Check out some of what Shtetl got up to in the past year. Let’s hope 5775 brings us all more weird and wonderful adventures in Jewish arts and culture! Shana Tova!!
Tag Archives: Rosh Hashana
Read Shtetl’s interview with post-denominational rabbi-in-training Ari-Lev Fornari. We talk about how to forgive when you really don’t want to, trans and gender issues in Judaism, and, the age old question- what is the Torah anyway?
Posted in Holidays
Tagged Ari Lev Fornari, Hebrew College, High Holidays, Mile End Chavurah, Rosh Hashana, Torah, tradition, transgender, yom kippur
With fear in Montreal at a heightened pitch, Stephen Harper has gotten tough on crime! Murder, drug trafficking, kidnappings, gang-bangings are on the rise- and now, the High Ho’s are invading the city! And they’re particularly horny for the Jews amongst us!!
Posted in Holidays
Tagged Arthur H, Daniel Isaiah, High Holidays, Jewish New Year, Le Mood, Peaches, religion, ritual, Rosh Hashana, SoCalled, yom kippur
Every religious tradition has a time in the year when adherents are expected to cleanse or fast. Muslims have Ramadan, Catholics have lent, and Mormons fast on the first Sunday of each month. In Jewish tradition we have 10 days between the Jewish new year of Rosh Hashanah and the fast day on Yom Kippur to cleanse our minds, bodies and spirits
Posted in Events
Tagged High Holidays, Myrite Rotstein, Rosh Hashana, Tasty Life, yom kippur
This week marks that special time of year when all Jews drizzle their entire bodies in honey. A very sticky ritual, but we are a resilient people and can’t get enough of sweetness and torture all wrapped up in one! …
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged Audi Gozlan, buddhism, kabbalah, Noah Levine, Rosh Hashana, shtetl on the shortwave, yoga
