I write this on Yom Kippur, the most solemn of Jewish holidays. God instructs us to stop and think deeply every year about how to do better, to learn from ...

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"This year is anything but the best of circumstances. This year, the worlds of election politics and Jewish holiday ...

A Yom Kippur/Sukkot Message for the Jewish Student That Thinks They Have No Place in Hillel, Jewish Life, Learning or Israel ...

That highest of holy days, Yom Kippur, is nowadays focused on fasting, prayer, and spiritual introspection. But in ancient ...

Originally a Hebrew rabbinic tale, its Yiddish translation appeared in various textbooks of the Yiddish afternoon schools ...

Until his 70th birthday, Moriah had never been preoccupied with the passing of time or his own mortality. But as he entered ...

A year into this war, the suffering of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians were at the top of my mind this Yom Kippur ...

The problem is so pervasive that last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared loneliness a “global health threat” ...

During Sukkot, Jews across the world dwell in temporary shelters and wave the Four Species in celebration of the harvest ...

Among the texts included in the project and penned in the Ge'ez language, is the Orit, the Beta Israel Torah which includes ...