Parashat Vayechi: King David's lesson in leadership
King David’s final words are not a farewell. They are a summons. A summons to responsibility, to faith and to moral resolve.
Jewish Holidays
Hanukkah 2025: From Hellenism to today’s culture wars
Hanukkah 2025: The power of the invisible
From golems to Horton to banana menorahs: This year’s Hanukkah kids’ books light up the imagination
Yom Kippur: The end or the beginning?
The Talmud identifies Yom Kippur as one of the two happiest days in the year (along with the 15th of Av).
Shabbat Shuva: A call to return
Shabbat Shuva is not merely a pause between two holy days. It is a bridge – between past and future, sin and forgiveness, exile and redemption.
Shabbat candle lighting times for Israel and US
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High Holy Days: Heeding the Rosh Hashanah call for Shiloh and Jerusalem
We are with God and with ourselves, in belief and in actions, as the Jewish people, the Jewish nation, rooted on our soil, despite words spoken at the Emmy Awards stage.
Rosh Hashanah 2025: Your guide to the Jewish new year holiday - explainer
Rosh Hashanah kicks off the Jewish calendar year and starts the High Holy Days and the Days of Repentance. Here is everything you need to know about it.
How holiday cards shaped American High Holy Day culture
The Jewish greeting card at its peak bound together the family with memory and Jewish tradition.
National Library reunites 15th-century Portuguese mahzor ahead of Rosh Hashanah
Known as the Lisbon mahzor, the manuscript was most likely written in the eponymous city of Lisbon, Portugal, during the second half of the 1400s.
Rosh Hashanah: State of God in our world, 2025
On Rosh Hashanah, we pray that God will enter our world and make His presence unmistakable – for those who strive to push Him away, and for those who have yet to open their eyes to Him.
Shabbat candle lighting times for Israel and US
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Rosh Hashanah: One union
God wants us to be in unity: that we honor one another, and that we respect each other’s wishes and aspirations.
