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At a time when some American Jewish congregations are avoiding the Israel subject as divisive, the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York has doubled down on its support for the “Jewish state,” and that support was rewarded two days ago in the middle of its Rosh Hashanah service with a video speech from Israel’s Foreign […]
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We interrupt this Rosh Hashanah service for a speech by the Israeli Foreign Minister
September 10th, 2021 
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No Comments »Ukraine to let in vaccinated Israeli pilgrims to Uman for Rosh Hashanah
March 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Ukraine will let in vaccinated pilgrims from Israel for Rosh Hashanah amid negotiations on Israeli deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines to Ukraine, that country’s interior ministry said. Arsen Avakov made the statement Friday following a telephone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Aryeh Deri. Last year, thousands of pilgrims in Israel protested being prevented from visiting the […]
What happens when Rosh Hashanah falls on the first day of school?
March 9th, 2021 Awake Goy An unusually early Rosh Hashanah is causing cities across the United States to rethink the timing of the first day of school this fall, sometimes under intense pressure from families. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins in 2021 on the evening of Sept. 6 — it’s also Labor Day, in many places the traditional […]
A viral tweet said RBG dying on Rosh Hashanah made her a ‘tzaddik.’ Is that true?
September 22nd, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
WATCH: Joe Biden Lies to Jews About Neo-Nazis in Rosh Hashanah Message
September 18th, 2020 Awake Goy Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered a message for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, on Thursday in which he lied about President Donald Trump’s reaction to neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. Biden told Jews that President Trump had called neo-Nazis “very fine people,” repeating the “Charlottesville very fine people hoax,” according to […]
Israel’s enters 2nd sweeping lockdown as Rosh Hashanah starts; defiance expected
September 18th, 2020 Awake Goy Israel’s new national coronavirus lockdown, the country’s second this year, entered into effect Friday at 2 p.m., marking the first time in the world an advanced country has imposed a repeat closure to curb the pandemic. The three-week shutdown, requiring the closure of many businesses and setting strict limits on movement and public gatherings, starts […]
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September 18th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Kiryas Joel Satmar rabbi to skip Rosh Hashanah in Brooklyn because of rising COVID cases in his town
September 17th, 2020 Awake Goy (JTA) – Among the countless traditions upended by the coronavirus pandemic: the annual Rosh Hashanah trek to Brooklyn by the top Satmar rabbi in Kiryas Joel, the upstate New York Orthodox enclave. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum will remain in Kiryas Joel for Rosh Hashanah because of new cases of COVID-19 in his upstate town, according to […]
On Rosh Hashanah call, Trump tells American Jews ‘We love your country’ and asks for their vote
September 17th, 2020 Awake Goy WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump spent much of his 20-minute call with American Jewish leaders making the case for more American Jews to vote for him. He closed by repeating a line that has raised their eyebrows before. “We really appreciate you,” Trump said as he signed off the call, an annual pre-Rosh Hashanah […]
Rosh Hashanah seder blessings (Yehi Ratzon)
September 17th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
The history of Rosh Hashanah which wasn’t always the ‘new year’
September 17th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Republican congressman asks Trump to pressure Ukraine to allow Rosh Hashanah pilgrims
August 31st, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in Jewish News Tags: allow, congressman, hashanah, pressure, Republican, Trump, Ukraine No Comments »Republican congressman asks Trump to pressure Ukraine to allow Rosh Hashanah pilgrims
August 31st, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in Jewish News Tags: allow, congressman, hashanah, pressure, Republican, Trump, Ukraine No Comments »Ukraine bans annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage to Uman over coronavirus pandemic
July 15th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
VIDEO: Putin Congratulates Russian Jews on Rosh Hashanah
September 27th, 2017 Awake Goy Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar and Head of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia Alexander Boroda in Moscow, Wednesday. During the meeting, the Russian leader congratulated Russian Jews on the Rosh Hashanah holiday, a New Year on the Judaic calendar. Along with perpetuating […]
Elisha Wiesel’s Rosh Hashanah remembrance
September 20th, 2017 Awake Goy This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. I never pursued Elie Wiesel like some other Jews who felt that his memory of the Holocaust deflected, even buried, the complicity of Israel and the Jewish establishment in America in the […]
Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year): Will God forgive?
September 28th, 2011 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, London Chief Rabbi, do you really believe that God will forgive the Jews if they don’t say sorry to the Palestinians and then play their necessary part in righting the wrong done? By Alan Hart At the start of the Jewish New Year I have some questions for Britain’s […]
