The Journal contacted about 80 synagogues and other organizations that conduct High Holy Days services, from across the spectrum of religious observance.
A common complaint of the unaffiliated Jew is having to buy tickets for the High Holy Days services they choose to attend.
The Booths were longing for an affordable way to connect with other Jewish couples their own age, and in this they aren\’t alone.
At our home we greet our family and friends with apple slices, fresh challah, and a bowl of honey, and we always end the meal with an apple dessert.
When I was a child, too young to understand the difference between the Days of Awe and the Day of Atonement, my only clue that the High Holidays were coming were the religious smells wafting out of our kitchen.
The rabbi is upset with the public protest from Jewish leaders over the Vatican\’s beatification of Pius IX this coming week.
In an era when everything is increasingly more disposable and rendered obsolete, the Bible teaches us to appreciate and preserve what we have.
Morris Leven-ger was a wealthy, pious Jew who lived in Atlan-ta, Georgia, and attended synagogue daily before going to work. One day the rabbi asked for his help with scholarships for youngsters whose families could not afford tuition for Jewish day schools.
Dr. Norman Lamm, the president of New York\’s Yeshiva University, once told me of a professor he knows in Israel who does not consider himself an observant Jew but who insists that his children maintain one halachic practice at home: \”Birkat HaMazon\” (the grace after meals). Lamm explained this peculiarity as the professor\’s belief that the Torah\’s commandment that we should give thanks for our food is an ethic that every child should be taught, so that at every meal they will never forget to appreciate the food on the table.
I watched with joy and admiration at the way rabbis representing such different Jewish religious orientations could become so absorbed in Torah study.
