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Feel free to chat your questions to Everyone or directly to me (Farrah Berse).

If you would like more information about Wellesley Jewish Alumnae, feel free to reach out to me during this zoom or at any time at WJAMembership@alum.wellesley.edu

The Jewish holidays are always either early or late :>

I love “Beginning Anew” - A woman’s Companion to the High Holidays “ Ed Gail Twersky Reiner and Judith Kates. Thanks for all these resources.

How do you get a copy of the Wellesley prayer book?

@Terri Hauser: If you are interested in getting a copy of the Wellesley Machzor, you can email Rabbi Bodian at Dbodian@wellesley.edu

Why is Rosh Hashonah considered the new year?

I work at Ramaz in NYC, which, as many of you know, is a modern Orthodox Jewish Day School. One of my colleagues gave me "Gateway to Judaism.” It has profound analyses of every Jewish holiday and its writer, a rabbi ( whose name escapes me) uses humor and many metaphors and analogies to clarify his ideas. I love it; I was raised Reform and am now Conservative, leaning toward Reform.

The recording will be posted to the WJA website in a few days

What kinds of things do you say to ‘once a year' synagogue attendees when they want to prepare?

(meaning-- offering encouragement)

The town where I grew up lost its synagogue @1980s. The building became a dog kennel. Now there is a plaque about it in the little nearby park. Woodbridge, New Jersey

Do you have resources that you would recommend for young children?

@ Carol, in case Avis doesn't see this, Hadar has a great resource

Are you officiating somewhere in the DMV this High Holy Day season?

Great suggestion. Hadar also has online Elul learning

Jephthah the Gileadite notably made a vow that he would have done better to be released from

that was my bat mitzvah haftorah

I don't know if it's an Orthodox thing, but I thought that there were actual measurements with a cadence

(for eating on Yom Kippur)