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A vintage Rosh Hashanah greeting card
Posted inColumns

Rosh Hashanah horoscopes: time to rest, renew — and get your house in order

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude September 2, 2021
Masked congregants at Congregation Sherith Israel’s first in-person Shabbat service on June 18, 2021. (Photo/Natalie Schrik)
Posted inOpinion

Rabbis are struggling to protect Jews’ physical and spiritual health. They deserve support, not shame.

Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein by Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein and JTA September 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
"Offering of the First Fruits," illustration from a postcard published ca. 1900 by the Providence Lithograph Company
Posted inTorah

The gift and wonder of newness

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg August 27, 2021August 26, 2021
Placing stones on a headstone at a Jewish cemetery honors the deceased. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

An unveiling without a headstone? A shortage challenges grieving families

by Stewart Ain and Forward August 26, 2021
Rabbi Samantha Kahn officiates an interfaith wedding in the Bay Area. (Photo/Courtesy of 18Doors)
Posted inOpinion

Who is included in the ‘us’ of our prayers? 

Edmund Case by Edmund Case August 26, 2021August 27, 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 small, deep blue pool indoor surrounded by marble
Posted inMixed & Matched

I lost my conversion certificate. Now what?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler August 24, 2021
(Photo/JTA-Igor Golovniov-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

Facebook has a new prayer feature. But is it made for Jews?

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward August 24, 2021August 24, 2021

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