This is the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Rosh Hashanah
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News President Obama’s Rosh Hashanah Message
Four months after putting out a video commemorating the Persian New Year, or Norwuz, President Barack Obama is extending New Year’s wishes to the Jewish community in this video, posted on the the White House Web site Thursday:
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Life High Holy Days Self Defense
In advance of the High Holy days, Rabbi Gary Moscowitz of Queens has taken it upon himself to help Jews keep Jews safe. Moscowitz is training rabbis and congregation members to protect synagogues in the New York area — offering 100-hour courses in synagogue self defense, The New York Post reported today. The former police…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Repentance From Beyond the Grave
We’re in the run-up to Rosh Hashanah, which is the traditional time of the Jewish year for righting wrongs. And there can be no stranger story on this theme than that of repentance from beyond the grave. On August 20, Israeli actor and TV personality Dudu Topaz committed suicide in the Ramle prison cell where…
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Life High Holidays With AIPAC
For those rabbis still working on their High Holiday sermons, AIPAC has some advice. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee put out its High Holiday Resource Guide — a 22-page booklet packed with ideas about how to talk to your congregation about Israel, Iran and about the importance of getting involved in political action. Some…
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Life Obama and Bush: A Rosh Hashanah Double Standard?
Comparisons of President Obama to Hitler by health care town hall protesters have drawn widespread ridicule and outrage. Some conservatives though see a double standard: Where was all this outrage when President Bush was being compared to Hitler by some on the left? But that’s not the only double standard that has some conservatives exercised…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Happy Passover 3322?
Happy New Year! Yes, it’s a little-known fact that for one of the leading Modern Orthodox rabbis in these parts, the start of Passover is New Year. Rabbi Yaakov Medan, a rosh yeshiva or academy head at Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank — considered the Harvard of modern-Orthodox scholarship — follows an often-overlooked…
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News Yid.Dish: Crema di Zucca (Pumpkin Soup)
Here is part 2 of Chef Laura’s Italian Rosh Hashanah menu. Part one – an apple cake with apple cider honey zabaglione. Yes, yes, we’re featuring two soup recipes in a row on The Jew & The Carrot – but what is fall without an abundance of warm, creamy soups?! Autumn in Tuscany looks a…
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News Yid.Dish: Apple Cider Challah
Yesterday, I made two loaves of challah. It felt like a funny activity for a Sunday, I’ll admit. (I usually make challah in a flurried rush on Friday afternoon.) But I’d had a culinary brain flash the other day, that I felt compelled to try out: apple cider challah. The idea was originally inspired by…
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