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High Holidays

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The High Holidays, which comprise Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, are the holiest dates on the Jewish calendar. A time to take stock of our live, seek forgiveness, and start fresh, this season invites us to reflect on what matters most to us and to return to our deepest selves.

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Take time to prepare your personal prayers for the high holidays

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Practices and meditations for making changes in life during the high holidays and all year long

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Blow a mean blues shofar! 

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Now the new year is born / beginning with the wail of shofar / like life begins with the baby’s first cry.

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A poem for Rosh Hashanah and beginning of the school year on sending one’s child to school

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The Queen is in the field. / The King is in the field. / They have come together, / To bless us
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Facilitator’s guide and handout for study session on refugee crisis

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A printable door hanger to remind us of our obligation to support the world’s refugees

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“For the sin we commit when we fail to recognize the enormity and pervasiveness of the global refugee crisis”

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A song for Elul and the high holidays

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