holidays
Asking Forgiveness
I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly haunted.It might just be my social awkwardness speaking (because, really, when’s the ...
Repentance & Prostitution
We’re in the midst of aseret yemei teshuva — the Ten Days of Repentance — so I thought I’d share ...
Playing Hookie
So while Jews across the country were locked inside Rosh Hashanah services for the past two days, the world outside ...
The Fast of Gedaliah
Answer us, God, on this day of fasting, because we are in great pain. This morning, when I read the ...
“Rosh Hashana” is a nicer way of saying Screwing Up Less Often
Oh, yeah — we hit it again. Two parking tickets this morning, and one’s more than $100. Man, this Rosh ...
Rosh Hashanah In The News
Every year, thousands of men abandon their families on the High Holidays to prostrate the grave of Rebbe Nachman of ...
New Fruit Poll
With Rosh Hashanah around the corner, we here at My Jewish Learning are wondering what you will use as your ...
Digging Your Own Graveyard Book
When you’re an observant Jew and you have more than a passing interest in the non-observant world, it can cause ...
Rosh Hashana in Antarctica
A couple of days ago, we received this email: I am a Jew working in Antarctica as part of the ...
How to Repent Right
The idea of repentance always fills me with performance anxiety. Most of it’s due to the prayer service, which starts ...