Rosh Hashana

September 28, 2019 1

Living Longer, Living Better: 5780 and the power of our prayers

Rabbi Address' message for the New Year 5780. [Read more...]

Sandy Taradash's granddaughter joined friends from Camp Newman’s Hevrah group of 15-year-olds lobbying in Sacramento for Criminal Justice and Immigration Reform

September 10, 2019 0

Chuckles for the New Year!

Sandy Taradash offers blessings for the New Year and some jokes to make you smile. [Read more...]

September 5, 2018 0

Food is Love…Holiday Recipes

Sandy Taradash ponders the connection between Jewish food, holidays, memories and culture. [Read more...]

September 24, 2015 0

Illness and Death – Jewish Decision Trees – Rosh Hashana sermon by Rabbi Stephen Roberts

Editor’s Note: This sermon was delivered by Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts at Temple of the High Country, Boone, NC, on Rosh Hashana morning. My father, of blessed memory, [Read more...]

September 18, 2015 0

A Whack of Humility

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his year was the first time in a long time that I did not lead services on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Having recently left my chaplaincy [Read more...]

August 28, 2015 0

Backwards and Forwards: a pre-Rosh Hashanah commentary

Don’t say, “How is it that times past were better than these?” For it is not wise of you to ask that question. (Kohelet/Ecclesiastes [7:10]) Although we won’t be [Read more...]

September 29, 2014 2

Refuat HaNefesh, Sermon for Rosh Hashana 5775

A Sermon by Rabbi Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor Vice President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism Congregation Shirat HaYam, Nantucket “…I have set before you life or [Read more...]

August 21, 2012 0

Holiday Food, Jewish Style

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 [Read more...]

October 7, 2011 0

God’s Eternal Question

With the ending of Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur, the Jewish calendar focuses on the first of our three Festivals, Sukkot. The symbol of the fragile dwelling place, the [Read more...]

August 31, 2010 0

To “Life” and to the New Year!

Here is one of “those” questions. How do you find meaning in the aftermath of sorrow? How do you find reason when there is none? 5770 is ending. I, for one, will not be [Read more...]