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Since becoming a regular at a small progressive synagogue on Eastern Long Island, I’ve learned that the month of Elul is dedicated to preparing for the holidays ahead. This year the preparations feel ...

In Worship of the Heart, Essays on Jewish Prayer by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (edited by Rabbi Shalom Carmy) the Rav dissects the mitzvot into the two well known components: “maaseh ha-mitzvah” ...

It was a Rosh Hashanah like no other. It was the Rosh Hashanah when I felt as if I held a “Book of Life” in my hands. On that day, for the very first time, I opened S.Y. Agnon’s beautiful High Holy ...

LAGUNA WOODS – Sundown Wednesday marked the start of the High Holidays, a 10-day period called Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe), when Jews around the world will gather to welcome the beginning of the Jewish ...

The rejoinders of sadness and frustration in that room still ring in my ears as we approach Yamim Noraim, the days where the age-old questions of divine justice, accountability, sin, mercy and ...

Jerusalem Post / Judaism Orthodox Union publishes High Holy Days observance guidance amid COVID-19 "Due to the pandemic, this year we must plan for a Yamim Noraim that will be very different than ...