New year: Festivities set for Jewish holiday
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friendly while preparing for Rosh
Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
“Rosh Hashana is a time to take
stock of your life and get your head
on straight for the year,” she said.
“Your head is in control of every
thing that you do. It’s very impor
tant to start the year off in the right
frame of mind because it affects
your entire year. ”
Today marks the first day of the
Jewish New Year, the year 5766.
Rosh Hashana, which began Mon
day night at dusk and will continue
until Wednesday, marks the first and
second days of the first Jewish month
of Tishri. Also known as the day of
judgment, Rosh Hashana celebrates
the birth of the world and is a time for
Jews to reflect upon their lives over
the past year.
The Oregon Hillel is participating
in the “High Holiday Food Drive” that
will benefit local food shelters
throughout fall term and “Beads For
The Bayou,” a fund-raiser to benefit
the hurricane-relief effort.
For the first time, all of the Oregon
Hillel Rosh Hashana festivities this
year are student-led.
It s an arduous task preparing
oneself to lead the community in
prayer,” said Hal Applebaum, exec
utive director of the Oregon Hillel.
“There are a lot of different denom
inations attending and it’s hard to
please all the people. I’ve been es
pecially proud to watch the stu
dents get ready and work so hard
on this.”
One of the many customs of Rosh
Hashana is, during the evening
meals, to eat foods symbolizing
sweetness, blessings and abundance,
particularly apples and honey be
cause they represent the wishes for a
sweet year for all the Jewish people.
Another custom is the blowing of
the shofar. Rosh Hashana is an op
portunity for one’s calling of repen
tence through the sounding of the
shofar, a ram’s horn trumpet and
one of the first instruments played
by the ancient Israelites, just like at a
coronation ceremony.
Nicole Barker | Senior photographer
Josh Schorr and Ben David prepare for the first service of Rosh Hashana Monday night
in Gerlinger Hall.
A Rosh Hashana shofar blowing
will take place at 11:30 a.m.
at Chabad House today and
Wednesday.
At 4 p.m. today, students and
members of the Jewish community
will walk together from the Hillel
house to the Willamette River for the
Taschlich ceremony. During the cere
mony, participants will throw bread
in the water, symbolizing the casting
away of sins.
University student Jonathan
Rosenberg said Rosh Hashana is a
time to reflect on the past and look
into the future.
“This holiday gives me time to
look at my life to see how I can live
my life as a better person,” Rosen
berg said. “That’s really the main
purpose of Rosh Hashana — to ask
God for forgiveness and repent.”
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Smokers: Requirements dictate
changes to open-air areas
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Another reason for the change
was to clarify the rules for business
owners, Kelly said.
There have been problems with
some businesses looking at the in
tent of the ordinance and some
looking at the letter of the ordi
nance, Kelly said.
This created a situation where
some businesses had better covered
smoking areas, which attracted
more customers.
“We wanted to level the competi
tive playing field,” Kelly said.
Some on the council feel the origi
nal ordinance is already effective and
that changes will harm business
owners forced to comply more than
it will help employees.
“The ordinance is in its place and
doing the job it’s supposed to do,”
Ward 5 City Councilor Gary Pape
said. “I don’t feel employees are
subject to additional risk. ”
Pape feels the force behind the
changes hasn’t been bar owners,
workers and patrons, but county
health officials and anti-smoking
groups. He is also worried the
changes will hurt business owners
who will be forced to modify the
smoking areas they built after the
2000 ordinance.
Pape, a non-smoker, said that in a
perfect world, no one would smoke,
but that it’s a choice for some.
“If smoking is legal, which it is, we
need to balance health risks with the
ability for businesses to thrive with
patrons who are smokers,” Pape said
The changes have hurt some bars
more than others. Taylor’s Bar &
Grille has a completely open smoking
area and won’t be forced to change it
to fit the new requirements.
Taylor’s owner Chuck Hare has
seen ill-effects since bars first had to
comply in 2000.
“It has been really hard for some
bars,” Hare said. “It’s put some bars
out of business.”
Despite that, Hare has seen the
positive effects at Taylor’s since the
city banned indoor smoking.
“I would wake up coughing, doing
things smokers do,” Hare said refer
ring to the time to before the ban.
"The majority of my staff, we all
agree it’s better on our health.”
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