Rosh hashana

Your Investments: Time to start all the tasks that have been put off until ‘after the chagim’

In Israel, the ultimate definition of procrastination is the concept of “after the chagim,” where no one can focus or make a decision on anything until after the High Holy Days season is over.

Close up cropped image young woman calculating monthly expenses.
The Oval Office, with President Donald Trump, marking "Education and Sharing Day, USA" in honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Marking "Education and Sharing Day, USA" with President Trump

MIKVEH IN Auckland, New Zealand.

Yom Kippur: The end or the beginning?

Illustration of apple, honey and pomegranate which are traditionally eaten for Rosh Hashanah, or Jewish New Year

Shabbat Shuva: A call to return


After a horrible year, does a better one await? - opinion

I feel the need to repair the world – tikkun olam – we say in Hebrew, or as others might say, leave the world a better place than when we arrived.

‘And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath’ – Deuteronomy, Nizavim 29:22

The climate change emergency demands a Jewish response

May this Rosh Hashanah inaugurate a year of Jewish communal reflection, facing the full threat of this crisis and our unique responsibility to take action for everyone alive today.

BIRDS FLY near factory emissions n Tangshan, China, in 2016. Waskow emphasizes the importance of using religion to fight climate change

Over 3,000 expected at Orthodox Union's virtual Torah Yerushalayim on Sept. 12

Speakers including Chief Rabbi David Lau and singer, Rabbi Shlomo Katz, are expected to be at this year's virtual Torah Yerushalayim event.

The Orthodox Union (OU) was founded in New York in 1898

Israel's COVID czar to travel to Uman on Rosh Hashanah

Tens of thousands of hasidim travel to Uman in Ukraine each year to pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Zarka will help ensure that the rules set by the two governments will be followed.

 Ultra orthodox Jewish men make there way to Uman for the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah at the ben gurion international airport near Tel Aviv on September 1, 2021.

Israel’s COVID-19 Rosh Hashanah rules - the full details

These are the Israeli government's latest recommendations ahead of the High Holy Days.

 PERFORMING the ‘Tashlich’ ritual on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah in Tel Aviv last year after Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown.

Why are bees becoming an endangered species in Israel?

Michal Herzog meets with beekeepers to find out why.

 Israeli beekeeper Paz Raziel check a honeycomb in a field near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai

This Jewish family has been making honey wine for 150 years

Among the 14 wines currently available on the Loew Vineyards website, four are not wines in a traditional sense. Rather they are meads, or honey wine.

 A delicious glass of wine in the summer heat

Here’s what 5 chefs from around the world are making this Rosh Hashanah

We asked five noted chefs and food writers what they will serve at home to mark the Jewish New Year, and (spoiler alert) they all plan to weave symbols of sweetness into their menus.

Rosh Hashanah Challah with apples

The best part of Rosh Hashana: being together - opinion

Whether we are able to celebrate with family or whether we are forced to go it alone, Rosh Hashanah reminds us that we are part of a community.

 WORSHIPERS BLOW shofarot at an observation point overlooking the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem last year.

Searching for God, questions for Rosh Hashanah - opinion

On Rosh Hashanah we celebrate the creation of the world and its creator, God – who gave meaning and purpose to all life, and to our existence.

 Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur act as an anchor for the Jewish people.