Tag: Rosh Hashanah
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...
As nationwide lockdown looms, Israel’s corona tally, number of serious cases climb
A nationwide lockdown in Israel seems inevitable with a deciding cabinet vote scheduled for next week as the number of new coronavirus cases hit a new 24-hour record from Thursday to Friday, with more...
Fearing coronavirus spread, chief rabbi upends key Rosh Hashanah ritual
A key ritual ahead of Rosh Hashanah has been effectively banned by Israel’s Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau this year, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Tashlich, a prayer during which Jews symbolically throw their...
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...
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...
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...
High Holiday prayer books in high demand for those at home
As the summer months near their conclusion, some can already hear the echoes of the upcoming Rosh Hashanah prayers.
The High Holidays are the focal point of the year for many, and the start of a new...
Anti-Semitic fliers found in Montana on Rosh Hashanah
Anti-Semitic fliers circulated around Whitefish, Mont., on Monday, the first day of Rosh Hashanah, as part of a continuing trend that has been happening there for years.
The literature included code words like the number “88,” which...
Corbyn sparks controversy for Rosh Hashanah video featuring Hamas supporter
Jeremy Corbyn sparked outrage for releasing a Rosh Hashanah video that features an activist who last year led a public Jewish mourning prayer for dead members of Hamas.
In the clip posted on Twitter ahead...
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...