Opinion

Happy New Year. In years to come, we will look back on the last 19 months as a time when COVID-19 upended our world. The coronavirus has impacted our entire country, and it shows no...

JERUSALEM – To the rabbis and religious leaders putting the finishing touches to your High Holiday sermons, I’d like to make a suggestion: Use this Jewish New Year to talk about Israel from the pulpit....

1. Yom Kippur is considered to be a “super Sabbath” (shabbat shabbaton in Hebrew) – a soul-searching opportunity for the pious and evil alike. 2. Yom Kippur is observed on the 10th day of the...

At this moment in the season – marked by the High Holydays, the return to school, the end of summer vacations – the traditional themes simply do not fit. Much to our distress, it is...

My father, Michael Horen, was an artist by training and a graphic designer by profession. But the word I most often use to describe him is “humanitarian.” He deeply believed in the Jewish values of...

Why is this year different from all other years? (Well, maybe not totally different from last year, when the holidays were also celebrated in, let us say, unusual ways.) For me, this year marked the...

Rosh Hashanah begins this Monday night, and Yom Kippur starts on the evening of Sept. 15. You don’t have be an observant Jew to feel the shift. As humans, we are sensitive to all changes...

This Saturday night marks my father’s 20th yahrzeit. Twenty years of separation and Kaddish; of pondering the most influential person in my life. When I recite the prayer, I hope it will ease my family’s...

One of my colleagues recently completed a Jewish learning fellowship where she studied traditional and contemporary texts on the theme of “power.” Coincidentally, or not, the latest edition of the Maimonides Fund’s new journal, Sapir,...