How You Can Participate in National Refugee Shabbat – and Why You Should Jewish communities across North America will come together for National Refugee Shabbat on October…
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Rosh HaShanah in Lisbon: A Tale of Family and Connections This year was the first time in a long time I wasn’t with my immediate…
At the Intersection of Spiritual Practice and Poetry I grew up in Chelmsford, MA, where we belonged to a small Reform Jewish community. For Judaism to…
Lost in Ambivalence at the Western Wall At the Kotel, the stark contrasts between Reform and Orthodox Jews and the physical separation of males and…
Reform Judaism: How It Evolved in America In his new book, Steven R. Weisman offers a compelling narrative about the formation of the Jewish religion…
Why Was Fred Rogers at High Holiday Services This Year? If you attended worship services at a Reform congregation anywhere in North America during the…
How Fred Rogers and Jeff Erlanger Became Friends for Life Learn why Jeff Erlanger’s 1981 visit to “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” in his electric-powered wheelchair was…
Turning: A Poem for Yom Kippur Inspired by Yom Kippur services in 5778, this poem reflects one writer’s view of the most holy day in…
A Brief History of the Kol Nidrei Prayer For most North American Jews, the haunting melody of Kol Nidrei surely is the piece of liturgy…
Choosing Life for Us and Our World It’s wonderful and deep that on Yom Kippur, the section of the Torah read in many Reform congregations…
What Does Jewish Tradition Say about Health and Wellness? Created in the Divine image, we are obligated to take care of the sacred gift of…
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…
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…