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What's Happening in the Torah? Rosh HaShanah Activities for Families

Learn how you and your family can pursue social justice during the Jewish high holidays.

The author, Phyllis Dorey, with two others in front of the closed ark on erev Rosh HaShanah in Lisbon, Portugal

Rosh HaShanah in Lisbon: A Tale of Family and Connections

This year was the first time in a long time I wasn’t with my immediate family in Australia or my cousins in Israel to celebrate Rosh HaShanah.

A group of second graders say goodbye during a Yom Kippur activity for the Jewish High Holidays

Pursuing Social Justice: Yom Kippur Activities for Families

Learn how you and your family can pursue social justice during the Jewish high holidays.

Sharpened pencil sitting on a blank notebook surrounded by pencil shavings

Creating New Rituals and Tradition for the School Year and the New Year

Sarah Koffler

For children, traditions and rituals are significant; they provide predictability, support, and familiarity, while bringing families together and creating unity and a sense of belonging.

A womans white hand and a mans black hand hold a Hanukkah candle together as they light a Hanukkah menorah

Habari Gani? How My Family is Melding Kwanzaa and Hanukkah Customs

As we each shared some favorite holiday memories, my partner asked, “So what does each candle of Hanukkah symbolize?” Puzzled, I asked him to explain what he meant. “You know, like for Kwanzaa.”

Family Matters

Rabbi Josh Weinberg

If you need a hammer, I will be a hammer, if you need a nail, I will be the nail… We are as bars of iron, elastic but iron. Metal that can be forged to whatever is needed for the national machine. A wheel? I am the wheel.

In two online sessions, we explored the ideas, themes, spiritual challenges, and opportunities Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur present to us – both as individuals and as parents. We hope that these sessions inspire you to prepare to make the High Holidays worthwhile and meaningful.