high holidays

There are more spiritually resonant symbols associated with the Festival of Sukkot than with any other major Jewish holiday. On ...

This Yom Kippur, the ISJL’s Rabbi Marshal Klaven and Rabbi Matt Dreffin will return to the communities where they spent ...

Communities, institutions, families and friendships create a sense of common identity, a sense of “we.” Since no two people – ...

In honor of Yom Kippur, this week we bring you two queer takes on The Book of Jonah. Tomorrow, poet ...

At the conclusion of Yom Kippur services, the rabbi was standing at the door shaking hands as the congregation departed. ...

Rabbi Reuben Zellman delivered this D’var Torah on Erev Rosh HaShanah in 2006 at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav in San Francisco. ...

I’m advocating a new angle on Heshbon Nefesh, ‘soul’s accounting’, that we do in preparation to the High Holidays of ...

It is one month until Rosh Hashannah, the Jewish New Year. That sentence strikes fear in to the heart of ...

When news broke last week that Israelis and Palestinians had agreed to a new round of peace talks, how did ...

As I write this post in August, I’m aware that the High Holy days are approaching. I recall the teachings of ...