This is the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Rosh Hashanah
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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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Fast Forward Shofars blown along Ukrainian frontlines as part of Rosh Hashanah initiative for soldiers
Meanwhile, thousands of Hasidic men made their annual pilgrimage to Uman to celebrate the Jewish new year
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
A metastasizing war inspires uncertainty, anxiety and ambivalence
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News As a new Jewish year begins, Israel’s 68,000 evacuees celebrate apart — and wonder when they will return home
This Rosh Hashanah, the widening war in Lebanon is making the holiday a challenge for families across the country
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