Jewish Holidays

Preparing for the High Holy Days

August 9, 2021

The High Holy Days are the most widely observed Jewish holidays, beginning with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and ending ten days later with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

What Is Tisha B'Av?

July 8, 2021

Tisha B’Av (the Fast of the Ninth of Av) is the darkest day on the Jewish calendar, a day of communal mourning to commemorate the many tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people which have occurred on this very day.

The Father of Modern Israel: Theodor Herzl

May 9, 2016

Listen as Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein talks about Theodor Herzl, an Austrian journalist, who predicted the birth of the Jewish states nearly 50 years before it happened.