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Rosh Hashanah

Wilderness Torah's 2022 Rosh Hashanah seder at Green Valley Farms. (Photo/Julia Maryanska for Wilderness Torah)
Posted inUncategorized

Earth-based groups embrace the Sephardic Rosh Hashanah seder this year

by Dan Pine September 5, 2023September 6, 2023
Climate activists march from Freedom Plaza to Capitol Hill on October 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo/JTA-Alex Wong via Getty)
Posted inU.S.

A massive climate march is scheduled for Rosh Hashanah. Jewish activists have given it their blessing.

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 22, 2023August 22, 2023
Detail from a 1961 Israeli postal stamp depicting Virgo, the sign of the month of Elul. (Photo/Flickr-Karen Horton CC BY-NC 2.0)
Posted inColumns

Horoscopes for Elul: What will you run toward in the new year?

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude August 18, 2023August 18, 2023
a smiling white woman in a purple top looks up from a digital movie camera
Posted inFirst Person

My phone went missing on Rosh Hashanah — and it was awesome 

Samantha Grant (Photo/Sarah Deragon) by Samantha Grant November 8, 2022November 8, 2022
illustrative photo of rows of chairs in a synagogue
Posted inOpinion

Let’s make this the year we end paid High Holiday tickets

Rabbi Jeremy D. Sher by Rabbi Jeremy D. Sher October 11, 2022
A synagogue built last year at the Babyn Yar memorial site near Kyiv is meant to resemble a pop-up book. It can fold up and open with a winch. (Photo/JTA-David Saveliev)
Posted inUncategorized

Across Ukraine, a somber High Holiday season captures how war has ravaged a growing Jewish community

by David Saveliev, Nicholas Bennett and JTA October 4, 2022October 4, 2022
Stanford University (Photo/File)
Posted inBay Area

Mezuzah ripped from Stanford residence on Rosh Hashanah, prompting hate crime inquiry

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 3, 2022October 3, 2022
Congregants of Nashuva cast bread into the waters of Santa Monica Bay during the Rosh Hashanah tashlich ritual in 2021. (Photo/Forward-Rob Eshman)
Posted inFirst Person

Just in time for Rosh Hashanah, a new reason to feel guilty: your tashlich litter

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward September 23, 2022September 28, 2022
Two women, one wearing a tallit, blow the shofar amid the Capitol rioting, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo/Lloyd Wolf)
Posted inNews

Why right-wing Christian politicians keep blowing the shofar

by Adam Kovac and Forward September 23, 2022September 23, 2022
Rebekah Erev, co-founder of the Queer Mikveh Project, blows the shofar at the first QMP mikvah event at the Albany Bulb in Albany, California, in 2015. (Photo/JTA-Chani Bockwinkel)
Posted inTorah

Repentance: Don’t make it a big deal. Just look inward and say what’s right

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg September 23, 2022September 22, 2022

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