If you could relive a special moment in your life, what day would you choose? For me, it would be my Bar Mitzvah! The 50th ...

There has also been a rise in reports of anti-semitic incidents here in the Twin Cities and across the country. Ethan Roberts ...

Rabbis and liturgists are trying to find ways to honor personal loss and communal grief during Yizkor, the traditional ...

October 6, 1973, marked the beginning of the Yom Kippur War — a conventional war. October 7, 2023, was a pogrom — a ...

On the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre, residents of the 'Gaza envelope' mourn their dead while pledging to ...

I cannot celebrate my 70th birthday either on Yom Kippur, because of the issur on cake, or on October 7, because my country is in tears, and that's it.

When the enemy marched on the gates of the city, it sounded the alarm, rallying troops and calling defenders to battle.

And it does not sit well with the traditional season of repentance, which tacitly (and not even so tacitly) posits that ...

Like America has Pearl Harbor and 9/11, Israel has the Yom Kippur War and Oct. 7, devastating sneak attacks that changed ...

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Viduy re-establishes a relationship with G-d when through it we experience our very real vulnerability before the Almighty.

In Talking Points, Esme Murphy focuses on a year of anxiety in the Twin Cities Jewish community, which is also on heightened ...