Jewish and Israeli Holidays
The musical Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur evening and daytime prayer services are celebrating their 10th consecutive year.
Worth some 120 NIS ($37), they include wine, honey, honey cake, jam and other goods like pasta, rice, tuna, couscous and oil.
In-person or online? Indoors or outdoors? Once poised for a renaissance this year, synagogues nationwide are facing renewed questions as COVID-19 cases surge.
“Each of us has the privilege to chart our own individual course, and yet at the same time, we depend on each other,” says Isaac Herzog in a special holiday message.
Pomegranates add color and symbolism to the Rosh Hashanah table décor, but they are also extremely good for your health.
Jerusalem Affairs Ministry director general calls the ceremony a “lesson for life about perseverance and devotion to the Jewish tradition.”
Three different kinds are featured: “dabo,” “kubaneh” and challah.
Mark Wildes believes that most worshippers could get more from Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur if they prepared for them in advance. To that end, he offers positive role models and suggestions on how to do that.
“A defibrillator is often the difference between life and death,” said Yael Eckstein, president and chief executive officer of the International Fellowship for Christians and Jews.
“We know that the 30 days of Adar are the happiest of the year for the Jewish people, so in a year when we double the number of Adar days to 60, we’re also bound to double our good fortune,” says Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles, co-founder of the Ascent seminar center in Tzfat, Israel.
How does resting the land work in modern-day Israel where, even during the other six years, many farm families live hand to mouth?
With the tastes of summer lingering on our palates, make the menu fresh, local and lighter than the traditional brisket and kugels.
