Category: Rosh Hashanah

Keeping the Faith: Resilience in the Jewish Tradition
By Rabbi Deborah Waxman
August 15, 2017
I’m thrilled to introduce Hashivenu, a new podcast that highlights resilience practices embedded in Jewish teaching and Jewish living.
What Will We Seal?: Teshuvah in an Election Season
By David Ebenbach
October 5, 2016
Berosh hashanah yikatevun u've'yom tzom kippur yekhatemun.
JewBelong Guides for Rosh Hashanah
By Archie Gottesman
September 26, 2016
This probably isn’t breaking news, but there are plenty of Jews who don’t go to services on Rosh Hashanah for lots of different reasons. 
The Making of Kapparot: Chana and Annie's Fringe Festival Show
Chana Rothman & Annie Lewis
September 8, 2016
Setting: Carpenter's Woods in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Spring 2016   Chana: Hey, we work really well together. Let's do more! Annie: OK! Chana: Let's do something about Jewish women...
How I Stopped Writing High Holiday Sermons
By Rabbi Rena Blumenthal
September 19, 2014
Two years ago, at age 93, my father passed away suddenly and peacefully in
What I Can't Change
By Rabbi Roni Handler
September 4, 2013
When I think and talk about teshuvah, I usually focus on change. How can we take stock of our lives and improve the parts of ourselves that we wish to change? This year I was struck by a different aspect of teshuvah. I realized that teshuvah doesn’t need to be focused solely on changing who we are. Teshuvah can also be about learning to accept and forgive ourselves, and learning how to embrace our abilities, limitations, bodies, and relationships.
Return to Me
By Rabbi Yael Levy
September 12, 2012
The One of Infinite Possibilities calls: Return to me and I will return to you (Zecharia 1:3)
The Results Are In!
By Rabbi Roni Handler
November 14, 2011
We asked and you answered! 
Rituals as Varied as Our Lives
By Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, Ph.D.
October 27, 2011
You’ve shared a multitude of ideas that can help us celebrate joys, heal sorrows, and wash away difficulties.

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Presence and Absence: Images of the Divine in Kabbalah

In this study of the Zohar, Rabbi Margie Jacobs will guide you in exploring the Shekhinah, the feminine, immanent, indwelling Sacred Presence, through the use of art materials and reflective writing. Four sessions starting May 7, 2024. 

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