Muslims typically commemorate Eid al Fitr with a community prayer service in the morning, called Salat al-Eid. The prayer is ...

Six months later, on the tenth of Tishrei, God answers. Yom Kippur arrives not as arbitrary atonement but as deliberate reciprocity. The Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 18a) teaches middah keneged middah ...

The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah 2023 starts the evening of September 15th. The Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur 2023 begins the evening of Septermber 24th. Not many Orthodox synagogues are listed above ...

I’m pleased to have the opportunity to get back to my sins and guilt, what with Yom Kippur a mere six and a half months away, ...

When so many feel disillusioned and powerless, we relive the Exodus. We are reminded that when we fall down it is in order to ...

Liberation begins with God giving the Israelites control of their own time and inviting them to commemorate and sanctify ...

As a scholar of the Bible and ancient Judaism, I believe Passover is a particularly poignant time to recognize the tragedies of the past year and offer hope for the future.

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