Edited by: JV Staff (Some of what follows is based on these works: “The Festivals in Halachah,” by Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin, ZT”L, translated by Rabbi...
By: Rabbi Moshe Gersht On Yom Kippur, we disengage from the normal lives that we live and enter a place of holiness. We don’t eat or...
Guidelines for the holiest day of the Jewish year By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Following the sin of the Golden Calf, Moses pleaded with God to forgive...
Here are nine often overlooked facts about Yom Kippur to enhance your experience of the Jewish day of repentance. Dr. Yvette Alt Miller We eat a...
From hatred to hope, and from loss to resolve By: Tzemach Feller The Jewish year 5779 was replete with consequential events, and Chabad.org/News covered hundreds of...
Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog: “The challenges for the new year are combating anti-Semitism and connecting global Jewish youth to Israel.” Edited by: JV Staff As...
By: Rafael Medoff As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in the...
By: Reuven Chaim Klein During the month of Elul and the Ten Days of Repentance, we customarily pray that G-d forgive all our sins. These prayers...
The last month of the Jewish calendar is actually the most important – serving as preparation for the High Holidays By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons If you...
No one can help you grow unless you take responsibility for yourself By: Rabbi Noah Weinberg A pious man encountered a group of triumphant soldiers coming...
By: Shmuel Reichman There’s a story of two elderly men who were childhood friends, but had not seen each other in the past thirty years. One...
By: Shmuel Reichman An old man sat on the train as it rumbled peacefully along the countryside. He was enjoying the view and the quiet atmosphere...
An old man sat on the train as it rumbled peacefully along the countryside. He was enjoying the view and the quiet atmosphere of the train...
By: Aliza Scharf-Bendov, LCSW As we approach the days of awe, I find myself reflecting on both myself and my work as a psychotherapist with a...
By: Dr. Yvette Alt Miller Can a book change your life? One book changed mine. Years ago, I wandered into a bookstore with a young doctor...
By: Shmuel Reichman Imagine you are on a train, heading towards your destination. You look to your right and see a fellow passenger. Attempting to be...
