High Holidays

Suburban Atlanta district reschedules testing to avoid High Holidays conflict

Local Jewish leaders had complained to the DeKalb County School District that the test dates were on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

The Reform movement’s new holiday prayer book is radically inclusive

The book features new LGBTQ-friendly terms, feminist language and “counter-texts” meant to challenge the very ideas behind religious prayer.

What makes a mensch? A ‘digital diva’ wants to know

During the High Holidays, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain’s latest short, “The Making of a Mensch,” will be screened at more than 4,400 Jewish organizations, schools and synagogues.

Culture

Bar Refaeli’s wedding set for September

Culture

Are you a mensch? You can be featured in a film

Culture

From the Archive: Fired from ‘Fiddler’

Lifestyle

At Yom Kippur, dreaming of a white yontif

Global

5774: War in Gaza, upheaval in Ukraine and American Jewish assimilation made for an anxious year

Israel

Lone soldiers’ parents being brought to Israel for holiday visits

Lifestyle

Cool Bries: Trailblazing cheese whiz prepping special holiday fare

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