by Yael Mermelstein
by Rabbi Shaul Rosenblatt
God is offering another year of life. What are we going to do with it?
by Sherri Mandell
From the narrow opening of the shofar, comes the wide expanse of relief.
by Nesanel Yoel Safran
A High Holiday ethical dilemma to read and discuss with your kids.
by Rabbi Elozor Barclay and Rabbi Yitzchok Jaeger
When Yom Tov falls on Friday, there is an allowance to prepare on Yom Tov for the needs of Shabbat.
by Heshy Friedman, Ph.D
There can be no peace without apology.
A tool for staying focused on what's really important in life.
A proven method for defining and achieving personal and spiritual goals.
by Ruthie Simon
A strategy for a meaningful Yom Kippur.
A Rosh Hashana Story
by Jonathan Rosenblum
There can be no greater joy than successfully answering the question, "Who are you?"
Sara Yoheved Rigler
by Sara Yoheved Rigler
This Rosh Hashana, celebrate your spiritual accomplishments.
by Rabbi Leiby Burnham
This Rosh Hashanah make sure your resolutions are S.M.A.R.T.
by Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
Despite my sincere desire to save the world, I never managed to move past rhetoric and idealism to meaningful action. Then I started learning about Judaism.
by Rabbi David Aaron
I often felt resentful toward God, until I discovered that Rosh Hashanah is about empowerment, not guilt.
Breaking the empathy barrier this Yom Kippur.
by Ayelet
Yes you can go home again.
by Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum
Lost? Relax. Here's the way to get back on route.
by Rabbi Yaakov Salomon
This Yom Kippur, leave the guilt at home.
by Riva Pomerantz
Could it be that uttering some well-chosen mantras can really change your life?
This Rosh Hashana, become the person you wish you were.
by Rabbi Berel Wein
Discovering the traditional origins and meaning of Rosh Hashanah's most famous foods.
by Rabbi Doniel Baron
The primal cry of the shofar expresses the deepest core of a person that words alone cannot reach.
by Kezia Raffel Pride
When life's challenges feel like an Olympic training program.
Rabbi Benjamin Blech
by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
The challenge of our age: not to desecrate God's holy name with acts that profane all that He stands for.
by Batsheva Hirschman Frankel
In Elul anything is possible, even finding your soul mate.
by Rabbi Eytan Feiner
On Yom Kippur we can taste spiritual perfection by relinquishing our innate ability to choose as we attempt to blend our own will with that of God's.
Dieting as a paradigm for spiritual elevation.
by Diane Faber Veitzer
By seizing change today, we might avoid the seizure tomorrow.
by Yisrael Rutman
Accepting personal responsibility for our actions is the cornerstone for lasting change.
Guidelines for children and sick people who need to eat.
by Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith
Who is the master of your universe? A Rosh Hashanah meditation.
by Yaakov Astor
Inscribing ourselves in the book of life or death.
Cast your baggage into the river.
Symbolic foods and lots of honey, too.
by Aliza Bulow
Some surprising spiritual insights from the Rosh Hashanah challah.
by Hadar Margolin
A few inspiring words for the uninitiated.
by Dr. Jackie Yaris
A letter jolted me out of my complacency, reminding me that real change is truly possible.
by Emuna Braverman
Answering Rosh Hashana's question: Did you do as much as you could with the gifts the Almighty gave you?
Achieving your personal victory this Rosh Hashana.
by Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
What does animal tithing have to do with Rosh Hashanah? Everything.
The overarching theme of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is "change:" to change from what we were before and to become new individuals.
The shofar arouses the divine voice within, calling us back to our Source.
by Dina Coopersmith
Take one step in breaking free from the entanglements of negative habits and you're guaranteed assistance from the Almighty.
by David Sacks
On Rosh Hashana, we pledge not to remain a cheap imitation of our 'old self.'
Being hit with a major computer virus is no way to start the NewYear...or is it?
Yes these are Days of Awe, but they are days of exhilaration too.
by Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller
Getting free from our self-erected prison.
by Sarah Shapiro
Anger, which can work so powerfully against happiness, is the very tool we've been given to get a handle on our invisible, elusive inner selves.
by Ted Roberts
Those who believe in the power of good deeds love to tell his story.
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