High Holy Day services guide: Family services

By JewishJournal
Published on August 24, 2012

For other services, visit our Alternative, College, Free, Kever Avot, Selichot and Tashlich calendars.

High Holy Day services guide: College services

By JewishJournal
Published on August 24, 2012

For other services, visit our Alternative, Family, Free, Kever Avot, Selichot and Tashlich calendars.

High Holy Day services guide: Alternative services

By JewishJournal
Published on August 24, 2012

For other services, visit our College, Family, Free, Kever Avot, Selichot and Tashlich calendars.

Opinion: Repenting with our eyes

By David Suissa
Published on September 28, 2011

Is the mind more powerful than the heart? This question was hovering in the air during an insightful Torah class last week given by Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky, spiritual leader of B’nai David-Judea Congregation. Kanefsky presented two distinct views of the concept of teshuvah, which is commonly referred to as “repentance” but means, more precisely, “to return.”

When You Can’t Go Home Again

By Keren Engelberg
Published on August 26, 2004

Ah, the High Holidays. Time to gather, celebrate, eat, fast, repent and eat some more. But before you can get to any of that, there's another, perhaps less-ancient tradition that takes place a few weeks prior. It's the High Holiday scramble, and anyone without deeply planted roots knows how the dance goes. Jewish New Year works much like Dec. 31: You don't want to be alone; there's pressure to have someplace to go; and for transplants, singles and others, the options are less obvious than a meal with the family and services at the synagogue where you grew up. A little originality is called for, and the industrious don't miss a beat.

Prisons Pray for Surge in Chaplains

By Rachel Brand
Published on October 2, 2003

Those who might have the greatest need to repent this High Holiday season may not be able to.

A severe shortage in Jewish chaplains has led to a situation where the spiritual needs of some prisoners in California's state and federal correctional institutions are not being met.

"When it comes to holidays and services, there's a very real concern that we're not doing a very effective and adequate job at serving in institutionalized settings," said Rabbi Mark Diamond, executive vice president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California (BOR). "There are many institutionalized Jews that do not have the benefits of a rabbi."

Students Seek Forgiveness, Too

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on October 2, 2003

Adults aren't the only ones planning to ask God for forgiveness during the High Holidays. As the Day of Atonement approaches, youngsters around Los Angeles are already contemplating the mistakes they've made over the past year. Here is what eight young Angelenos plan to repent for during Yom Kippur.

The Blow by Blow on Shofarim

By Gaby Wenig
Published on September 25, 2003

Yossi Mizrachi stood in front of a class of second-graders at Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy with a dark, ridged, 4-foot-long buffalo horn in his hand.

Sin

By Amy Klein
Published on September 12, 2002

By the time you read this, it's probably too late for me. To repent, I mean.