high holidays

EXALTING IN Sukkot at the Western Wall

Your Investments: No more excuses: It’s now, not ‘after the Chagim’

Don’t wait for the next “After the hagim”, now is the time to get your finances in order.  

By AARON KATSMAN
06/10/2023

Sukkot cleaning: Decluttering, organizing, preparing for the holidays

Seven simple strategies for maintaining an organized, clutter-free home and curbing unnecessary purchases in the year ahead.

By MIRIAM GOLD
06/10/2023

Touching spiritual heights with art in honor of the joyful holiday

The feeling of touching spiritual heights is captured in Yoram Raanan’s painting Ascendance, where the figures seem to be ascending to a more spiritual plane with joy and ecstasy. 

By MEIRA RAANAN
06/10/2023

Heaven will help us for peace, but only after helping ourselves first - comment

It is the spirit of Sukkot and Simchat Torah that will somehow bring us together rather than the specter of war or some other external crisis.

Isaac Herzog decries growing violence in Israeli sports

The walls of the sukkah featured prints of the images of Israeli sports champions, and the only other décor was a row of planters filled with flowers and shrubs.

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Keeping the echo alive: The last of Israel’s traditional shofar makers

Shimon Keinan is one of only a handful of people in Israel still making traditional shofars, and his factory receives over 14,000 visitors a year.

By AARON PORIS/THE MEDIA LINE
24/09/2023

Jews must prepare for High Holidays bomb threats, security experts warn

Ahead of the High Holidays, when sanctuaries see their highest attendance of the year, synagogues need to review security procedures in order to avoid panic

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA , JACOB GURVIS/JTA
14/09/2023

High Holidays’ roll call of ruin, is heartbreakingly real for the Ukrainian Jews - opinion

For Ukrainian Jews, the terrible things we fear are an unfortunate reality.

By ALEX WEISLER/JTA
13/09/2023

Israelis flock to Ukraine's Uman despite concerns of Russian strikes

Ahead of Rosh Hashanah Israelis take trains from Poland to reach Uman in Ukraine.

11/09/2023
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