Yom Kippur
Vows and human frailty.
Animal-rights activists vs. kapparot—and religious freedom.
Who or what was Azazel?
A lesson from the book of Jonah.
The Talmud’s discussion suggests a deeper meaning.
The happy minor holiday of Tu b’Av symbolizes the reunification of God and Israel, and offers a foretaste of the great dance of redemption.
A restoration of tradition.
“Sin and divine judgment, repentance and divine forgiveness.”
In parts of the city, stone throwing has become a daily event.
There are three Hebrew expressions for the days from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur. Two are well-known. The third? No one’s quite sure what it means.
“Here am I, poor in deeds,” it begins. Where did it come from and, more importantly, what does it say to us?
It wants to stop ultra-Orthodox Jews from slaughtering chickens.
The Nobel-Prize winning Israeli novelist S. Y. Agnon was one of the pioneers of twentieth-century Hebrew literature. He is known for the sophisticated, allusive, sometimes. . .