High Holy Days

• 4 Things Jews Do On Rosh Hashanah

  The Jewish new year is not just a stereotypical December 31 gathering -- with champagne, sparkling grape juice, streamers, confetti -- and otherwise generally a good time to stay off the roads and stay home. It is a much more solemn

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• Above the Arctic Circle, a Cold War Rosh Hashana

  It was early September 1956, the High Holidays were approaching, and Elihu Schimmel was in the Cold War's coldest theater.

• An Overview of the High Holy Days

  Imagine the High Holy Days as the most profound kind of homecoming dance. The invitation doesn’t arrive on embossed card stock but whispers on the shofar’s cry, echoing through the chambers of the heart: Come back. Return. Remember who

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• Because It's Rosh Hashanah!

  David Sirull, a rabbi at the Adas Yeshurun Synagogue in Augusta, Georgia made a music video about Rosh Hashanah that has gone viral on YouTube. 

• Benji Lovitt Presents "Rosh Hashanah: Apples and What???"

  Some people may try to be creative with the traditional Rosh Hashanah foods, but nothing quite replaces the perfect combination of apples and honey this time of year.

• Blow the Trumpet in Zion

  Joel 2: Blow the Trumpet in Zion

  Sermon by Messianic Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky

• Days of Awe

  During the time of Rosh Hashanah, many Jews and Christians alike flock to the Western Wall for a time of prayer, reflection, and for those who believe, a beautiful time of anticipating the Messiah’s return

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• Dip Your Apple

  The Ein Prat Fountainheads, a group of Jewish musicians, dancers, singers, and other creative souls who all graduated from the Ein Prat Academy, produced a Rosh Hashanah parody on the apples and honey theme of this sweet time of

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• Do You Want to Build the Sukkah

  This creatively done film was reportedly crafted, recorded, and filmed all in one day and is a parody commemorating the holiday of Sukkot.

• Elul - A Season for Reflection

  Each year, as summer wanes and the air begins to cool, a quiet, sacred season arrives: Elul. Unlike the fanfare of holidays, Elul passes almost unnoticed by the world, yet it carries a powerful spiritual invitation. It calls us to

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• Feast of Trumpets

  The Feast of Trumpets is the first of the fall feasts. It begins on the first day of the seventh month on the Hebrew calendar known as Tishri. It was a holy convocation, a ceremonial Sabbath; no work was to be done.

• Genesis 22: Peace at Beersheba with Avimelech

  In Genesis chapter 20 we read about Abraham lying to Avimelech regarding Sarah. Then in chapter 21 Avimelech comes back to Abraham, this time with the commander of his army to call Abraham out for his sin and to get an assurance from

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• Get Up for Simchat Torah - Roar Parody

  Simchat Torah comes after the conclusion of the Feast of Tabernacles, and references “rejoicing in the Torah,” which is certainly depicted in the lighthearted video below: 

• Hag Sameach. Dry Bones

  Dry Bones Sukkot
  

• How to Make Popular Rosh Hashanah Recipes

  Recipes and cooking instructions are offered for Challah bread, white fish and the preparation of fresh apples and pomegranate to be served and shared during Rosh Hashanah. 

• Kol Nidre

  The Kol Nodre (“all vows”) refers to a series of Aramaic prayers that the Jewish people sing to commence services on the eve of Yom Kippur, just immediately prior to sunset.

• L'Shana Tova

   L'Shana Tova

• L'Shana Tova Tikatavu

  May you be inscribed (in the Book of Life) for a good year.

  Those words are the translation of the Hebrew in the title. Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year and literally means “head of the year.”

• Livin' in a Booth

  The parody below was filmed by the Ein Prat Fountainheads in honor of Sukkot.

• On the Days of Awe

  On the Days of Awe, the synagogue swells with the haunting refrain: Avinu Malkeinu. Over and over, the congregation cries, Our Father, our King. It is a prayer that has been whispered in fear, shouted in defiance, and wept through

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