Coin of Fire - Parashat Ki Tisa

By Rabbi John Rosove
Published on March 1, 2013

Keira Knightley on (early 20th Century) Jews and Aryans in Love

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on November 26, 2011

Israel Police on high alert ahead of Yom Kippur

Published on October 7, 2011

Israel Police have been holding talks with Israeli Arab representatives in bid to diffuse tensions ahead of Yom Kippur, after the burning of an Upper-Galilee mosque earlier this week. Police hope that calm will be restored in time for Yom Kippur on Saturday.

Humane Kapparas

By Rob Eshman
Published on October 7, 2011

The Real “Machine Gun Preacher”: Unorthodox Atonement

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on October 4, 2011

Author Ian McEwan to receive Jerusalem Prize

Published on January 19, 2011

British author Ian McEwan was chosen to receive the prestigious Jerusalem Prize. The biennial prize, which will be awarded next month in a ceremony on the opening night of the Jerusalem Book Fair, is Israel's highest literary honor for foreign writers. The award is given to an author whose works best exemplify the "freedom of the individual in society."

American Idol’s Adam Lambert sings “The Prayer”

By Danielle Berrin
Published on May 1, 2009

Courting Forgiveness

By Esther D. Kustanowitz
Published on September 13, 2007

As singles, trying on different slippers and hoping for a perfect fit, we have assayed to squeeze ourselves into many an improper shoe during the past year, blistering ourselves and others in the process, becoming callused as we try to move our lives forward.

Playwright’s 2nd look at 1st draft brings ‘Atonement’

By Eric Marchese
Published on March 8, 2007

"I was brought up Jewish, but I'm not religious in the least now, and I'm sort of the typical secular Jew," Hirsch said. Current world events, "coupled with getting older, being in my 50s," have forced him to re-examine his own spiritual values. "This character in the play is doing that, as well as I'm doing it now."

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad; ‘West Bank Story’ screening

By Keren Engelberg
Published on March 1, 2007

Calendar of Events in Los Angeles.

Feathers fly as fugitive fowl frustrates Pico-Robertson

Published on September 28, 2006

The case of the fugitive chicken.

What I Really Asked Mel Gibson

By Rabbi David Baron
Published on August 31, 2006

Can an alcoholic who was poisoned with his father's anti-Semitism use a moment of naked exposure to confront his bigotry? Can he ever hope to cleanse himself of this deeply-seated hatred or is he forever doomed?

Sins the Rabbis Left Out

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on September 16, 2004

The writers of the machzor were pretty comprehensive in listing the multitude of sins we commit as a community over the course of the year.

Date of Atonement

By Lesley Wolff
Published on September 12, 2002

At this Sept. 11 anniversary, we as a community are forced to remember where we were one year ago, when the world as we knew it turned upside down, and stayed that way.

Taking the Schmaltz Out of Our Food

By Beverly Levitt
Published on September 13, 2001

At sundown on Monday we usher in the happiest day of our calendar, Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. For the next 10 days we'll be called upon to reexamine our lives -- to wake up and not only smell the roses, but plant them for other people to enjoy.

Breaking the Fast

By Judy Zeidler
Published on October 5, 2000

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, begins at sundown on Sunday, Oct. 8, during which time a strict fast is observed.