High Holidays
The Memory of High Holidays
From grandmother to mother to daughter, the Unetaneh Tokef prayer echoes our desires and fears, life’s wholeness and losses.
By Sara R. Horowitz
Prayer for Yom Kippur
By Ann Metlay
The Witness of the Ram (poem)
By Daniel A. Harris
Avodah (poem)
By Barbara D. Holender
City of Man
A retelling of the story of Jonah, traditionally read on Yom Kippur afternoon.
By Scott Mintzer
Memories
The Floating Law (a story from my grandmother)
By Joshua Cohen
Against Building Walls: A Visit to the Family Cemetery
Sometimes, well-meaning efforts to preserve the past get in the way of the future.
By Shamu Fenyvesi
Entering the House of Israel
Inside one woman’s journey to becoming the newest Jew on the planet.
By Lori Holder-Webb
A Conversation with Yehuda Elberg, z”l
The noted Yiddish writer, textile engineer, partisan fighter, collector of Judaica, and much more, reflected on his full life in a series of interviews with Gilah Langner before his death in 2003.
The Hasid Who Discovered Oil in the Carpathian Mountains
A true story.
By Leon Thorne, z”l
Truck Turner’s Shul
From midtown Memphis, East Memphis seemed like the promised land.
By Hillel Grossman
Text Study
The Biblical Question
A learned discourse on a surprisingly common but relatively unstudied element of the Bible: the question.
By Joel Rosenberg
Poetry, Midrash, Art & Liturgy
Lech Lecha
From a series of poems on each of the parshiot of the Torah
By Laurie L. Patton
Elisheva’s Lament
By Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz
Jacob’s Betrayal: A Midrash
By Rachel Atwood
Wedding Poem
By Joan Gelfand
Brit Bat & Brit Milah
Naming poems to be recited at the covenant ceremonies of a girl or boy
By Davi Walders
The World Can Be Changed, We Can Be Healed
A poem for Passover and other times of the year
By Corie Feiner
Why I Left a Plum…
By Ben-David Seligman
Knowledge Of
By Ruth Berman
Different
Why was this Seder night different from all others?
By Wayne-Daniel Berard
Ketubot
By Jonathan Kremer