If you’re in need of Rosh Hashanah cards this year, check out ones being offered by Midrash Manicures. The company’s founder, Rabbi Yael Buechler, collaborated with Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, a cartoonist from The New Yorker, to design...
By Katie Silver, Sophomore, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
• Published October 10, 2019
The Jewish High Holidays begin with Rosh Hashanah and extend through the end of Sukkot, encompassing a month-long holiday season peppered with days that many Jews spend in services and with their families. Many of these holidays are little known to...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published September 26, 2019
The Days of Awe – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the holiest days on the Jewish calendar – are upon us again. The start of the Jewish New Year comes this Sunday night, Sept. 29. The Day of Atonement, Oct. 9, marks the end of the 10 days of repentance....
By Arielle Kaplan, Alma via JTA
• Published September 26, 2019
Much to my mother’s dismay, I’m not fasting on Yom Kippur and I’m not going to synagogue. Why? Because I don’t believe in God. But despite my lack of faith in a higher being, I take the High Holidays very seriously.For those who need a refresher,...
Penny Schwartz, JTA
• Published September 13, 2019
A Rosh Hashanah apple cake bake-off fit for reality television and another installment in the Scarlet and Sam series from the award-winning author Eric A. Kimmel are among the highlights in the crop of new High Holiday books for children.Six engaging...
BY ERIC BERGER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
• Published September 13, 2019
It might be easier to ask for forgiveness and head into the Jewish new year after you have heard a group of talented musicians on Sept. 21 at Congregation Shaare Emeth.The Reform synagogue is hosting a Selichot (prayers of repentance) service with the...
By Leah Koenig, The Nosher via JTA
• Published September 20, 2018
Greek Jews are no strangers to moussaka, the rich casserole traditionally made from eggplant and lamb and thickly layered with bechamel. But because kosher laws prohibit the consumption of milk and meat together, Jewish versions of the dish tend to...
By Sara Shapiro-Plevan, My Jewish Learning via JTA
• Published September 20, 2018
The central mitzvah of Sukkot is found in Leviticus 23:42, where Jews are commanded to dwell in a sukkah , a temporary hut, for seven days and nights. We do this in order to remember the experiences of our ancestors, both on the journey from Egypt to...
By Rebecca Rosenthal, Kveller via JTA
• Published September 20, 2018
Here’s the short version of this article. If you leave your kids home on the High Holidays so you can have grownup praying time, bring your kids on Sukkot.If you bring your kids to the High Holidays, then bring them back on Sukkot.Sukkot is the best...
NEW YORK (JTA) — The holiday of Sukkot isn’t is complete without a lulav and an etrog, the four species that Jews are commanded to wave on the harvest holiday. But according to a new book, it wasn’t until the Second Temple period that Jews started...
BY MARGI LENGA KAHN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published September 14, 2018
To serve an assortment of small plates to begin or even comprise an entire meal is a strong tradition throughout the world. There are tapas in Spain, meze in Turkey and Greece, antipasti in Italy, banchan in Korea, and salatim in Israel, which, according...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published September 13, 2018
This is the day of the world’s beginning; now we recall creation’s first day. On this day the fate of nations is in the balance — for war or peace, for famine or plenty ... life and death are in the balance. Every mortal’s record is set...
