Jews will celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year––beginning this year at sunset on Wednesday, October 2 and concluding after nightfall on Friday, October 4––and utilize public celebrations of ...

Rafael Brinner, head of the community security at the Jewish Federation, recommends that people not engage with the ...

Approaching the High Holidays in the shadow of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel and escalating tensions throughout the Middle ...

In recent years, efforts to promote diversity and inclusion have increased in every sector of life. Synagogues are no ...

Welcome Home Cooperstown is slated to host its monthly meet and greet 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1 at the Village Hall, 22 Main St.

The classic "skarbuveh" nusach for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur davening, which Rabbi Shmuel Butman OBM learned from the known ...

We were staying at my future in-laws’ Long Island home, and everyone was exhausted from fasting. Insecure about not being ...

The recurrent season for repentance reflects Judaism’s view that all humans are imperfect and need to face what we have done ...

My family break our Yom Kippur fast on bagels and lox. It’s classic, delicious and simple. But by turning it into a fish ...

On Rosh Hashanah, the two-day holiday that begins on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 2, Jews will usher in the year 5785. Yom ...

Elie Kligman is starting his second season on Sacramento State’s baseball team, which has helped him observe Shabbat and keep ...

Libra (Tishrei) has its scales of justice weighed with a shofar in one basket, signaling the judgment of Yom Kippur. Pisces — ...