For a long time the Reform movement only observed one day of Rosh Hashana and read the Akeidah on it. In recent years there's been a push to do both days.1 (No idea what proportion of congregations offer a second-day service.) When we added it at my congregation we decided to leave the Akeidah on the first day (which has vastly better attendance), and do creation on the second day. Apparently that's a common choice, as the new machzor includes three options for the torah portion(s) -- Yishmael, the Akeidah, and creation.
I don't know if the position that RH is the 6th day is minority; my rabbi presented it as "some say this, others say that" in his comments before the reading. But we're covered either way, as you said, because we read all seven days. :-)
For some strange reason, the concept of children being placed into danger resonated this year especially.
Indeed.
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1 I can't speak for the larger movement, but there were a couple factors in my own congregation. First, we say that we follow the Israeli calendar and that's why we don't do the second day of yom tov -- but if we say that, we should be consistent: Israel does do two days for Rosh Hashana. Second, we reached a critical mass of people including our rabbis who were going to other congregations (usually Conservative, sometimes Orthodox) for the second day and we agreed that we should be offering to fill that need for our community.
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Date: 2018-09-17 05:44 pm (UTC)I don't know if the position that RH is the 6th day is minority; my rabbi presented it as "some say this, others say that" in his comments before the reading. But we're covered either way, as you said, because we read all seven days. :-)
For some strange reason, the concept of children being placed into danger resonated this year especially.
Indeed.
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1 I can't speak for the larger movement, but there were a couple factors in my own congregation. First, we say that we follow the Israeli calendar and that's why we don't do the second day of yom tov -- but if we say that, we should be consistent: Israel does do two days for Rosh Hashana. Second, we reached a critical mass of people including our rabbis who were going to other congregations (usually Conservative, sometimes Orthodox) for the second day and we agreed that we should be offering to fill that need for our community.