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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 573

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Trevor Connelly poses for a portrait after being drafted by the Vegas Golden Knights with the 19th overall pick during the 2024 Upper Deck NHL Draft at Sphere on June 28, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Candice Ward / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
March 15, 2025, 5:58 am
After accusations of antisemitism, a rising US hockey star nets a teshuva-fueled comeback
At 16, Trevor Connelly was dropped from his youth team for an Instagram post containing a swastika. The incident sparked a learning process – and an unlikely friendship with two clergy
By Ed Klajman
Edward Norton as Derek Vineyard, a neo-Nazi ex-con based on Frank Meeink, in the 1998 crime drama 'American History X.' (Screen capture: Youtube/New Line Cinema, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 27, 2024, 2:04 pm
Neo-Nazi who inspired ‘American History X’ now an observant Jew
Skinhead convict turned anti-hate lecturer tells New York Post he embraced Jewish faith after 23andMe found he has Ashkenazi DNA
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Mark Borovitz kisses Harriet Rossetto. (Courtesy)
May 5, 2023, 10:10 pm
Film tracks the match made in prison that turned a convict into a rabbi on a mission
‘The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief’ tells feel-good true story of Harriet Rossetto and Mark Borovitz, who turned over a new leaf to help former convicts and addicts in LA
By Julie Masis
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
September 27, 2017, 12:40 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The danger of religious exhaustion 
This Yom Kippur, we must undergo an ‘ideological repentance,’ and change not only our deeds, but our attitudes
Daniel Landes
September 25, 2017, 1:28 pm
Daniel Landes
Days of no return
What it means to live in a world without hope
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
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
December 9, 2016, 2:37 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
God and the fires
Can it be that divine wrath at human moral and religious failure manifests as natural disasters and catastrophes?
Shimshon HaKohen Nadel
May 5, 2016, 8:37 am
Shimshon HaKohen Nadel
Can we forgive the Nazis?
An Auschwitz guard’s recent apology can’t reach those he wronged, and nobody else has the right to accept it
Philip Graubart
September 20, 2015, 2:59 pm
Philip Graubart
Bruce Springsteen, Yom Kippur poet
Finding inspiration for the ‘festival of remorse’ in the the rock legend’s haunting anthems of angst and regret
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
Donniel Hartman
September 4, 2012, 10:26 am
Donniel Hartman
Iran: Teshuva for the sins yet to be committed
I have no inside knowledge of Israel’s capacity to pull an attack, but I do know that military force is to be used only as a measure of last resort
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