Faith Under Fire – Yom Kippur War

For many Israelis, the shofar blast that concludes Yom Kippur still evokes the sirens, tears, and prayers of the war that broke out forty years ago on that fateful day. Three veterans’ stories and how the Yom Kippur War affected their faith

Amsterdam Festival Prayer Book

Two rabbis, a stonemason’s guild, a Jewish merchant, and the archbishop of Cologne all helped solve the riddle presented by a magnificent, medieval prayer book found in Amsterdam

The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur – A Lubavitch Tale

Variations on a Hasidic story may reveal the fears and doubts of the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Schneersohn, who led Chabad through Stalin’s persecutions and two world wars, transplanted it in America, and transformed his itinerant existence into a global brand