Isaiah offers a hopeful anticipation of redemption.

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On the plane this morning I ended up being seated next to a guy who is in rabbinical school, and ...

Yesterday, around the world, we Jews observed Tisha B’Av, a day of grieving the historical destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, ...

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I was sitting in synagogue beside a beautiful, ornate, wood carved mechitzah when I saw something I had never noticed ...

The Conservative movement's creation of this scroll is the latest attempt in contemporary Judaism to create a liturgy for Yom Hashoah.

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Relating to the despair the ancient Israelites felt in the wake of the Temple's destruction is no easy feat.