For the last year, Jewish students at the University of Pennsylvania have been pleading with the university to restore a ...

Kippur, as in the name of Yom Kippur, denotes atonement, a translation that as “at-one-ment,” can be read, being for the sins ...

One is required to leave one’s usual home and move to temporary, flimsy huts exposed to the vagaries of the weather. The ...

That highest of holy days, Yom Kippur, is nowadays focused on fasting, prayer, and spiritual introspection. But in ancient ...

The Unified Jewish Congregation of Baton Rouge has moved into their new sacred space. Read about how these two congregations ...

The message here, for us, is painfully obvious. After a year of national grief and worry, a year of continuous tragedies and ...

Until his 70th birthday, Moriah had never been preoccupied with the passing of time or his own mortality. But as he entered ...

Not only are the four kinds and the tabernacle different in character; they are even seemingly opposed to one another. The four kinds and the rituals associated with them are about rain.

From Serious to Joy There is a line in the Book of Psalms that reads “Rejoice in trembling”( Psalms 2:11) that troubled the rabbis trying to reconcile what seems to be two opposites. One way of ...

An email that night to say thank you for the meeting, a proposal within 72 hours to show you really want the business, and ...

The ultimate loophole for getting your daily dose of caffeine in a very creative way is revealed. Chelsea Jacobson shared how she would be getting her caffeine fix during Yom Kippur.