Tag: High Holy Days
A sweet break for young professionals in synagogue on Rosh Hashanah
Young professionals throughout the United States will be invited by their rabbis during Rosh Hashanah for a sanctioned 10-minute break from services in order to meet their peers.
The inaugural Rosh Hashanah “YP Meet-Up at...
Here’s the World’s best Honey cake, according to science
I am among the legions of loathers of honey cake. Every Rosh Hashanah, someone tells me about their amazing honey cake that I must try, and I wind up having to make polite yum-yum faces while...
Israelis’ baby joy as they welcome the New Year
Dozens of babies were born in hospitals across Israel on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning as Jews welcomed the New Year.
Right after the holiday began, at 6:50pm, Sigal and Yariv Guttliv welcomed a baby...
Tens of thousands flock to Israel’s national parks during Rosh Hashanah
70,000 holidaymakers visited the country's many nature reserves during Rosh Hashanah, reported the Israel Nature and Parks Authority Thursday afternoon.
Gan HaShlosha National Park (also known as the Sakhne) in the Valley of Springs area...
Trump, daughter Ivanka extend warm wishes in time for Jewish new year
US President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday evening to extend his warm wishes to Jews in the US, Israel and all over the world in time for Rosh Hashana. "On behalf of all Americans,...
Rosh Hashanah Greetings, Yiddish-Style
We no longer send many Rosh Hashanah greeting cards to each other. Once, in the days leading up to the holiday, the mailboxes were clogged with them. Now, if we send them at all—and...
Jewish New Year starts Wednesday
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, will be Wednesday, and area Jews will be celebrating the High Holy Day.
Chabad of Peachtree City, 632 Dogwood Trail in Tyrone, and Congregation B'nai Israel, 1633 Hwy. 54...
The right Rosh Hashanah call
Like the secular New Year's Day, the upcoming holiday that celebrates the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah, is a time for making noise. Its biblical name literally translates as "day of shouting, blasting of...
5 holiday drinking games to get through the Jewish holidays
1. Rosh Hashanah
Welcome in 5778 the only way a Jewish family knows how to–with lots of food, chutzpah, and liquor. All New Year's resolutions about less lashon harah (did you see what Adam’s new girlfriend was...
US rabbis protest Trump by dropping holiday conference call
American rabbis critical of President Donald Trump will not try to organize a conference call with him for the Jewish High Holy Days in protest of his response to a white nationalist rally in...