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Lee Perlis, Brian Avrunin and Aaron Brodsky (l to r) ham it up.

Getting an Early Jump on Rosh Hashanah

September 18, 2017 Staff Report

The event, held at the Gudelsky Center Howard County Conservancy in Woodstock, was for adults ages 20-40s and featured music, light hors d’oeuvres, an open bar and door prizes.

Some of the thousands of horns lying around the Kol Shofar factory in the Golan Heights, Sept. 6, 2017. (Andrew Tobin)

This Factory Makes Thousands of Shofars Each Year

September 12, 2017 Andrew Tobin, JTA

Keinan said he sells about 7,000 shofars a year, at least 90 percent of them mail orders. Half are sold to Israelis, he said, while most of the rest go to Jews in the United States and Europe.

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High Holidays 2017: Recipes, Memories, Tips and More

September 12, 2017 JMORE Staff

Here’s our complete guide to the season, including articles on spirituality, Rosh Hashanah recipes and more holiday features.

Christians celebrating the High Holidays (Lior Zaltzman/JTA)

These Christians Celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

September 12, 2017 Ben Sales, JTA

“We’re not trying to be Jewish,” said Dexter Wakefield, a Living Church minister and the church’s spokesman. “We’re obeying God’s commandments. The holy days have great meaning for the Christians who keep them.”

Sarah Chandler leads a twist on the kapparot ritual in which participants hug chickens rather than swinging them over their heads. (Courtesy of Chandler)

Hug a Chicken and 4 Other Twists on Traditional High Holidays Rituals

September 11, 2017 Ben Sales, JTA

Here are five ways Jews are getting creative with the High Holidays this year.

Shofar (Courtesy Anna Grace, Flickr)

High Holidays 101

September 5, 2017 JMORE Staff

Jmore offers a handy-dandy guide to the holidays that make up the season.

A Rosh Hashanah greeting card by Williamsburg Art Company, New York, circa 1910 (Courtesy Flickr)

A Talmudic Wrinkle in Time

September 1, 2017 Rafael Alvarez

It is not so much the beginning of a new calendar but an anniversary — of the very first moments of you and me and everything that came before us — Jew, gentile, beasts of burden, birds of the sky and fish in the seas.

Tallit and tefillin (Photo by orenhayon, Flickr)

Finding Your Inner Voice

August 31, 2017 Rabbi Yerachmiel Shapiro

In that spirit and in awareness that so many of us will be praying in synagogue for much longer than usual later this month, I want to offer two paths toward using communal prayer as a source of spiritual growth.

Matzoh Balls (Photo courtesy Art Siegel, Flickr)

Recipes of Love Among the Generations

August 23, 2017 Dana Hemelt

Even with the seltzer substitution, the matzoh balls are dense; a dinner guest once joked that one of my matzoh balls could be used as a weapon. I took that as a compliment — my grandmother’s matzoh balls were firm and hardy, not fluffy and delicate.