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Seekers of Meaning 10/4-10/11/2024: High Holy Days Message from Rabbi Address

October 4, 2024 Webmaster 0

In this commentary, Rabbi Richard Address discusses the themes of the High Holidays and shares insights on aging and spirituality. He explores the concepts of acceptance and surrender, holding on and letting go, and the power of choice in shaping our lives. Rabbi Address emphasizes the importance of community and face-to-face interactions as we age and highlights the significance of the sacred and divine in our lives. He concludes with a prayer for peace and well-being in the year ahead. [Read more…]

Seekers of Meaning 9/27/2024: High Holy Days Music with Hazzan Alisa Pomerantz-Boro

September 27, 2024 Webmaster 0

Rabbi Richard Address engages with Hazzan Alisa Pomerantz-Boro to explore the profound impact of sacred music in Jewish tradition, particularly during the High Holidays. [Read more…]

Seekers of Meaning 9/13/2024: Rabbis Reflect on The High Holidays

September 13, 2024 Webmaster 0

Rabbi Jill Maderer and Rabbi Jack Paskoff reflect on the meaning of the High Holidays this year in the wake of the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis and as antisemitism surges in the United States and around the world. [Read more…]

Rabbis Matt Soffer and Geri Newburge Discuss High Holiday Plans, Issues for Mid-Career Rabbis

September 18, 2020 Webmaster 0

On this episode of the Seekers of Meaning Podcast and TV Show, two mid-career rabbis, Rabbi Geri Newburge, rabbi at Main Line Reform Temple/Beth Elohim, in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, and Rabbi Matt Soffer, senior rabbi at Judea Reform Congregation, Durham, North Carolina, discuss their plans for observing the High Holy Days with their congregations and issues affecting their rabbinates. [Read more…]

Return. 30 Days of Reflection: Your guided workbook and soul-journey for the High Holy Day season.

September 1, 2020 Rabbi Jill Zimmerman 0

Rabbi Jill Zimmerman offers a free workbook for reflection during Elul, the month preceding the Jewish High Holy Days. [Read more…]

The Blessings of Dying A Little Death

October 1, 2019 Stefanie Levine Cohen 1

JSA Contributor Stefanie Levine Cohen writes about how the Jewish High Holidays have changed as she has become an empty-nester. [Read more…]

Louisiana Rabbi Launches M’vakshim/Seekers: Exploring the Opportunities of Aging, In High Holiday Sermons

October 30, 2016 Webmaster 0

Rabbi Robert H. Loewy, rabbi of Congregation Gates of Prayer in Metairie, LA, used his 2016 high holidays sermons to introduce a new program focusing on issues of aging. Rabbi Loewy calls the program M’vakshim/Seekers: [Read more…]

Rabbi Address holds JVillage Seminar on Engaging Boomers for High Holy Days

August 6, 2015 Webmaster 0

Rabbi Address led a webinar for JVillageNetwork.com on how to engage Baby Boomers for the High Holidays. You can watch the webinar in the player below.

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Guest Post from Sandy Taradash: Has the World Gone to Hell in a Hand Bag? Joan Rivers might say, “If it’s Gucci, that’s ok!”

September 18, 2014 Sandra Taradash 0

A High Holiday Message… Sounds like a joke right out of Joan Rivers’ joke box. She always wanted us to laugh in spite of what we were dealing with, to show us we were not [Read more…]

Holiday Food, Jewish Style

August 21, 2012 Sandra Taradash 0

As the High Holidays approach, and we reflect upon the year past, we are in touch with the essence of our deeds, the essence of one’s soul and the essence of our relationship to and [Read more…]