By Yoel Larry – New York City As we enter the High Holiday season and New Year our prayers are focused on begging forgiveness for past deeds and omissions and hope for the future. But as we sit in prayer we had best remember that just outside the doors of our Synagogues our long-time […]
By Rochel Sylvetsky, Arutz Sheva op-ed editor Etched in my memory along with the collective memory of anyone who was in Israel on Yom Kippur, October 6 1973, is the sight of cars going down silent streets at 2 p.m., just as many of us were taking a short break from prayers before the afternoon […]
By Paul Mirbach This year, I dedicated my fast to the IDF martyrs of the Yom Kippur War. In that year, 1973, Yom Kippur also fell on a Sabbath – and Israel’s enemies exploited the holiest day in our calendar to attempt to destroy the Jewish state. This year I dedicated the Yom Kippur fast […]
By Sharon Klaff The middle of the night before Yom Kippur in the year 5775, I sat in the kitchen, head in hand, thinking on the state of Jews and the Jewish state. Seems to me that the Jewish state did a great job over the summer in protecting her citizens, but the state of […]
By Richard Mather, JMA editor The Talmud states that Yom Kippur atones for those who repent but it does not atone for those who don’t repent. How does this apply to Noahides who are not expected to attend synagogue or fast for 25 hours? Do Yom Kippur and the preceding Days of Awe apply to […]
By Dorit Stern This is a response to an article in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian newspaper in which Jared Sacks, Benjamin Fogel, Heidi Grunebaum, Lauren Segal and several others pledged to dedicate their Yom Kippur fast “to reflect on being Jewish in the context of Israel’s occupation of Palestine.” Sacks et al had this to […]
