Rabbi Julie’s sermon on Yom Kippur, 2023/5784
The film opens with four palm trees swaying in the wind and a fiddler playing dramatically in the background. In Palm Desert, California, Roberta Mahler, age 87, is driving her golf cart, her bleached blond hair blowing in the wind, with her black poodle in her lap. Her wrinkled cheeks smile when she says, “One of my friends said to me, come on, we’re gonna go to Wendy’s for Shabbat. I said (incredulously), Wendy’s Shabbat? I couldn’t believe this.”