{"id":9618,"date":"2011-09-28T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T21:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?page_id=9618"},"modified":"2015-03-30T17:26:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:26:46","slug":"jewish-high-holy-days","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/jewish-high-holy-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish High Holy Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Revisit some of our many stories about Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and the ten-day period of prayer and repentance that culminates with the fast of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jewish High Holidays Boot Camp<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 30, 2016 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

\u201cWe are igniting our lives as humans,\u201d says Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, \u201cusing the Jewish toolbox to make what we inherited work for today.\u201d Rabbi Lau-Lavie leads New York City\u2019s Lab\/Shul in preparations for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Beit T’Shuvah<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 19, 2014 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

\"T\u2019Shuvah is repentance, return, and new response. T\u2019Shuvah is change,\" explains Rabbi Mark Borovitz of Beit T\u2019Shuvah, the House of Return, in Los Angeles and author of the memoir The Holy Thief. \"T\u2019Shuvah says that change is possible, and change is mandatory.\" More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Sephardic High Holidays<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 14, 2012 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

\u201cThe richness of the melodies, the music\u2014it leaves you with an indelible imprint\u201d during the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, says Rabbi Joshua Maroof. More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Words for Yom Kippur<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 16, 2010 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

\"One day a year we make a journey in the company of the whole community of Israel\u2014all of us together, each of us alone.\"\r\n More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Shofar Family<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 3, 2010 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

The blast of the shofar during the High Holy Days, says Rabbi Irwin Tanenbaum, \"sends a shiver. We can be better than we are.\" More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Rituals of Yom Kippur<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 25, 2009 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

Rabbi Irwin Kula of the National Center for Jewish Learning and Leadership says Yom Kippur and the High Holidays are about life, not death. The paradox, he says, is that \"one of the great ways to focus ourselves on life is to think about death.\" More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Psalms for the High Holy Days<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 25, 2009 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

Read new translations of three psalms that are part of the liturgy of the Jewish High Holy Days. More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Seek My Face<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 17, 2009 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

In the words of a new translation of Psalm 27, the psalm most associated with the Jewish High Holidays, \"Your face, God, is what I constantly search for.\" More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Jewish High Holidays<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 11, 2009 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

Rabbi Irwin Kula, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, says everything having to do with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is designed \"to help us make teshuva, return to that deepest path that we know we want to be on.\" More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Rabbi Irwin Kula Interview<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 11, 2009 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

Read more of the Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly September 8, 2009 interview about the meaning of the Jewish High Holidays with Rabbi Irwin Kula, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York City: This period … More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 26, 2008 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

Read more from the interview about the Jewish High Holidays with Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College: Sin is central to the holiday of Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is literally the Day of Atonement, and so to … More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Sin and Repentance<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 26, 2008 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, explains the Jewish High Holiday concepts of sin, repentance, and forgiveness. More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Praying with the Sound of the Shofar<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 14, 2007 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

by Ansley Roan Whether they are Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist or Reform, whether they gather on a California beach or in a New York City synagogue, Jews share at least one common element at their Rosh Hashanah observances: the shofar. “It’s … More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Children’s Shofar Factory<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 7, 2007 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

Around the world, there are hundreds of classes to which children come to learn how shofars are made. We joined a group in Brooklyn, New York at a class called the Shofar Factory. More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Joan Nathan’s Jewish Holiday Cookbook<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 10, 2004 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

Try Jewish cooking authority Joan Nathan's recipes for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur from JOAN NATHAN'S JEWISH HOLIDAY COOKBOOK (Schocken Books, 2004).\r\n More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Jewish High Holidays<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 10, 2004 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

We talk about the Jewish High Holidays with a hazzan<\/em>, also known as a cantor, who leads a congregation in sung prayer. More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Rabbi Alan Lew on Spirituality of High Holy Days<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 26, 2003 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

We talk with Rabbi Alan Lew of Congregation Beth Shalom in San Francisco, who has written about the High Holidays in his new book This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared<\/em>. More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Jewish High Holidays<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 13, 2002 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

\"Repentance, prayer, and charity are the hallmark[s] of this season,\" says Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, \"We search our souls and then we pour out our souls to God, saying, 'God help us, give us the strength to be the kind of people that we want to be.'\" More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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High Holidays: Prayer with Cantor Abraham Lubin<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 21, 2001 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

\"Rather than to try to change God, prayer should change us, should make us better human beings. That is the ultimate purpose of prayer,\" says Cantor Abraham Lubin of Congregation Beth El in Bethesda, Maryland. We spoke with him as he prepared for the high holidays. More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div>
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Rosh Hashanah<\/a><\/div>\n\t

September 29, 2000 | Comments<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t

We spoke with Rabbis Deborah Wechsler and Robert Tobin, both of Chizuk Amuno congregation in Baltimore, Maryland, about the High Holidays and their preparation for them. More →<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\t <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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