m. Sunday at www.stsonline.org/media-galleries/live-streaming.
Temple Judea, a Reform congregation in Tarzana, will stream its Erev Rosh Hashana service at 4:55 p.m. at templejudea.com/pray/live-stream/.
Most congregations require membership and tickets for High Holy Days services.
Services marking the arrival of the year 5783 on the Hebrew calendar will be held Sunday night — the day begins at sundown on the Hebrew calendar — Monday and Tuesday. They feature the blowing of the shofar, a ram’s horn mentioned in the Torah and used by ancient Jews in religious ceremonies and as a call to arms — and now used at Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
Jews are biblically commanded to hear the shofar during the High Holy Days.
Rosh Hashana is a time when Jews gather with family members and their communities to reflect on the past year and the one beginning. Celebrants also eat festive meals featuring apples dipped in honey, symbolic of the wishes for a sweet year.
Rosh Hashana ushers in the Days of Awe, a 10-day period of repentance and contemplation culminating in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, Judaism’s most solemn and somber day.
During the High Holy Days, Jewish tradition holds that God records the fate of each person for the coming year in the Book of Life, which is sealed at the end of Yom Kippur.
“Rosh Hashana celebrates creation, when God, according to the Torah, looked out at the chaos unfolding in the world and decided to create a better one,” Rabbi Noah Farkas, the president and CEO of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, told City News Service.
“It’s this choice — to transform what is into what could be, that propels Jewish life.”
In his Rosh Hashana message, President Joe Biden said, “With the piercing sound of the shofar and the sweetness of apples dipped in honey, the Jewish New Year ushers in a sacred time of reflection, repentance, and renewal. A time to pause and look inward. During these Days of Awe, we have the opportunity to ask what kind of person we want to be and how we have measured up.”
In a video released on his Twitter account, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles’ first elected Jewish mayor, said, “Every year finds us, finds our souls, our communities our world somewhere between together and apart. That’s why I cherish the ritual time of the Days of Awe. It allows us to renew and to reflect, to return to the world.”
Bernard Cohn was acting mayor of Los Angeles from Nov. 21-Dec. 5, 1878, having been appointed by the Common Council to the position after the death of Frederick A. MacDougal.
https://wehoonline.com/2022/06/12/more-new-apartments-coming-to-crescent-heights-and-fountain-blvd/#comments Patrick Tighe the “Box-Builder” has also designed a similar building on the NE Corner of Fountain x Crescent Heights to occupy the additional parking lot for the Iranian IAJC/IAJF Neiman Hall that caused a neighborhood uproar for more than 10 years and ultimately a prevailing lawsuit against the city. Any housing could be accommodated by the current Neiman Hall, not a cultural resource, and its adjacent parking lot without erasing the Temple Beth-El. Need a resourceful architect for the task. Incidentally Sepi Shyne has not uttered a peep about this for the 10 plus years of chaos while living… Read more »
Perhaps you should direct your anger/frustration towards the Iranian American Jewish foundation. They are the ones who own the lot and are pursuing the construction of a new apartment complex.
https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/06/09/iranian-american-jewish-federation-aims-to-replace-with-hq-with-apartments/
Mr. greeneyedguy, perhaps you could direct your know it all attitude to the recognition of information. There was no anger or frustration expressed, simply info about the plans and failure to recognize a cultural resource. Have never seen you in evidence attempting to cure any of these issues. But then, being the smartest person in the room, you can “just think” the resolutions like DJT and they will magically appear.🙄
You expressed there is a “neighborhood uproar”. Sounds like at least some frustration to me! And I wasn’t trying to be a know it all – just telling you that the owners are moving forward with this project because they want to. The architect was hired by them to design apartments. They are just doing their job. I’m still not clear on what Sepi Shyne has anything to do with this? 10 years of chaos? “Have never seen you in evidence attempting to cure any of these issues.” What are you talking about? Seen me “in evidence”? What does that… Read more »
The 10 years of chaos was ended by a suit against the City in which the neighboring property owner prevailed. Now with a project entering in the pipeline, the Temple Beth-El an acknowledged cultural resource has mysteriously not been recognized as such or been reviewed by the HPC and appears to be set to be demolished at will. As far as Sepi Shyne and her professed care and vigilance towards the immediate neighborhood, she was absent. Was this because she is of the Muslim faith even though Persian? But she played her cards with the DC org advocating for Persian… Read more »
Sepi was absent from what? She has only been on the city council for less than 2 years.
“Was this because she is of the Muslim faith even though Persian?” What does that have to do with anything? Stop with your thinly veiled attacks on people’s religion. It’s absolutely vile and probably why you are never taken seriously on this site.
Shana Tova to all those who celebrate Rosh Hashonah. May you have a healthy and happy year ahead.
To anyone attending services at Temple Beth-El, please take a good look at the building and premises which presumably are a local historic landmark. For some reason it was not included in the latest Cultural Resources Survey and is currently in the development pipeline to be demolished. The members of this Temple on the 100th Anniversary, can presumably speak up about this by contacting their Council Members and City Hall, Jennifer Alkire and John Keho Director of Planning.