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Merchav High Holiday Schedule

The High Holidays are just four weeks away!
Check out what we’ll be doing in Merchav and see what you’d like to join.

Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielAugust 11, 2026Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, High HolidaysComment

Today is a dawn to dusk fast day.
Yeah. The day after Rosh HaShanah.
Today we remember Gedaliah, but who was he, anyway?

Jewish Holidays, TORAH, Jewish EducationAmy ArielSeptember 18, 2023Tzom Gedaliah, Rosh HaShanah, Fast Day, Fasting, SiblingsComment

The Queen is in This Field

We are out here in the field.
This field that is here for us.
The Queen is here, too.

Jewish Holidays, TORAHAmy ArielSeptember 5, 2023Shana Tova, King in the Field, Queen in the Field, Field, Rosh HaShanah, High Holidays, Ayeka, Where Are YouComment

Hineini, Hineini: Parshat Shoftim

They aren’t super neat or well-edited, but I have some thoughts to share about Elul and this week’s Torah portion.

When I came out of the bathroom today at one of the medical clinics I’ve been frequenting, that was the picture hanging on the wall in front of me. It isn’t a mistake. It isn’t incidental. It is right outside the gender neutral bathrooms in a medical clinic. That photo on that wall in that place is someone’s fierce pursuit of justice. And kol hakavod. I’m here for it.