A nearly 150-year-old Yiddish prayer book for the High Holy Days was reunited with the granddaughter of its original owner on Tuesday, concluding a long journey that began in Lithuania, continued to ...
The first volume of the machzor was completed in1272 in Wurzburg, Germany. Today, it is displayed in the National Library in Jerusalem. Throughout the Holocaust that devastated European Jewry, there ...
A new machzor is usually a once-in-a-generation event, that reflects both changes that may have taken place in the intervening decades since the previous edition but also anticipation of what will ...
This Rosh Hashanah, worshipers in Conservative congregations across North America will find themselves using a new machzor. More than 150,000 copies of the High Holy Days prayer book, Mahzor Lev ...
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14th-century ‘machzor’ book at Israel’s National Library reveals lost Yom Kippur prayers
A newly-acquired 14th-century machzor (prayer book for the Jewish holidays) includes previously unknown liturgical poems for the festival of Yom Kippur, the National Library of Israel announced on ...
Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda — no, this isn’t a syllabus for a college lit course; it’s a sampling from the new Reform High Holidays prayer book. Next week, Reform shul-goers will be ...
From the Reader’s Kaddish to Ralph Waldo Emerson, a new set of High Holy Days prayer books for the Reform movement is filled with an eclectic mix of texts. “The purpose of the book is to be open to ...
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(JTA) — When a local Orthodox synagogue asked me to lead Yom Kippur prayers six years ago, one aspect of the request stood out: Was I comfortable using the “High Holyday Prayer Book” translated and ...
Throughout the Holocaust that devastated European Jewry, there were innumerable stories of the survival of men, women, and children. There were also many accounts of survival not of people but of ...
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