Rosh hashana
Deleted IDF video instructed haredi draft evaders how to avoid Ben-Gurion checks
It is unclear whether the IDF has a mechanism to prevent someone from reporting for the summons, avoiding a departure restriction, traveling to Uman, and then failing to complete enlistment.
Jewish, Muslim, Christian Jerusalem Old City vendors say reduced tourism is harming businesses
No politics. No divisions. Just Am Yisrael Chai
From fake burps to reverse tashlich, new children’s books bring the High Holidays to life
Welcoming Rosh Hashanah in the Venice Ghetto
In the Ghetto Vecchio, many of the 500 members of the Jewish community of Venice gathered in the Spanish Synagogue and the Levantine Synagogue to celebrate the High Holidays.
Jewish high holidays: Forgetting is the key to forgiveness
This high holiday season, please remember to forget.
Israel’s first babies of the new Jewish year 5782
The country’s first baby appears to have been born at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, just after candle lighting on Monday evening.
Grapevine September 9, 2021: The danger of indifference
Movers and shakers in Israeli society
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.
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.
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.
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.
Israel’s COVID-19 Rosh Hashanah rules - the full details
These are the Israeli government's latest recommendations ahead of the High Holy Days.
Why are bees becoming an endangered species in Israel?
Michal Herzog meets with beekeepers to find out why.
