Remembrances Of Slavery How Two Cultures Commemorate A Vital Part Of Their History
In this essay, Steve Lipman compares how the Black American community and how the Jewish American community commemorate their slavery narratives.
Jeremiah Lockwood’s New Cantorial Blues Album, Kol Nidre, is a Yom Kippur Dream
Hillel Broder reviews the latest release from Jeremiah Lockwood.
Shemini Atzeret: A Lost Holiday of Holding
Max Hollander compares the two parables most often used to define Shemini Atzeret in the traditional commentators.
The Date of the Omer Sacrifice According to Rabbi Yehuda Halevi – an example...
A novel medieval interpretation by R. Yehudah ha-Levi about the counting of the omer may have a surprising basis in rabbinic countering of heresy.
Before Erev Yom Kippur
In this poem, Mel Waldman considers life and its tribulations over coffee.
“Like a Fleeting Dream”: U-netaneh Tokef, Dreams, and the Meaning of the High Holy...
Man’s actions—even those that seem fleeting and insignificant—can have an impact, positive or negative. Oren Oppenheim explores themes of u-Netaneh Tokef
You light candles
In his latest poem, Bruce Black meditates on the Chanukah miracle and the miracles of everyday life
The Species for Change
Chana Chava Ford explains what Sukkot might teach us about real religious change.
Jonah Never Repents: That Is the Point The Bible’s Radical Case for Human Agency
Marina Zilbergerts explores the idea that Jonah does not repent in his Biblical narrative, instead emphasizing the value of human agency.
Kohelet: Seeking to Uncover and Bury
Shlomo Zuckier seeks and uncovers rabbinic-Biblical intertextuality.
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