Tag: High Holy Days
Celebrating an international love fe(a)st
A whopping 7,00 faces and hundreds of flags of every color painted Israel’s capital on Thursday, parading through the streets in the 2018 Jerusalem March.
The diverse participants, decked out on Sept. 27 in costumes...
US Ambassador to Israel wishes Jews a happy Sukkot
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman wished the Jewish people a happy Sukkot holiday on Sunday, thanking an Israeli farm for allowing him to pluck his own etrog this year.
“To all those observing Sukkot, we wish...
Rabbi works to make Jewish life more accessible for deaf community
Let’s face it: Sitting through prayer services can feel long, arduous and not so interactive for worshippers. Congregants tend to talk with seatmates and neighbors to help pass the time.
But not at Rabbi Yehoshua...
In Israel, learning Torah has no age limit
Yosef Damsker, 86, is a thin man with a gray beard and a large yarmulke. But when he moved to Israel from Leningrad (today, St. Petersburg) in 1990, he was not only secular, he...
Sukkot… Faith
Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur have passed. Each of us would like something from those days could remain for the rest of the year, not lose their influence and ensure a true sweet year...
Sukkot: The harvest festival and arrival of autumn
We are twice blessed. Sukkot, the harvest festival—and sometimes called the “Jewish Thanksgiving”—takes place this year at the end of September, and two months later, Thanksgiving in America is a holiday that many Jewish...
Israeli police thwart Arab terrorism in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur
An attempted stabbing attack was thwarted on the night of Yom Kippur by Israeli police in Jerusalem.
Just after the beginning of the holiday at 7 p.m., a 26-year-old man from the Palestinian village of...
Pope Francis sends greetings to the Jewish community of Rome
“I am pleased to extend my sincere best wishes to you and to the Jewish Community of Rome”, Pope Francis said in a letter addressed to Rome’s Chief Rabbi, Riccardo Shemuel Di Segni.
The occasion for the Pope’s greeting is...
‘Teshuvah’ should be mandatory for everyone (including Joe Scarborough)
Jews around the world will observe Yom Kippur on Sept. 19, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. They will go to synagogue, fast, dress in white (like angels), refrain from wearing leather, and...
A hop and a happy mess: Sukkot under the stars
For Yael Michaely, her husband Boaz and their three young children, feeling at home in their new country began in earnest one autumn evening in 2004.
For these Israelis recently transplanted to Newton, Mass., the...