“For on this day atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you” Leviticus 16:30
Fast and festival times for the week
“For this is not a trifling thing for you: it is your very life” Deuteronomy 32:47
Shabbat and Yom Tov times for the week
Sunday’s commemoration of the victims of the Hamas massacre coincides with a historic day of mourning
October 7 will leave its mark on our High Holy Day prayers
The language of prayers like Avinu Malkeinu can be a challenge for modern worshippers
The High Holy Days offer us a way to grapple positively with our shortcomings
Parashah of the week: Nitzavim-Vayelech
Shabbat and Yom Tov times from September 27 to October 4
Torah can help unleash your inner creativity – here’s how
Parashah of the week: Ki Tavo
Shabbat times for the week
There are few women in the Talmud but Gila Fine’s new book shows why they deserve far more attention
“When you enter your neighbour's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you desire, until you are sated, but you shall not put [any] into your vessel” Deuteronomy 23:25
A new book explores the significance of the covenantal inititation rite
“Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot” Deuteronomy 19:21
Cautious progress rather than rapid change has been the order of the day
“It will come about that because you will listen to these commandments, keep them and perform them, the Lord, your God will keep for you the covenant and the kindness that He swore to your forefathers” Deuteronomy 7:12-13
Devon-based Miknaf Ha’aretz is looking to a build a different model of Jewish community from the suburban standard
“Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan” Deuteronomy 3:23
Some believe the Temple belongs to our past – but that is a mistake, as Tuesday’s fast of Tishah b’Av reminds us
Tamara Micner celebrated at Kehillah North London
We do not need to wait for a Redeemer to try to move toward a kinder world
God happened upon Balaam, who stated, ‘I have set up the seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on each’” Numbers 23:4
Shabbat and fast times for the week
An Orthodox and a Reform rabbi tackle questions of Jewish life
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