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Oct 6, 2017, 12:17 PM

Day of awe? More like day of bore

Yom Kippur may be the billed as a sombre day, but it also symbolises why Orthodoxy is still stuck in the past. Every year it seems to be the same. I sit in synagogue, and see the ‘once-or-twice-a-year’ kind of...

Sivan Rahav Meir

Sep 29, 2017, 12:05 PM

A journey through Yom Kippur prayers

How the ancient liturgy comes to life as we reflect over the past year

Sep 29, 2017, 7:05 AM

After Yom Kippur, what's left to confess?

The evening service's confessional reminds me that I am a perpetual work in progress

Sep 28, 2017, 9:32 PM

The most personal of festivals

The question God asks us on Yom Kippur is not, “Are you perfect?” but “Can you grow?”

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Sep 27, 2017, 12:35 PM

The danger of religious exhaustion

This Yom Kippur, we must undergo an 'ideological repentance,' and change not only our deeds, but our attitudes

Sep 13, 2017, 4:49 AM

Elul and the shipwrecked sailors

How a Nova Scotia ocean cliff burial site inspires one-way acts of kindness

Aug 30, 2017, 1:44 AM

Spiritual fugitives

When you come to reinvent yourself, expect to experience discomfort in the self-confrontation that will make you new

Aug 22, 2017, 11:22 PM

Robert E. Lee and the month of Elul

Humanity's cultural yardstick of values is fickle; better to uphold the personalized standards of God

Oct 14, 2016, 7:03 AM

Trying the gay shul on for size

He was moved to tears by the devout Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, despite (or because of) straight, Orthodox roots

Diane Joy Schmidt

Oct 8, 2016, 9:08 PM

There once was a woman who apologized

The trick is knowing when to say sorry and make amends, and when to accept that it's just not your fault: a poem

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