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Lessons Learned from Living Through Hardship #3, by Mike Moxness with Debbie Echt-Moxness

On Yom Kippur, three Congregation Or Ami members shared sermonettes throughout the service on Lessons They Learned Living Through Hardship. These Jewish TED Talk/Yom Kippur Social Sermons were each moving individually and very inspiring as a whole. Read about How a Whole Congregation Wrote its Rabbi’s Yom Kippur Sermon. *** Lessons Learned from Living Through …

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Lessons Learned from Living Through Challenge #2, by Eric and Jill Epstein

On Yom Kippur, three Congregation Or Ami members shared sermonettes throughout the service on Lessons They Learned Living Through Hardship. These Jewish TED Talk/Yom Kippur Social Sermons were each moving individually and very inspiring as a whole. Read about How a Whole Congregation Wrote its Rabbi’s Yom Kippur Sermon. *** Lessons Learned from Living Through …

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Lessons Learned from Living Through Hardship #1, by David Sackman

On Yom Kippur, three Congregation Or Ami members shared sermonettes throughout the service on Lessons They Learned Living Through Hardship. These Jewish TED Talk/Yom Kippur Social Sermons were each moving individually and very inspiring as a whole. Read about How a Whole Congregation Wrote its Rabbi’s Yom Kippur Sermon.  *** Lessons Learned from Living Through Hardship  …

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High Holy Day Homework

So you went to Rosh Hashana services (or not), and you plan to go to Yom Kippur services (or not). Maybe you say a few prayers, listen intently to the rabbi’s sermon, allow the cantor’s music to suffuse your soul.  Have you fulfilled your High Holy Day responsibilities? Can you check off this week’s To …

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Carrying Torah Scrolls to Safety: How I Spent My Sunday

Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Paul Kleinfinger That’s me.  With Congregation Or Ami’s two Sifrei Torah on the Las Virgenes bridge over the 101 Freeway. I had just carried the two scrolls from our synagogue building, away from the smoky fire. With me is my new friend Paul Kleinfinger, a nice Jewish boy who offered to …

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