Destiny vs. identity at heart of new Wiesel novel
September 8, 2010
Once again, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author bases his fiction on the cold reality of the Holocaust. This time, Elie Wiesel writes about the lingering effects of the Shoa, but through a device that is at once thought-provoking and exasperating. Read More
Heschel’s lament
A Yom Kippur sermon that spurred the Soviet Jewry movement
September 8, 2010
On a fall day in 1963, Abraham Joshua Heschel unburdened his soul. It was a sermon that set in motion one of the great engines of what would soon be known as the Soviet Jewry movement: guilt. Read More
Six ways to get comfortable with the High Holy Days
September 1, 2010
The Holy Holy Days are just around the corner. It is a time of feeling spiritual, reflective, and for some of us, completely overwhelmed. Here are a few steps you can take to make the holidays a little less stressful and a lot more enjoyable. Read More
From Torah to Temple
The meaning of the holiday changes over time
September 1, 2010
Many scholars have suggested that the first day of the seventh month was popularly celebrated in ancient Israel as a divine coronation day, the time of God’s assumption of the kingship and the beginning of a new cycle of the year. Read More
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‘Who by fire, who by water’
Is our fate determined on Yom Kippur?
September 1, 2010
High on the list of Jewish martyr stories still retold, or at least alluded to, every Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur is the terrible medieval tale of Rabbi Amnon of Mainz. Read More
The year of living defensively
September 1, 2010
Israel and its public image dominated organizational Jewish life in the United States in 5770, a year in which a third Jewish justice was named to the Supreme Court and an Orthodox Jewish boxer rose to the top of his sport. Read More
History on the menu
Exploring Jewish diversity through food
September 1, 2010
Teiglach came along with Tina Wasserman when she moved to Dallas in the 1980s. Wasserman, a cooking teacher and the food columnist for Reform Judaism magazine, didn’t literally transport clumps of the sticky pastries, but among her most cherished possessions, she packed her recipe for the traditional Rosh Hashana sweet hailing from Lithuania. Read More
‘Our guys’ — Jewish baseball legends are ‘Major’ players in new documentary
August 25, 2010
The Aug. 19 screening of the new documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story began in a most appropriate way. “Shalom,” said Dave Kaplan, executive director of the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Little Falls, which served as the site for the film’s local debut. Read More
Must we pay to pray?
Ask the Expert
August 18, 2010
Every year as the High Holy Days approach I hear people grumbling about the price of tickets. And it’s true — at some synagogues it’s upwards of $500 a head. But why is it so expensive? It’s only a few hours, right? Read More
How to make peace with having help in the house
July 28, 2010
It’s hard asking for help. We cherish our independence and we value our ability to take care of ourselves. Day in and day out we work, cook our own meals, clean the house, do the laundry, and pay the bills — until something changes. Read More
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Candle Lighting Time
2nd of Tishrei, 5771
Rosh Hashana II
September 10, 2010 | 6:58 p.m.
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