This is the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Rosh Hashanah
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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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Fast Forward Hezbollah crisis adds to threats facing Jews during High Holidays and ahead of Oct. 7, experts say
The terrorist group is battered in Lebanon but retains a formidable presence outside the Middle East
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Fast Forward Biden to host High Holidays call with Jewish leaders
In last year’s call, the president recommitted to battling antisemitism
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Yiddish World ‘A Sweet Year’ (A Rosh Hashanah story)
This appeared in a book of Yiddish holiday stories by the children's author Levin Kipnis, published in 1961
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News For rabbis writing High Holiday sermons during the Israel-Hamas war, procrastination pays off
“Being a rabbi is being able to pivot and to give meaning and significance and the grounding of Torah to current events,” said Rabbi Nicole Guzik of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles
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Yiddish World ‘I’m not religious, but my 10-year-old wants to go to synagogue — what should I do?’
Before taking her 10-year-old to his first Yom Kippur service, Kyla Kupferstein thought, ‘What if he likes it?’
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