This is the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
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Recipes 4 Spectacular — And Symbolic — Cocktails For The HIgh Holidays
During the High Holidays, many Jewish families are making sure they’re stocked up on sweet red wine, a traditional way of symbolically asking for a “sweet” new year. But symbolism within Jewish practice has expanded — such as with the use of an orange on the Seder plate — to accommodate an ever diversifying people….
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Food Avoid Trump Talk At Holiday Table With 25 Things To Debate About Brisket
This High Holiday season more than most, the unspoken agreement among many families to avoid potentially explosive topics such as politics seems more sound than ever. So what’s a family to talk about? The food, of course. And since so many families will be sitting down to a dinner with brisket as its centerpiece, we…
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Community This Year, I’ll Be Home for Rosh Hashanah
Judaism hasn’t always been an important part of my life. Over the years my Jewish Identity has changed more times than the Minnesota Vikings have changed quarterbacks. There was the Hebrew School phase, the Bar Mitzvah phase (aka the glory days), the summer camp phase (not really something you phase out of), among others. Admittedly,…
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Life 8 Chic Modest Dresses Under $100 For The Synagogue Runway on Rosh Hashanah
Jewish holidays are joyous occasions — food abounds, the family gathers together and there’s laughing, singing and (sometimes) dancing. But nothing stresses out the modern Jewish woman quite like finding the perfect outfit to wear for the holiday. You see, besides for being edifices of holiness and prayer, synagogues are also the Jewish version of…
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Opinion The Rohingya Deserve Your Thoughts And Prayers This High Holiday Season
It’s almost Rosh Hashanah. I am reading about the violent expulsion of the Rohingya Muslims half a world away — villages burned, women raped, a staggering number of children orphaned and homeless — and I’m trying to figure out how I should react and what I should say to you. This is a classic 2017…
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Fast Forward High Holidays Outreach To Reach 70,000 Israelis
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Tzohar Rabbinical Organization in partnership with Yachad Ohr Torah Stone will host holiday services on both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, expecting to reach close to 70,000 people throughout Israel. Through its network of volunteers, 250 shofar blowers will provide their services in cities, moshavim and kibbutzim around the country and…
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News Houston Synagogues Hope For High Holidays ‘Rebirth’ After Harvey
A few weeks ago, Holly Davies was getting ready to homeschool her kids and preparing the family for the High Holidays. When Hurricane Harvey hit, she helped evacuate 150 people from her neighborhood by airboat and shelter nearly 100 people in a local church. Then came the hard part. For the past three weeks, Davies…
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Life Remembering My Father, Elie Wiesel, On The Eve of Rosh Hashanah
This time of year was a difficult time for my father. Did each September — or more precisely, each month of Elul in the Hebrew calendar – did each one get progressively more difficult for him as he got older? Or did I just get more attuned to his feelings as I got older? Perhaps…
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