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Elul – Saving the Harvest

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The Jewish Wheel of the Year: Calling Forth the Sacred From the Mundane

Elul – A Season of First Fruits Summer is at its fullness and the earth is alive in lush splendor, ripening fruit and crops tall and robust. Initial preparation for the coming harvest is underway and ... read more

New books challenge readers to revitalize their Judaism

Sounded every morning during this month of Elul, the shofar is a call to review ... a Pornographer and a Wrestler named Chainsaw Taught Me About Being Jewish, Saving the World and Why Israel Matters t... read more

The Month Of Elul

The month that we are entering now Elul, the season of reconciliation. It is a time of quiet, when the crops have been planted and are nearing harvest. We are reminded that the deeds and thoughts that ... read more

ISIS issues fatwa on organ harvesting, rape of slaves

Another fatwa, listed as "Fatwa Number 68" from January 31, gives permission to harvest the organs of a living captive to save the life of a Muslim, even if the captive dies in the process. "The apost... read more

Faith in Focus: Holy days in the month of August

Tu B’Av has its origins in ancient times, when there was a Temple in Jerusalem; this day was the start of the grape harvest. Incidentally ... This holiday occurs on the first day of the month of Elul, ... read more

Understanding significance of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

This is because the autumnal atmosphere befits well this period of contemplation, and in light of the agricultural aspects of important Jewish festivals, fall is the harvest time of fruit ... the prev... read more

A time to make repairs and repent

Catching up with the calendar, this is a brief rundown of what we have had to this point from the moment that the month of Elul concluded ... (Sue-coat), the eight day Festival of Booths, a harvest fe... read more

Jerusalem’s walls come tumbling down

I exclaimed, shocked that he, of all people, had made the trip up Route 1. Semi-offended, he replied, “as if I was going to miss Elul in Jerusalem!” My friend came to Jerusalem as part of a large grou... read more

MCDOWELL: The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, is upon us

Rosh Hashanah and the Yamim Noraim are preceded by what is known as the month of Elul, a period somewhat shorter but much ... like the interfaith effort represented in tomorrow night’s Harvest Moon Ga... read more

A Wine’s Exodus: From Vine to Barrel

During the harvest of the first stage ... Moshe thereafter became a man of power in Egypt, a power to save the Jewish people when the time came. Following fermentation, the wine maker uses his experti... read more

A look back before heading forward

My sincere hope is that all who celebrated these holidays had a meaningful, uplifting, and happy season of holidays in the last month or so, starting in the month of Elul, through Tishrei ... creation ... read more