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Sep 3, 2026, 6:24 PM

Reflecting on Teshuva with Dr. King on My Mind

I had a couple hours in Atlanta before my flight home to Chicago this week. A colleague wanted to visit the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, so we went together and spent 90 minutes there on the...

Sep 3, 2026, 2:18 PM

A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS… A Message for Rosh HaShana 5787

זה היום תחלת מעשיך This day is the first of Your handiwork These words are articulated in the Rosh haShana Musaph prayer. But are they accurate? Isn’t Rosh haShana the birthday of Man. And didn’t six creation days precede...

Sep 2, 2026, 11:25 PM

How Jews Approach the New Year

We are approaching Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year on the evening of September 11 and the days of September 12-13. What some might not know is that the Jewish community has a 7 week cycle of preparation with...

Sep 2, 2026, 10:23 PM

The Night Before, The Night Before Rosh Hashanah

Poor guy, how is he going to get to sleep?

Twas the night before the night before Rosh Hashanah and all through the land, the rabbis were schvitzing, were their services all planned? Were the sermons long enough to make people know that it was not Shabbos they were there...

Annette Poizner

Sep 2, 2026, 8:43 PM

A Sweet (and Sour) New Year: Where Jewish and Chinese Wisdom Meet

At Rosh Hashanah tables around the world, Jews will perform a familiar ritual. We will dip an apple into honey and ask G-d to grant us a good and sweet year. The meaning seems obvious. The apple is sweet. The...

Shayna Goldberg

Sep 1, 2026, 8:01 PM

When we forget, God remembers

This Rosh Hashana, I'm grateful that He remembers the father I remember. The strong, wise one I could turn to with any question, before Alzheimer's began taking him from us

Joshua Hammerman

Sep 1, 2026, 12:55 AM

An Open Letter to Gen. Z and Millennial Jews: Our Break (the) Glass Moment

Dear Gen Z and Millennial Jews, This heart-to-heart comes from a seasoned Boomer, who recently left my pulpit after nearly forty years. This year I’ll be sitting back in the pews; this year of all years, with so much that...

Joel M. Greenberg

Sep 1, 2026, 12:27 AM

The Spiritual Side of Financial Planning

Teshuvah, Tefillah and Tzedakah: The Spiritual Side of Financial Planning On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we say that teshuvah, tefillah and tzedakah—return, prayer and charitable giving—can transform the severity of the decree. These words can also provide a meaningful framework for...

Sep 1, 2026, 12:22 AM

The Silence of the Shofar on Shabbat Rosh Hashana

“Sometimes the light’s all shinin on me, Other times I can barely see, Lately it occurs to me, What a long, strange trip it’s been.” “Truckin” from the American Beauty album by the Grateful Dead 1970. Music by Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and...

Sep 1, 2026, 12:18 AM

What We Share and What We Belong To

A few days ago, I was learning a Talmudic discussion about two kinds of groups: shutafut, a partnership, and tzibbur, a community. At first, it seemed like a technical distinction, different rules about ownership, responsibility and what happens when...

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