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Yom Kippur

(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
Posted inOpinion

I won’t be fasting this year because I have an eating disorder

Alex Braun by Alex Braun September 29, 2017
GatherDC is hosting a Yom Kippur event at the Sauf Haus Bier Hall & Garten in the nation's capital. (Photo/Courtesy Sauf Haus Bier Hall & Garten)
Posted inJewish Life

Why is this Orthodox rabbi holding Yom Kippur in a beer garden?

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten September 29, 2017September 29, 2017
Walter Benjamin's membership card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1940). "It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us," he wrote. (Wikimedia CC0)
Posted inColumns

Can we find hope in these times? Perhaps. Together.

by Rabbi Aubrey Glazer September 28, 2017
(Photo/Wikimedia-Przemysław Wierzbowski CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inColumns

On cinnamon challah and forgiving myself for parenting missteps

by Nicki Gilbert September 27, 2017September 27, 2017
a melancholy photo of a women looking away holding a flower
Posted inOpinion

Why I won’t forgive my sexual harasser this Yom Kippur

Leora Eisenberg by Leora Eisenberg September 25, 2017
French Toast Bread Pudding (Photo/Faith Kramer)
Posted inCulture

Break your fast with breakfast this year

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer September 24, 2017September 20, 2017
Chelm is a town known in European Jewish folklore as a community of holy fools. (Illustration/F. Halperin's "Khakme Khelm," Warsaw, 1926)
Posted inColumns

It’s hard to look back in regret with a stiff neck

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan September 22, 2017September 20, 2017
image of small rocks being washed by water on a beach
Posted inHolidays

Make a vow this Yom Kippur: Remove your heart of stone

Rabbi Naomi Levy by Rabbi Naomi Levy September 20, 2017September 20, 2017
Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco is one of many groups offering free or low-cost High Holiday services this year. (Photo/file)
Posted inJewish Life

Free and low-cost Yom Kippur services around the Bay Area

by J. Staff September 18, 2017September 29, 2017
Sarah Chandler leads a twist on the kapparot ritual in which participants hug chickens rather than swinging them over their heads. (Photo/Courtesy Sarah Chandler)
Posted inJewish Life

Hugging a chicken, yizkor for gun victims and other twists on High Holy Days rituals

Ben Sales by Ben Sales September 18, 2017

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