Rabbi Mark Glickman

Rabbi Mark Glickman is the spiritual leader of Temple B’nai Tikvah in Calgary, Alberta. He is the author of Sacred Treasure: The Cairo Genizah (Jewish Lights, 2011) and Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books (JPS, 2016), and is currently writing on a book about the Jewish calendar.

White platter with a stack of matzah and an old Haggadah on top all against a yellow table

Jewish Rituals and Symbols

Lessons from the Crusty Page of an Ancient Haggadah

Rabbi Mark Glickman

March 24, 2021

Sometime during the Middle Ages, a Jew in Cairo acknowledged the fact that joy usually comes with a dose of pain, and pain with joy, so they took a bite of that seder concoction, and left its dribblings for me to see in New York.

Calendar concept with overlapping calendar pages and a silver stopwatch

High Holidays

22,202 CE: A Year With No Rosh HaShanah

Rabbi Mark Glickman

September 6, 2020

Soon, Jews around the world will celebrate the beginning of the Jewish new year, 5781, and many of us will do so not from our synagogues as usual, but rather from our homes, looking into our computer screens courtesy of Zoom or some other streaming technology.

Brown-skinned right hand viewed from the palm side, index finger extended and pointing left

Rosh HaShanah

On the Virtue of a Bent Finger: A Challenge for the Days of Awe

Rabbi Mark Glickman

September 14, 2017

At recent years’ Days of Awe services, I could swear I saw index fingers popping out all over the place – fingers of accusation, not of ownership or responsibility.