A Happy New Year in a Song for our Readers...

With a musical New Year’s greeting, “I Gotta ‘Love You Rosh Hashanah” (Sabbath songs) from Taglit-birthright israel we thank all our dear and loyal readers around the world and ask all of you, and you personally, for forgiveness if we have violated your feelings as a Jew, a Moslem or a Christian in any article of the year 5770. We look forward to a common path of understanding lying before us,...

Special Reading Rosh Hashanah...

Genesis 21:1-34; Numbers 29:1-6; 1 Samuel 1:1- 2:10 Abstracts of the Commentary by Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem: This Shabbat marks the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah and the celebration of the beginning of mankind. “Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.”...

Special reading for the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaSh...

Genesis 21:1-34; Numbers 29:1-6; 1 Samuel 1:1- 2:10 Commentary by Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem: This Shabbat marks the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah and the celebration of the beginning of mankind. “Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.” (Numbers 29:1) So,...