This is the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Rosh Hashanah
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Culture Where Eric Adams got his Rosh Hashanah fit
The New York mayor was spotted wearing some fresh Bukharian threads
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Opinion This Rosh Hashanah, give your rabbi a break
Disagreeing about Israel and Gaza is understandable — but can we please stop screaming at one another?
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Culture Great news! The rapture is coming on Rosh Hashanah
Online, many Christians are preparing to be bodily assumed into heaven on the Jewish New Year
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News A High Holiday helpline for rabbis is flooded with millennial calls
Younger clergy are far more likely to seek support, reflecting a new openness about rabbinic burnout during the most demanding season of the year
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Culture Pleading with God, pleading with Social Security
For this author, the High Holiday prayer Hineni has special resonance now
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Fast Forward Westchester suburb reverses decision to ban Tashlich from public park – after allowing Easter ‘egg hunt’
Officials had argued that an ‘egg hunt’ in April was not religious, while Tashlich is
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News Can a park refuse a Rosh Hashanah event — after hosting an April ‘egg hunt’?
Chabad of Bedford is seeking legal recourse after they were denied a permit to host Tashlich
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Film & TV How Leonard Cohen — and a Yom Kippur prayer — inspired a coming-of-age epic
Philippe Lesage’s ‘Who By Fire’ is about our vulnerability and our doubt
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