Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Around the High Holidays, Breads Bakery always feels like a hive of activity. But this year, that’s literally the case. For the first time, Breads is cultivating its own Rosh Hashanah honey by installing hives on a rooftop near its Union Square flagship in Manhattan. Breads will sell the honey in limited editions starting next…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The truth is, there is no commandment in Judaism to dip an apple in honey on Rosh Hashanah. But what would the Jewish New Year be without the custom? It’s a question that bedevils vegans, many of whom won’t eat honey because it’s an animal product. So what’s a mock chopped…
As the dog days of summer continue in earnest, and the oppressive heat assaults all the senses, the last thing you want to think about is fall fashion, with its heavy fabrics and layered looks. But with Rosh Hashana less than a month away, the time has come to consider that all important question: “What…
How do we know when Jews have made it in America? When neo-Nazis show up at Jerry Seinfeld shows eating tzimmes? When public schools have half-a-day for Shmini Atzeret? Or maybe, just maybe, when hip-hop karaoke videos featuring shofars go viral. Oh happy, happy Wednesday! Unintentionally kicking off Elul with a blast of early High…
When Jonathan Safran Foer published “Eating Animals,” the anti-factory-farming and food-ethics manifesto, it inspired many people to adopt a vegan diet. One of them was Natalie Portman, who took her inspiration one step further: The A-list actress turned the book into a movie. “Eating Animals,” the documentary that she produced and narrated, debuted earlier this…
NEW YORK (JTA) — A state legislator in New York is asking colleagues to reschedule a statewide primary so it doesn’t conflict with Rosh Hashanah. The 2018 primary in New York State is currently scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 11, which is the second day of the two-day holiday. Observant Jews are required refrain from most…
BOSTON (JTA) — Massachusetts and Rhode Island have changed their primary dates this year to avoid a conflict with the Jewish High Holidays. In Massachusetts, the secretary of state, William Galvin, announced Tuesday that the voting would be moved up to Sept. 4, the day after Labor Day and two weeks earlier than the original…
My wife and I imagined that we’d be celebrating New Year’s very quietly, at home. She’d be 36 weeks pregnant with our second child — a month till our baby’s due date — and, we assumed, she’d be exhausted. We hadn’t made it to 36 weeks with our first: Four years ago he was born…
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