8 Tips on How to Be a Positive Jewish Role Model
What does it take to be a positive Jewish role model?
Celebrating Shabbat in Tel Aviv the Reform Way
Last Friday night, I celebrated Kabbalat Shabbat in Tel Aviv, but not in my usual manner.
Galilee Diary: Winter
It is life we want, no more and no less than that, our own life feeding on our own vital sources, in the fields and under the skies of our homeland, a life based on our own physical and mental labors; we want vital energy and spiritual richness from this living source.
In the Desert: A Poem for Shabbat Zachor
I remember
I remember slings and arrows,
Cruel fortune that cast me into the desert
No, no-
The first desert was freedom
And faith
And miracle.
So no: not that desert.
This was a desert of
The Rosh HaShanah Amidah
The basic Rosh HaShanah Amidah is an elaboration of that for the Festivals. Both have seven benedictions, as on Shabbat—the first three and last three of the daily Amidah, with the Kedushat hayom (“Sanctity of the Day”) benediction in the middle.1 On both Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, the Kedushat hayom benediction builds on the text for the Festivals: