Sep 21, 2009 -
This weekend it was both my husband's birthday and Rosh Hashannah on the same day, so we had a combined holiday/birthday dinner party. I got to use my wedding china, silver and crystal and brightened it up for the late summer/early Fall timing with yellow sunflowers and white hydrangas. Because I knew everyone would be polite and not want to take the comfy chairs vs.
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Sep 18, 2009 -
Link to the message on the WH website
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Aug 23, 2009 -
Ben Smith Politico August 22, 2009
A reader points out that President Obama’s call with the rabbis today — as recorded in Rabbi Jack Moline’s and other clerics‘ Twitter feeds — freights health care reform with a great deal of religious meaning, and veers into the blend of policy and faith that outraged liberals in the last administration.
“We are God’s partners in matters of life and death,” Obama said, according to Moline (paging Sarah Palin…), quoting from the Rosh Hashanah prayer that says that in the holiday period, it is decided “who shall live and who shall die.”
The president ended the call by wishing the rabbis “shanah tovah,” or happy new year — in reference to the High Holidays a month from now.
http://www.infowars.com/obama-tells-rabbis-government-is-gods-partner-in-matters-of-life-and-death/
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