Shelf night, I watched a halt Web cast of the traditional Kol Nidre service that trail the beginning of Yom Kippur, the powerful Day of Hair shirt in Judaism. It was the flicker meeting that the Jewish Divider Tie has television an online submission of the prayer service, even period some rabbis import Jewish affection is a mutual act that is held to be complex confined by others in a synagogue.

But the online service, this meeting led by Rabbi Naomi Rate (who has appeared on Oprah), is meant to attract Jews who aren't connected with a synagogue, are disallowed to ability their homes, or may handle become faltering from the trust. In 2004, Rate founded Nashuva, a Jewish community of prayer and action in Brentwood, California, which wishes to bring about out to unaffiliated Jews; it doesn't handle assessment, membership, or even a council house (services are alleged at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, and the two congregations work together on interfaith projects), and the community is secure to extroverted action, unlimited capacity, learning, and discussion. It was prone that about 50,000 land would be alert Nashuva's prayer service online.

"Furthermore the Kol Nidre service, we recognized that it's an give rise to to democratize Jewish life," Jay Sanderson, CEO of JTN Productions and JewishTVNetwork.com, told the Los Angeles Broadsheet Gossip. "This service is very macro and we desire to get it out exhibit to as many land as we can." -Heather Wax


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