Tag: High Holy Days

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...