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Tag: High Holidays

Careful Forgiveness: Atoning with Life in the New Year

Careful Forgiveness: Atoning with Life in the New Year

Posted on October 12, 2016October 12, 2016 by Jenn Lindsay
“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.” Pablo Neruda Yom Kippur is the Jewish day of atonement between humanity and the divine. Jewish tradition dictates that atonement between h... Read More
Setting the Table with My Self: Food, Choice, and Identity

Setting the Table with My Self: Food, Choice, and Identity

Posted on October 12, 2015October 11, 2015 by Sarah Fein
It was Erev Rosh HaShanah, the evening beginning the Jewish New Year. Guests were starting to arrive after services, and my apartment was filling up with the sounds of their laughter and the scent of... Read More
One of These Jews Is Not Like the Others: A Progressive Jew at an Orthodox Yom Kippur

One of These Jews Is Not Like the Others: A Progressive Jew at an Orthodox Yom Kippur

Posted on September 17, 2015September 18, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
It was raining at dusk. I decided not to ride my bike to the progressive Yom Kippur service on the Boston University campus. If I rode my bike, I would get too thirsty coming home and I wouldn’t ke... Read More
Working T'shuvah - What is Forgiveness?

Working T’shuvah – What is Forgiveness?

Posted on August 19, 2015August 20, 2015 by Mackenzie Reynolds
I grew up in a non-religious family, and then became Christian as a teenager, and then converted again to Judaism as an adult. I learned as a teen that forgiveness is freely and completely given. It i... Read More
Elul in the time of Black Lives Matter

Elul in the time of Black Lives Matter

Posted on August 13, 2015August 13, 2015 by Mackenzie Reynolds
This shabbes, Elul starts. Elul is the Jewish month of reflection and preparation that leads us into the High Holidays. For some of us, we begin our process of t’shuvah (repentance) during the ... Read More
An Improvised Family: Yom Kippur with Rome’s Progressive Jews

An Improvised Family: Yom Kippur with Rome’s Progressive Jews

Posted on October 17, 2014October 30, 2018 by Jenn Lindsay
Normally people do not go to Rome to refrain from eating. But it was Yom Kippur, and I was on my way to afternoon services at Beth Hillel, Rome’s new progressive Jewish community. My long walk to th... Read More
When in Rome, Do as the Progressive Roman Jews Do

When in Rome, Do as the Progressive Roman Jews Do

Posted on October 1, 2014October 30, 2018 by Jenn Lindsay
I was late to Rosh Hashanah services at Beth Hillel, Rome’s new progressive Jewish community. I meant to leave my apartment at 6pm but I scooted out the door by 6:45pm, realizing that the mistake wo... Read More
“Who by Fire, Who by Water:” What the High Holidays Can Teach Us About Beginning Graduate School

“Who by Fire, Who by Water:” What the High Holidays Can Teach Us About Beginning Graduate School

Posted on September 12, 2013September 12, 2013 by Sarah Fein
For many people, September is a time of endings. The weather cools, the days shorten, leaves turn brilliant colors, then fade and die. For students, teachers, and anyone else involved in the world of ... Read More
Rosh HaShanah - The Day of Infinite Possibilities

Rosh HaShanah – The Day of Infinite Possibilities

Posted on September 4, 2013September 4, 2013 by Adina Allen
Each year we have the opportunity read the text of our lives differently according to the vowels we supply. Rosh Hashanah invites us to gently and lovingly bring ourselves back to God, the eternal mot... Read More
Becoming Our True Selves: A Rosh HaShannah Reflection

Becoming Our True Selves: A Rosh HaShannah Reflection

Posted on September 15, 2012September 14, 2012 by Adina Allen
How do we spiritually prepare for the High Holidays during the busiest time of the year?... Read More
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