Rosh Hashanah

High-Tech High Holidays

When I entered rabbinical school, I never imagined I would become a rabbi of an online synagogue. In fact, when ...

I always forget, in between trips, how stunningly beautiful Israel is. When I return, it is like opening a favorite ...

Some of us are blessed with the “D” (designer) gene and well, some of us can cook. Let’s just say ...

Years ago, I faced a summer’s end with a series of five deaths in the tiny congregation I served as ...

Everybody knows about dipping apples in honey to celebrate Rosh Hashanah for a “sweet” year. But in the Syrian tradition, we have ...

“Where there is faith, there are fewer beliefs. You use beliefs to shore up opinions, rather than a relationship with ...

Apparently yesterday was “National Dog Day.”I had not heard of National Dog Day before, but it was created 10 years ...

When I was growing up, I used to listen to records of GI Joe or Sci Fi stories that came ...

Tisha B’Av (Aug. 5th), which commemorates the destruction of the Temple also marks the seven week countdown to Rosh Hashanah. ...

“How do I go on?” I was asked recently at a service following the death of a beautiful woman in ...

Sukkot was never a big deal for me when growing up. Coming so soon after the pomp and circumstance of ...

This Yom Kippur, the ISJL’s Rabbi Marshal Klaven and Rabbi Matt Dreffin will return to the communities where they spent ...