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Tag: "High Holidays"
Shiksa Eats: Apple and Honey Challah Bread Recipe
While attempting to make a traditional Rosh Hashana recipes, I deviated from my recipe and brought the apple and honey flavors together with a new twist!
The Missing Piece to your High Holiday Experience: Your Voice
Don’t just let your cantor and choir sing to you while you sit there and contemplate your life, love, and transgressions, this High Holiday season. Use your voice!
Home For The Holidays, 4th Annual Edition
Nu, where will you be for the High Holy Days this year? Check out our 4th annual listing of Twin Cities places that could be your home for the holidays – all of them offering affordable or free options for young adults.
America’s Holy Haunted Houses
Halloween? Not Jewish. But America’s holy haunted houses post-Yom Kippur? A bit too real, says Allan Nadler of Jewish Ideas Daily.
A High Holidays Cards Giveaway from Snapfish!
Win High Holiday cards from Snapfish. C’mon, Bubbe wants to hear from you.
You Know You’re Not Ready for the High Holidays When…
The Rosh starts Wednesday. Are you on your game? Bangitout.com has the Top Ten Signs You are Not Ready for High Holidays.
Minnesota Mamaleh: About a Bad Day
It’s easy to talk about the halo-glowing parts of being a mom. Ding! But some days just aren’t like that. It does a soul some good to share *those* days, too.
Home for the Holy Days: Area Synagogues Open Up Doors
Afraid that you can’t afford to “pay to pray”? Don’t let that fear keep you from high holy days services. Local shuls are ready to welcome you.
Morning Minyan: Look In. Share Out. Join Us.
Join our minyan on Mondays to discuss the ideas we have to change our lives and the lives of those around us.
Shaking Up High Holiday Tradition
This high holiday season, my family is going to do something different, and it just might be both at odds and in alignment with the tenants of Jewish custom.
A Bent and Curved Shofar
A bent and curved shofar for Rosh HaShanah. A straight shofar for Yom Kippur. What does it mean? At the dawn of a new year, what keeps you bent over?
Go On, Do It. I Dare You…
A five-step action plan to get the ball rolling for your Rosh Hashanah preparation. Try it. I dare you.
A worse block than Cholesterol
Cholesterol blockages, drainpipe blockages – none of that compares to the hard times we’re all in for in the month ahead as we each personally start preparing for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Noshin’: Praying and fasting culinarily during the High Holy Days
During this most sacred of weeks (OK, sacred ten days), we oscillate between copious eating and no eating at all. Chances are, if you’re reading this, you enjoy your food more than the average bear. If you need some tips on fasting, Google provides no shortage.
A meaningful Yom Kippur: a Jewish educator’s take on the holiday
I feel that there is something artificial and forced about setting aside one day every year for us to admit our mistakes and ask forgiveness from others. This should be done every day! Just feeling that I am “required” to sit in synagogue, pray with more intensity than normal, and pour out my soul to God (or maybe just acknowledging my soul’s existence to myself) makes me feel less motivated to do just that. Yet, this is what Yom Kippur asks us to do.
Noshin’ Recipe: Every New Year Needs Apple Pie
This treat screams love — like warm-hugs-from-your-mom-when-you-came-home-from-elementary-school love. Love that accepts you in sweatpants — in public. It says “I don’t need to impress you, I know you love me already (with or without this pie).” And that’s the way I want to start my new year — with some unconditional love. And pie.
Noshin’ Columnist Sara Rice kicks off “Sunday Cooks” at the Minneapolis Farmer’s Market
TC Jewfolk’s food blogger and Noshin’ columnist Sara Rice is kicking off the Minneapolis Farmer’s Market “Sunday Cooks” series this Sunday, September 20th with a High Holiday cooking demonstration amidst the stalls of the market.
Don’t let ticket costs stop you: Twin Cities synagogues welcome young professionals and students for the High Holidays
Don’t let a fear of high ticket prices keep you from High Holidays services. Here is TC Jewfolk’s comprehensive list of those synagogues in town specifically reaching out to younger folk – those of us in our 20s, 30s and 40s – with free or reduced tickets for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Pick one [...]
