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Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the Jewish New Year and a time of great celebration, but as with any religious holiday, imparting that tradition, wisdom and religious significance to your children takes a little work and sometimes a bit of creativity. The following crafts have been culled from the web to give you the best ways to share your religious beliefs and family traditions with your children through Rosh Hashanah crafts.

How do you and your family negotiate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the most synagogue-centric holidays on the Jewish calendar?

Read InterfaithFamily.com's articles, resources and links for ways to make the High Holidays more inclusive. Click here for a guide to the High Holidays for the Interfaith Family.

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All too often, human beings have the sad tendency of confusing our destinations with our journeys. For example, we sometimes confuse the wedding ceremony with the relationship, or the job promotion with the satisfaction of the work. To be sure, a wedding or promotion are important milestones, but they are simply one moment in time along a complex and rich journey. In the same way that individuals embark on personal life journeys marked by milestones, the Jewish community engages in a group spiritual journey, punctuated by holiday celebrations that frame our communal milestones. The Jewish holidays outline our journey as a people and give us a public forum to narrate our shared story. Full Article

From the very beginning of the Traditional High Holy Day Services at Sinai Temple, congregants gave the derashes on the morning of the First Day of Rosh Hashanah and on the morning of Yom Kippur.  Sometimes the derash would be a traditional one, explicating the Torah or Haftarah portion.  Often it would be a personal account of how the speaker came to or came back to Judaism.  The lives of remarkable relatives and moving stories were common themes.  Recollections of growing up in secular or observant homes and neighborhoods reflect the infinite variety of Jewish life in this country and abroad.

There could be no more fitting tribute to those who over the years have worked so hard and so well to make the Traditional Minyan flourish than this collection of derashes, for which this brief recollection serves as an introduction.

Arthur Robinson