High Holy Days
What do Jews want to hear on the High Holy Days?
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 12, 2023
(RNS) — To my rabbinical colleagues, just when you thought you were done with your sermons.
“Golda” is a triumph
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 28, 2023
Come for an Oscar-worthy performance by Helen Mirren. Stay for a tear-stained history lesson that is still relevant and powerful.
‘They hated us. They tried to kill us’ … An old joke becomes a Yom Kippur message
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 3, 2022
You know the joke. Time to go way deeper. It's about your life and your soul.
As Jews celebrate the creation of the world, some are celebrating creativity itself
By Yonat Shimron — September 23, 2022
(RNS) — The Jewish Studio Project presupposes that all people are, as it puts it, 'created creative.' It encourages them to partner with God in the act of creation.
Bring Leonard Cohen home for the High Holy Days
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 22, 2022
What can a late, lamented singer-songwriter teach us about inwardness and the Jewish new year? Plenty.
We need a louder and broader Jewish voice
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 12, 2022
(RNS) — Craig Taubman is not just a singer. He might actually be a latter-day prophet.
This Yom Kippur, many Jews will wash their hands of a certain injunction
By Menachem Wecker — September 15, 2021
(RNS) — Those that cleanse themselves of sins thusly do so with a rabbinic stamp of kosher approval.
Pandemic once again disrupts plans for Jewish High Holy Days
By David Crary and Holly Meyer — September 6, 2021
(AP) — At many synagogues, there will be a mix of in-person services, including indoor and outdoor options, and virtual offerings for people staying home.
Where do sounds go when they die?
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 5, 2021
(RNS) — A visit to the Cemetery of Sounds. With the solid conviction — the sound of the shofar will not wind up there.
Which world do you want to repair?
By Brad Hirschfield — September 1, 2021
(RNS) — The answer is closer than you think.
COVID has led us all into sin
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 15, 2020
(RNS) — As Jews approach the High Holidays, we need to avoid the sins of perfectionism, envy — and becoming couch potatoes.
American Jews adapt the Seder for Rosh Hashana in a DIY pivot
By Yonat Shimron — September 15, 2020
(RNS) — The Seder is the main ritual meal celebrated by Jews each year at Passover. But this year some American Jews are using a time-tested at-home ritual for the first night of the Jewish New Year.
Synagogue awards for creative worship on the High Holy Days
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 9, 2020
These synagogues are doing unbelievable things for the High Holy Days. Like, really, unbelievable.
Shofar lessons are becoming a pre-holiday necessity in the age of coronavirus
By Yonat Shimron — September 3, 2020
(RNS) — Jewish law requires that the shofar be heard in person. But with synagogues shuttered because of the coronavirus, many Jews are dusting off old ritual objects and taking online lessons so they can produce that clarion wail.
Gottlieb’s triple self-portrait captures complexity of High Holidays services
By Menachem Wecker — October 8, 2019
(RNS) — An 1878 painting by Jewish Galician artist Maurycy Gottlieb captured the sometimes-tedium of being in synagogue on the High Holidays. It may also allude to emotional conflict that he was experiencing at the time.
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