Rabbah Gila Caine: New Edmonton cemetery – on purity and danger?
By Rabbah Gila Caine (AJNews) – We mostly retell the story of Chanukah as a celebration of purity and purification when our sacred space was…
Holiday Columns
For Chanukah gifts think Israel Bonds
By Deborah Shatz (AJNews) – Chanukah starts this year on December 25 – it’s a holiday that celebrates the triumph of light over darkness and…
How to celebrate Simchat Torah when our hearts are weighed down by grief
by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer (JTA) — How are we supposed to celebrate Simchat Torah this year with a full heart? The very name of this…
In this Jewish season of forgiveness, I’m asking for permission
by Rabbi Avi Killip (JTA) — It has been a hard year. So hard, it can feel like all our rituals are wrong. It’s nearly…
One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — In 2001, Yom Kippur fell on Sept. 26, two weeks after the terror attacks that brought down the World Trade…