Rosh Hashanah

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A New Year's Resolution

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Commandents, Yom Kippur, Right Wing Media, Nazi, Bible, Hitler, Chofetz Chayim, Judaism, Bloggers, Rosh Hashanah, Propaganda, Temple, Right Wing, Obama, Hebrew-Bible, Barack Obama, Michael Gerson, God, Mind.Body.Soul, Jewish, Torah, New Year's Resolution, Washington Post, Repentence, Confession, Hate Speech, Slander, Adolf Hitler, Loshon Hara, Ira Forman, Living News

This Yom Kippur there is reason for concern. The politics of rumor, innuendo, and lies -- sinat chinam -- is on the rise in our community and it hurts us all.

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Back to the Future -- The Tension Over Tense

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

With investments, mob psychology takes over. People get greedy at the top and afraid at the bottom. At the end of the day, they almost always default in favor of sleeping at night.

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Avoiding Darfive

Lee Bycel | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Darfur Genocide, Judaism, Sudan, Rosh Hashanah, Refugee Camp, Displaced Persons, International Aid, World News

I just returned after spending 10 days in Eastern Chad, observing Rosh Hashanah in Darfuri refugee camps. There are no Jews there, but there are millions of humans struggling to survive.

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New Year: Is There Hope for the Darfuri People, for Us?

Lee Bycel | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, War in Darfur, Save Darfur, Darfur Genocide, Sudan, United Nations, Chad, Rosh Hashanah, Redford Center, Foreign Affairs, Berkeley California, International Aid, Refugees, World News

Why did I spend Rosh Hashanah in Darfuri refugee camps in Eastern Chad? Why would a rabbi welcome the Jewish New Year in a place where there are no Jews?

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Beginning Again

Terry Marotta | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Repentence, Lori Mckenna, Addiction & Recovery, Rosh Hashanah, Advanced-Placement, Living News

This past week Bryan celebrated six years of sobriety and returned to Maine to begin the amends process with Paul.

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I Want to Know What Happens Next

Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Future, Life, Death, Living News

There are aged people, and sick people, who hang on to life because they are consumed by the dramas playing out in the world. They demand another day to see how things turn out. They want to know the ending.

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Glenn Beck: The Grinch Who Stole Yom Kippur

Aaron Keyak | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Fox News, Yom Kippur, National Jewish Democratic Council, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Yom Kippur, Media News

It's not insignificant that Beck chose the holiest day of the Jewish calendar to launch his "day of Fast and Prayer for the Republic."

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The New Year Begins

Liz Neumark | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Katchkie Farm, Jewish New Year, Slow Food, Holidays, Religion, Local Food, Organic Food, Judaism, Rosh Hashanah, Food, Gefilte Fish, New York News

Heirloom tomatoes, ratatouille and butternut squash soup for Rosh Hashannah: The holiday brings home quiet moments in our lives that are otherwise jammed with obligations and fast meals.

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Triumph The Insult Comic Dog At The Chabad Telethon (VIDEO)

Posted 11.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, The Tonight Show, Triumph Telethon, Video, Chabad Telethon, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Comedy News

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was invited to perform at this year's Chabad Telethon, which seeks to raise money for the Jewish nonprofit and the commun...

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Obama Rosh Hashana Greeting: L'Shana Tova (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

President Obama recorded a greeting to Jews around the world who will celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, beginning at sundown Friday. "L'sh...

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Rosh Hashanah Around The World (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

It's that apple and honey time of year again. Starting Friday, Jews around the world will gather at their families' homes and toast to a sweet new yea...

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Our Morality is Killing Us -- A Reflection for Rosh Hashanah

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Morality, The-Golden-Rule, Living News

It is another New Year for the Jews, but it is also the official opening of schools, the beginning of another new year of learning; perhaps of learning how to question as much as to answer.

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Can There Be Such a Thing as an Israeli Hero?

Bradley Burston | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Heroes, Talmud, Rosh Hashanah, Bradley Burston, Astronauts, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Idf, Judaism, World News

There is a sense that the transgressions of Israelis are so grave that they have lost their right to grieve over their own very real tragedies.

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Have the Jews Left the Synagogue?

Rabbi Leah and Rabbi Perry Berkowitz | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Yom Kippur, Religion, Jews, Synagogue, Upper East Side, Judaism, Holydays, Rosh Hashanah, Tikkun, High Holy Days, New York News

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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What Is Rosh Hashanah and Why Should I Care?

Gahl Eden Sasson | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Kabbalah, Shofar, Judaism, Astrology, Rabbi, Horn, Living News

According to rabbinical lore, Adam and Eve, our primal parents, were created on Rosh Hashanah, which traditionally falls on the New Moon of the seventh month.

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The Great Divide: Rosh Hashanah My Way

Tina Traster | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Baking, Rosh Hashanah, Marriage, Grandmother, Childhood, Challah, Suburbia, Jewish, Tina Traster, Holiday, Living News

The sweet yeasty aroma rising from the blessed creation stimulated my salivary glands and my memory. As I reached toward the loaf to tear off an end my husband tapped my hand as though I were an impetuous child: "No," he said, "You've got to wait for it to cool." I really was back in the kitchen with grandma, being taught the virtue of patience.

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School Apologizes For Rosh Hashanah Football Game Conflict

Chicago Tribune | Margaret Ramirez | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Oak Park River Forest High School, Religion, Oprf Stadium Lights, Chicago News

The historic date for the Oak Park & River Forest High School's first Friday night football game under new stadium lights was to be a momentous occasi...

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Compassionate Release Redux

Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Lockerbie, Plane, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Lockerbie Bomber Released, News, Compassionate Release, Pan Ammedia, World News

Take a moment to read these names. Read them all or read a few. If you're reading this and knew one of them, tell us who he was, tell us what she hoped to become.

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Wall Street's Collapse Means That Jews Can be Known for Values Rather Than Money

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Anti-Semitism, Jews, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Money, Business News

On the day after Rosh Hashanah, the front page of the New York Times Business Section published a photo showing nervous Jewish Wall Street traders outside one of the largest Synagogues in New York checking their Blackberries for the latest market news on this.

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Why Orthodox Youth Are Leaving the Fold

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Rabbi, Heritage, Chabad Shliach, Rosh Hashanah, Jewish People, Community, Hassidic Communities, Orthodox Community, Parenting, Hassidic Youth, Jewish Future, Being Better Parents, Observant Parents, Rabbis, Judaism, Yeshiva, Shluchim, Living News

For the branch of Judaism that has long advocated - and rightly so - that education is the key to observance, it is simply unacceptable to see so many youth lost.

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Rabbi Calls Out From the Shtetl: "Raise Medicaid Reimbursement Rates"

Harold Pollack | Posted 10.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Long-Term Care, Medicaid, I.L. Peretz, Castaway, Health Reform, Health, Religion, Living News

Even for secularist me, Rosh Hashana packs surprising power. I use the season to resolve old debts and squabbles and note my recent accomplishments and failings.

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Repent, The End Is Near!

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Market, Consumer Ethics, Materialism, Bailout, Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Foreclosures, Rosh Hashanah, Simplicity, Stock Market, Congress, Consumption, Capitalism, Economy, Repentance, Wall Street Crisis, Politics News

This Jewish holiday begins a ten-day period during which Jews spend time in self-reflection and repentance -- I can't think of a better thing for the members of Congress to do while at home.

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Somali Pirates Take Break for Jewish Holidays

Andy Borowitz | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Jewish Holidays, Andy Borowitz, Rosh Hashanah, Purim, Somali Pirates, Joy Behar, Jeffrey Toobin, Barack Obama, Politics News

Somaili pirates who stunned the world by seizing a Ukrainian ship announced today that they would take a brief hiatus from terrorizing the high seas out of respect for the Jewish holidays.

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