Jewish High Holy Days
Jewish High Holy Days
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#0Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:30pmI guess our Jewish friends won't be logging in to BWW for the next few days. Still, I would like to wish them all blessed holy days.
#1re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:38pm
Thank you! I won't be here for much of the month. And Thrusday's a fast day, so good luck to fellow Jews who will be fastign along with me. And I have rehearsal Thursday night 
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#2re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:46pm
Aw, thanks for your missing us!
I'll be on when I can. I simply can never resist the allure of BWW.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:58pmHappy New Year, 5766
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#4re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:03pmI'm a bad bad Jew. Also, the computer is one of the few things that can distract me when I haven't eaten in a day.
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#6re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:44pm
I'd like to personally thank the jews for causing classes to not be in session 2 days this week.
Thank You.
#7re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:46pmThat's unfair! I don't have classes off! I just have absences!
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#8re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:47pmmy school cancels classes for jewish holidays
#10re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:51pm
l'shanah tova!!
Apples and honey, here I come.
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#11re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:51pmits a college.
#12re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:53pm
Are you serious? A college that cancels college?
Is this Brandeis? Or are you in Israel?
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#13re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:55pm
"Or are you in Israel?"
Close, Long Island.
Hofstra University.
#14re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:57pm
I can't believe Hofstra closes. Wow.
I mean, it's Long Island, but hell, 1/2 of Columbia is Long Island and/or Jewish(or so it seems).
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#15re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:59pm
yeah, evening classes tonight were cancelled along with tomorrow all day and wednes all day and next tuesday's evening classes along with all day wednesday.
I love me some Judaism
ElphieDefiesGravity
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/27/04
#16re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 7:02pm
L'shanah tovah, everyone! May we all be written in the Book of Life.
I'm going to miss everyone for the next two days.
Wishes come true, not free.
BwayLeadman
Broadway Star Joined: 9/29/04
#17re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 7:34pm
I don't know much of the holiday and I don't know what exactly to say, so I'll say "Happy Holidays"
- and thanks to this holiday, I have a few days off.
So its a win win situation.
To those who celebrate.
Happy Holiday.
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#18re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 7:42pmI'm not Jewish and hardly anyone around here is, so I'm a bit lost. Why aren't you all allowed online? Do you have to give up technology or spend time with family?
#19re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 7:46pm
I'll be here. I have an exam and a paper due each tomorrow and Wednesday, so I can't go home for the holidays... and I really don't even have the time with that all to give up to go to services.
This'll be the first year I won't spent Rosh Hashana with my family, and I'm totally heartbroken.
In any event, warm wishes to all.
I'm not religious enough to know the exact "rules," nia, but I keep hearing people say they aren't allowed to do work and things.
#20re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 7:54pm
Okay...let me TRY to explain this in the best way I can.
In the Torah, there are a bajillion things you cannot do on Shabbat...such as electricity, cutting anything, writing, etc...
These rules have been interpreted to adapt to modern society and includes any technology (there are exceptions, of course, for refrigerators and the like, as well as for life saving electric devices).
Anyway...those laws have been extended to all holidays except for some. So, they are applicable to Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and the first two days of Sukkot.
Does this explain? I'm currently in the seminary, and if I feel so inclined I'll take out my Talmud and give you a more proper rundown.
Observant Jews follow most of those laws listed above. I personally don't, at least not at this point in my religious beliefs.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#21re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 8:23pm
Happy New Year to my fellow Jews in the crew
My Dad survived six concentration camps including Auschwitz and Dachau and he came out on the non religous side of the fence.
But we will be over to my sister's for dinner as she makes great brisket, bakes her own challah and goes the whole nine yards
But then we will watch the Yankees after dinner :)
#22re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 8:27pm
I'm taking a break from Judaism this year. No services for me!
My sister is a freshman at UCLA, and her Jewish Studies class (with over 90% Jews) was not cancelled tomorrow. Stupidest thing ever.
#23re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 8:28pm
Wow, that sounds like an amazing story, wexy. I do hope it has been captured by the Shoah Foundation.
Hope your dinner is delish - it sure sounds it!
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#24re: Jewish High Holy Days
Posted: 10/3/05 at 9:36pm
Hi Shira, he was interviewed by the Spielberg Shoah folks and since he is a great story teller, the folks doing the interview said that he was one of the better interviews that they filmed. They put me and my mother in as well at the end of the interview so we got into the film as well.
Are you at Hofstra now?, thats my old alma mater.
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