During Tashlich we stand at the edge of a body of water and symbolically cast off our misdeeds to face the year ahead with dignity, courage, and faith. Here are some ways to perform a meaningful ritual on your own or with a small group.

Practices and themes of preparation for the Days of Awe that help soften rather than harden us.

I I am a baptized Jew. And none of this was by choice. We don’t ask to be born or to whom, nevertheless, I was born a Jew. My mother was not Jewish by birth. In fact, her background was about the furthest you could get from Jewishness. Alice Comer Lide – Lide is thought to be the anglicization of the Welsh surname – was born in Florence, South Carolina in 1932, the youngest of four sisters. Her father was a country doctor, and her grandfather a Baptist minister. Her ancestry on her father’s...