Rosh Hashanah

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High Holiday Recipe Collection

By JewishBoston

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Memory and Hope: Rituals for Tishrei 5785

By Shalom Hartman Institute’s Ritual Center

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Yom Kippur Resources

By JewishBoston

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Do-It-Yourself Tashlich

By JewishBoston

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Boston’s Best Challah: 2024 Edition

By Kara Baskin

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Food & Recipes

9/11/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

High Holiday Recipes That Cater to Food Allergies

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

9/11/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

Boston’s Best Challah: 2024 Edition

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

8/31/2023 Top Pick   Edit  

The Best Boston Challah for Rosh Hashanah

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

8/31/2023   Edit  

How Sweet It Is: Boston’s Best Honey

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

9/27/2022 Top Pick   Edit  

Fig Tarte Tatin With Honey

By Chanie ApfelbaumFor JewishBoston

9/23/2022 Top Pick   Edit  

Shawarma Chicken Pita Pockets With Honey-Roasted Carrots

By Dini KleinFor JewishBoston

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Crafts & DIY

9/2/2022 Top Pick   Edit  

A PJ Library Family Guide for Starting the Jewish New Year

“A Time to Grow” has myriad creative ways to connect with the High Holidays, including crafts, step-by-step celebrations, blessings and more!

 By PJ Library

8/22/2021 Top Pick   Edit  

Tashlich Nature Pouch Craft Project

By Renee HenrichFor JewishBoston

Friday Night Bites    Shabbat Recipes   Browse  

9/16/2020 Top Pick   Edit  

How to Create Sacred Spaces at Home

By Ashley M. JacobsFor JewishBoston

9/9/2020 Top Pick   Edit  

My House Is Now a Synagogue?

Explore how to make and use sacred space in your home with the creators of Haggadot.com.

 By Rebecca Missel

9/9/2020 Top Pick   Edit  

High Holidays@Home

Download a simple Rosh Hashanah seder and Yom Kippur guidebook or mix and match to create your own holiday gathering.

 By Haggadot.com

9/2/2020 Top Pick   Edit  

“Here for” the High Holidays

“Here for,” powered by OneTable, is a new community-wide platform supporting home-hosted and virtual gatherings from Rosh Hashanah through Simchat Torah.

 By Here for

9/2/2020 Top Pick   Edit  

High Holidays at Home: PJ Library Family Guide

This beautiful new PJ Library guide explores ways for your family to connect with the High Holidays at home.

 By PJ Library

8/28/2020 Top Pick   Edit  

High Holidays-Inspired Workbook

This is your super personal High Holiday workbook, filled with goodies for you to reflect and set intentions for this new year.

 By Custom & Craft

9/18/2019 Top Pick   Edit  

Four Ideas for Tashlich With Kids

Rabbi Jodi Seewald Smith shares her ideas.

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

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Traditions & Rituals

9/23/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

Seats of Hope

Save a seat and “host” a hostage for the holiday to convey our message to the world: Our holiday tables are not complete until all the hostages return home.

 By Hostages and Missing Families Forum

9/20/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

A High Holidays Guide For After October 7

 By OneTable

9/20/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

Shabbat Shuva Guide

This guide will help you host a Friday night dinner on Oct. 4, the first Shabbat of the Hebrew year, just before Yom Kippur.

 By OneTable

9/12/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

Memory and Hope: Rituals for Tishrei 5785

 By Shalom Hartman Institute’s Ritual Center

9/12/2022 Top Pick   Edit  

A Nuanced Look at Repentance, Forgiveness and Atonement

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

8/24/2021 Top Pick   Edit  

Psalm 27 Goes Digital

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

8/23/2021 Top Pick   Edit  

A Hybrid High Holidays

By Rich TenorioFor JewishBoston

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Voices From Our Community

10/16/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

A Childhood Synagogue, a Talmudic Classroom and ‘Our Town’

Someday, somewhere in the back row, I’ll sit with Moses, my father and Emily Gibbs, smiling.

By Joshua HammermanFor Religion News Service

10/2/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

5785: All of This Will Happen Again

Oct. 7 opened up a portal to a kind of suffering that many people of my generation had never experienced. Will next year be any better? I have thoughts.

 By Dan Brosgol

9/30/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

A Special Rosh Hashanah Message

In my video message, I speak to the multitude of interpretations of the ancient, primal practice of blowing the shofar.

By Rabbi Marc BakerFor Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP)

Transport your palate  Shakshuka, tahini-filled, schnitzel and more! Israeli-Inspired Recipes Shakshuka, tahini-filled, schnitzel and more! Explore  

9/30/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

Jews on What Gives Them Hope in Challenging Times

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

9/29/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

Rosh Hashanah 2024: A Simple Prayer

By David GoodtreeFor Medium

9/27/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

Unimaginable Loss & Unwavering Hope: Reflections for the High Holidays

 By Tamar Davis

9/15/2023 Top Pick   Edit  

Gratitude for Our Community

By Rabbi Marc BakerFor Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP)

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Community News

10/7/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

Boston Rabbis Reflect on the Year Since the October 7th Attack

Local rabbis reflect on the emotional weight of the Oct. 7 attacks and how the High Holidays offer a path to healing and resilience for the Jewish community.

By Stephanie Brown & Darryl C. MurphyFor WBUR

10/2/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

Increased Security at Jewish Temples for the Start of Rosh Hashanah

Rabbi Marc Baker of CJP shared that his son, studying in Israel, hid in a bomb shelter, along with millions of others as hundreds of Iranian missiles rained down.

By Litsa PappasFor Boston 25 News

9/12/2023 Top Pick   Edit  

Rosh Hashanah Celebrations Welcome Jewish New Year

Rosh Hashanah celebrations kicked off early over the weekend—as Jews throughout Greater Boston prepared to welcome the Jewish New Year.

By Daniel KoolFor The Boston Globe

8/24/2021   Edit  

Feast & Fettle Will Bring Dinner to You This Rosh Hashanah

Feast & Fettle, a local meal delivery service, is offering a special Rosh Hashanah menu and a special code for JewishBoston visitors.

 By Feast & Fettle

8/23/2021 Top Pick   Edit  

A Hybrid High Holidays

By Rich TenorioFor JewishBoston

8/17/2021 Top Pick   Edit  

A Sweet New Year With New England Country Mart

The ease of ordering from the safety and comfort of your home and the convenience of direct home delivery will make these upcoming holidays that much sweeter.

 By Elyssa Kotzen

10/4/2020 Top Pick   Edit  

Jewish Congregations Found Ways to Connect During High Holidays

Newton synagogues and temples are especially busy during Yom Kippur, and while worship spaces were mostly empty this year, congregations found ways to connect.

 By The Boston Globe

10/4/2020 Top Pick   Edit  

Local Synagogues Celebrate High Holidays With Drive-in Services

These types of services will still be beneficial long after the pandemic ends.

 By The MetroWest Daily News

9/21/2020 Top Pick   Edit  

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Echoes in Celebrations of Jewish New Year

 By The Boston Globe

9/21/2020 Top Pick   Edit  

“In It Together” With Rabbi Marc Baker

He talks about CJP’s efforts during the pandemic to help congregations adapt to socially distanced worship and other challenges.

 By WGBH

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Arts & Culture

9/22/2024 Top Pick   Edit  

Embodying the High Holiday Season

Explore grief, healing and communal action through artist Charlie Dov Schon’s “Be the Change” tzedakah box sculpture, “Collective Grief.”

By Laura Conrad MandelFor Jewish Arts Collaborative

12/8/2022 Top Pick   Edit  

This Prolific South Shore Kids’ Author Is Also a Rabbi

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

9/28/2022 Top Pick   Edit  

Choirs From Jewish Temple, Christian Parish Combine Voices

The choirs of Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland and United Parish in Brookline held a special performance Saturday, ahead of Rosh Hashanah.

By Daniel Lyons & Keke VencillFor WHDH Boston

9/23/2022 Top Pick   Edit  

Be the Change This Rosh Hashanah

JArt’s “Be the Change” public art exhibit inspires Rabbi Marc Baker and our community this Rosh Hashanah.

By Rabbi Marc BakerFor Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP)

9/12/2022 Top Pick   Edit  

A Nuanced Look at Repentance, Forgiveness and Atonement

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

9/2/2021 Top Pick   Edit  

New Children’s Books for the Jewish New Year

Jewish families can bid farewell to the summer and usher in the Jewish New Year by cracking open these engaging new holiday books.

By Penny SchwartzFor Jewish Telegraphic Agency

8/30/2021   Edit  

“The Honey Bee and the Apple Tree”: A Rosh Hashanah Story

A new children’s book by local author Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler, for ages 3-5.

 By Rabbi Joseph Meszler

8/24/2021 Top Pick   Edit  

Jewish Studio Project Nurtures Creativity as Spiritual Practice

The organization innovates a new approach to Jewish creativity—one in which art is not just for artists and Jewish texts are not just for scholars.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

9/16/2020 Top Pick   Edit  

Four New Children’s Books to Brighten up the Jewish New Year

Having to deal with quarantine and perhaps school at home, families can take pleasure in turning the pages of these crisp new reads.

 By Jewish Telegraphic Agency

9/10/2020   Edit  

Musical Days of Awe: Interview With Rachel Panitsch

Musician Rachel Panitsch shares her thoughts on music, the great outdoors and rituals.

 By Jewish Arts Collaborative

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