Jewish New Year
Second coronavirus lockdown in Israel frustrates many religious Jews’ plans for High Holidays
By Michele Chabin — September 16, 2020
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The three-week shutdown is timed not only to take advantage of the slow pace of the High Holiday period, but is also an acknowledgment that crowded religious institutions were a coronavirus breeding ground this past winter.
Rabbis mull whether to talk about politics on the High Holy Days
By Lauren Markoe — September 29, 2016
(RNS) Three rabbis give sneak peeks at their sermons for the High Holy Days as Jews welcome a New Year and atone for the past year's sins.
One dead in Jerusalem as Israeli-Palestinian tension mounts during Jewish New Year
By Reuters — September 14, 2015
Stone throwing erupted Sunday in the city where Palestinians want to halt Jewish prayers near Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque.
Jewish beekeepers sweeten New Year, teach wisdom of the hive
By Lauren Markoe — September 9, 2015
(RNS) The lessons of the hive are all the more crucial to learn this New Year, say Jewish beekeepers.
On Rosh Hashanah, Israelis welcome a more diverse set of Jews
By Jacob Wirtschafter — September 24, 2014
TEL AVIV, Israel (RNS) As Israelis pause to celebrate the Jewish New Year, they can also celebrate a surge in the number of non-Jews participating in conversion courses run by Israel’s Reform and Conservative movements.
Jewish resolutions for the Jewish New Year
By Lauren Markoe — September 23, 2014
(RNS) Jewish New Year's resolutions aren't grounded in Jewish law. But some Jews like to make them anyway.
Rosh Hashanah 101: What you should know about the Jewish New Year
By Lauren Markoe — September 13, 2012
(RNS) The basics of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. By Lauren Markoe.
As holy days approach, rabbis reflect on final sermons
By Beth Kissileff — September 11, 2012
(RNS) A well-known Jewish adage says that one should “repent one day before your last one.” Religion News Service spoke to a variety of rabbis about what their final Jewish New Year message to their flock before leaving the pulpit would be. By Beth Kissileff.
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