CategoryYom Kippur

Why ‘stiff-necked people’ is the greatest compliment G-d ever gave us.

A spark awakening in the younger generation, a leader who sought water in the desert – and how each of us can hold on to the moment.

At the moment he was asked to join a minyan, he felt a deep sense of belonging to the Jewish people and to the land of our ancestors.

In 1972, twenty Jews in Romania were facing death—and their salvation came from an unlikely conversation that speaks to us today.

What has the past year taught us about the nature of the Jewish people?

Forgiveness in Jewish tradition — each night, each week, and each year.

The Jewish approach to coping with pain and tragedy is to remember and honor the loss but not to dwell in mourning forever.

Before the Yom Kippur war, the Israeli government was very hubristic about their abilities. What changed? And what gave them the ability to ultimately win the war?

When the synagogue reaches Aleinu, everyone breathes a sigh of relief. How did it suddenly end up in middle of High Holiday Musaf?

Against all odds, in the worst possible situation, an SS officer saved a ten-year old Jewish child—the translator of the machzor in your hands. What lesson can this teach us?