Tag: High Holidays
Rosh Hashanah prayers during lockdown: A guide for perplexed Israelis
Synagogues across Israel were busy on Wednesday making preparations for Rosh Hashanah prayer services under the shadow of coronavirus and public-health restrictions.
The Health Ministry has issued clarifications for its regulations on holiday prayer, with...
Mayim Bialik joins LA ‘Shofar Wave’ to bring Jewish community together for Rosh Hashanah
On Sept. 20, L.A. Jews can welcome in 5781 with the Shofar Wave.
Created by the religious leadership at IKAR, people will stand on street corners throughout the city and blow the shofar, thereby creating a “wave”...
How High Holiday services and arrival of 5781 are going to look across America
On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, also known as the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim (“Days of Awe”), one of the prayers reads: “Who will live and who will die … Who by plague … .”
“Most...
Synagogues grapple with putting changes in place for High Holiday services
As fall arrives and the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout the United States, prayers are very much needed, say rabbis across the Jewish spectrum, even if individuals and families cannot make it to...
US Surgeon General briefs Jewish leaders on best practices for High Holiday gatherings
The Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Jerome Adams, briefed Orthodox Jewish leaders on COVID-19 and best practices for High Holiday services during a virtual talk and Q&A session sponsored by the Orthodox...
Shofar: A love song
As first-chair trumpet in the Orville Wright Junior High School band in Los Angeles in 1966, Robbie Weinger didn’t know it, but he was training his lips for their destiny: to enable their owner...
New Humanitarian Dispatch Center Distributing Financial Aid Ahead of Holidays To People Hit By...
Israeli journalist Guy Lerer, from Channel 13’s HaTzinor television program, spearheaded a campaign to assist those in financial need as a result of the Coronavirus economic crisis. Utilizing money that was donated by people...
Despite limits on Uman pilgrimage, some hold out hope to visit for Rosh Hashanah
Each year, tens of thousands of Jews from across the world make a pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, at the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.
The leader...
Israeli health minister urges public to refrain from High Holiday gatherings
Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday urged the public to refrain from large family gatherings during the upcoming High Holidays, which begin on Sept. 18.
During a press briefing at the inauguration ceremony of the ministry’s...
Sixth & I to fill seats with celebrities (sort of) for virtual High Holidays...
Members of the historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, D.C., will be able to sit next to Jewish celebrities, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, during High Holidays services next month.
Kind...