What’s with all that chest thumping on Yom Kippur?
Edmon J. Rodman, JTASep 12, 2013
ROSH HASHANAH EDITIONSECTION D PAGE 8 LOS ANGELES On Yom Kippur, when we beat our chests during the confession, maybe we should be knocking instead on our heads....
Honey of a story: Beekeeper’s take on Rosh Hashanah sweetness
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAAug 29, 2013
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION SECTION D PAGE 6 LOS ANGELES Heres the buzz about Rosh Hashanah: Beyond a congregation or family, it takes a hive to have a holiday. You...
On Tisha b’Av, feeling the loss from the flames
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAJul 11, 2013
LOS ANGELES On Yom Kippur, we ask Who by fire? Sadly, this year at Tisha bAv we already know who the 19 firefighters who perished in Arizona. This...
Finding your place in the Torah
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAMay 09, 2013
LOS ANGELES — On Shavuot, we celebrate the revelation of the Torah by reading from it. But first we need to find the place. How do we find our […]
Following the ancient Egyptian signs to the Red Sea
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAMar 25, 2013
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 10 LOS ANGELES If the Passover Haggadah seems like hieroglyphics to you, it could be a good thing. Though the Israelites left Egypt...
‘Tolkien’ b’Shevat
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAJan 17, 2013
LOS ANGELES What lore does Bilbo Baggins have to share with us about Tu bShvat? While viewing The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and hearing the Middle Earth...
Pilgrims and Jews go forth together at Thanksgiving seder
Edmon J. Rodman, JTANov 15, 2012
SITTING down to the well-set table every November, even though it is filled with family and food, I always feel that something is missing a Jewish connection to the...
Kristallnacht Torah: One man’s escape from Germany
Edmon J. Rodman, JTANov 01, 2012
LOS ANGELES It was the Night of Broken Glass in Germany, Kristallnacht a national pogrom of death and destruction of Jewish property and the rounding up of...
Jewish and Navajo leaders speak of sacred lands
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAJun 07, 2012
LOS ANGELES A Reform rabbi, a Navajo medicine man and a professor walk into a museum. It sounds like the opening of a joke, but on a recent May […]
Chanukah: The holiday of Jewish identity and integrity becomes very public
Edmon J. Rodman, JTADec 22, 2011
LOS ANGELES It doesnt get more only in America than this: A Christian president with an African-born Muslim father throws a Chanukah party at the White House,...
