Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
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Fast Forward It’s Tzimmes Time At Sen. Robert Menendez Fraud Trial
What does tzimmes have to do with the fraud trial of the New Jersey senator Robert Menendez? Plenty, it turns out. The Jewish holiday favorite was first referenced last week by Judge William H. Walls, the non-Jewish judge presiding over the case, when he compared his decision to allow certain evidence in the case to…
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Fast Forward First Woman To Blow Shofar At Her Temple Used Late Husband’s Horn
A woman blew shofar at Old York Road Temple-Beth Am in suburban Philadelphia for the first time in her congregation’s 70-year history — and she broke that barrier using the ram’s horn belonging to her late husband, who had long volunteered for that position. Sara Partiyeli Bloom took up the sacred instrument after the sudden…
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Recipes ‘Little Book’ Offers Big Ideas For Jewish Holiday Hors D’Oeuvres
“The Little Book Of Jewish Appetizers,” by Leah Koenig, is a small, hardcover jewel box of a cookbook filled with a tightly curated collection of 25 vibrant, brightly flavored hors d’oeuvres. Many would serve as excellent starters for a Rosh Hashanah meal or a Yom Kippur break fast. But why focus on appetizers? “I really…
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Opinion What The Shofar Tries To Tell Us About Deadly Hurricanes
This is a magical time of year. It’s a season of renewal. Right now, folks around the world are gathering to welcome a new year, stepping outside of standard time to inhabit an ancient lunar calendar that follows the moon and the tides. It’s a fraught moment, promising new life in the year ahead even…
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Fast Forward Monster Hurricane Maria Strikes Puerto Rico — Rosh Hashanah Services Cancelled
(JTA) — Puerto Rico’s three synagogues closed for Rosh Hashanah as Hurricane Maria pummeled the island. The synagogues, all in San Juan, canceled Wednesday evening services for the Jewish New Year and urged members to stay home, according to The Times of Israel. Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday morning after causing widespread destruction…
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The Schmooze Whatever You Do, Do Not See ‘Mother!’ Around Rosh Hashanah
Like a good cinephile––one of very few, it would seem––I was anxious to see ‘mother!’, the newest offering from lugubrious auteur Darren Aronofsky. So anxious, in fact, that I ensured there would be one night my husband would come home early from work to sit with our baby son, so I could attend a late…
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The Schmooze 10 Things We Love About Mayim Bialik’s Rosh Hashanah Video
Uvshavtem mayim b’sason mimaynei hayeshua — joyfully, Mayim Bialik has once again visited the fountains of triumph and showered us with the sweet, sweet waters of Jewish tradition! Hallelu. Here are our top ten (there were hundreds) favorite things about her new video, “4 Things Jews Do On Rosh Hashanah”: 1.She always seems kind of…
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Community 10 Ways To Lift Each Other Up In The New Year
For me, Tashlich, the Jewish custom of symbolically casting off one’s sins into a body of water, is the heart of the High Holidays. There’s something very empowering about tossing my rock, my sin, my guilt into the water and hearing it break through, sinking to where I will not find it again. It’s gone….
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