Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Rosh Hashanah
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BINTEL BRIEF Alan Dershowitz helps out with a High Holiday dilemma
The lawyer and retired law school professor, guest-hosting as a Bintel Brief columnist, weighs in on canceling classes
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BINTEL BRIEF I love traditional Rosh Hashanah services, but my wife says no to gender-segregated seating
In 1975, Bintel said the husband gets 'the last word.' That won't fly today. But how to resolve differences in High Holiday practices remains an intriguing question
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Opinion As we approach the High Holidays, I’m making amends for my smartphone addiction
I'm doing teshuva for choosing screens over faces
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Fast Forward Biden to Jewish audience: ‘I probably went to shul more than many of you did’
Biden hosted Jewish leaders at the first White House Rosh Hashanah reception and made his traditional call to rabbis
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Fast Forward Could the High Holidays be affecting the stock market?
A respected trader and former altar boy shares some Jewish financial wisdom on CNBC
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News Puerto Rico’s synagogues prepare for Rosh Hashanah in the wake of Hurricane Fiona
It might be a bit warm during services at Temple Beth Shalom, where storm damage compromised its generator
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Opinion The teenage trauma of being forced to work on Rosh Hashanah — at a shul
Being a ticket-taker at a popular theater was a fun way to spend a summer. But then the High Holidays came. And the manager asked me to rip tickets, not caring that I was Jewish
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Opinion Just in time for Rosh Hashanah, a new reason to feel guilty
If throwing bread for tashlich is wrong, do I want to be right?
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Fast Forward Trump says Jews would deserve much of the blame if he loses
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Opinion A daring attack on Hezbollah may reveal Israel’s strengths — and its most terrifying weakness
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Fast Forward Steve Witkoff, Trump’s golf buddy when would-be assassin took aim, said they became friends over a ham sandwich
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Fast Forward Who is Laura Loomer? Trump wingwoman uses her Jewishness to attack
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Fast Forward ‘Outrageous and dangerous’: Jewish groups blast Trump after he said Jews would bear blame if he loses
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Looking Forward How one of America’s most prominent rabbis got on the path to the pulpit
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Opinion I’m turning my rage about women dying from lack of reproductive care into action. You can too
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Sports She was the Sandy Koufax of ping pong. Now she’s the star of a children’s book.
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