The beauty of Rosh Hashanah is the beauty of imperfection, and nothing is messier than the present moment. As one Talmudic sage put it, while we are told in Leviticus that a maimed animal is unfit for ...

The shofar is used on many different occasions in the Bible. But today, for many Jews, it is most associated with the High ...

“It was a day without an army, without a state—a day where all we had was ourselves, the citizens. This is what abandonment ...

There are many themes of Rosh Hashana, including reflection, repentance and sacrifice. But in many ways the story of Hannah ...

A rabbi rejects how expressions of compassion are regarded with suspicion in today’s conversations about Israel.

“Said Abraham to G-d: ‘I do not understand. Yesterday You said to me, ‘In Isaac shall your seed be called.’ Then You said, “Take your son.’ And now You tell me, ‘Do not do anything to him,’ ...

In a time of turmoil in the United States and Israel, clergy offer High Holiday messages of hope and resilience ...

1. Self-examination. Rosh Hashanah initiates a wake-up call of ten days of self-examination and repentance, which are concluded on Yom Kippur (the Day of Repentance). This self-examination should be ...

For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public,” author and Anglican priest Jonathan Swift (1667-174 ...

Whatever Tashlich’s true origin, perhaps it was inevitable that we mark Rosh Hashanah by assembling next to water.

Restored wall paintings now show Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac and scenes of the devil’s defeat, protected under a new roof.

The idea was to pair Rossini's setting of the Stabat Mater, the story of Mary witnessing the crucifixion of her son Jesus, ...