Welcoming a New Year With Sweet Celebrations
Judith Geller Marlow
September 9, 1999
On the first day of Tishri, Sept. 10, the Jewish New Year begins at sunset.
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Celebrations/Simchas
Beyond Puppets and Cookies
Beverly Gray
September 2, 1999
Eleven-year-old Katie Zeisl, who attends Hebrew School at Adat Ari El, knows that the High Holidays are a time to \”tell God I\’m really sorry and I\’ll try not to do it again.\”
A Holiday Tool Kit
Wendy J. Madnick
September 2, 1999
As Rabbi Stewart Vogel of Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills sees it: \”For many people, the fulfillment of the biblical injunction \’You shall afflict your soul\’ means simply coming to High Holiday services.\”
The Year Ahead
Rahel Musleah
September 2, 1999
Tahel shanah u-virkhoteha! Let the new year begin with all its blessings.
Ten Ways to Make the High Holidays Meaningful
Ann Molin
September 2, 1999
Dipping apples in honey, blowing the shofar, gathering together as a family — these parts of the High Holidays appeal to most children.
Their Right of Passage
Michele Chabin
July 8, 1999
Hundreds of Israeli children celebrate their bar and bat mitzvahs every week, and 13-year-old Asher Gorsky did not want to be an exception.
Passover Recollections
Merrill Shindler
March 25, 1999
I know it\’s getting really boring to talk ad infinitum about our dysfunctional families. But trust me, pilgrims — when it came to the Passover seder at the Shindler homestead in the Bronx, dysfunction didn\’t even begin to describe the chaos and torments of Gehenna that afflicted my small nuclear family.
Ice Cream or Bread?
Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
February 4, 1999
I remember the argument like it was yesterday. There I was, a 10-year-old kid growing up in a Reform congregation in Santa Monica, arguing with my best friend (another 10-year-old from the same synagogue) about the laws of kashrut for Pesach.
Eight Things You Need to Know About Chanukah
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
December 10, 1998
Some years ago, the American Booksellers Association\’s holiday advertising theme was the phrase: \”Give a gift of love; Give a book.\” Jewish Book Month, scheduled in November, anticipated the gift-giving season.
Advice for the Yom Kippur Fast
Jewish Journal
October 1, 1998
An expert at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center hasinvaluable advice for your Yom Kippur fast.
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