Rabbi’s Fantasy – A Bob Alper Cartoon

September 27, 2020

OP-ED: Not feeling it in Zoom synagogue? Going outside could help.

September 25, 2020

By TIFFANY SHLAIN

(JTA) — This year, you can quiet a congregation of Jews with a press of your mute button. It’s hard to believe.

During a normal High Holiday season, synagogues are packed, and services are accompanied by a...

Person in the Parsha: Shabbat Shuva

September 25, 2020

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

 

“DO YOU HEAR VOICES?”

Do you ever hear voices?

I do, especially at this time of year.

It is now...

Off the Pulpit: A Reflection and a Prayer

September 25, 2020

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE

Each year we wonder, “who will live and who will die?” We know that the question is genuine, but this year it feels more urgent than it has in my lifetime.

By most measures human life...

Remember

September 25, 2020

By RABBI JOSEPH H. PROUSER

Yom Kippur’s “Martyrology” service is a moving tribute to those Jews who, in times of persecution throughout history, gave their lives for our faith. In unsparing, graphic detail, the liturgy describes the tortured deaths of...

How to host a socially distanced break-fast this Yom Kippur

September 23, 2020

By SHANNON SARNA

(JTA via The Nosher) – All our holidays are a little bit different this year. Most synagogue services will be conducted online. Many people are feeling disconnected from both the ritual of holidays and their communities. And...

A year after the Halle terror attack, Jews who were there are still looking for answers

September 23, 2020

By JOE BAUR

BERLIN (JTA) — The protective locked door had kept out the shooter.

One year ago, that was the bright spot in the aftermath of the attempted synagogue shooting on Yom Kippur in Halle, a sleepy city of...