Tag: Yom Kippur

Many synagogue goers found the abbreviated High Holiday services we recently concluded quite appealing. Need we eventually go back to the way it was before coronavirus? Not really, argues Moshe Kurtz, surveying the substantial halakhic support for shortening the services every year.

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.

After six months suspended between quarantine, isolation, and uncertainty, it’s natural to want to run away from home, especially as Yom Kippur looms and we realize it’s time for a change. But, as Matthew Nitzanim explains, this understandable reaction would miss the point of Teshuvah: everything we need to work on is right here, wherever it is we find ourselves.

Lehrhaus founder Shlomo Zuckier examines the debate about whether we can repeat Teshuvah for the same sin.

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

Tzvi Sinensky explores the Biblical origins of Tu be-Av.

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

Why is the annulment of vows so central to the High Holy Days? Wendy Amsellem discusses this, with a timely message.

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

Michael (Avi) Helfand on a recent court case with implications for American Jews as members of both a religious and a minority community.