Lifestyle

Why I’m going to High Holiday services for the first time in 25 years

If synagogues hope to attract Jews like me, writes the new executive director of the Society for Humanistic Judaism, they have to provide a clear understanding of how participation will improve their lives.

US, Jewish security officials urge business as usual for the High Holidays

Hundreds of officials from more than 100 institutions across the country were briefed on recent terrorist attacks.

A French survivor seeks honors for his Rosh Hashanah rescuers

On the eve of the Jewish New Year in 1942, Jacques Stuzalft, then 10, was led to a train station for deportation to Auschwitz. Now he is working to get recognition for 24 heroes from the SNCF railway firm who saved him and dozens more.