admin | September 23, 2020
Unlike the secular New Year, the Jewish New Year, celebrated this weekend, concentrates on repentance, rather than joyous abandon.
admin | September 23, 2020
By ohtadmin | on September 21, 2020 When Rosh Hashanah began Friday, Sept. 18, none of Hungarys 100,000 Jews will be in a synagogue.
admin | September 23, 2020
Rabbi Matt Soffer was leaving his synagogue on Friday evening after leading Rosh Hashanah services alone for a congregation following along online when the text came from his wife: Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. The news brought me to my knees and I wept, Soffer said
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Jewish representative Nancy Khedouri (second from left) and other Bahraini officials meet with foreign representatives, including U.S. Ambassador Justin Siberell (far left).
admin | September 23, 2020
(JTA) Within hours of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death on Friday evening, an obscure Jewish tradition began circulating online: Someone who dies on or just before Rosh Hashanah is a righteous person. A Jewish teaching says those who die just before the Jewish new year are the ones God has held back until the last moment bc they were needed most & were the most righteous, NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg tweeted just after midnight
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By Rabbi Steven Graber In the Talmud, Masechet Berachot, Rabbi Levi presents to us this problem: It reads in Psalm 24, The earth and its fullness belong to the Lord, but it also reads in Psalm 115, Heaven is the heaven of the Lord, but the earth He gave to the sons of men.
admin | September 23, 2020
This coming weekend we will celebrate Rosh Hashanah, our Jewish New Year. During the Musaf prayer service on the second day of the holiday, apiyyut, or sacred song, is chanted, which begins with the words: Never miss the best stories and events for families, children and teens! Get JewishBoston Plus Kids.
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The blowing of the shofar, traditionally done on Rosh Hashanah. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The Jewish year, and thus the annual cycle of the Torah reading, is coming to an end
admin | September 23, 2020
Chag HaSukkot (the festival of Tabernacles) is one of the three pilgrimage festivals, along with the holidays of Passover and Shavuot. Yom Tov (holiday) begins with candle lighting in the Sukkah, in conjunction with the Shabbat, Friday, Oct. 2, 18 minutes prior to sundown
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MIAMI, Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Victor Center for the Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases, which offers preconception screening and genetic counseling for prospective parents, has recently expanded services to offer genetic screening and virtual clinical consults to couples and individuals in New York, New Jersey and Maryland
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