This is the Forward’s coverage of teshuva (lit. “return” in Hebrew), the Jewish tradition of repentance.
Teshuva
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Opinion I was wrong about Israel. I apologized. Then President Carter gave me a lesson in grace
Carter owed me nothing, yet gave me a sense there is a capacity within us all for unconditional love
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Sports The Jewish world has largely forgiven Meyers Leonard. Why can’t everyone else?
It's been almost two years since Leonard used a slur on a livestream. But it doesn't seem like that's the grudge
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Opinion I was fired from CNN for antisemitic tweets. How do I make amends?
My teenage comments were abhorrent. Yet the context in which I made them is important to understand
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Bintel Brief Dear Bintel: A frenemy wrote a mean song about me and I’m freaking out
Bintel says: Jake Gyllenhaal feels your pain — and Jewish tradition has some advice
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Opinion This Yom Kippur, I want to forgive myself
After a lifetime of negative self-talk, it’s time to make amends to myself
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Opinion Why I can’t stand hearing ‘a Jew is a Jew’
The phrase is meant to affirm Jewish belonging, but it conveys an invalidation of individual harm
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News Burning Man is back. Get ready for a 1,000-person Shabbat bash in the desert.
‘There's a lot more to Burning Man than the sort of bacchanalian, Sodom-and-Gomorrah that a lot of people think it is,’ says the co-leader of the Jewish prayer service
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Opinion Three ways Jewish values are helping me embrace a healthier ‘new normal’
Like most people, I thought I would be happy to return to normal this summer. I was grateful to be gathering with family to celebrate my mother’s 90th birthday in person. I enjoyed eating in restaurants again and making travel plans instead of sanitizing my groceries. But underneath that initial elation, as I stored my…
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Opinion It’s time for the pro-Palestinian movement to make a radical change
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News Should synagogues remove the Israeli flag from bimahs now? How a New York shul made the decision
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Opinion JD Vance just made a critical error in Israel — and time to curb Hamas is running short
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Film & TV What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism
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Fast Forward As 1000+ rabbis sign anti-Mamdani letter, others decry mounting ‘red lines’ in Jewish communities
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News Mamdani has created ‘great fear,’ and Jewish voters are ‘more motivated than I have ever seen,’ Cuomo says
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Fast Forward The World War II origins of the White House East Wing, now demolished
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Opinion Can an idyllic dream of Israel ever be reality? She says: ‘Coexistence, My Ass’
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