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The Actors’ Temple: Inside the synagogue where Broadway’s biggest stars used to pray
Greenstein, who is a member of Actors’ Temple, said that putting on his play in a Jewish setting carried special meaning. The ner tamid, the eternal light hanging above the synagogue ark ...
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At Hanukkah, a celebration of eternal light − from the desert tabernacle to synagogues today
Alongside the physical abuses that Jews suffered, the loss of the eternal light must have suggested that God’s presence no longer abided in the Temple or among the Jewish people. I can think of ...
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On ‘Fear the Walking Dead,’ zombies attack my childhood synagogue
Jarringly, our synagogue’s godawful ner tamid, or eternal light (a twisted, red-stained-glass monstrosity — the eternal lobster, my family calls it), had been replaced by a big silver plot ...
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Spied in aerial image weeks later, teen’s painting survives temple destruction in Eaton Fire
“Eternal Light,” the painting she made in honor of a beloved rabbi was reduced to ash when the Eaton Fire ripped through the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center on Jan. 7. But 25 days ...
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Keeping the Light of Torah burning bright
The opening words of Parshat Tetzaveh are: “You shall further instruct the Israelites to bring you clear oil of beaten olives ...
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A visit to a synagogue
This is the Ner Tamid or eternal light. It’s a light that never goes out, and it reminds us that God is always present. In Orthodox synagogues, women and men sit separately. In ours, they sit at ...
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The role of the synagogue
It represents the Holy of Holies that was part of the first major temple built by King Solomon. Ner Tamid This means ‘eternal light’ and it is always lit in the synagogue. It represents the ...