high holidays
Here’s to Being “Happy”
A documentary film called “Happy” came out last year, following a considerable amount of research and writing on the newly ...
Learning to Return to Myself
I remember Yom Kippur when I was 13. I was in synagogue, proudly wearing the tallit I had been given ...
High Holy Days: Collective Sin, Collective Success
Within the liturgy of Yom Kippur, guilt is assumed to be collective, as we communally recite the sins. That being ...
Wandering Mother, Wondering Daughter: Part 2
My mother wasn’t the only Jew in our small town in India. There was Aunty Ruby and her family before they ...
Yom Kippur — A Different Read
The High Holidays are nearly upon us, and while it’s wonderful to carve out time for reflection, contemplation and community, ...
Four Ways to Make your Jewish Institution Inclusive for LGBTQ Interfaith Families
The High Holidays – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – can be the most synagogue-centric of the Jewish calendar year. ...
Entering the Holy of Holies
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
Tachlis of Inclusion: Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin and the Israel Center for Conservative Judaism
With the High Holidays approaching, and major spiritual heavy lifting to be done, it’s an especially important time of year ...