High Holidays Archives

Public Health Experts Emphasize Social Distancing and Masks in Sukkahs

by JTA | Oct 2, 2020 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Family, High Holidays, Religion, Spirituality, Spirituality During The Pandemic

By Shira Hanau Sukkot, the harvest festival observed this year from Oct. 2-9, would seem to be designed for the COVID-19 pandemic. After all, the holiday is typically observed outdoors in temporary structures, allowing for more of the fresh air that is considered one...

Mobile Sukkah Tour Offers Holiday Celebrations During Pandemic Era

by Staff Report | Oct 2, 2020 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Coronavirus Resources, Education, Family, High Holidays, Schools, Spirituality

Looking for a festive yet socially distant way to celebrate Sukkot, the Festival of Booths that will be observed this year from Friday night, Oct. 2, to Friday evening, Oct. 9? The Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore has got you well covered (pun intended!)....

Beth El’s Cantor Thom King Participates in a Virtual Nationwide Holiday Service

by Gillian Blum | Sep 25, 2020 | Community, Coronavirus Resources, High Holidays, Pikesville, Religion, Spirituality

It’s been a couple of weeks, but Beth El Congregation’s Cantor Thom King is still walking on air from the experience. A Pikesville resident, Cantor King was part of an effort to help create a memorable Selichot program for a nationwide audience through an original and...

This Yom Kippur, Jonah’s Story Resonates More than Ever

by JTA | Sep 25, 2020 | Community, High Holidays, Religion

By Mayim Bialik Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement. After a year unlike any we could have ever anticipated, I have been waiting for this day, not for atonement so much as a reset. Jewish tradition teaches us that our fate for the year ahead is sealed on Yom Kippur, and...

God as Our Partner

by Rabbi Eli Yoggev | Sep 18, 2020 | High Holidays, Religion

Our Father, Our King, Avinu Malkeinu. When I was a student at Bar Ilan University in Israel, I attended a lecture titled, “Is portraying God as King helpful today?” The professor answered in the negative, asking how many kings actually still rule today. He then went...

Jerusalem’s Beit Avi Chai Creates High Holiday Programming for Pandemic Era

by JTA | Sep 16, 2020 | Community, High Holidays, Religion, Spirituality, Spirituality During The Pandemic, SPONSORED

This article was sponsored by and produced in partnership with Beit Avi Chai, a center for the creation, development, and expression of Jewish and Israeli culture and education aimed at the full spectrum of the Jewish people in Israel and around the world. This...

Cantor Randy Herman Makes his Debut at Chizuk Amuno’s Selichot Services

by Aliza Friedlander | Sep 11, 2020 | Community, High Holidays, Religion

Cantor Randy Herman never expected to start his new role at Pikesville’s Chizuk Amuno Congregation outside of the synagogue. But that’s the reality as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s tricky getting to know a community virtually, but that’s what I’m doing,”...

Memories of Freddie Gray and those Fiery ‘Five Days’ of Reckoning in Baltimore

by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg | Aug 11, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Education, High Holidays, Local, Maryland, National, Religion, Spirituality

In his new book “Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City” (One World), Wes Moore describes his experience on Apr. 27, 2015, the day Freddie Gray was laid to rest. Moore had attended the funeral but left early to catch a plane to Boston for a speech he was...

Giant Food to Expand Kosher Selection for this High Holiday Season

by Staff Report | Jul 13, 2020 | Community, Community Resources, High Holidays, Kosher

Giant Food recently announced it will expand its selection of new and traditional kosher products at Baltimore area stores through an enhanced partnership with Kayco, the nation’s leading purveyor of kosher food, and the A&L Foods distributor. The Landover-based...

Yom Kippur, Scattered Feathers and the Power of Words

by Rabbi Joyce Newmark | Oct 3, 2019 | Community, High Holidays, Religion

For nearly 50 years, my father had a best friend named Al. They grew up in the same neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., and after returning home from World War II, they each married and moved to the same Long Island town and opened related businesses. They were closer...

High Holidays

Public Health Experts Emphasize Social Distancing and Masks in Sukkahs

Mobile Sukkah Tour Offers Holiday Celebrations During Pandemic Era

Beth El’s Cantor Thom King Participates in a Virtual Nationwide Holiday Service

This Yom Kippur, Jonah’s Story Resonates More than Ever

God as Our Partner

Jerusalem’s Beit Avi Chai Creates High Holiday Programming for Pandemic Era

Cantor Randy Herman Makes his Debut at Chizuk Amuno’s Selichot Services

Memories of Freddie Gray and those Fiery ‘Five Days’ of Reckoning in Baltimore

Giant Food to Expand Kosher Selection for this High Holiday Season

Yom Kippur, Scattered Feathers and the Power of Words

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