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Rabbi Rachel Kobrin: Purim Revelations

2012-03-07T13:14:31Z

It wasn't until I was an adult that I came to experience the deeper meaning of Purim. Our rabbis teach that Purim (a day of exuberant, drunken celebration) and Yom Kippur (our holiest day of atonement) have much in common.

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Joel Rubin: Israel's '74 Pact With Syria Shows We Can Deal With Iran

2012-01-20T15:29:17Z

If the Israelis could cut a deal in 1974 with a country like Syria, certainly the international community and the U.S. could seek to do the same today with a country like Iran.

Read more: Iraq War, Syria, Yom Kippur, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Neoconservatives, Israel, Obama, Diplomacy, Newt Gingrich, World News

Whole Foods Offends With Hanukkah Mix-Up

2011-12-20T17:20:56Z

WASHINGTON -- Are local businesses culturally insensitive to Jews? The Washington Post's Jessica Goldstein expressed her shock Tuesday when she learne...

Read more: DC News, Jews, Holidays, Yom Kippur, Chanukah, Hanukkah, Whole Foods, Jewish, Rosh Hashanah, Dc Around Town, Cvs, Passover, Video, DC News

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie: Why Americans Dismiss Sin

2011-10-20T10:05:09Z

Fresh from the jarring experience of Yom Kippur prayer, I find myself wishing that we would struggle with sin more than we do.

Read more: Sin, Liberal Religion, Victimhood, Therapeutic Culture, Personal Responbsibility, Evil, Judaism, Yom Kippur Reflection, What Is Sin, Yom Kippur, Judaism and Sin, Sin in America, Christianity, Ethics, Christianity and Sin, Yom Kippur Atonement, Collective Atonement, Religion News

Rabbi Yonah Bookstein: Occupy Genesis: Rewinding The Torah, Repairing The World

2011-10-19T15:12:24Z

The story of creation begins again this week in synagogues around the world. This annual cosmic rewind gives each of us a chance to deepen our thinking about the stories we heard as children.

Read more: European Summer, Rosh Hashanah, Garden of Eden, High Holy Days, Tikkun Olam, Yom Kippur, Adam & Eve, American Autumn, #Occupywallstreet, Arab Spring, Jewlicious, Simchat Torah, Jewish Holidays, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Sukkot, Book of Genesis, Judaism, Religion News

Jeff Bussgang: Peace Through Entrepreneurship?

2011-10-13T12:35:48Z

I had an out of body experience last week. A few days before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in the Jewish calendar and a spiritual day of remembrance, I found myself in front of ten Palestinian high-tech CEOs talking about entrepreneurship.

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Dovid Efune: Occupy Wall Street And The Perversion Of Jewish Values

2011-10-12T18:01:27Z

It is true that Judaism encourages giving and care for the needy and holds charitable practices in the highest esteem. But the most productive Jewish path for authentic activists is in the private sector.

Read more: Yom Kippur, Declaration of the Occupation, Charity, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, Jewish Values, The Dignity of Difference, Occupy London, Occupy Judaism, Jewish Activism, Jews Occupy Wall Street, Jewish Social Justice, Judaism, Religion News

Holly Sidell: To Return To Yourself

2011-10-11T15:20:21Z

During Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, for the first truly extended period of time, I returned to myself. I got to experience myself in a state of completion, and got to see and feel who I am when I am whole.

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Rabbi Barry A. Kenter: Approaching Tishrei: Rain, Rain, Don't Go Away

2011-10-10T14:37:24Z

No other month has as much sacred choreography as the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, Tishrei. But only for the festival of Sukkot does the Torah mandate joy three times.

Read more: Judaism, Green Faith, Sukkot 2011, Jewish Holidays, Hebrew Calendar, Yom Kippur, Jewish High Holy Days, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Jewish High Holidays, Jewish Calendar, Tishrei, High Holidays, Religion News

Rabbi Joshua Hess: The Meaning Behind Al Davis' Death On Yom Kippur

2011-10-10T13:50:00Z

On a day when God grants us atonement for our mistakes and encourages us to make the necessary changes to succeed, God brought home one of his emissaries who taught this lesson.

Read more: Al Davis Death, Al Davis, Yom Kippur 2011, Yom Kippur and Al Davis, Judaism and Sports, Yom Kippur Al Davis, Yom Kippur, Judaism, Religion News

Melanie Notkin: Is He Just Too Old for This?

2011-10-10T07:03:22Z

Men are responsible for 40 percent of all fertility problems among American couples, so why is all the pressure (read: judgment) on women for reproductive health and timeliness?

Read more: Male-Infertility, Male Infertility, Women, Judgment Day, Infertility, Judgment, Yom Kippur, Reproductive Health, Iq, Motherhood, Intellectual Disability, Fatherhood, Womne News, Fertility, Special Needs Children, Women News

Sophie Johnson: Why I Went to Occupy L.A. Instead of Synagogue

2011-10-10T06:51:28Z

I am joining those kids whose parents have lost their jobs and lost their homes and I want to be counted among the people who are trying to change America back to being a place we can all be proud of living in.

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Joe Winkler: Rediscovering Yom Kippur Through Occupying Wall Street

2011-10-08T23:26:20Z

As I walked the 100 blocks home, singing those plangent, hopeful, and nostalgic Yom Kippur tunes, my feet blistered; and I felt torn between the service and protest aspect of the event.

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Hundreds Join For Yom Kippur Service At Occupy Wall Street (UPDATED)

2011-10-07T23:26:00Z

Update, 10/7/11, 11:21 p.m.: Several hundred people showed up in front of downtown New York's Brown Brothers Harriman building for a candlelit, social...

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WATCH: Yom Kippur Tradition Causes Controversy Over Chicken Slaughterings

2011-10-07T12:59:30Z

Yom Kippur, the most sacred day on the Jewish calendar, kicks off at sundown Friday and lasts until nightfall Saturday.

Synagogues across the count...

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Rabbi David Wolpe: Have We Forgotten How To Cry?

2011-10-07T15:00:45Z

On Yom Kippur in traditional synagogues people would weep. They would beat their chests as tears streamed down their faces. But for many to display genuine feeling in public is an embarrassment.

Read more: Yom Kippur, Prayer, God, Rabbi David Wolpe, Judaism, Tears, Yom Kippur Reflection, Tears in the Bible, Jewish Spirituality, Crying and Judaism, Crying as Spiritual Practice, Weeping and Judaism, Spiritual Tears, Religion News

Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories

2011-10-07T14:51:25Z

In they end they booed and it was aimed at Alex Rodriguez. He struck out with the bases loaded in the 7th, and then again, to end the game. He batted just .111 for the series.

Read more: New York Yankees, Yom Kippur, Mark Teixeira, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Derek Jeter, Terry Francona, Jorge Posada, A-Rod, MLB Playoffs, New York News

Dovid Efune: What Are Jews Fighting For?

2011-10-07T12:27:25Z

For Jews, the holy day of Yom Kippur is recognized as a time for introspection and reckoning. In this spirit, it may be appropriate to take a step back and ponder the "State of the Jewish Union."

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Jeremy Ben-Ami: Days Of Reflection On Israel

2011-10-07T12:50:59Z

For many of us, these are days for deep reflection and soul-searching on the past year. How, we ask, as individuals and as a community can we better ourselves and the world?

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An Interfaith Yom Kippur

2011-10-07T11:16:00Z

It was a few years ago that Reima Yosif, a devout Muslim, discovered a surprising family secret: she was Jewish -- kind of.

The revelation came whi...

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Carlo Strenger: Open Letter To Mahmoud Abbas For Yom Kippur

2011-10-07T10:33:52Z

Mr. Abbas: I know that this proposal is very difficult for you to accept. I write to you on the eve of Yom Kippur, because my heart is weary and full of sorrow; because I see the two-state solution slipping away.

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Ari Hart: Confronting The Oppression Of Our Hands: A Social Justice Reflection For Yom Kippur

2011-10-06T18:12:32Z

The painful truth? Your hands, my hands and the hands of everyone else we know are tools of oppression. They directly and indirectly cause suffering in the lives of God's creation -- human, animal and more.

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Ali Berlow: Fasting (Or Not) On Yom Kipppur

2011-10-06T15:15:58Z

The fast will soon be here. On this Yom Kippur, the highest of high Jewish holidays, I'll be doing my best at not-eating.

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Cheryl Pearl Sucher: Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe

2011-10-06T15:13:53Z

For 10 days a year, I try to live my life as a prayer. I reflect on infinity, aware, as the psalmists, that life is a grain of sand and that I am powerless before the world.

Read more: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Judaism, Rosh Hashanah Reflection, Jewish Prayer, Holocaust Survivors, Days of Awe, Jewish High Holidays, Prayer, Day of Repentance, Religion News

Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Rethink Yom Kippur Chicken-Swinging Ritual

2011-10-06T14:31:46Z

By DANIELLA CHESLOW, Associated Press

JERUSALEM -- For generations, ultra-Orthodox Jews have marked Yom Kippur by swinging live chickens over their...

Read more: Neturei Karta, Animal Cruelty, Jewish Holidays, Yom Kippur, Video, Jerusalem, Humane Treatment of Animals, Jewish Law, Orthodox Jews, Animal Abuse, Jewish Culture, Israel, Orthodox Judaism, Impact News