Repentance

Why Gadi Eisenkot is rejecting the haredi political embrace that once helped Netanyahu win

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Yitzhak Yosef’s embrace – and Eisenkot's effort to distance himself from it – reflects Israel's shifting political landscape.

|ByHERB KEINON
Amid reports that the Shas Party could be willing to sit with him in government, Yashar Party head Gadi Eisenkot did not rule out that option entirely. Here, Eisenkot attends the Sagi Laws for Equality Confrence at the Peres Center in Jaffa earlier this week.
ON YOM KIPPUR, feel the joy that bursts forth from a cleansed heart and purified soul.

Embrace Yom Kippur with joy, not sorrow as prayer is today’s greatest offering

A sacrifice for a deliberate sin is never atoned, but heartfelt prayer does.

|ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
IN THE early morning before Yom Kippur, 2024, prayers for forgiveness are recited at the Western Wall and elsewhere in the Jewish world.

Teshuva is an emotional landscape

Most mitzvot summon us to perform tangible actions. Teshuva cannot be reduced to ritual or gesture. It demands intent, sincerity, and inner upheaval.

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN
The Cave of Machpelah in Hebron.

Yom Kippur 2024: Reconciling our personal journeys and collective experiences - opinion

How do we reconcile the deeply personal journey of Yom Kippur with the overwhelming collective experiences of the past year?

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN

How do we move on in life?

Public figures have been famously reluctant to admit the error of their ways. It’s a practice that goes all the way back to the beginning of human history.

MAY 24, 2018ByWARREN GOLDSTEIN
PUPILS PRAY at the Kehilot Ya’acov Torah School for Boys in Jerusalem