Jewish Holidays

Celebrate and observe the Jewish holidays: Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Hanukkah, Tu Beshevat and more.

 VA'ANI TEFILATI (Yoram Raanan)

Why is Yom Kippur the happiest day of the year? - opinion

 MILLIONS OF Inquisition-era documents are waiting to be unearthed. The writer’s current mission is their digitization.

Kol Nidre: A light of Jewish survival for 600 years - opinion

By GENIE MILGROM
 ‘I HOLD my dad as close in my heart as he held me,’ says the writer.

'Who shall live, who shall die': Matters of life and death on Yom Kippur

By FERN ALLEN
 NEW IMMIGRANTS, survivors of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps, after their arrival at the Atlit reception camp.

How to turn curses into blessings - opinion

 OPEN A new, clean page for the coming year.

Yom Kippur: Opportunity for forgiveness

 Hundreds of people pray at the Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in Porto on Yom Kippur (The photograph was taken from a surveillance camera).

AI, pluralism and Israel: What North American rabbis spoke about in their High Holiday sermons

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
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 The Ades Synagogue in Jerusalem.

'Selichot Journey': Giving a modern look to High Holy Day prayers - review

By MORDECHAI BECK
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 Children picking pomegranates in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Arnona.

Rosh Hashanah: Food traditions of the Jewish High Holy Days

By SYBIL KAPLAN
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 Eve

Rosh Hashanah: Thoughts of women during the Days of Awe

By DAVID GEFFEN
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 Hand-colored etching of Hagar, baby Ishmael and Abraham.

Rosh Hashanah: Torah readings warn that even the righteous can fail

By MORDECHAI BECK
‘DOROTHY, YOU always had the power.’ ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ 1939.

Rosh Hashanah: Expanding who we are

 BLOWING THE shofar is an expression of faith and confidence.

Rosh Hashanah: Going from judgment to mercy

 RABBI DR. NATAN SLIFKIN blows one of his shofars at the Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh.

Blown away: Kick off Rosh Hashanah with biblical shofar exhibit

By URIEL PEIZER
 Slihot tours in Haifa

Slihot tours all around Israel

By MEITAL SHARABI
 ROSH HASHANAH night arrived, and a storm began to rage.

A ship in danger was saved by the power of holiness and a shofar

By LEVI COOPER
 THE SHOFAR: Incomprehensible sounds.

Rosh Hashanah: Fairy tales and the secrets of the shofar

 KEEP THE spark alive via curiosity.

Tu B'Av: How to strengthen relationships and hold on to love

Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and US

 A woman carries red balloons on Tu Be’av.

Tu Be'av: Celebrating the Jewish holiday of love

By SYBIL KAPLAN
Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and US

Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and US

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