World AWAKE, Inc.

Rosh Hashonna celebrates the birthday of the World. Each year, as we celebrate, the World is Born Anew. This is a time of incredible possibilities for everyone, people, trees, mountains, earth, animals, birds, everyone.

The month preceding Rosh Hashonnah, Elul, is a time of preparation. It is said that the Divine is more available to us during Elul, and the Shofar (Ram’s Horn) is blown ...

I come from an Italian American family with shared Sicilian Jewish, Roman, and Greek Catholic roots. My extended family comes from the Little Italy section of New York City, where I spent a good part of my childhood. In our neighborhood, you saw a mostly southern Italian immigrant community celebrated with an incredible cultural cross-section of shops, restaurants, festivals, ...