Special Days Stories

Do you have a child with a Bar or Bat Mitzvah coming up? JF&CS has lots of options for kids to create a mitzvah project. Read More

Mitzvah Day returned September 11, 2022, for a day of service in the Atlanta community, and our volunteers showcased their passion for "giving back" to our community. Read More

Start the Jewish New Year off with a mitzvah and donate food to the JF&CS Kosher Food Pantry. Read More

HAMSA is excited to share our first ever Passover resource guide: The Seder Through the Lens of Recovery: A New Take on an Old Ritual! Read More

Preparing for Passover every year sends me back into the past. Opening our Passover closet, I find the dishes that once belonged to my mother-in-law, and I think about the years we’ve used and enjoyed them. Read More

Rabbi Beiner wishes everyone a Happy Purim despite the challenges of this past year. Read More

None of us could have imagined the past year and how our Jewish (and secular/everyday) activities would be so different. For many of us, we did not know how much we would miss going to synagogue, attending simchas and community events, and even… Read More

These months of the pandemic have presented the Jewish (and other faith) communities with stark challenges to our usual ways of gathering.   It is very hard to feel a sense of spirituality and connection without being physically present with others. Read More

"The Jewish world accommodates a pretty big tent: We pray, study, and celebrate within a framework of established denominations; and our community reflects a wide diversity of beliefs, philosophies and backgrounds. I’m thinking about this as we head… Read More

How could the upcoming Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah relate to finding a new job? Simchat Torah is the time dedicated to both completing the yearly cycle of Torah reading and starting to read it all over again. The Book of Genesis is the first… Read More

"Looking back it’s obvious from a kid’s perspective why sukkot was so enjoyable – being able to run around and make noise with minimal adult supervision is every child’s dream come true. And yet, that experience of celebrating the holiday of sukkot… Read More

Rabbi Judith Beiner, JF&CS Community Chaplain, reflects on the fall cycle of Jewish holidays. Read More

Rabbi Judith Beiner, JF&CS Community Chaplain, shares her thoughts on the ceremony of Tashlich. Read More

September 11, 2020 | Food & RecipesBy Jennifer Zyman, for the AJC Read More

Rabbi Judith Beiner, JF&CS Community Chaplain, provides thoughts on celebrating the High Holy Days during the pandemic. Read More

Tisha B’Av is an uncomfortable reminder of the destructive power of hatred and how in this time in history, we are in need of acts of love. Read More

The highest ideals of the Torah are played out in the book of Ruth, when the characters fulfill their legal and moral obligations under Torah law by caring for the needy in the community, seen in the established practice of gleaning whereby the poor… Read More

Purim is an opportunity to briefly set our worries and stress, our cares and sadness aside and immerse ourselves in joy. No matter our age, we each have the opportunity to become immersed in the reading and the rituals, the costumes and levity, and… Read More