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Tag: Rosh Hashanah

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
5774: The Year of Tangerine Teshuvah

5774: The Year of Tangerine Teshuvah

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Alex Weissman
Recently, I bought a tangerine. It was an accident, really. I didn’t mean to buy a tangerine. I meant to buy an orange. They look pretty similar, especially when you’re in a rush and you k... 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
Let there be light

Let there be light

Posted on September 16, 2012September 14, 2012 by Michael Ramberg
The disturbing recent news about the bloody protests in the Arab world incited by a video defaming the Prophet Muhammad remind me of a story associated with Rosh Hashanah, which begins on Sunday at su... 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
Reflections on Elul and Rosh Hashanah

Reflections on Elul and Rosh Hashanah

Posted on August 31, 2012August 31, 2012 by Lauren Tuchman
We are nearly halfway through the month of Elul, the final month of the Jewish year. With Elul’s arrival, we usher in a period of personal introspection, repentance and spiritual renewal, which take... Read More
"OMG Judaism Can Be So Awkward!"

“OMG Judaism Can Be So Awkward!”

Posted on August 17, 2012August 23, 2012 by Michael Ramberg
The season of one-night stands with Judaism draws nigh. Next month, countless Jews will go to synagogues for the High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) and then take a respite from Judaism unti... Read More
Assert Your Authority

Assert Your Authority

Posted on October 9, 2011January 3, 2012 by Adina Allen
If on Rosh HaShanah we gain a picture of what can happen when we submit blindly to authority, Yom Kippur is our opportunity to choose another path.... Read More
Some Thoughts As We Approach Yom Kippur

Some Thoughts As We Approach Yom Kippur

Posted on October 8, 2011October 8, 2011 by Lauren Tuchman
Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Yom Kippur is one of the most widely observed of Jewish holidays, marked by a solemn, 25-hour fast and abstinence from w... Read More
Religion, Reality, and Responsibility

Religion, Reality, and Responsibility

Posted on October 5, 2011October 5, 2011 by Andy Cook
Candles glimmer on the table and challah passes from hand to hand, the loaf dwindles and smiles grow, as the year of 5771 fades away and the new year brightens in our midst. I look back on a year that... Read More

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