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For much of my life, I have supported women (myself included) through their pregnancies and nursing journeys. I nursed my four children for a combined total of nearly 8 years and even went so far as to get certifications in lactation…

There’s a commandment found in parshat Re’eh, which we read earlier this summer. The Torah teaches in Deuteronomy chapter 14 verse 1:

בָּנִים אַתֶּם לַיקֹוָק אֱלֹהֵיכֶם לֹא תִתְגֹּדְדוּ…

Dear brothers and sisters,

Yom Kippur has ended. The candles have burned down, the melodies of Kol Nidrei and Ne’ilah still echo in our souls, and we return to life—renewed, cleansed, and united.

For us, the Jewish people, Yom Kippur is…

Yom Kippur: a diagnostic day, not a day of guilt

כִּי בַיּוֹם הַזֶּה יְכַפֵּר עֲלֵיכֶם לְטַהֵר אֶתְכֶם

(ויקרא טז:ל)

Begin by discarding the modern reflex. This day is not about…

Sukkot has always been an exciting time for me stretching back to my childhood.

The contrast between the solemnity of the Yamim Noraim as against Sukkot, the season of rejoicing always struck me. The making of the Sukkah dating back to my…

I can go back in time, when Yizkor was, second to breaking the fast, one of the most anticipated moments in Yom Kippur. It was the time when those of us who didn’t have a deceased…

With Yom Kippur behind us, the hardest inner-work happens now. The personal commitments you made yesterday are in the balance today. 

Perhaps if you pay attention to one-at-a-time, your positive prospects will improve. Resist that urge….

Stella Goldschlag was both a victim and a perpetrator in Nazi Germany.

As a Jew, she was constantly persecuted and in danger of being deported to a concentration camp in Poland. Yet because she turned in Jews to the Gestapo to save herself…

For the Jews of Manchester Who Prayed and Died on Yom Kippur

For the Jews of Manchester who prayed and died

On Yom Kippur, others on other days:

As during the First and Second Temple times,

During the Crusades and Inquisition,

During…