As Yom Kippur approaches, finding comfort among the afflicted
On Yom Kippur, a lesson about living with mortality
Bar the unvaccinated from my synagogue? As a rabbi, I have no choice.
Any congregation that takes any measure that bars any Jew from praying in communion on the Days of Awe is divesting itself from the very core of Jewish life
On Yom Kippur, learning to let go
Isaiah’s challenge to Halachic life, then and now
Published in 1860, Cora Wilburn’s groundbreaking book ‘Cosella Wayne’ was recently rediscovered by historian Jonathan D. Sarna, and is coming back into print
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
When we recite Unetaneh Tokef at High Holiday services, we take a lesson from the ancient Greeks about what to do when life gives us lemons
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
Stuck in a parking lot, I finally found forgiveness—and forgiveness found me
No, the Fab Four weren’t Jewish, but the ‘Fifth Beatle’ Brian Epstein was. A writer who covered the 1964 American tour remembers Yom Kippur in New Orleans, John Lennon’s Hitler salutes in the hotel, and Paul McCartney at the bima.
What happens when Yom Kippur stops being formulaic and starts getting real?
Justice Stephen Breyer answers to a higher authority
For one rabbinic family, the answer is nearly 100
For Yom Kippur, fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, in a first English translation