High Holy Days

Parashah of the week: Vayelech

“Moses went and spoke these things to all Israel. He said to them: I am now one hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer go on” Deuteronomy 31:1-2

By Rabbi Miriam Lorie

1 min read

Moses before his death, 1907 (Wikimedia Commons)

Professor Stephen Hawking delivering a lecture on 'The Origin of the Universe' in Jerusalem in 2006 (photo: Getty Images)

Rosh Hashanah

Stephen Hawking’s cosmology, the birthday of the world and our struggles to be faithful

By Rabbi Dr Jeffrey Cohen

4 min read

High Holy Days

High Holy Days attendance up a year after October 7

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

Holocaust Centre North

Museum appeals for High Holy Days’ artefacts

By Gaby Wine

1 min read

Two lit shabbat candles in silver candlesticks

Yom Kippur

G’mar Chatimah Tovah from the Deputy Prime Minister

By Angela Rayner

1 min read

Zoe Jacobs at Finchley Reform Synagogue (Photo: Zoe Jacobs)

High Holy Days

Six shuls, one woman and trips down memory lane

By Zoe Jacobs

4 min read

Thinking of the hostages: a gathering near the Western Wall in Jerusalem on the Global Day of Unity and Prayer last year (photo: Getty Images)

High Holy Days

This year perhaps God needs our forgiveness

By Rabba Yaffa Epstein

3 min read

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Can we really speak of God today as ‘Our Father, Our King’?

The language of prayers like Avinu Malkeinu can be a challenge for modern worshippers

By Rabbi Paul Freedman

4 min read

September 29, 2024 11:00

The supplications of a chazan on the High Holy Days from the 1927 film, The Jazz Singer

A little guilt can go a long way but too much is destructive

The High Holy Days offer us a way to grapple positively with our shortcomings

By Rabbi Gideon Sylvester

5 min read

September 29, 2024 10:58

Partnership minyan’s High Holy Day services return after Covid

Both men and women are encouraged to participate in Orthodox prayer within the parameters of Jewish law

By Eliana Jordan

1 min read

September 20, 2024 13:14

Rachelle Waxman Sacks, one of the lead organisers of the Golders Green partnership minyan, which is holding High Holy Day services for the first time since Covid

Once in a generation: the new Reform High Holy Day machzor

Ten years in the making, the new prayerbook is intended to serve congregations for the next 40 years

By Simon Rocker

4 min read

May 5, 2024 10:16

Once in a generation: the new Reform High Holy Day machzor

Man arrested on suspicion of making 150 bomb threats against US Jewish institutions

One message prompted the evacuation of 1,100 students from 20 schools in Pennsylvania

By Richard Percival

1 min read

September 29, 2023 12:55

Man arrested on suspicion of making 150 bomb threats against US Jewish institutions

How the succah comes to symbolise our diversity

Succot represent the booths that sheltered the Israelites in their journey in the wilderness — or do they?

By Rebbetzin Lauren Levin

3 min read

September 28, 2023 16:33

Jewish woman and child visiting their family Sukkah in the Jewish festival of Sukkot. A Sukkah is a temporary structure where meals are taken for the week.

By Naomi Greenaway

The ten million decisions I need to make in the run up to frenetic festive season

It's about whom to invite, when, with whom, what family to see, what to cook, and if there’s time, what to wear too

3 min read

September 15, 2023 12:11

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Parashah of the week: Rosh Hashanah

“Now Hannah was praying in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk” 1 Samuel 1:13

By Rebbetzin Dr Hadassah Fromson

1 min read

September 15, 2023 10:54

A torah (Hebrew scripture) reading. The "yod" - a hand-shaped silver pointer - is used by the reader to mark his or her place in the text.

First ever zoo-cah to open to families and other animals

Matthew Gould, the Jewish CEO of the Zoological Society of London, is behind the idea for the London Zoo succah

By Gaby Wine

1 min read

September 14, 2023 11:47

First ever zoo-cah to open to families and other animals

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High Holy Days

Parashah of the week: Vayelech

Stephen Hawking’s cosmology, the birthday of the world and our struggles to be faithful

High Holy Days attendance up a year after October 7

Museum appeals for High Holy Days’ artefacts

G’mar Chatimah Tovah from the Deputy Prime Minister

Six shuls, one woman and trips down memory lane

This year perhaps God needs our forgiveness

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