jewish new year

Illustrative photo of Rosh Hashana family dinner. (Photo by Rache Barenblat/Flickr/CC)
How to talk occupation at a Rosh Hashanah dinner and make it out alive
What were you thinking? Everyone in the family noticed that anti-war status you posted this summer, and the hasbara video they sent that you didn’t ‘like.’ Tonight they are going to air it all. The Rosh Hashanah holiday dinner is a dangerous event for Israeli leftists — especially after this past summer. Remember that angry…
By Noam Sheizaf September 24, 2014
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A Jewish new year message of hope and change (Jerry Haber)
The following was originally posted on The Magnes Zionist. I am often accused of “doom and gloom” pessimism. “Why don’t you write anything nice about Israel?” I am asked. “Why are you so down about the future?” I am not pessimistic — in the long run. With respect to the survival of my people, the Jewish…
By +972 Magazine September 8, 2010
In the winter of 1950, snow fell in Tel Aviv. (photo: David Eldan, license: GPO)
Wishes for a faithless year
The Jewish New Year begins as the cruel Middle Eastern summer draws to an end. My non-Jewish ex-wife used to say: “Your new year makes sense. Something is actually beginning. Nothing is tangibly beginning on the first of January. Of course the days are getting longer but you really wouldn’t notice that until late February.”…
By Yuval Ben-Ami September 7, 2010
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