[HANASHIR:9887] Re: Patriotic songs

[Lawrence Kay <LarryTheKay...>]

This is slightly off the subject, but all members of our NYC congregation
who live or work within 3/4 mile of ground zero (even if they weren't in the
area at the time) - and all members who were within 3/4 miles of the
disaster when it happened (i.e., below Canal St.) - bentshed gomel en masse.
Living as I do 10 blocks from ground 0, I woke up the morning after we
bentshed gomel feeling so much better.  It was a true healing experience.

Larry Kay
High Holiday & Life Cycle Soloist
Cong. Beth Simchat Torah

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Ginsburgh" <judy (at) jewishentertainment(dot)net>
To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:44 AM
Subject: [HANASHIR:9885] Re: Patriotic songs


> For Erev Rosh Hashanah, I sang Doug Cotler's "Adonai Li" after the sermon.
> People were weeping.  We ended the services with Doug's "Tefilat
Haderech".
> Another gorgeous piece of music.  On Rosh Hashanah day, I sang Steve
> Dropkin's "The World Yet To Come" after the sermon and at the Family
> services, sang Peter and Ellen Allard's "Count Your Blessings".  The
> comments I received about each one of these selections was overwhelmingly
> positive.  Each one fit just perfectly with re-written sermons.  When
> everything comes together like this on the pulpit and is transmitted to
the
> congregation, it is magical.  May the New Year be a sweet one for us all.
>
> Judy :)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dr. Alan Mason" <dralanmason (at) hotmail(dot)com>
> To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 8:30 AM
> Subject: [HANASHIR:9882] Re: Patriotic songs
>
>
> > At Temple Israel in Miami we began Erev Rosh Hashana with "America The
> > Beautiful," and we began Rosh Hashana morning with "God Bless America."
> In
> > my ten years at Temple Israel, its the first time I can recall singing
> > American patriotic song.  It worked extremely effectively!
> >
> > Alan Mason
> > Doctor of Musical Arts
> > Pi Kappa Lambda
> >
> >
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: LPKAROL (at) aol(dot)com
> > Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> > To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> > Subject: [HANASHIR:9880] Patriotic songs
> > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:21:47 EDT
> >
> > Dear Chevre,
> >         Life in Topeka, Kansas is the same as everywhere else - we are
> > coming
> > out of the same daze and shock and initial grief that hit us on
September
> > 11.
> >   Some of you know about Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church,
our
> > local anti-everyone else (althought they say they are only
> anti-homosexual)
> > picketers who say that God hates America and fly their flag upside down.
> > Their church is a few blocks from Temple, and some people who live near
> them
> > have started a counter-picket, realizing finally that no one should hate
> > anyone after America became a victim of hate last week.  I hope give
that
> > group some help if I can.
> >          My reason for posting is that my initial musical reaction to
> recent
> > events has been to sing songs about peace.  Last Friday, I added Debbie
> > Friedman's "Shelter of Peace" to the service along with one of the
prayers
> > circulating aroud at the beginning.  I sang Yaysh Kochavim before the
> > Kaddish, and we sang Steve Dropkin's "Birkat Hak'hilah" (Y'varchecha) at
> the
> > end of the service.   A congregant has written the board saying that our
> > Tmeple has been neglectful of celebrating our American pride in song,
that
> > we
> > should be singing a song like "God Bless America."   I know that some of
> you
> > have done it, and that's fine, but my first impulse is always to choose
a
> > Jewish expression first.   I have already heard stories of people having
> > tears in their eyes at singing God Bless America at other congregations,
> and
> > that's fine.  It just wasn't my impulse.  What did you do and what do
you
> > think?  I have decided that I will recite the prayer for our nation and
> our
> > people in the gray gender-sensitive prayerbook every week from now on
> > (should
> > have been doing it already).  I think that should suffice.
> >   I would welcome responses to the whole group or to me personally.
> >         Have an easy fast, everyone - Shanah Tovah!
> > L'shalom,
> > (Rabbi) Larry Karol
> > Temple Beth Sholom
> > Topeka
> >
> >
> >
> >
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