Repentance, prayer, and charity, we are told, are our saving graces when Yom Kippur comes around. And, of course, confession is a big part of that trifecta. But do we still get the coveted brownie points if that confession took 30 years?

Want to practice real teshuvah? Think about what you would include in your definitive Jewish encyclopedia

Published in 1860, Cora Wilburn’s groundbreaking book ‘Cosella Wayne’ was recently rediscovered by historian Jonathan D. Sarna, and is coming back into print

Ep. 197: Starting the new year with stories of apology, forgiveness, and reckoning, featuring Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl, Neshama Carlebach, Marjorie Ingall, Lauren Mechling, Emily Stone, and our listeners

For my mother, a Holocaust survivor, Yom Kippur was wrapped up in remorse, mourning, and suffering. I’ve spent a lifetime rethinking what atonement means to me.

A little-known Yiddish manuscript upends our idea of the secular saint of human suffering

In time for Yom Kippur, a special Unorthodox episode about apologies gone right—and wrong

I thought I’d left Judaism behind during my spiritual retreat in India. Think again.

I’m sorry for the things I did all those years ago

After my mother died, I couldn’t recite the High Holiday prayer anymore—until I gained a new understanding of its words

Just because you’re in synagogue doesn’t mean you have to read what’s in the prayer book