New Holiday Page - Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah
Hi All,
I hope you all had a happy and healthy Rosh Hashana, and that you have an easy fast on Yom Kippur! Sorry this is a bit late, but here is the newest holiday page, available in the Jewish Living - Holidays section of the website. Enjoy!
Four days after the end of Yom Kippur, on [...]
Yom Kippur - A New Page in the Jewish Living Section of the JBC.org Site
For your reading enjoyment, here is the page for Yom Kippur, which you can also get to under Jewish Living, Holidays above. Enjoy!
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, falls ten days after Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year), and it is the culmination of the Yamim Nora’im, the Days of Awe. The injunction to observe [...]
To Booth or not to Booth, that is the Question…..
As I enter into this new Jewish year, for the first time as a Jew….I am attempting to engage in it all as fully as possible. This aspiration is mitigated somewhat by my life circumstances; I am a working person with a new husband, a new blended family and a full life. Clearly becoming the [...]
Rosh Hashana - A New Addition to the Holiday Pages at JBC.org
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, falls on the first and second of the month of Tishrei, which typically corresponds to September or early October on the secular calendar. The command to observe Rosh Hashana can be found in Vayikra (Leviticus) 23:23-25 (JPS translation):
The LORD spoke to Moses saying: Speak to the Israelite people [...]
An Audio Introduction To Mordecai M. Kaplan & The Reconstructionist Movement
It should come as no surprise to anybody who knows me that the individual who has been and continues to be the biggest influence on my life Jewishly speaking is Mordecai M. Kaplan. His influence reaches all the way back to my pre-conversion days. There isn’t a day that goes by where Kaplan’s theology [...]
