LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Can ridding oneself of a year’s sins really be as simple as tossing a piece of bread into the water? Basically that’s tashlich, or “casting away,” a custom that many Jews practice ...

On paper, the Rosh Hashanah ritual of Tashlich is about doffing one’s sins to start the new year with a clean slate. For Jason Mauro, 16, it’s also about beach football. Every year since he was 8, ...

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At every synagogue in the afternoon on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, congregants perform Tashlich by casting off bread crumbs into a moving body of water to release the sins of the previous year.

New York’s East River was a little more polluted than usual Monday night, after United Nations envoys and other dignitaries dumped a year’s worth of trespasses and regrets out of their pockets and ...

Torie Smith walked to the water's edge Thursday, tossed in bits of bread and watched her sins float away in the murky water. She and other Jews gathered in Charles A. Guy park for a Tashlich service, ...

Members of Congregation Shaara Tfille toss pieces of bread representing their sins into Saratoga Lake as Rabbi Kenneth Blatt blows a shofar Thursday evening at the state boat launch on Route 9P. The ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Lake Marine Park, with its picturesque backdrop, abundance of fish and parking access, seemed to be an ideal location for Congregation Shaara Tfille’s first-ever Tashlich ...

BETHEL — Arms outstretched, the worshippers cast the bird seed into the pond of Bennett Memorial Park. The ritual, led by Cantor Penny Kessler from the United Jewish Center in Danbury, was meant to ...

Institute for Judiac Services and Studies (IJSS) members celebrated Rosh Hashanah via Zoom on Monday, September 6 and Tuesday, September 7. We have spoken about having services together. Well, things ...