Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish holiday marking the first and second days of the Jewish year. (In 2021, Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Monday, September 6, and continues...
A meditation on the meaning of Rosh Hashanah
By Eli Rubin
Sound the shofar on the New Moon,
in concealment for the day of our festival.1
This is a verse...
By Yehuda Shurpin(Chabad.org) One of the classic symbols of Rosh Hashanah is the apple dipped in honey. On the night of Rosh Hashanah, after we have made kiddush, washed,...
By Tzemach Feller(Chabad.org) As the 2021 High Holidays approach and the delta variant of the coronavirus creates a new time of uncertainty, one sure constant will be the...
By Menachem Posner
You are probably familiar with the widespread (Ashkenazi) Rosh Hashanah customs of eating round raisin challah and apples dipped in honey, pomegranate, the head of a fish, sweet...
DEBORAH FINEBLUM(JNS)
Why is Tisha B’Av the saddest day of the Jewish year?
Eerily, not only were both of the holy temples in Jerusalem destroyed on...
By DEBORAH FINEBLUM(JNS)
You could say that Shavuot is the most important holiday most Jews know virtually nothing about. And you wouldn’t be completely wrong.
Nonetheless, the holiday—beginning...
On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), author of the Never Again Education Act, released the following statement.
“Today, on Yom HaShoah,...
By Mordechai Lightstone(Chabad.org)
Often in our reflections on the Holocaust, the imagery we focus on is the dread, and human suffering, gas chambers, mass graves and...
By: Ron Jager
The days following Pesach are always an emotionally charged period in Israel. From celebrating the redemption of the Jewish nation during Pesach,...
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes Remembrance Day will be observed this year starting Wednesday evening, 7 April 2021 through Thursday, 8 April 2021. The official...
By Tzvi Freeman(Chabbad.org)
People knock pop psychologists and their euphemisms, but I often wonder if we wouldn't be better off borrowing some of their political correctness...
