By Michael S. Simon for the Beth Israel Green Team Task Force Tashlikh was first introduced around the 13th century, performed on the first day of Rosh Hashanah as a means of casting off sin. The tradition involves proceeding to a moving body of water, preferably one containing fish, to symbolically cast off sins by…
By Murray Rosenthal Genesis of Ann Arbor, a long-standing equal partnership between Temple Beth Emeth and St. Clare’s Episcopal Church, has taken another bold step toward sustainability by expanding its solar energy system. Genesis’s original installation consisted of 160 panels which were mounted on the south-facing roof of the office building and the flat social…
By Rabbi Sara Adler, Staff Chaplain, University of Michigan Hospitals Why do Jews begin the new year in the fading light of summer and as leaves fall from the trees, exposing their bare branches to the cold? During Sukkot, we can almost taste and smell the earth preparing for its deep slumber. Wooded trails are…