Rosh Hashana News

Ed Gregorio is especially offended by the school district recognizing Rosh Hashana on the calendar because Jews are 'probably less than 1/10 of 1 percent of the population,' of whom 'not one in 10 would have any conception of what Rosh Hashana was about.' This tiny, ignorant minority helped to wipe all Christian holidays off school calendars, but ...

In a letter to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, he writes : We must recognize Israel's achievements under difficult circumstances, even as we strive in a positive way to help Israel continue to improve its relations with its Arab populations, but we must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel," Carter's message said.

As pomegranate season and Rosh Hashanah meet in September it is a good opportunity to incorporate this fruit with a long and sacred status in Jewish tradition in you meals.

In 1949 Ya'acov Seri sold his house, packed a few of his most precious possessions and left Yemen.

This year Hanukkah starts and ends on a Friday night. This happy happenstance gives me two opportunities to create one of my favorite holiday treats a ' the challah hanukkiah , literally a menorah made of challah.

Maybe we're all looking at this 'impasse' in Lee County schools over closing for Rosh Hashana in the wrong way - the issue seemingly not being anti-semitism, but a plain old question of too much time off from classes, and students either not learning what they should, or not having enough school hours to meet state rules.

State regulators have found no evidence of grave desecrations at Eden Memorial Park as alleged in a class-action lawsuit against one of the nation's largest Jewish cemeteries, officials said.

The Jewish deli as we know it just may become a culinary dinosaur. The oldest one in Philadelphia is Famous 4th Street in Queen Village.

I took the day off from work.I am a judge in real life and I decided that for one day I will stare at the Olympic Mountains, watch the sun dance off the Puget Sound, pet my dog, Sadie, and drink strong, black Cuban Coffee on my sun deck.

So! In foggy London town, people are wondering who is a Jew and who is not a Jew! Why can't we all be Jews? Because some Jews are more Jewy than other Jews , apparently.

If you like to incorporate pomegranates into your Rosh Hashana celebration, consider a more recent creation that doesna TMt require seeding or squeezing: pomegranate molasses.

Happy New Year everyone. No, I'm not being frivolous. The Jewish New Year began at the holiday of Rosh Hashana in mid-September. It is now officially the year 5770 in the Hebrew calendar.

Several weeks ago, just between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur , I too sat with the multitude of Israel in Leonard Cohen's unforgettable concert .

I began the Jewish New Year 5770 with a walk from Cleveland Circle station to Coolidge Corner.

In the fourth bias incident to hit the Middlesex County Jewish community since Rosh Hashana, about 15 swastikas were found scrawled on a slide at an Edison park.

Judy Davis never thought she would need four jobs. In November, Davis, 65, had to leave her senior analyst position in the employee benefits department of American Axle with a small buyout.

It came smack in the middle of the High Holy Days: another court decision to roil the feuding factions of Satmar Hasidim.

Swastikas were spray-painted on Congregation Beth-El in Edison just hours after the end of Yom Kippur.

Rabbi Glenn Jacob led the holiday services at the newly-formed Temple Am Echad in Lynbrook.

Rosh Hashana may have come and gone, but the holiday spirit lives on in Greater Binghamton's Jewish community in the form of 18 cardboard boxes that will be delivered next week.