High Holy Days

The Power of 50 Minutes

Finding meaning this High Holiday season

Fast Food for Break-The-Fast?

A rabbi shares how and why his family made different holiday culinary choices

Why I Spent The High Holidays At A Mega-Church

Things were a little different in Houston, Texas this year...

“Rosh Hashanah Only Happens In Greenwood, Mississippi”

Okay, maybe it's celebrated elsewhere - but there's something special about our Delta holidays, and we draw quite a crowd...

Exhaling After the Holidays

If we made High Holy Day promises, will we keep them?

God Does Not Discriminate; People Do

What does it mean to envision a truly inclusive and holy community?

Don’t Confuse Ideology with Identity

Should rabbis talk about politics, or should they strive to make the High Holidays a sanctuary from bad news?

Finding Yourself – Wherever You Are

As the High Holy Days remind us, getting to know ourselves takes time.

Coming to Believe in Collective Prayers of Repentance

How a former Catholic became a believer and leader of collective Jewish prayers of repentance.

Spiritual Hangover: Coming Down From the Mountain

Here’s a one-question pop quiz, and everyone gets an “A.” Now that this year’s Jewish High Holy Days are done, which of ...