Celebrate
This Tzimmes Candle is the Holiday Scent You’ve Been Missing
We’ve all seen pumpkin spice candles. And I’ve even seen bacon candles. But there is a candle company in Ann ...
Our Free Rosh Hashanah Recipes Ebook is Everything You’ve Been Looking For
If you are looking for menu inspiration for the upcoming holiday, our Rosh Hashanah recipe ebook is everything you need. It’s ...
The National Anthem Is Not a Loyalty Pledge. It’s Liturgy.
When I was a kid, I would always leave the service on Yom Kippur day when it came time for ...
To Repair the World – And Not Just the Jewish People!
One of the things I most love about the High Holidays is their focus on universality. During the rest of ...
Rosh Hashanah Staples You Can Buy at Costco
We know you guys love the bulk-buying heaven also known as Costco. Where else can you simultaneously pick up new ...
The Main Thing is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
If you had walked into Washington D.C.’s L’Enfant Plaza on the morning of January 12, 2007, you would have been ...
Awakening the Senses
Rosh Hashanah is coming. I know, because rabbinic colleagues are posting on Facebook about their daily preparation of sermons, and Jewish blogs ...
Goals and Hopes During Elul
It’s the most magical time of the year.And it’s not Christmas.It’s Elul!I love the month of Elul because it is ...
Make a Window in the Word
My favorite Hasidic teaching is a teaching about prayer couched in a homily on Noah’s Ark. God tells Noah to make ...
The Halakhic Prenup: Embracing Religious Tension
I spent the last two years learning in a beit midrash (Jewish hall of study) in Israel. My beit midrash ...
Jewish Perspectives on Labor Day
There is some irony in the observance of “Labor Day” in our country: It is a holiday acknowledging the achievements ...
Judaism in a Secular Age – Just What God Wanted!
Six weeks from now when the world and the Jewish People experience another Rosh Hashanah, we will stand before God ...