Rosh Hashanah
Submitted by faithvalues on September 18, 2009 - 9:00am.
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown tonight, so say a kind word to your friends and neighbors who are Jewish. Rosh Hashanah is the first of the Jewish High Holy Days celebrated in the fall every year.
This week, I've been showing students "Gentleman's Agreement," a movie about a reporter's crusade against entrenched anti-Semitism in the 1940s in the United States. Some of them were perplexed and surprised by the level of anti-Semitism as recently as 50 years ago. "Gentleman's Agreement," from 1947 is very realistic about the insiduous ways we thought about and treated Jewish people, even after World War II.