Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of teshuva (lit. “return” in Hebrew), the Jewish tradition of repentance.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of teshuva (lit. “return” in Hebrew), the Jewish tradition of repentance.
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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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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 This Elul, It’s Time To Do Teshuva For American Racism
When I arrived at the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana earlier this summer, a staff member handed me a card with a photo of a statue of a young girl wearing a yellow dress. A quote on the back of the card explained that before this girl, Carlyle Stewart, was freed at the age of seven,…
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Community What Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Can Teach Us About Teshuvah
It was the summer of 1967. Wearing some flowers in your hair. Free music in the park. Acid trips. Haight-Ashbury. The Monterey Pop Festival. “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” And it was also 50 years ago today, “Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.” A half-century ago, the Beatles released the soundtrack to the…
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Opinion It’s Time For Conservative Jews To Embrace Sexual Fluidity
“Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah” was approved by the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) on December 6, 2006, representing a watershed moment for the Conservative Movement. Rigorous scholarship, moral clarity and rabbinic courage provided a compassionate religious response to a complex matter, epitomizing the ethical and redemptive power of halakhah. However,…
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