This is the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Rosh Hashanah
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Opinion When Judaism Is All About You
After 40 years in the same congregation and almost 50 since my ordination, I should know what to say in my High Holy Days sermons. It should be easy. But this year it’s not. Sure, I can readily address the perennial themes of High Holy Days preaching: repentance; Israel; Jewish identity versus American assimilation; life’s…
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Recipes DIY Rosh Hashanah Hard Apple Cider
The only High Holiday where alcohol is a requirement is Simchat Torah. This is a mistake. Let me explain: Drinking is a part of Simchat Torah because a rabbinic interpretation for the commandment to rejoice on festivals is to drink wine. Yet the rabbis never specify Simchat Torah. As it says in Sifra Emor 12:4,…
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Recipes Send Us Your Rosh Hashanah Cooking Questions!
Rosh Hashanah is the perfect holiday to bring out all the stops in your kitchen. Without the restrictions of Passover, it’s a great time to get creative (I’m thinking Asian BBQ brisket) or lovingly revive a special family recipe. But cooking a holiday meal for your family or friends can be intimidating, whether you’ve done…
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Food The CSA Psolet Challenge: Week Two
If last week was about confronting my CSA enemy, this week was all about reuniting with a good CSA friend: beets. It took me a while for my love affair with beets to ignite, but when it did, I never looked back. In addition to being gorgeous and delicious, nutritionally speaking, beets have it all:…
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News Iceland’s Handful of Jews Keep Faith Alive
Iceland has no synagogue, no rabbis, no Jewish community center or organized structure. In fact, Judaism is not even one of Iceland’s state-recognized religions. Still, Iceland has about 100 Jews who call this North Atlantic island home. And last year, roughly 50 of them gathered in a hall downtown on Erev Rosh Hashanah for services…
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Food Summertime Blueberry Picking
Summer is a time for playing outside, riding bikes, jumping in the pool, and of course fresh berry and vegetable picking. As a child I never actually went to a farm to pick berries. There was a wooded area in our neighborhood that had wild berries. My siblings and I used to take strolls through…
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The Schmooze Leonard Cohen Reschedules Show For High Holidays
Sorry British fans! You won’t get to see Leonard Cohen dip apples in honey onstage. The Canadian performer has reportedly rescheduled shows in Leeds and London after he realized that the dates fell on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the BBC reported. A statement released on behalf of the 78-year-old and promoter AEG apologized “deeply…
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Opinion We Don’t Do Forgiveness Well
The High Holidays don’t work for me. I know that Yom Kippur is supposed to be the holiest day of the year, and I’ve read and listened to many great ideas about how Yom Kippur is supposed to work on supreme spiritual issues and in sanctifying relationships and community. And I’ve been trying it out…
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