Tag: High Holidays
Sukkot: A Jewish Thanksgiving
Sukkot is akin to a Jewish Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving in America, no matter religion or background, families and friends come together to celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass., and to feast...
A society is measured by its capacity for forgiveness
As president of Israel, many requests for clemency are placed before me. Every request is a world unto itself, but some are unusual. Not long ago I signed a clemency request and erased the...
Majority of Jewish Israelis plan to fast on Yom Kippur, according to new poll
A special survey by the Israel Democracy Institute’s Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research in honor of Yom Kippur showed that 60.5 percent of Jewish Israelis plan to fast on the Jewish Day of...
‘Yom Kippur Jews’
A “Yom Kippur Jew” (a term coined by professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz) is a Jew who repents, gives charity and fasts, and who exercises restraint and looks inward. But before that, a “Yom Kippur Jew,”...
100 ‘olim’ from 45 countries experience pre-Yom Kippur prayer at Western Wall
Jewish Agency for Israel chair Isaac Herzog led 100 new olim (“new immigrants“) from 45 countries to selichot services—special prayers said by Jews worldwide during the days before and between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—at the excavated tunnels...
Roshashana
Yom ha teruah – tizku le shanim rabot, tovot u nehimot!
Este diya kaye en el primer diya del syeten mez del kalendaryo Hebreo ke es Tishrei (Levitiques 23.24).
El primer mes es Nisan, komo lo...
50,000-plus worshippers travel to Uman for Rosh Hashanah
Tens of thousands of Jews from around the world have arrived in Uman, Ukraine, to spend Rosh Hashanah near the tomb of spiritual leader Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. The two-day holiday begins on the...
American Jews must not be afraid to show up on the High Holidays
The last thing most American Jews needed was another excuse to skip synagogue. But after the shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway within the last year, many members of the Jewish community are worried about...
Israeli soldiers to receive gift cards to purchase items for Rosh Hashanah
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) are providing High Holiday gift cards to some 9,000 soldiers in need and lone soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces so they can help celebrate Rosh...
New York Jewish museum reveals hidden shofar from Auschwitz ahead of holidays
The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City revealed on Monday a shofar that was hidden and blown in the Auschwitz concentration camp 75 years ago and...