It’s the Jewish High Holiday season, and Jews the world over are preparing to visit their local synagogues — for community, for prayer, and to hear the arresting, soulful sounds of the shofar. An ...

Governing Body members express views on whether to let the current liturgy lapse, make it a permanent rite, or move towards ...

There are many themes of Rosh Hashana, including reflection, repentance and sacrifice. But in many ways the story of Hannah ...

1. Self-examination. Rosh Hashanah initiates a wake-up call of ten days of self-examination and repentance, which are concluded on Yom Kippur (the Day of Repentance). This self-examination should be ...

At sundown on Monday evening, Winnipeg’s Jewish community will join with members of their faith around the world to mark Rosh Hashanah – the beginning of the year 5786 on the Hebrew calendar. The ...

In her new book 'Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age,' Rachel Z. Feldman documents a growing fringe movement to hasten the ...

The purpose of the blowing of the shofar is to “wake up (Jews) from slumber” and cause them to reflect and “do better” at the ...

Whatever Tashlich’s true origin, perhaps it was inevitable that we mark Rosh Hashanah by assembling next to water.

Although it has become one of the most familiar and participatory rituals of the High Holiday season that is embedded in contemporary Jewish practice, the extralegal origins of Tashlich and the contro ...

Behind that question lurks another, very urgent one that requires an answer: Why does so much Christian theology end in death ...

Many Christians think that faith and critical thinking do not go together. Jesus said, “Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3).