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When some Reform synagogue-goers open up their prayer books this High Holiday season, they will be greeted with snippets of poems by the likes of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda.
The 1903 prayer book, with the unwieldy name “Form of Prayers for the Day of Atonement,” is hardly usable. It includes a hodgepodge of Hebrew and Yiddish instructions and inconsistently sized ...
World Synagogue Organization issues guidelines for safe prayers during High Holidays. Among the guidelines: Entry only for those thrice-vaccinated.
Central Synagogue, a ... an interactive primer on High Holiday prayers, ... an “in the book” traditional Reform service (albeit augmented with some light yoga), ...
A ‘High Holiday Prayer’ to the Czar After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one top Jewish newspaper. By ZACK ROTHBART SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 14:30 ...
The leadership at Central Synagogue in Manhattan had big plans this year for the Jewish High Holy Days: After celebrating via livestream during the pandemic last fall, they rented out Radio City ...
The book asks what might be useful if we were to think of God as water, fire, or place, or yes, even a king. All are metaphors for God found in the Torah and the Jewish prayer book.
The military releases a gripping video of an IDF Cantor’s recital of the “U-Netaneh Tokef” prayer with background of soldiers in battle.
A couple embrace near a growing memorial across the street from the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, Calif., on April 29, 2019. A gunman opened fire, killing one person, on April 27, 2019, as ...
According to a press release from the synagogue at 6438 SW Eighth St., the prayer books and sequence of prayers are Conservative, along with the policy of mixed seating.
The Central Conference of American Rabbis, the principal organization of North American Reform rabbis, has revamped its High Holidays prayer book for the first time since 1978.
JTA — When a local Orthodox synagogue asked me to lead Yom Kippur prayers six years ago, one aspect of the request stood out: Was I comfortable using the “High Holyday Prayer Book ...