Yom Kippur

Understanding the lost art of repentance and its urgency

In these weeks leading up to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, it seems that the need to understand what repentance is and why it matters is more urgent than ever, writes the author of “Repentance: The Meaning and Practice of Teshuvah.”

Back to school: Jewish holidays out in Providence

The largest school system in Rhode Island is removing the Jewish High Holidays as vacation days after more than 30 years.

The Yom Kippur sermon that helped spur the Soviet Jewry movement

NEW YORK (JTA) — On a fall day in 1963, Abraham Joshua Heschel unburdened his soul. Speaking the truth without regard for whether it scandalized or hurt was something he would do fairly often in that decade of social upheaval. Already branded as an eccentric and an outsider, that year he had met the Rev. […]

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