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


Survival guide to the High Holy Days

While there are some aspects of this solemn season that they really love, there are others that they, to put it bluntly, actually despise.

 The Stanleigh family sit inside their sukka, or ritual booth, used during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in their yard, in Jerusalem October 14, 2019. Picture taken October 14, 2019.

Having trouble coming up with holiday gifts? Here are some ideas

Rosh Hashanah is the holiday of gifts, especially for those who are being hosted for the holiday and don't want to come empty-handed. So here are some options: some more and some less conventional.

 Woman smells scented candle (Illustrative)

Kotel undergoes inspection ahead of Passover holiday

The stones of the Western Wall undergo a comprehensive manual inspection twice a year - once before Passover and once before Rosh Hashanah.

 ISRAELI SOLDIERS pray at the Western Wall.

For this rabbi near Surfside, the High Holidays are for processing grief

“Sometimes from tragedy, from darkness, you can bring out a sense of humanness and decency,” said Rabbi Sholom Lipskar.

A view shows the partially collapsed residential building in Surfside, near Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. June 26, 2021.

High Holy Days: Tears, prayer, agency and redemption

Every human being should be given a chance to redeem themselves and be pardoned.

 A DEPICTION OF Hagar and Ishmael being saved by an angel, by Benjamin West (1738–1820).

Israeli health minister: Room for COVID optimism as ‘R’ drops to 0.85

Health Ministry: 696 people in serious condition Saturday night, positivity rate at 6.57%

 Health care workers take test samples of Israelis in a drive through complex to check if they have been infected with the Coronavirus in Jerusalem, on September 09, 2021.

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.

 A VIEW OF the Spanish synagogue

Jewish high holidays: Forgetting is the key to forgiveness

This high holiday season, please remember to forget.

 PRAYING AT the end of Yom Kippur  in Moshav Haniel, September 2020.

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.

Newborn babies at a hospital in Jerusalem. The author argues that infrastructure in the city requires more investment

Grapevine September 9, 2021: The danger of indifference

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

 BDERRAHIM BEYYOUDH, Morocco’s chargé d’affaires, presents President Isaac Herzog a signed copy of King Mohammed VI’s letter from last month.