Beyond the bagel: Breaking the Yom Kippur fast with flair
By Shannon Sarna NEW YORK (JTA) — By the time the fast is over on Yom Kippur, the last thing you want to be doing…
Holiday Columns
Green Party Statement on Rosh Hashanah
(OTTAWA) September 13, 2015 – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada (Saanich – Gulf Islands), issued the following statement on Rosh Hashanah:…
Freundel apologizes for mikvah-peeping, but must Jews forgive?
By Uriel Heilman NEW YORK (JTA) — Writing from his jail cell this week, just days before the Jewish New Year, Rabbi Barry Freundel said…
Why Sandy Koufax sitting out a World Series game still matters 50 years later
By Hillel Kuttler WASHINGTON (JTA) – Jesse Agler was pretty talented as a catcher and pitcher in Little League, yet his parents benched him regularly….
Reaching insight and fulfillment in the New Year
By Rabbi Kliel Rose Shalom Uvracha! As you know the High Holiday period is filled with beautiful and stirring Piyyutim or liturgical poems. Many of these are…