Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
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News Shopping for Shofars: The Ultimate Buying Guide for Jews (and Evangelicals, Too)
As we prepare for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, shofars are blown in synagogues daily to mark the run-up to the High Holy Days. But what about yourself? Do you feel the need to toot your own horn? Look no further, we have compiled a list of the best shofars you can buy online –…
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Recipes Rosh Hashanah Recipe Roundup
From traditional recipes to modern classics to innovative, unexpected holiday meals — it’s all here in one place.
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Food Chocolate Maven Offers Perfect Rosh Dessert Recipe
Alice Medrich, chocolatier, author and creator of the “American” chocolate truffle, was instrumental in bringing awareness of artisan chocolate to the United States. In 1973 she promoted the appreciation of dark chocolate, attention to cocoa percentages and awareness of quality chocolate. She opened a chocolate and dessert store in the San Francisco Bay Area in…
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Breaking News President Obama Hails Jewish Role in Civil Rights in Rosh Hashanah Call
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told rabbis in a pre-High Holidays call that Jews should share their story of working to advance civil rights as a means of inspiring change at a time of racial tensions. Obama spoke Monday with over 600 rabbis from the Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist movements. His tone on the…
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Opinion Why I Tattooed My Arms Just in Time for Rosh Hashanah
The central themes of the High Holiday season — self-reflection, repentance and renewal — are hard to keep in mind for even three days, let alone ten. Try as I might, the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur become much like the others, lost in a haze of carpool, deadlines and social obligations. So this…
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Opinion 7 Tips for Your Rosh Hashanah Sermon from an Ex Spirituality Ghostwriter
As the Jewish calendar tilts toward Rosh Hashanah, congregational rabbis hunker down with copious amounts of caffeine for sermon-writing cram sessions. In my work as a long-time editor for rabbis, writing teacher for clergy of many faiths, and former spirituality ghostwriter (yes, there is such a thing), I’ve edited countless sermons, and I have a…
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Opinion Why Have a Politically Neutral Rosh Hashanah Dinner When You Can Debate Israel?
The different cultures of the world each have their own way of welcoming in a new year. Some usher in their new year with colorful street parades, some with fireworks, some with solemn bells and some with a passionate kiss. As Jews, we traditionally bring in our new year sitting together around the family table….
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Opinion This Rosh Hashanah, My Hindu Father Gets a Yahrzeit Plaque
It’s that time of year again, when the annual High Holidays packet arrives in the mail. I’ve never been one to pore over the contents, but seven months after my father’s passing, this time it feels different. It’s not so much the holiday’s reflections on “who shall live and who shall die” that resonate so…
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Yiddish טשיקאַווער ראָמאַן וועגן פֿרוי וואָס זוכט אַ גײַסטיקע היים אין ירושלים — דורך ייִדישUnique novel about woman who seeks a spiritual home in Jerusalem — through Yiddish
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