Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the period of 40 days (excluding Sundays) before Easter. It's a day for prayer, fasting, repentance, and reflection on our human finiteness. ...
Yom Hashoah (“the Day of the Shoah”) was established in 1951 by the Knesset, the Parliament of Israel, as a day of commemoration for the roughly six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. In...
I was excited to see that the prompt for this season’s submissions was “well-being,” because I felt like I had things to say about this topic. But it didn’t take much preliminary writing to see a...