Rosh Hashana -- Jewish holiday or a movie mogul?

It's Rosh Hashana, and to add a secular (and singular) spin to the Jewish new year -- it's 5769 -- here's an e-mail that's been working its way around the Internet in recent days, purportedly written by a DreamWorks executive's temp secretary:

"Could you tell me, who's Rosh Hashanah and why would he/she affect Kristi's meeting with KN and MC? Thanks! I really appreciate it!"

More on the e-mail at Defamer.

Meanwhile, Jews are expected to come by the hundreds today to Venice Beach for what is being billed as the "world's biggest Jewish drumming circle" and a ceremony known as tashlich:

Tashlich (“casting off”) is a long-standing Jewish practice performed on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.  Nashuva Tashlich is unlike any other -- hundreds of Southern California Jews create the world’s largest Jewish Drumming Circle as they celebrate the new year and symbolically cast their sins into the water.

And that's Daniel Chodos in the photo, sounding the shofar during a Rosh Hashana service last year.

-- Shelby Grad

Photo credit: Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times