Elul, the last month of the Hebrew calendar, presents us with the opportunity to reflect and repent before the High Holdays. So why not do this during the entire year?

Brian Williams’ lies were damaging and misleading. But can he repent?

Incarcerated since 2001, David Arenberg says he’s found a renewed sense of purpose—and a new connection to Judaism

With Weiner and Spitzer on the ballot, Talmudic scholars would say the real question is whether they’ve atoned

Once Israel’s worst enemy, Zakaria Zubeidi forswore violence. He’s now starving in a Palestinian prison.

Sixty years ago, I committed a small act of injustice against someone whose name I never knew. This Yom Kippur, I can finally set the record straight.

A haftorah of remorse and return

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Day of Atonement