Fall is a big holiday time for Jews and we have been trying our best to take it in, even with our traveling. We celebrated Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, in San Francisco, at Beth Israel Judea, where a camp friend of Ellyn’s is the Cantor. We got to Salt Lake City for Yom Kippur, and Ellyn was able to find Congregation Kol Ami, where they did not require a fee or even reciprocation from our own synagogue. We only did Kol Nidre as we were on the road the next day. We will have to atone for that next year.
We arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, where our good friends the Davidson’s live, and Joe was our Rabbi in Rochester, Miinesota. Now he is a part-time Rabbi there at Congregation B’nai Amoona and we were there for their celebration of Simcha Torah, when the reading of the Torah reaches its end and then restarts for the “Beginning”. Now, we are in Dothan, Alabama, where our own synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, with our good friend, Rabbi Lynn Goldsmith, was celebrating Shabbat, and a belated Simcha Torah. Ellyn got to light the Shabbat candles and Geoff got an Aliyah to the Torah.
From here, we finally get to Florida, although we have two more stops before we get to Sun’N’Fun.
