Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Rosh Hashanah
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Food Mimi’s Sweet Memories
My grandmother was a very young bride, and she had a Hungarian neighbor who taught her to cook. My grandmother was a marvelous cook and a marvelous baker. And she always made this wonderful honey cake. It gets very dark and rich, because of the boiled honey. She always made several cakes, because she had…
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Opinion 5 Reasons You Should Stop Kvetching and Go To Synagogue On Rosh Hashanah
Jay Michaelson published an opinion piece in these pages last week, titled “Why You Shouldn’t Go To Synagogue on Rosh Hashanah This Year.” It was kvetching — the good old-fashioned kind, with the good old-fashioned upshot of accomplishing nothing other than making a bunch of people (many of them congregational rabbis) really, really angry. When…
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Opinion Why You Shouldn’t Go To Synagogue On Rosh Hashanah This Year
As the summer ends, Americans get back to business, and for American Jews, there’s no bigger business than the High Holidays at your local synagogue. I have some unconventional advice for you this year: Don’t go. Instead of attending the kitschy mass performances that even your rabbi probably finds uninspiring, choose a different holiday from…
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Food High Holiday Fare From NY to LA
It’s not too soon to start planning your Rosh Hashanah menu. We’re kicking off our coverage with just a few of the places around the U.S. offering holiday treats to go. Rosh Offerings From Breads Bakery Holiday challahs are the stars at Breads Bakery in New York City, which features raisin challah, marzipan with hazelnuts…
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Opinion What To Do When a Rosh Hashanah Prayer Is Triggering For You: Walk Out.
On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. So begins the poem “Unetaneh Tokef,” which is recited on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I have always struggled with this poem. The very literal translation speaks to an intervening God, one who is ready to stand in judgement and hand down…
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Food How About Them Star-of-David Imprinted Apples?
If you’re looking to add some flair to your Rosh Hashanah table, these apples, which are imprinted with Stars of David and Rosh Hashanah greetings, might do the trick. Fun to Eat Fruit, a company specializing in imprinted fruits, is selling the holiday-themed apples in time for the Jewish New Year, when Jews traditionally dip…
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Breaking News Gay Jews Celebrate ‘High Homo Days’ — With Eye on Marriage
(JTA) — It was nearly midnight Saturday, and Jayson Littman was milling about an upscale Manhattan nightclub greeting friends with a wide smile and often a big hug. Standing alongside a “shot boy” — clad only in underwear, a kippah and Star of David necklace — he offered partygoers shots of Manischewitz in plastic cups….
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The Schmooze A Jew’s Guide to Repentance
On the latest episode of , a public radio show and podcast, host Krista Tippett and Jewish ethicist Louis Newman talk repentance, reflection and learning to confront our sins head on.
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