Timely Thoughts

Sarah Osborne offers guidance for people who need to eat on Yom Kippur.

David Selis and Zvi Erenyi share their memories of JTS Librarian Professor Menahem Schmelzer for his sheloshim.

Eli Genauer explores the profound impact of a printing error on the halakhot of Pesah.

Shumel Hain discusses how we can bridge the "Tragic Gap" between the world envisioned in the blessing on budding fruit tress and our current reality of pandemic and tragedy

Just in advance of the shloshim for David Ellenson, the former president of Hebrew Union College, Jonathan D. Sarna pays tribute to a man whose life, work, and friendships spanned the Jewish denominational divide.

Pressed for time, people often skip reciting the korbanot section of the morning prayers. With the High Holidays approaching, Judah Kerbel makes the case that the korbanot are far more central and halakhically significant to our prayers than we often realize.

Stephen Denker reconstructs Bert Katz's experience of Kristallnacht in Nentershausen.

Yakov Ellenbogen reviews Susan Weingarten's Haroset: A Taste of Jewish History.

A new poem from Zohar Atkins offers a poetic meditation on life in the COVID world.

Ranana Dine explores the depictions of suffering in haggadot.