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Rosh Hashanah
Holiday Info
5 Reasons for Round Challah on Rosh Hashanah
Many have the custom to begin the Rosh Hashanah meals with round challahs, often filled with raisins and sweeter than usual. Here's why.
Many have the custom to begin the Rosh Hashanah meals with round challahs, often filled with raisins and sweeter than usual. Here's why.
First Person
What Brought This Rebel Back for Rosh Hashanah
By adolescence I was doing my own thing on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—and it wasn't anywhere near a synagogue.
By adolescence I was doing my own thing on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—and it wasn't anywhere near a synagogue.
A Special Match Made in Heaven
Chaim has a neurological condition and developmental disability. Tamar has Down syndrome. What a wonderful match!
Chaim has a neurological condition and developmental disability. Tamar has Down syndrome. What a wonderful match!
Saved From Death’s Door
He’s refused to eat for the past four weeks. The doctors say that his organs are starting to shut down . . .
He’s refused to eat for the past four weeks. The doctors say that his organs are starting to shut down . . .
Parshah
How I Found Purpose With ALS
I could have fallen prey to the "why me?" attitude, sunken into depression and been miserable.
I could have fallen prey to the "why me?" attitude, sunken into depression and been miserable.
Shabbat Shuvah Haftarah Companion
This Shabbat is known as Shabbat Shuvah, after the opening words of the haftarah: Shuvah Yisrael—“Return, O Israel.”
This Shabbat is known as Shabbat Shuvah, after the opening words of the haftarah: Shuvah Yisrael—“Return, O Israel.”
Lifestyle
Jewish News
With Fewer Young Jews in Synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, Rabbis Take to Public Parks
Hearing the shofar in unlikely places sparks participation throughout the year.
Hearing the shofar in unlikely places sparks participation throughout the year.
Emergency Airlift From Houston, Flotilla From Puerto Rico Deliver Aid to St. Thomas
Jewish communities near and far help out as food, water and supply crisis grows.
Jewish communities near and far help out as food, water and supply crisis grows.
First New Synagogue in 150 Years a Beacon on Vancouver Island
Drawing in families and serving longtime residents in a background of art and nature.
Drawing in families and serving longtime residents in a background of art and nature.
No sooner was [Abraham] weaned -- and he was but a small child -- that his mind began to seek and wonder: How do the heavenly bodies orbit without a moving force? Who moves them? They cannot move themselves! Immersed amongst the foolish idol-worshippers of Ur Casdim, he had no one to teach him anything; his father, mother and countrymen, and he amongst them, all worshipped idols. But his heart sought, and came to know that there is one G-d... who created all and that in all existence there is none other than Him. He came to know that the entire world erred...
— Maimonides
Print Magazine
We don’t learn Torah to gain knowledge—not even divine knowledge. At the time you are learning Torah, your mind itself is divine.
Your mind wraps itself in divine modalities. Your soul twirls and rises in a divine dance. As you wrestle with divine words, pathways and wisdom, you merge with them, so that your entire being...
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