Yom Kippur

Shlomo Zuckier explores the nature of Yom Kippur and its relationship to atonement.

Jerome Marcus comments on the connection between davening with sinners and playing politics.

In this poem, Mel Waldman considers life and its tribulations over coffee.

This year, instead of thinking about the reasons for Jonah’s flight from Nineveh in particular, we can gain a new appreciation for his need to break free altogether. Ahead of Yom Kippur, Erica Brown considers the unique resonance of the book of Jonah in an era marked by isolation and quarantine.

Aton Holzer explores the role of free will and its limits in the Yom Kippur liturgy.

Shlomo Zuckier reviews Rav Aharon Lichtenstein's just-released book on teshuvah

Yiscah Smith explores the conceptions of teshuvah presented in the writings of the Piaseczner Rebbe and the Ba’al Ha-Tanya, identifying in them a novel approach to personal growth that speaks to contemporary Jews.

Yehoshua Pfeffer on self-abnegating vs. life-affirming teshuva.

Yom Kippur as a mother, explored by The Lehrhaus's Leslie Ginsparg Klein

Ezra Sivan explores the idea of confession, through the eyes of King David