Comments on: 1,000 Jews gather at Wall St. for #occupy-yomkippur Kol Nidre

By: annie

annie — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:13:40 +0000

a beautiful post, thanks so much. on another note i cannot understand the cynical nature of sylvia “and you can be sure that whoever slipped the idea of conducting prayer there in that guy’s head had exactly that idea in mind,” referencing ““when Wall Street is so finalially dominated by Jews!!!”” there are lots of jews in nyc so naturally they would be participating in OWS and it fell on the holidays so why wouldn’t they bring their holiday to OWS? it makes perfect beautiful sense.

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i have witnessed many times in these discussions accusations jewish activists here in the US are not religious or are not really jewish or ‘real jews’ which is stupid and frankly anti semitic. i know lots of jewish peace activists who participate in religious activities but it’s nobodies business and they shouldn’t have to advertise it. so this should not be surprising in the least to see progressive activists jews participating in their religion on Yom Kippur. it was just a coincidence the OWS landed on the day and exposed the ‘shocking’ sight of jews practicing their religion! and so beautiful it was.

By: YetanotherSmith

YetanotherSmith — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:28:46 +0000

I’m not Jewish. Not that political. I find the list of sins though to be inspiring. Everyone in the world is responsible for the mess we’re in and together we can make things right.

I hope this takes off! I hope they take it seriously.

God bless.

By: Bosko

Bosko — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:21:36 +0000

@Lisa Goldman
And another thing. It seems to me you are always outraged about something. If it’s not what Israel does, then you are outraged at what those of us who support Israel say. Yet you never seem to be outraged about what some Arabs do or don’t do. At most, you may be slightly embarrassed, not so much about their actions/inactions but rather you are embarrassed if some of us dare to talk about it.

By: Ragfish

Ragfish — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:24:20 +0000

Sins against our neighbors, our nation and the environment pales beside our transgressions against the laws of nature and nature’s G-d! Are we creating idolatrous god with our own hands out of our human sense of social justice? In the beginning, G-d created and we Jews are now so far removed from His redemptive plan, that only His sovereign hand of grace and mercy can restore Israel and the world to as it was in the beginning. While we are drawn together by seemingly noble causes, we must keep our eyes open for whom we are serving.
We are attempting to sanctify that which is profane, the ultimate blasphemy. Look around at the SEIU, union thugs and the goals of Stephen Lerner, which are to tear down the governmental and economic institutions of our nation, trading national sovereignty and capitalism for anarchy to be followed by another Marxist dystopia!

By: Bosko

Bosko — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:45:04 +0000

Errata: The word ‘hear’ in my above post should have been ‘here’. Accidental mis-spelling.

By: Bosko

Bosko — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:42:09 +0000

@Lisa Goldman
I am posting this hear rather than on that other blog of yours so you can’t accuse me of being insensitive to your suffering friend. You have a thin skin. You can dish criticism but you can’t take it.

By: Lisa Goldman

Lisa Goldman — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:11:06 +0000

Hi Sharon,

Sieradski tweeted that an egalitarian minyan would be 10 men and 10 women, according to his definition; and that he would not begin services unless at least 10 men and 10 women were present.

By: Howard Patterson

Howard Patterson — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:49:23 +0000

I belong to Havurah Shalom, the Reconstructionist congregation in Portland, Oregon, to which Judy and Stew belonged, where they wrote their Al Cheit, and where they read it at Yom Kippur every year until Stew’s death. We told Judy we would read it at OccupyPortland – about 20 of us went down, to find a dozen members of P’Nai Or, the Renewal congregation, already there with the same idea. We sang Ma Tovu, blessing the tents; P’Nai Or wanted to read the day’s selection from Jeremiah (is this the fast I want, sitting in sack cloth and ashes while you ignore the hungry and strike with an angry fist?), then we read the Al Cheit.

It was thrilling to contribute to the effort with our spiritual selves, as well as marching, Legal Observing, and bringing food and supplies. Unity doesn’t mean “all being the same”, it means “all being the most who we are we can be, and all being of one purpose.”

Getzel’s sermon was beautiful, thank you very much for posting it.

By: Sharon Abreu

Sharon Abreu — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:09:32 +0000

Hi -

This was a wondrous happening! I wish I could have been there. I did spread the word. Just one point – an egalitarian minyan would be 5 men and 5 women, all being counted as making up the minyan. 10 men and 10 women basically means that the men count as the minyan; the women are there but they’re not actually being counted as making up the minyan.

By: AYLA

AYLA — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:13:09 +0000

@PERPETUAL REFUGEE, thank you. Beautifully put. (hadn’t read all the comments when I first responded; catching up).