Rabbi Hanan Leberman of Tifereth Israel Synagogue in foreground and Rabbi Martin Lawson, emeritus rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in background, sound the shofar as Rabbi Benj Fried (center) of Temple Emanu-El calls out the notes.
Photos by Fred Kropveld; SDJW Video
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Tashlich services at Lake Murray in San Diego brought together the Reform congregation of Temple Emanu-El and the Conservative congregation of Tifereth Israel Synagogue for prayers capped by the blowing of shofars and the symbolic casting of sins (in the form of bird seed) into the lake waters.
Photographer Fred Kropveld observed the ceremony and the family fun feeding the ducks of Lake Murray the late afternoon of Thursday, October 3, the first day of Rosh Hashanah.
Congregants of Temple Emanu-El and Tifereth Israel Synagogue threw birdseed, symbolizing their sins, to ducks in the lake. Norman Katz is in the foreground.A family with two young daughters enjoys throwing birdseed to the ducks symbolically casting off their “sins.”Dr. Frank Kalmar and his wife, Susan Stern, hurl their symbolic sins away during Tashlich observance at Lake Murray.
