Potato and Pumpkin Kugel
This potato and pumpkin kugel is perfect for the High Holy Days!
Potato kugel is always a hit at holiday meals....
Expressing Gratitude During the High Holidays
Rosh Hashanah—also known as the “birthday of the world”—is fast approaching. Soon we’ll celebrate the world’s...
Easing Into My First High Holy Days
Two years ago, I joined Sam for High Holy Day Services for the first time. In preparation, he tried explaining...
Dulce de Manzana
When the Jewish New Year arrives, people often wish their family and friends a “sweet and fruitful New Year.”...
Roasted Cauliflower and Sweet Potato with Figs and Tahini
I absolutely love Rosh Hashanah and all things High Holiday season. I love fall weather, and I love the changing...
High Holy Days Recipes, Jewish Holidays Food, Recipes, Vegetarian
Roasted Butternut Squash with Apples and Onions
Apples, the symbolic fruit for the Jewish New Year, can find their way onto your holiday menu in many ways....
High Holy Days Recipes, Jewish Holidays Food, Recipes, Side Dish, Vegetarian
Resolving to Practice Tashlich
Tashlich, the Jewish New Year practice of symbolically casting our sins off into the water, was not something...
SORRY: The Hardest, and Perhaps Most Powerful, Word
One of my favorite children’s books for Yom Kippur is Jacqueline Jules’ The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story....
Surviving Our First High Holy Days as Brand New Parents
I have always loved Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. They were among the few Jewish holidays I remember celebrating...
Babies, High Holy Days, High Holy Days for Parents, New Parents
How To Make Traditional Rosh Hashanah Teiglach
Teiglach is an eastern European confection most closely associated with Rosh Hashanah. It was often served for...
Dessert, High Holy Days Recipes, Jewish Holidays Food, Recipes
An Apology to My Child
It was 2:56 AM when I heard, “Mooooomy…I NEED you…” When I went into my 6-year-old’s...
Parenting, Parenting Rosh Hashanah, Parenting Stories, Young Kids
Apples & Honey Pastrami Hash for a Sweet New Year
In New England, beets give red flannel hash its sweetness and beautiful pink color. The sweet beets contrast...
High Holy Days Recipes, Jewish Holidays Food, Recipes, Rosh Hashanah
Celebrating the New Year Festivals Humanistically: Bringing Intercultural Families Closer Together
The festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur were the catalyst that led me to become a Humanistic Jew. I found...
A New Year’s Resolution – Talk More (and Listen too!)
A very, very Happy New Year, everyone. Hopefully your New Year’s Eve comes on the heels of a lovely holiday...
Is It Right To Ditch Secular Relatives for the High Holidays?
This article was reprinted with permission from The Forward
The Seesaw is a new kind of advice column in which...
An Inter-Faith Yom Kippur in a Time of Weddings
This year may have been the perfect snapshot for our inter-faith life together.
As Friday settled in and the...
My New Year’s Resolution: Improvement Not Perfection
A lesson on caring for our world before a park cleanup made me realize I wasn’t doing all I could to fulfill...
Creating Positive Community Memories
This year on Rosh Hashanah, our synagogue tried something new. All of the kids were invited onto the bima to...
Chosen Eats: High Holiday Recipe – Honey Cupcakes with Sour Cream Glaze
Honey cake is the Jewish equivalent of fruit cake; it’s on holiday menus because of tradition, not because people...
Dessert, High Holy Days, High Holy Days Recipes, Jewish Holidays Food, Recipes
Chosen Eats: High Holiday Recipe – Mansanada (Sephardic Spiced Apples)
Reprinted with permission from JewishBoston.com
While my Ashkenazi family dips slices of apple into bowls of...
Understanding the High Holy Days: A Primer for Partners New to Judaism
This High Holy Days Primer will tell you everything you need to know about holidays around the Jewish New Year.
“Why...
Ask the Big Questions
When I was young, my sister taught me one of the most important things I needed to know about the High Holy...
Jewish Holidays Food, Main Dish, Multicultural Food, Passover Food, Recipes
Introducing Your Family to the High Holidays
Courtney’s children with their grandparents
It’s usually around Halloween when that old familiar feeling...
Who Was I to Judge?
I admit it – I was raised to think that intermarriage is wrong. It has taken awhile but I now am embarrassed...
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