High Holy Days

Occupy Genesis: Rewinding The Torah, Repairing The World

Rabbi Yonah Bookstein | Posted 12.19.2011

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The story of creation begins again this week in synagogues around the world. This annual cosmic rewind gives each of us a chance to deepen our thinking about the stories we heard as children.

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Hundreds Join For Yom Kippur Service At Occupy Wall Street (UPDATED)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 12.07.2011

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Update, 10/7/11, 11:21 p.m.: Several hundred people showed up in front of downtown New York's Brown Brothers Harriman building for a candlelit, social...

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An Interfaith Yom Kippur

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 12.07.2011

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It was a few years ago that Reima Yosif, a devout Muslim, discovered a surprising family secret: she was Jewish -- kind of. The revelation came whi...

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Pay To Pray: Synagogues Help Struggling Families With Free Tickets To Services

HuffingtonPost.com | Danielle Cadet | Posted 11.29.2011

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As families strapped for cash evaluate their budgets this Jewish holiday season, synagogues are rethinking how they collect funds and maintain their m...

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G-d's Struggle To Repent

Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald | Posted 11.28.2011

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That the most powerful Being in the world is depicted in the Talmud as needing help, is a message of hope, rather than despair. Just as G-d needs to work on His qualities, we must struggle to do the same.

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Synagogues Adjust Ticket Policies For High Holy Days

Posted 11.27.2011

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By Josef Kuhn Religion News Service (RNS) The sputtering economy is fueling changes in synagogues' ticketing policies and marketing strategies for...

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'Seek The Light': A Jewel Of Elul By Rahm Emanuel

Posted 11.16.2011

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Editor's note: There is a great Jewish tradition to dedicate the 29 days in the month of Elul to study and prepare for the coming high holy days. The ...

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Excuse Me, Are You...?

Angela Himsel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yom Kippur, Hasidic Jews, Chabad, Tefillin, High Holy Days, Judaism, Shehechyanu, New York News

As I'm exiting the subway station at Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, I pass a bearded Hassidic man and overhear him saying to a secular-looking young man, "Do you need help putting on teffilin?"

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Happy-ish New Year

Ellis Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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I've discovered that being Jewish can be just as much a cultural practice as a religious one. So, although I no longer go to temple, and I don't go to anyone's house for seder on Passover (unless I'm guilted into it), I am a cultural Jew.

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Giving Your Way Out Of Difficulty: A 'Jewel Of Elul' By Ketra Oberlander

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Editor's note: There is a great Jewish tradition to dedicate the 29 days in the month of Elul to study and prepare for the coming high holy days. The ...

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Valuing Family And God: A 'Jewel Of Elul' By Imam Jihad Turk

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Editor's note: There is a great Jewish tradition to dedicate the 29 days in the month of Elul to study and prepare for the coming high holy days. The ...

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Passing The Test With G-d's Help: A 'Jewel Of Elul' By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Editor's note: There is a great Jewish tradition to dedicate the 29 days in the month of Elul to study and prepare for the coming high holy days. The ...

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The Thing Greater Than Me: A 'Jewel of Elul' By Lady Gaga

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Editor's note: There is a great Jewish tradition to dedicate the 29 days in the month of Elul to study and prepare for the coming high holy days. The ...

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The Spiritual Value Of Asking 'But Why Not?': A 'Jewel Of Elul' By Jeremy Ben-Ami

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Editor's note: There is a great Jewish tradition to dedicate the 29 days in the month of Elul to study and prepare for the coming high holy days. The ...

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Passover Seder: Stay For A While

Angela Himsel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Haggadah, Passover, Judaism, Obama's Seder, Jewish Holidays, Passover Seder, Ceremony, Jewish, Passover 2010, Pesach, Jewish People, High Holy Days, Exodus, New York News

My Seder table, like everyone else's, is a blend of our own individual narratives and stories and the national story that we retell.

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Yom Kippur Puts Damper On Last Day Of Campaigning

nytimes.com | Michael Barbaro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Because of a quirk in the calendar, Monday is both the last day of campaigning before the Democratic runoff election and the holiest day on the year f...

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I Will Dominate You, Yom Kippur

Dan Abramson | Posted 05.25.2011

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You call yourself the day of "Atonement." More like day of "shitty Keira Knightley period piece." Burn.

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Live from New York, It's L'Shanah Tova

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'd like to see a world in which Dick Clark can come out early in the morning with a shofar and usher in a "Rockin' Rosh Hashana Eve." Note to Ryan Seacrest: get ready to rock that yarmulke.

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Have the Jews Left the Synagogue?

Rabbi Leah and Rabbi Perry Berkowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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You can't practice Judaism with your grandfather's heart but must approach these days with a new, fresh, different and vibrant style that speaks to someone who lives and struggles in the 21st Century.

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