High Holidays

Aaron Lee was raised in San Francisco’s Jewish community. But it wasn’t until recently, when some Chabad boys in his San Francisco neighborhood stopped him to put on tefillin, that he suddenly felt the need to delve deeper into Jewish study. The Oct. 7 at...

With Yom Kippur soon upon us, Jews around the world are thinking about synagogues, whether they attend one daily or haven’t gone since last Yom Kippur. Chabad.org’s High Holidays Directory is seeing a record number of visitors eager to find a welcoming se...

Every day, thousands of people in every nook and cranny of the planet search for a Chabad-Lubavitch center close to home, and that is never more true than before the High Holidays. Whether looking for a welcoming place to pray on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip...

As the summer months near their conclusion, some can already hear the echoes of the upcoming Rosh Hashanah prayers. The High Holidays are the focal point of the year for many, and the start of a new year gives the opportunity to step back, reconsider and ...

On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Asher Federman and two young rabbis set out on foot, armed with a shofar, to blow the ram’s horn for the Jews of St. Thomas. They visited local Jewish community members at their homes—people whose lives had been s...

It’s Rosh Hashanah. The main sanctuary of the MTC (Montreal Torah Center) is packed with more than 1,500 men, women and children. Suddenly, a voice rings out: It’s Ariel Mechaly calling out the page numbers. An adult with Down syndrome, Mechaly has been a...

For most Jewish children, learning about the High Holidays is a natural component of their education; preparing for this special time of year has long been a traditional part of day schools and Sunday-school programs throughout the world. But for children...

A picture is worth 1,000 words. If so, then a new coffee-table book with more than 200 photographs has a lot to say. Just in time for the High Holidays, Jewish Educational Media (JEM) has released a photo book titled Tishrei in Lubavitch. The 130-page alb...

Those who attend High Holiday services this year at the Brooklyn Hebrew Society of the Deaf will have no excuse if they fall asleep during the rabbi’s sermon, jokes Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff. They probably wouldn’t anyway, as services are conducted in Amer...

After days of relentless heat—temperatures are expected to continue in the 90s—rain and no electricity and air-conditioning, one thing is clear: rebuilding parts of Tallahassee, Fla., that were impacted by Hurricane Hermine is going to take time, money an...