Aaron Parry
Aaron Parry is an American synagogue rabbi, counter-missionary expert, and author of several beginners books on Judaism. He was formerly the Rabbi of Young Israel of Beverly Hills. He is the former education director for the West Coast branch of Jews for Judaism, and has been quoted as an expert on Jewish counter-missionary activity. Parry has a master's degree in Jewish studies from New York State University. He currently teaches at Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles. A few days each season, since 2000, he sets up and manages a kosher food stand at Dodger Stadium Dodger Stadium is a baseball stadium in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is the home stadium of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers. Opened in 1962, it was constructed in less than three years at a cost of ( .... Bibliography * ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Talmud'' (Alpha Books, 2004) - reviewed by The Jewish Journal * ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hebrew Scripture ...
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Synagogue
A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worship. Synagogues have a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels), where Jews attend religious Services or special ceremonies (including Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs or Bat Mitzvahs, Confirmations, choir performances, or even children's plays), have rooms for study, social hall(s), administrative and charitable offices, classrooms for religious school and Hebrew school, sometimes Jewish preschools, and often have many places to sit and congregate; display commemorative, historic, or modern artwork throughout; and sometimes have items of some Jewish historical significance or history about the Synagogue itself, on display. Synagogues are consecrated spaces used for the purpose of Jewish prayer, study, assembly, and r ...
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