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To Remember the Departed on Yom Kippur, One Congregation Prints Up Yizkor Cards
Walking out of the synagogue for Yizkor as a young boy always seemed to be a great break from the tedium of lengthy holiday prayer services. I didn’t understand what went on inside the sanctuary during...
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After a Near-Death Experience Last Year, the Book of Life Has a Whole New...
My birthday, which falls over Labor Day weekend, has typically served as a harbinger of the other riches of September. These traditions include my wedding anniversary, the start of the academic year,...
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Can I Tweet, Text, or Tumble My Yom Kippur Apology?
Amazon Prime same-day delivery is a dinosaur. Now Amazon Dash allows you to push a button and find your favorite products delivered to your doorstep. It is awesome. The truth is that in most areas of...
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This Yom Kippur, Can We Forgive Trump’s Voters?
This Yom Kippur, as we struggle to ask forgiveness of the ones we’ve wronged and accept the forgiveness of those who have wronged us, a new and unsettling question hangs over many of us, one we’ve been...
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Be Unprepared for Yom Kippur. There’s No Other Way.
I’m totally unprepared for Yom Kippur. I thought I had the high holidays down: Sink into a space of quiet contemplation come Elul, emerge cleansed and brimming with intention by Rosh Hashanah, and when...
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A Little-known Yiddish Manuscript Upends Our Ideas About Elie Wiesel
Just who was Elie Wiesel? Did we get him wrong? By the time he died on July 2 of last year, Elie Wiesel had become what you might call a Jewish celebrity thinker. More well known as a celebrity than...
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Remembering Leonard Cohen's Yom Kippur War Tour of Duty
A few days after Yom Kippur, 1973, with Israel still fighting a bitter war for its survival with Egypt and Syria, a handful of entertainers were sitting in Pinati, a popular Tel Aviv café, and planning...
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