This coming Shabbat is one of the two most holy in the Jewish year. It is called Shabbat Teshuvah. The other is the Shabbat just prior to Passover called Shabbat Hagadol (the Great Shabbat). The ...

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California is on fire, the east coast is drowning, the virus isn’t done with us, and the nice lady who lives by the freeway has been joined by dozens of friends as the eviction moratorium comes to an ...

Benjamin McDowell was arrested for plotting an attack on a synagogue. Years later, Rabbi Avram Mlotek sought him out. This is what he learned. (JTA) — Before I met him, I saw Benjamin McDowell’s name ...

“Reuben returned to the pit, but Joseph was no longer in the pit. He tore his clothes [in grief].” (Gen. 37:29) Where was Reuben coming from? Why wasn’t he together with the other brothers? According ...

Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook explains that teshuvah does not deal with a specific wrong. Rather, it relates to a general feeling of despondency and estrangement from God. Teshuvah means a ...

Judge Richard Goldstone’s recent acknowledgement that “civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy” by Israel during Operation Cast Lead could be a game changer — if Goldstone ...

I. On Rosh Hashanah "the mitzvah of the day is with the shofar". Our master the Baal Shem Tov has a parable relating to the blowing of the shofar, comparing it to a child crying out: "Father! Father!