Telling Our Story
David Wolpe In “The Arabian Nights,” Scheherazade keeps herself alive by weaving a narrative spell: her story is so thrilling that the Sultan keeps her around to hear the next night’s...
View ArticleDays Of Awe, Minus The Price Tag
Amy Spiro Editorial Intern As the recession drags on, more people seeking free holiday services — and more institutions are offering them.When Rabbi Mathew Hoffman of the Jewish Flame, an outreach...
View ArticleThe Purpose Of Creation
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Jewish Week Online Columnist I found myself consumed in the liturgy by the phrase “HaYom harat olam” (today the world is created) and with questions about the purpose of...
View ArticleRepentance, Atonement And Independence
Rabbi David Kalb Special To The Jewish Week Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 6:48 p.m. Torah: Deut. 29:9-30:20 Haftarah: Isaiah 61:10-63:9 Havdalah: 7:45 p.m.read more
View ArticleMaking The Holidays Sweeter
Rosh Hashanah is a time for family to come together and eat. We spoke with Doris Schechter author and owner of My Most Favorite Food about innovative kosher food.Video Upload & Embed
View ArticleHow Jewish GIs Observed Rosh Hashanah In World War II
David Geffen Special To The Jewish Week By the end of World War II, some 550,000 American Jewish men and women had served in the military forces from the South Pacific to the European theater.read more
View ArticleWines For An Early New Year
Gamliel Kronemer Special To The Jewish Week Top picks to serve during a summery Rosh HaShanah. For the first time in decades, Rosh HaShanah falls during the very early days of September, and in New...
View ArticleSome More High Holy Days Innovations
Steve Lipman Staff Writer New spiritual practices for Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur include drama, group misheberachs and nature hikes. The spiritual innovations that congregations and other Jewish...
View ArticleObama Wishes Hundreds Of Rabbis Shana Tovah
JTA President Obama reflected on the High Holidays and offered New Year’s greetings in a conference call with nearly 1,000 rabbis.read more
View ArticleA Happy Year Beyond Headlines
Wed, 09/17/2014 Editorial In the words of an old country song, “Everybody wants to go Heaven, but nobody wants to go now.” For all of our well-validated concerns of a dangerous world, nobody wants to...
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