High holidays

'From Alienation to Monarchy': Ruth and the architecture of loving-kindness - book review

Yael Ziegler’s 'Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy' is a 534-page book on a four-chapter megillah.

RUTH JOINS her mother-in-law, Naomi, in traveling to the Land of Israel, while Orpah turns back to Moab after accompanying them for a stretch. King David will descend from Ruth, and Goliath from her sister-in-law.
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Refresh for Passover: Holiday sets and precise cooking and serving tools

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and Jewish children take part in a special prayer for rain at the Kinneret, the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel, October 29, 2025.

'God does not do a half job,' Safed's Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu says following Maduro's detention


Sirens will not ruin the Jewish spirit - opinion

These terrorist groups want nothing more than to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth.

 SIMCHAT TORAH at Jerusalem’s Har Hamor Yeshiva.

At the heart of the High Holy Days: One universal message - opinion

Our prayers extend towards peace for the entire world, encapsulated in the poignant prayer, “v’yitnu echa keter melucha.”

Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits sukkah event hosted by Efrat Council head Oded Revivi, October 16, 2022

Simchat Torah: Order, trust, and the joy of Torah

When we delve into it, study its teachings, and live according to its guidance, we lead meaningful and elevated lives.

 SIMCHAT TORAH at Jerusalem’s Har Hamor Yeshiva.

Your Investments: No more excuses: It’s now, not ‘after the Chagim’

Don’t wait for the next “After the hagim”, now is the time to get your finances in order.  

EXALTING IN Sukkot at the Western Wall

Sukkot cleaning: Decluttering, organizing, preparing for the holidays

Seven simple strategies for maintaining an organized, clutter-free home and curbing unnecessary purchases in the year ahead.

 SUKKOT DECORATIONS, much as we love them, eventually need to be packed up

Touching spiritual heights with art in honor of the joyful holiday

The feeling of touching spiritual heights is captured in Yoram Raanan’s painting Ascendance, where the figures seem to be ascending to a more spiritual plane with joy and ecstasy. 

 'ASCENDANCE,’ BY Yoram Raanan, oil collage on board, 61 X 45 cm, 2023

Heaven will help us for peace, but only after helping ourselves first - comment

It is the spirit of Sukkot and Simchat Torah that will somehow bring us together rather than the specter of war or some other external crisis.

 LET US lead the way back to civility

Isaac Herzog decries growing violence in Israeli sports

The walls of the sukkah featured prints of the images of Israeli sports champions, and the only other décor was a row of planters filled with flowers and shrubs.

 Adults and children, kibbutzniks, new immigrants and people with disabilities, from the Golan to the Negev and the Arabah, came and stayed in the sukkah, participated in activities and watched the various shows.

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Keeping the echo alive: The last of Israel’s traditional shofar makers

Shimon Keinan is one of only a handful of people in Israel still making traditional shofars, and his factory receives over 14,000 visitors a year.

 Shofars with silver and gold ornamentation on display at the Kol Shofar Gallery, Moshav Ramat Yoav, Israel.