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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

Elul

Edna Hefer cuddles with Messiah the donkey in the petting zoo of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, southern Israel, January 16, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
February 4, 2025, 8:48 am
Kickin’ it old school: Retirees rediscover youth with national service year for over-50s
A pilot project running in two regional councils near the Gaza border is matching local needs with the experience and skills of people around retirement age
By Sue Surkes
(Illustration by Charles Dunst/JTA; photo: Wikimedia Commons)
September 9, 2018, 11:36 am
Rosh Hashanah needs a little preparation – we have a digital solution
Elul Unbound provides a gradual ascent to the High Holidays direct to your inbox
By Wendie Lash, Lex Rofeberg and Estee Solomon Gray
Yael Shahar
August 15, 2018, 12:24 pm
Yael Shahar
Making peace with oneself — and others
It takes courage to ask – and to grant – forgiveness (Elul)
Sally Abrams
September 15, 2017, 1:35 pm
Sally Abrams
Elul and the shipwrecked sailors
How a Nova Scotia ocean cliff burial site inspires one-way acts of kindness
Joanne Palmer
September 11, 2017, 8:12 pm
Joanne Palmer
Facing new hate on 9/11
When the world seems to be plunged into a dark morass, trust in a moral universe that bends towards justice
Erica Brown
August 30, 2017, 1:35 pm
Erica Brown
Spiritual fugitives
When you come to reinvent yourself, expect to experience discomfort in the self-confrontation that will make you new
Micah Streiffer
August 24, 2017, 1:11 pm
Micah Streiffer
Strip-searching WoW — really?!
This effort to prevent the Women of the Wall from bringing a Torah to the Kotel subverts the Torah’s value of justice
Francis Nataf
August 23, 2017, 12:23 pm
Francis Nataf
Robert E. Lee and the month of Elul
Humanity’s cultural yardstick of values is fickle; better to uphold the personalized standards of God
Nina Badzin
September 19, 2016, 4:13 pm
Nina Badzin
Give up the guilt
Consider all the good you did last year, and remember your ability to make the right choices
Michael Chernick
September 16, 2016, 4:06 pm
Michael Chernick
The season of our guilt or joy?
Treat Rosh Hashanah as the day when friends who have lost touch renew their friendship for a better future together
Helen Gottstein
September 9, 2016, 3:00 pm
Helen Gottstein
Financial repentance
Lose the idea that self-deprivation is the mother of all virtues, and dive right into the risks of engaging fully
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox and secular Jewish men face off in Jerusalem, 2008. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 30, 2015, 10:36 am
With small victories, religious pluralism is finding its way back to Jerusalem
From providing study grants to non-Orthodox institutions to cafés open on Shabbat, kippah-wearing city councilor Hanan Rubin wants the capital to be a city for everyone
By Melanie Lidman
Sue Levi Elwell
September 5, 2015, 9:16 am
Sue Levi Elwell
Preparing for the new year at the Wall
A new day dawned on Rosh Hodesh Elul, when the Chief of Police supported WoW’s presence with shofar and Torah
MK Ruth Calderon (left) sits next to fellow Yesh Atid MK Dov Lipman as she leads the Torah study session in the Knesset on Tuesday, February 19, 2013. (photo credit: Benjy Goldberg)
February 19, 2013, 10:12 pm
Yesh Atid initiates Knesset Torah study group
Party members hope Tuesday sessions will become a staple for MKs and their staffs
By Asher Zeiger
Elie Klein
September 4, 2012, 3:03 pm
Elie Klein
Facebook-inspired repentance? You bet your sweet Timeline!
Digging through your past posts can be more than just a narcissistic indulgence — it can actually bring you closer to God
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