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Jewish lifecycle ceremonies celebrate change, and sanctify the ordinary.

Traditionalist Jews have many objections to new, or renewed, lifecycle ceremonies.

For Jewish religious thinkers in our time, the question "why observe mitzvot?" has become a central and critical concern. Some answers echo earlier periods, some are new.

What holiness meant to the sages of the Talmud.

Overview of various themes in Jewish lifecycle.

Beginning five days after Yom Kippur, Sukkot is named after the booths or huts (sukkot in Hebrew) in which Jews are supposed to dwell during this week-long celebration.

A Yom Kippur folk custom.

Updating the traditional Yom Kippur confession.

LGBT issues in Judaism