Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Ahavath Gerim Congregation celebrates Rosh Hashanah

Al Frank (left), Secretary of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation, Stu Robinson (center), Lay Rabbi and Rabbinical Candidate of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation,  and Denyse Werts, a friend from NY, prepare to start the Tashlich service as part of Rosh Hashanah in Burlington, VT on Friday, September 29, 2011.  (Joshua Lambert, for the Free Press)
Al Frank (left), Secretary of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation, Stu Robinson (center), Lay Rabbi and Rabbinical Candidate of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation, hold up the prayer translated in english before reading it in Hebrew during a Tashlich service as part of Rosh Hashanah in Burlington, VT on Friday, September 29, 2011.  (Joshua Lambert, for the Free Press)
Al Frank (left), Secretary of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation, Stu Robinson (center), Lay Rabbi and Rabbinical Candidate of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation,  and Denyse Werts, a friend from NY, read a prayer in hebrew during a Tashlich service as part of Rosh Hashanah in Burlington, VT on Friday, September 29, 2011.  (Joshua Lambert, for the Free Press)
Al Frank (left), Secretary of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation, Stu Robinson (center), Lay Rabbi and Rabbinical Candidate of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation,  and Denyse Werts, a friend from NY, read a prayer in hebrew during a Tashlich service as part of Rosh Hashanah in Burlington, VT on Friday, September 29, 2011.  (Joshua Lambert, for the Free Press)
Al Frank (right), Secretary of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation, Stu Robinson (center), Lay Rabbi and Rabbinical Candidate of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation,  and Denyse Werts, a friend from NY, throw pieces of challah bread into Lake Champlain during a Tashlich service as part of Rosh Hashanah in Burlington, VT on Friday, September 29, 2011. The throwing of bread into the water is symbolic of casting away your sins. (Joshua Lambert, for the Free Press)
Al Frank (left), Secretary of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation, Stu Robinson (center), Lay Rabbi and Rabbinical Candidate of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation, throw pieces of challah bread into Lake Champlain during the Tashlich service as part of Rosh Hashanah in Burlington, VT on Friday, September 29, 2011.  (Joshua Lambert, for the Free Press)
Al Frank (right), Secretary of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation, Stu Robinson, Lay Rabbi and Rabbinical Candidate of the Ahavath Gerim Congregation,  participate in Shofar or "The blowing of the Horn" as part of Rosh Hashanah in Burlington, VT on Friday, September 29, 2011. (Joshua Lambert, for the Free Press)

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