Holy Days & Festivals

Yom Kippur conjures solemnity and foreboding for many Jews. Ritual fasting, abstinence, penitence, and rehearsing for death evolved as core ...

A while back I suggested a unique way of doing the chesbon nefesh (soul’s accounting) we are expected to do ...

I wasn’t at The People’s Climate March in New York on Sunday. I wanted to be, but I was, instead, ...

My mother was born in Germany in 1939. She grew up there, emigrating to the United States in 1968, after ...

As we cross from 5774 to 5775, the Akeida (the Binding of Isaac, which is traditionally read on Rosh Hashanah) ...

Nine months ago I opened the front door of my apartment in Alon Shvut and took a 20-minute walk that ...

Waking up in the morning a definite challenge for me. I hit the snooze button more often than I should. At least ...

I am emotionally fatigued by all the heartbreak of this past summer. I am drained by the tragedy of the ...

“The true test of a warrior is not without – it is within.”– Lieutenant Commander Worf, Star Trek: The Next ...

Years ago, I faced a summer’s end with a series of five deaths in the tiny congregation I served as ...