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A Spiritual Guide to Teshuva

By: Tamar Taback Come into the Now Teshuva, repentance, is a miraculous mechanism that was created even before the creation of the world1and is always...

Yom Kippur in Bergen Belsen

By: Gina Frankel (Gina Frankel was born in Lodz to a close-knit religious family. She was 12 when the war broke out in Poland in 1939. ...

Yom Kippur 1967: The Return to the Western Wall

By: Larry Domnitch On Yom Kippur in 1967, thousands arrived at the Western Wall for the concluding prayers and to hear the long awaited sound...

ABCs of Yom Kippur

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...

Welcome 5781, In All Its Muddled Glory!

This Rosh Hashanah is like no other. Masks, gloves and social distancing are the norm. Families are apart. Children are restless, and seniors are...

With HIAS Changing Longtime Focus, Supporters Question Some of its Priorities

Will its new mission and its fundraising dollars, especially during a time of global uncertainty and rising anti-Semitism, detrimentally affect the Jewish people?   By: Deborah...

Ukraine, Belarus Trade Accusations Over Breslov Hasidm Stuck At Border

Ukraine and Belarus traded angry accusations Wednesday over thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims who have remained stuck on their border after Ukraine denied them...

11% of American Adults Under 40 Think Jews Caused Holocaust

Theodore Bunker(Newsmax) About one-in-10 American adults under the age of 40 think that the Holocaust, which killed about 6 million Jews, was actually caused by...

Welcome 5781, In All Its Muddled Glory!

This Rosh Hashanah is like no other. Masks, gloves and social distancing are the norm. Families are apart. Children are restless, and seniors are...

Chazak V’Ematz – “Be Strong & Be Strong”

By: Reuven Chaim Klein As Moses passed the torch of leadership to his protégé and successor Joshua, he said to the younger padawan, Chazak V’Ematz — “Be...

The Meaning of Rosh Hashanah: An In-Depth Analysis – Part 2

By: Rabbi Asher Resnick (Continued from last week) Potential in the Present for the Future The essence of Rosh Hashanah is specifically this point – that it...

NY Jews to Observe High Holidays with Masks, Distancing & Limited Shul Attendance

By: Hellen Zaboulani The high holidays are upon us, but the Covid-19 pandemic is still looming over us. Rosh Hashana, which begins this year on Friday...

When Being Jewish isn’t Interesting or Exotic Enough

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS Great imposters are the lifeblood of “stranger than fiction” stories that are hard to resist. Tales...

Parshas Netzavim–The Secret of Teshuvah

By: Shlomo Katz There are two holidays mentioned in the Torah whose primary significance is not described there. Nowhere in the Torah is Rosh Hashanah...

Parshas Netzavim – Where Torah & Life Meet

By: Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffman Parshas Nitzavim contains a section called Parshas ha-Teshuva, The Chapter of Repentance; so called because in this chapter Moshe encourages Bnei...

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