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Yom Kippur

Moroccan Vegetable Tagine served with couscous. (Photo/Leigh Beisch)
Posted inFood

Take your Rosh Hashanah menu to Marrakech and beyond

Joyce Goldstein by Joyce Goldstein September 1, 2021September 1, 2021
(Illustration/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inTech

Need advice for the High Holidays? Ask the Robo-Rabbi.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 31, 2021August 31, 2021
The Birnbaum machzor, first published in 1951, remained a staple of Orthodox synagogues despite a bounty of competitors. (Photo/JTA-Open Siddur Project)
Posted inReligion

Why this High Holiday prayer book is still going strong after 70 years

Yosef Lindell by Yosef Lindell and JTA August 31, 2021August 31, 2021
Ari Sklar (left) and Ashton Sklar participate in a drive-in Yom Kippur service put on by Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center in North Miami, Sept. 28, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Joe Raedle-Getty Images)
Posted inAct Two

Asking forgiveness year after year — it’s what we do

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent August 26, 2021
Left: Jacob Kaplan-Lipkin as a bar mitzvah with Cantor Doron Shapira at Peninsula Sinai in Congregation, 2010. Right: Years later, he's getting ready to help lead Peninsula Sinai for the High Holidays.
Posted inHigh Holidays

As a kid he loved his Foster City synagogue. This High Holidays, he’s going to help lead it.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 24, 2021August 24, 2021
A fire in Napa County as seen from Middletown in Lake County, Aug. 19, 2020. (Photo/Jade May)
Posted inReligion

Rabbis are supposed to offer hope on the High Holidays. What if I can’t?

Rabbi Rachel Barenblat by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat and JTA August 18, 2021
A 1961 Israeli postal stamp depicting Virgo, the sign of the month of Elul. (Photo/Flickr-Karen Horton CC BY-NC 2.0)
Posted inHigh Holidays

Horoscopes for month of Elul: Teshuva time, and not a moment too soon

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude August 9, 2021
School buses in Boston lined up on the first day of school in 2014. (Photo/JTA-David L Ryan-The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Posted inRosh Hashanah

Where Rosh Hashanah falls on the first day of school, districts wrestle with whether to change their plans

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA March 8, 2021
A house just outside St. Helena, Napa County, burns in the Glass Fire, Sept. 29, 2020. (Photo/Napa County Sheriff)
Posted inBay Area

In North Bay, fire and smoke disrupt an already unusual Yom Kippur

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)Gabe Stutman by Maya Mirsky, Dan Pine and Gabe Stutman September 29, 2020September 30, 2020
“Moses Sees the Promised Land From Afar” by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inTorah

This Shabbat, ‘give ear’ to the calls of the prophets

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon September 25, 2020September 24, 2020

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