My First-Time Journey into High Holidays This poem was written by a freelance writer, dreamer, and poet who is currently exploring the story of her Jewish ancestry…
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How I Learned to Blow the Shofar Recently, I dusted off my shofar and have been brushing up on my shofar-blowing skills to prepare for…
The Taste of Salt: A Poem for the Days of Awe Read a new poem Stacey Robinson created for this High Holiday season. 9/06/2018 Stacey…
What’s Sephardic About the High Holidays? What do dates, pomegranates, apples, spinach, squash, pumpkin, beets, scallions, and maybe even, the cheek meat of a fish…
RAPentance: A Hip-Hop “Praylist” for Rosh HaShanah I began dreaming about an alternative High Holiday experience – a musical journey that would tap into…
How to Declutter Your Soul During the High Holidays The Days of Awe offer us opportunities to consider how we spend our days and what…
Why Do Parents Cry When Their Children Leave for College? Leaving our son at college for his first year, my wife and I are full…
What Do the High Holidays and AA Meetings Have in Common? We spend a lot of time coordinating High Holiday worship, but when we strip…
Why We Need Good Sermons Now More Than Ever For more than 50 years, High Holiday sermons were consequential both for the rabbi and the…
Two Musicians and a Liturgist: Creating Music for the New Year Learn the backstory of how a new song, “Creation Sings,” grew from the collaboration…
5 Last-Minute Ways to Work Civic Engagement Into Your High Holidays This year, the High Holidays fall a month and a half before midterm elections,…
How Does Being a Synagogue Member Make My Life Better? A former synagogue member wondered, “How would being a member make my life better or…
Will Borscht Ever Remind My Kids of Me? My kids would rather starve than eat a blintz or other food with roots in the shtetls…
Every Table Tells a Story What we do and say at the kitchen table, how we behave, and how we put down or lift up…
The Theological Compromise in Israel’s Founding Document It was May 13, 1948 and the new Jewish State was to be declared the following afternoon, but…
How I Helped Lead the Way for Jewish Girls With Guitars When I was growing up, Jewish music was the sole purview of men. I…
Israel: There Must Be Another Way For those of us who believe that, while Israel should be a “nation like all the other nations,” it…
Election Days are Jewish Holidays While Jews have not always been afforded the right to vote, voting encompasses several Jewish values. 8/15/2018 Rabbi Joel Mosbacher…
Selichot: A Spiritual Warm-Up for the High Holy Days When Rosh HaShanah occurs within close proximity to the Shabbat that precedes it, as it does…
A Memoir of War: The Agony of Waiting Renowned French-Jewish director Emmanuel Finkiel’s new film, A Memoir of War, is a haunting meditation on the pain…