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New & Updated Resources: Preparing for the High Holidays in Challenging Times

Cantor Rosalie Will

Rabbi Leora Kaye

Partner organizations of the Reform Movement are offering the best collaborative thinking and the most comprehensive resources to guide your visioning and planning.

The Shofar Blasts as a Metaphor for Life

Rabbi Fred Guttman

If, as the Talmud tells us, the blasts of the shofar are meant to remind us of crying, (Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 33A – specifically of Sisera’s mother – but that is another subject!), then I would offer the following.

Yom Kippur and the Gift of Forgiveness

Annette Powers

Yom Kippur has meant different things to me throughout my life, but while in the process of getting a divorce, the acts of atonement and forgiveness have taken on new significance.

Yom Kippur in Vietnam

Robert "Mike" Rankin, M.D., z"l

Yom Kippur, 1965, I was a Navy medical officer stationed aboard a destroyer off the coast of Vietnam.

Preparing for the Days of Awe

During the year I spent studying in Jerusalem as a rabbinic student, it was impossible to escape the upcoming High Holy Days.

7 Jewish Endeavors to Make 5782 a Sweet New Year

C.E. Harrison

It’s a long-standing custom for Jews to wish one another a “sweet new year” on Rosh Hashanah; to hope that this coming year will be one filled with joy, fulfillment, and an abundance of blessings. However, Judaism isn’t a path focused simply on wishing for good things; if our goal is to make each year “sweeter” than the last, we must work to make it happen.