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High Holidays

An antique Rosh Hashanah greeting card
Posted inColumns

As Elul begins, the King is in the field and a new light is on its way

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude August 10, 2018September 12, 2018
Faith Kramer's Raisin and Almond Twirls
Posted inRecipe

Pair raisins and almonds for sweetness and prosperity

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer August 6, 2018
(Photo/Flickr-knittymarie CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inColumns

My Jewish fiance doesn’t want to deck the halls — where are the Jewish crafts?!

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler October 25, 2017March 19, 2018
The butcher paper covering anti-Semitic graffiti that appeared at Oakland Temple Sinai on Rosh Hashanah quickly filled up with words of hope and love. (Photo/Sue Fishkoff)
Posted inNews

Temple Sinai responds ‘beautifully’ to Rosh Hashanah hate graffiti

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 2, 2017October 2, 2017
Low-magnification micrograph of ovarian cancer cells. Ovarian cancer is particularly common among Ashkenazi Jews. (Photo/Wikimedia-Nephron CC BY-SA 3.0)
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When cancer struck, my relationship to Judaism evolved

Marcia Renée Goodman by Marcia Renée Goodman October 2, 2017
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I won’t be fasting this year because I have an eating disorder

Alex Braun by Alex Braun September 29, 2017
GatherDC is hosting a Yom Kippur event at the Sauf Haus Bier Hall & Garten in the nation's capital. (Photo/Courtesy Sauf Haus Bier Hall & Garten)
Posted inJewish Life

Why is this Orthodox rabbi holding Yom Kippur in a beer garden?

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten September 29, 2017September 29, 2017
Walter Benjamin's membership card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1940). "It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us," he wrote. (Wikimedia CC0)
Posted inColumns

Can we find hope in these times? Perhaps. Together.

by Rabbi Aubrey Glazer September 28, 2017
(Photo/Wikimedia-Przemysław Wierzbowski CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inColumns

On cinnamon challah and forgiving myself for parenting missteps

by Nicki Gilbert September 27, 2017September 27, 2017
Joel Osteen preaching at Lakewood Church in Houston, the largest church in America, where services are broadcast around the world (Photo/JTA-Frank E. Lockwood-Lexington Herald Leader-MCT)
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Joel Osteen opens Houston megachurch to flooded synagogue

by JTA September 26, 2017March 19, 2018

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