L.A.'s Energy Synagogues: In which the Industry Would go to Worship

This short article first made an appearance in the present problem from the Hollywood Reporter magazine. our editor recommendsHow This Wonky-Tonk Lady Won TVRachel Maddow Interview: Questions Obamas Re-Election Chances, Gay Marriage and also the Tea Party Throughout the Jewish High Holy Times of Rosh Hashanah (Sept. 28 to 30) and Yom Kippur (March. 7 to eight), Hollywood becomes noticeably quieter as numerous showbiz-types duck outside and into temple to celebrate the most crucial holidays around the Jewish calendar. And like the majority of things in Tinseltown, in which you go is nearly as essential as that which you do. PHOTOS: L.A.'s Energy Synagogues While La hosts numerous esteemed synagogues, merely a choose couple of institutions possess the blessing of both Adonai and industry elite. Veteran-producer Jerry Weintraub and rock royalty Bob Dylan and the boy Jakob prefer their local Malibu temple (Chabad of Malibu) and WME mind Ari Emanuel and the wife, Sarah, attend services in the Leo Baeck Temple on Sepulveda alongside Barbra Streisand and her longtime songwriting team, Marilyn and Alan Bergman. While these holy days function as an event for people to celebrate the brand new Year (Rosh Hashanah) and reflect at the time of Atonement (Yom Kippur), it's inevitable that things can get interesting whenever you worship with individuals you train with. PHOTOS: 'Entourage' Finale: 20 Memorable Hollywood Cameos In the Series TV comedies haven't been shy of acknowledging the sacred and also the worldly sometimes collide. Throughout season three of Cinemax's Entourage, Jeremy Piven's Ari Gold is punished for crashes a Yom Kippur service in the Wilshire Boulevard Temple to go over cash with a studio mind. As well as in a 2005 episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ray David attempts to scalp tickets to some service so exclusive it offered out several weeks ahead of time. (Some synagogues require bookings for tickets.) If there's somewhere industry-ites keep their Hollywood urges under control though, here it is. "I had been at Temple Israel in Hollywood for Rosh Hoshanah," states an un named congregant, "and made the decision it had been do not to tweet which i was sitting near Jeremy Piven and Leonard Nimoy." Discover where Hollywood would go to temple here. Related Subjects Entourage Curb Your Enthusiasm