Yom Kippur
Happiness is Contemplation
Passover ended less than a week ago.Many Jews say that Passover is our favourite holiday. And why not? On Seder ...
Yom Kippur: All-Souls Day
Do people change? As human beings, are we not the sum of our unique genetic make-up and the equally unique ...
Welfare is a Jewish Value
On Sunday I read a very moving Op Ed in the New York Times by Larkin Warren entitled, “I Was ...
Break-the-Fast Menu
What’s the best part of fasting on Yom Kippur? Well, BREAK-ing the fast of course! Most American Ashkenazi Jews I ...
Learning to Return to Myself
I remember Yom Kippur when I was 13. I was in synagogue, proudly wearing the tallit I had been given ...
High Holy Days: Collective Sin, Collective Success
Within the liturgy of Yom Kippur, guilt is assumed to be collective, as we communally recite the sins. That being ...
Why Forgiveness is the Key
In the week leading up to Rosh Hashanah, for our pre-Selichot service study and discussion, I presented the animated shorts ...
Yom Kippur — A Different Read
The High Holidays are nearly upon us, and while it’s wonderful to carve out time for reflection, contemplation and community, ...
Entering the Holy of Holies
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
This is real and you are completely unprepared!
This is real and you are completely unprepared!What? Just the thought strikes panic in my heart. I like to be ...
The Holiness of Purim
As a child, I looked forward to Purim each year. I spent weeks planning my costume and savored the excitement ...
A Sukkah Occupies Wall Street
This was a post that previous appeared on the MyJewishLearning/Jewish Book Council blog. As I write this blog post, I ...