high holidays

There is an old tale of a man who was searching for the finest archer and came upon a barn covered ...

“Why don’t you learn to read the megillah,” asked my husband a few months before Purim.I thought about it for ...

On Passover, we are taught every generation must see themselves as if they had personally been liberated from Egypt. For ...

In the summer of 2013, I left a wonderful congregation in North Carolina to pursue an exciting opportunity on the ...

Every year, I do my best to engage with the process of teshuvah (repentance) during the High Holidays. A few weeks ...

Just before Sukkot began, news came out of a prominent Conservative rabbi who came out to his congregation as gay. ...

It’s the great communal experience of the Jewish people. We fill halls and sanctuaries and homes in eager anticipation. Some ...

Our friends at The Canteen shared an Orthodox Rabbi’s hopes and prayers for LGBTQ children. Rabbi Avi Orlow, the Director of Jewish ...

Yom Kippur conjures solemnity and foreboding for many Jews. Ritual fasting, abstinence, penitence, and rehearsing for death evolved as core ...

“Are you going to fast on Yom Kippur?” “Are you going to try not to eat until chatzot, midday?” These ...