Rosh Hashanah
The cornerstone of modern society is the individual. Judaism’s prayers and rituals, especially at this time of year, are designed to fulfill the individual’s abiding. . .
Rosh Hashanah as described in the Torah looks very different from the Rosh Hashanah we know today. What happened, and what exactly are we celebrating?
The concept of a divine ledger in which God inscribes the fate of each Jew during the High Holy Days stretches back to the shared. . .
Seventy years ago, Rosh Hashanah marked the beginning of Denmark’s three-week operation to smuggle 7,000 Jews, marked for extinction, across the sea to Sweden and safety.
The shofar is blown throughout the month of Ellul except for today: the day before Rosh Hashanah. Why the abstention?
Genesis gives us two separate accounts of the creation of man; but do they (as Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik argues) offer contradictory and irreconcilable perspectives?