Ideas In 2013, I started AtoneNet, a space for public ritual confession. Here’s why I’m shutting it down. AI and algorithms have made it harder and harder to see the internet as a place where spirituality happens, writes a scholar at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
Ideas One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning Rabbis and liturgists are trying to find ways to honor personal loss and communal grief during Yizkor, the traditional memorial service.
Ideas Why I spent Yom Kippur protecting Palestinian villagers from settler violence An American immigrant in Israel “self-afflicts” in the name of justice and equality.
United States For Jews with eating disorders, new traditions aim to make Yom Kippur a safer experience
Ideas We have good reasons to give ourselves credit this year. Here’s a positive viddui for Yom Kippur.
United States ‘It was terribly disheartening’: Tech firm’s outage on Yom Kippur eve leaves synagogues scrambling to stream services