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Tag: "Rosh Hashanah"
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!
Pop Parsha: Al Franken and Nitzavim
Words of Torah before Sen. Franken at the Jewish Federation of St. Paul’s Gala. Will the high holidays be just a moment of repenting before we go about our everyday business? Or something more?
Of Pomegranates and Perspectives – Thoughts for the New Year
Why did Rabbi Meir continue studying from his teacher even after he went rogue? Perceiving the essence beyond the surface.
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.
Ask Rabbi Zalman: Does G-d Care How I Vote?
TC Jewfolk’s column for questions you were afraid to ask in Hebrew school. Today’s question for the Rabbi? Does G-d care how I vote? Or… What’s the difference between G-d and the President of the U.S.?
Were High Holy Day Services Boring? Next Year, Try This
When you’re with a community bound by stories of love and loss, pain and joy, heartache and triumph, there is no room for boredom.
Space, Time, and Teshuvah
Rosh Hashanah is certainly about time, but it may also be about time travel. On these days, the past is not safe.
New-Life Old-Life New Year
She stares at me, wondering why I don’t wear a scarf like her mom. Am I married? Of course I imagine this; we haven’t said a word.
Stop Blaming Hebrew School
Nina Badzin thinks it’s time Jewish adults stop making jokes about their lack of Jewish education and learn something already.
Thanks for the Bathroom?!
AISH Rabbi Da-vid Rosenthal gets us thinking about the things we don’t usually think about – the good stuff we take for granted.
Home for the Holy Days: Twin Cities Communities Welcome You
Not having a “home” for the High Holy Days can make you feel a little lonely. Here’s our 3rd annual lists of Twin Cities synagogues and independent minyans that invite you to join them.
A High Holidays Cards Giveaway from Snapfish!
Win High Holiday cards from Snapfish. C’mon, Bubbe wants to hear from you.
The Shofar and the Snake
What would you do if you had just one month left to live? This Elul, Rabbi Da-vid asks us to think and live like that today.
What I Can’t Seem to Forgive
How do I stand before God on the High Holy Days and proclaim that I forgive all those who have trespassed against me when something has been taken from me that can never be replaced?
In Joshua’s Shoes: High Holy Days In Jerusalem
Israel and HUC is a very difficult place sometimes. I was expecting the High Holy Days to be extra meaningful just being in Jerusalem. Some of the days were powerful and other parts were tough. Some experiences are only possible in Israel.
The Last Jew: Or a Different Kind of Parable
Trying to inspire people with fear often leads to indifference and indifference is what makes a Jew stop being a Jew.
How to Make Amends to Another Person
One of the skills of a well-lived life is to be able to recognize and right the wrongs we have created through our actions. The Days of Awe present us an opportunity.
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.
Morning Minyan: My Relationship With God
Here’s our first “Morning Minyan” question. Look in. Share out. Join us.
