| There is a book called "Tashlich" published by Art Scroll and available
at the Israel Book Shop in Brookline. It will give you all the
information you would need for your bulletin article-- origin, various
customs, the prayer.
My family goes to tashlich at the reservoir near Boston College.
It's quite an event. All the shuls in the Brookline/Brighton area
come together an hour or so before sundown. Getting there is half
the fun. Picture scores of families promenading down Beacon Street
during rush hour, people in the shops pressing there faces against
the windows to see what's happening; cars stopped---viewing the
impromptu parade of bobbing shtiemels, flying tzizzit, black yarmulkas
AND knit kippot, tichels, sheitels and/or elegant hats, and
caravans of carriages and strollers.
When we finally arrive, the scene is one of praying, dancing,
children rolling down the grassy knolls (I've learned to have
my children change out of their yom tov finery *before* we go),
and socializing. The joggers and their dogs and other
passers-by stare, wondering if we know something they don't.
My children look forward to it, too.
Join us, if you're in the area.
--Av
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| Thanks for the invitation, but we won't be in Brookline, of course;
we usually walk down the hill to a stream with a few friends. I
imagine that the ducks get most of our crumbs, but maybe a few
molecules eventually make it to the ocean. I will try to get into
Brookline and pick up a copy of the book. I always seem to get
designated to write up things of that sort; I guess the committee
knows that I will probably not forget to do it and will come up
with something reasonably grammatical, etc. (You would have liked
the writeups for "Mezuzah Amnesty Day" last winter on the Sunday
during Hannukah; we were going to have a scribe come in to check
people's mezuzahs and have a group of us help people replace worn
scrolls - unfortuneately the scribe ended up in the hospital (I
think for an operation) and we didn't do it - maybe this winter).
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