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Make the distant near – Cleveland Jewish News

| September 19, 2020

There was a group of Jewish students who were traveling through Malawi in southern Africa. This was back in the 90s so no smartphones, no Google maps, no GPS. Instead, they were relying on a good old-fashioned map

A rabbis 3000-mile Turkish odyssey, in the name of kashrut – Forward

| September 19, 2020

Kosher offerings on supermarket shelves in America and Israel might have looked differently this High Holiday season had Rabbi Mendy Chitrik not undertaken a 3000 mile trip around Anatolia, Turkeys Asian portion, this summer.

5780 in Review: A Year of Pain and Lossand of Kindness and Community – The stories that helped define the year – Chabad.org

| September 19, 2020

As nearly every aspect of the world around us was changing in this year of global pandemic, Chabad.org/News worked to provide unique perspectives on the unfolding tragedy and unfathomable loss of life, while at the same time reporting on the outpourings of kindness and humanity from every part of the globe. With the Jewish year 5780 coming to a close, here is a look at some of the stories that defined it, as featured on Chabad.org/News

Today is Pregnant with Eternity: The Dread and the Possibility of the New Year – Jewschool

| September 19, 2020

The Torah gives just one unique commandment for Rosh HaShanah, to hear the sound of the Shofar, producing that raw, emotionally complex, array of sounds that evoke: How do we respond to these cries? In the liturgy, our response to the shofar all three times in the Musaf (Additional) service is the words, Hayom Harat Olam. This strange phrase is usually translated, Today the world came into being or Today is the conception of the world, or the like.

Welcoming the High Holidays with the interfaith family | Special Sections – Jewish News of Greater Phoenix

| September 19, 2020

Welcoming questions is normative within the Jewish tradition. We thrive in an environment that supports inquiry and interpretation. However, welcoming people of all shapes, sizes, orientations, may meet with some reservations

Because of COVID, Jews will ring in Rosh Hashana with empty synagogue seats – FOX 7 Austin

| September 19, 2020

Coronavirus transforms upcoming Jewish holidays Synagogues and temples throughout California will sit empty this Rosh Hashanah. KTVU's Jana Katsuyama reports how Jewish faith leaders are adapting to stay safe from the coronavirus.

A tale of two High Holidays: Why Orthodox Jews are going to synagogue while everyone else is on Zoom – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

| September 19, 2020

(JTA) At the Jewish Center on Manhattans Upper West Side, this years High Holidays will be anything but normal. With eight services happening in various spaces throughout the building, on the roof and in the street (closed off to facilitate services), approximately 400 people will gather for socially distanced and masked services at the Modern Orthodox synagogue. Within just a few blocks of the synagogue, members of eight Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist synagogues will gather at multiple street corners or lean out their windows to hear the shofar after attending Rosh Hashanah services over livestream

Long Island synagogue inspired by NY Mets, gets cardboard cutouts of congregation for Rosh Hashanah – WPIX 11 New York

| September 19, 2020

MANHASSET, N.Y. A Long Island synagogue congregation that didnt want its cantor to feel lonely during the celebration of the Jewish New Year took a page from the New York Mets, ordering cutouts to be placed in the seats before Fridays services

At The Hebrew SeniorLife Synagogue, The Sacred Is Found In Song – WBUR

| September 19, 2020

Editor's Note: Before the pandemic shuttered many houses of worship, WBUR, in partnership with Brandeis Universityand Walking Cinema, embarked on a project to explore non-traditional religious spaces throughout Greater Boston. The audio-visual project, called "Hidden Sacred Spaces" and underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities, takes listeners and viewers inside these little-known places of worship to reveal their significance and histories

Trinidad’s Temple Aaron seemed destined to die. But the 131-year-old Jewish synagogue’s fate was never sealed. – The Colorado Sun

| September 19, 2020

The Jewish people believe it is decided who will be inscribed in the book of life on Rosh Hashanah, the holiday that begins Friday night.


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