Rosh Hashanah horoscopes: It’s a ‘gimel’ year — start off on the right foot By Lorelai Kude Sep 23, 2022 Tishrei 5783 Sept. 26-Oct. 24, 2022 Tishrei is the first month of the new Jewish year. Rosh Hashanah 5783 inaugurates a gimel year — that is, written out in Hebrew characters, 5783 ends in gimel, the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The shape of the letter gimel resembles a person running (ג); our Sages… Read More
TV How ‘The Rehearsal’ and ‘Rehearsals’ point the way to Yom Kippur Yom Kippur arrives at sundown Oct. 4, providing its annual opportunity for self-reflection and the reading of a list of sins that was scripted by someone… By Esther D. Kustanowitz Sep 23, 2022
From the Archives From Rosh Hashanah columns of yore, hopes for the future Since its founding, this publication has celebrated the upcoming new year with an issue that speaks to the meaning of the holiday. In early special Rosh… By Maya Mirsky Sep 21, 2022
Community UPDATED: Free and low-cost High Holiday services around the Bay Craving some community for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, but don’t know where to go? Welcome to our annual list of free and low-cost services open to the… By Lea Loeb Sep 15, 2022
Recipe How about a tasty plant-based Rosh Hashanah menu? In my family, like many Jewish families, the holidays revolved around food. My grandmother would prepare enough brisket to feed an army, fold dozens of… By Micah Siva Aug 30, 2022
Act Two Together again! This High Holidays, our choir was truly magical. Before the 2020 High Holidays, I sang solo soprano into my iPhone, and I cried. I am a choral singer, not a soloist. Hearing every off-note and viewing… By Janet Silver Ghent Sep 22, 2021
First Person We're spending the High Holidays traveling the world — virtually This article originally appeared on Kveller. One of the distinctively Jewish benefits of the pandemic is that we can attend services virtually anywhere… By Avi Dresner, JTA Sep 14, 2021
Analysis Recall or not, Gavin Newsom needs to atone—and so do his critics It’s a coincidence that the election to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom falls one day before the start of Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday of atonement. But it may… By Rob Eshman, Forward Sep 14, 2021
First Person Give yourself some credit this year with this positive Yom Kippur prayer Every year during the High Holidays, Jews recite a litany of ways we have fallen short in a confessional prayer. Known as a viddui, the prayer is a… By Rabbi Jillian Cameron, Cantor Juval Porat, JTA Sep 13, 2021