Posts Tagged: high holidays
Shofar: A Love Song
JNS.org - As first-chair trumpet in the Orville Wright Junior High School band in Los Angeles in 1966, Robbie Weinger didn’t know it, but he...
Israeli Health Minister Urges Public to Refrain From High Holiday Gatherings
JNS.org - Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday urged the public to refrain from large family gatherings during the upcoming High Holidays, which begin...
Can You Forgive Your Political Foes? And Can They Forgive You?
JNS.org - As the year 5780 begins, political division is the predominant theme in both Israel and the United States. In Israel, two attempts to elect...
What We Must All Do This Rosh Hashanah
We are about to enter the season of long synagogue services, with a liturgy that, when translated into English or any vernacular, strikes many people...
Where Will America’s Rabbis Lead Us This New Year?
What was American Jewry’s greatest failing in 5778? If your answer is that our communal life hasn’t been sufficiently partisan or focused enough on the...
The Message of Sukkot: Spiritual Elevation Is a Process, Not a Switch
With each passing year, sukkah companies try and make it easier for you to build your sukkah. Today, you can buy a kit from a sukkah store, and...
Jewish Allegiance to God After the Holocaust Has No Precedent
Jews across the world recently celebrated the start of their new year. Admittedly, we didn’t hit the bars the way that New Yorkers do on...
How to Make Time for Judaism
The sound of the shofar has awakened our slumbering souls. The words of the rabbi's sermon have pierced our veil of spiritual complacency. Our individual and...
Judaism’s Lesson: Everything Is Possible
Self-help guru and best-selling author Louise Hay recently died in her sleep, at the age of 90. Born into poverty in Los Angeles in 1926, as...
Jewish Groups Cancel High Holiday Call With Trump Over Charlottesville Comments
JNS.org - Four major American Jewish organizations have announced they will not participate in an annual conference call with the president ahead of the High Holidays. In...
The (Face)Book of Life
There is a story told about one of the rabbinical sages of the 19th century. Someone brought this rabbi a model of a telephone shortly after it...
Hebrew Prayers Are Lost in Translation
We will spend more time than usual in synagogues these coming weeks, and with that, a problem arises. One of the biggest challenges for most Jews is the...
British PM Praises UK-Israel Relationship in Jewish New Year Greeting
In her first address to the British Jewish community as prime minister, to mark the upcoming Jewish New Year festival, Theresa May praised the relationship...
Poll: 70% of European Jews to Avoid Synagogue on High Holidays Despite Increased Security
Seventy percent of European Jews will not go to synagogue on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur this year, according to a poll released Tuesday. The survey was...
