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Sep 30, 2026, 12:20 AM

Kol Nidrei for Men

Kol Nidrei is one of the strangest ways to begin Yom Kippur. We stand together and nullify vows. Why? Because words are cheap. Anyone can make promises. Anyone can speak grandly about who they are, what they believe, what they intend to...

Sep 30, 2026, 12:19 AM

The Yom Kippur Fast for Men

In a few moments, we will begin to fast. My Brothers, there is something strangely familiar about this for us. We know how to go without. We know how to push through hunger, exhaustion, grief, disappointment, fear. We know how to keep...

Sep 30, 2026, 12:04 AM

What We Owe Our Martyrs

Yom Kippur 5787 may be in the rearview mirror, but it continues to confront us with soul-searching questions of faith and peoplehood. And I’m not talking about who shall live and who shall die in the year to come....

Sep 28, 2026, 9:37 PM

This Is Judaism: Isaiah for This Moment – Yom Kippur 5787

My father used to tell me a story. I think it was about his first congregation in Riverhead, Long Island, though I’m not completely sure anymore. Towards the beginning of his tenure there, he gave a sermon about the Vietnam...

Sep 27, 2026, 10:32 AM

On July 27, 1656, the Portuguese Jewish congregation of Amsterdam laid upon Baruch Spinoza a cherem, the ban that cuts a Jew off from the community, for the heresies the sentence accused him of practicing and teaching. Spinoza was...

Sep 26, 2026, 1:40 PM

When the dog whistle becomes a shout

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Holding scissors inches from my head, a London barber felt perfectly at ease telling me exactly what he thought of Jews

Sep 26, 2026, 12:30 PM

The Memories of Sukkot

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk ( AI)

The Memories of Sukkot There are holidays that celebrate a moment, and there are holidays that seem to carry the entire history of a people within them. For me, Sukkot has increasingly become one of those holidays. Sukkot is among the...

Silas Anastacio

Sep 26, 2026, 12:11 AM

Isabel Cohn: Belonging is Resisting – The Strength of the Jewish Community

A Yom Kippur reflection on community, tradition, and belonging. Isabel Cohn, President of the Congregação Israelita Paulista – Templo Beth-El in São Paulo, Brazil, shares a profound and inspiring reflection on the challenges and strengths of contemporary Jewish life. In...

Chava (Patricia) Kadoche

Sep 25, 2026, 5:28 PM

In Jerusalem, I Heard My Father’s Voice

For most of my life, Yom Kippur had a familiar address. I spent it in my home in Toronto, Canada—or what I must now learn to call my old home. I spent one Yom Kippur in Morocco and another in...

Zahava Feldstein

Sep 24, 2026, 8:59 AM

On Yom Kippur, Man Plans and God Laughs

You can watch the transcribed audio-podcast version of this article here: Man Plans and God Laughs. Click to watch the video. This year, I prayed not to be inscribed in the Book of Life. There is no careful way to say...

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