Tag: High Holidays
National Library of Israel reveals Iranian Haggadah with Persian poem
The National Library of Israel has uncovered a rare handwritten Passover Haggadah published in the 1880s containing a Judeo-Persian poem dedicated to Lady Judith Montefiore (1784-1862), highlighting the far-reaching influence of the Montefiore family...
Prague Haggadah, which turns 500 this year, ‘created mold from which Haggadot would be...
When Edward J. Lewith emigrated to Charleston, S.C., from Europe in the late 19th century, he brought a copy of the Prague Haggadah, printed by Gershom Cohen in 1526, with him.
“It was clearly a...
Would the real Haman please stand up?
“Various communities of Jews and Christians imagined their Haman differently from one another, usually unaware that there were other options to consider,” the professor Adam Silverstein told JNS.
When a white, coriander seed-like material, which...
Purim of the past: Historic celebrations in Israel and the Diaspora
Even before the establishment of the modern-day State of Israel in 1948, Jewish residents there spent weeks preparing for the holiday. Elaborate costumes, decorative floats and impressive gateways were created in anticipation of the...
On Yom Kippur, our legacy organizations should repent. Don’t hold your breath
Yom Kippur is a time to reflect on our behavior and repent for our sins. The Jewish establishment really ought to do teshuvah, but it will not.
The legacy organizations whose duty is to represent, defend and...
This New Year, ask yourself: Are you creating a better place?
As we approach the High Holidays, the looming question for me is whether or not I have met my responsibility to my Jewish people and God in being of service in creating a better...
Three-volume Lisbon Mahzor reunited at National Library of Israel
A rare 15th-century Portuguese manuscript, once divided into three parts, has come home to Jerusalem, so to speak, the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem says.
The Lisbon Mahzor—a decorated small-format manuscript on parchment—was most...
Lamenting, loving, leveling: A spiritual pathway through this year’s Jewish holidays
This year’s arc of holidays extending from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, and finally, to Simchat Torah—the one-year anniversary of Oct. 7 on the Jewish calendar—is laden with tears. How can we approach God...
On Yom Kippur, the Jewish establishment should come clean
Israelis have been calling for an accounting from their leaders for the catastrophic intelligence failure on Oct. 7. They want this now, even in wartime, and even after those same failed leaders and institutions...
‘There is no king without a people’: The mystic secret of Rosh Hashanah
Nowhere in the Five Books of Moses is the holiday of Rosh Hashanah referred to with this name by which it is commonly known today. The term “Rosh Hashanah” originated in the Talmudic period,...