When your alarm clock goes off in the morning, does it beep at you? Play your favorite music or nature sounds? When it calls to you, do you hit the snooze button? Jews have a special “alarm clock” ...

It was Erev Rosh Hashana in Auschwitz and Birkenau. 1944. Rav Tzvi Hirsch Meisels and his son just arrived to the death camp. Somehow, the Rav smuggled a shofar into the barracks. His son begged him ...

Sim Shalom Online Synagogue Yom Kippur service carried a special weight, echoing Rabbi Blane’s powerful message from his Substack writing as The Substack Rabbi. Sim Shalom’s Yom Kippur observance ...

The shofar, the most significant symbol and vehicle for the Holy Days, represents a multiplicity of interpretations and depth of meaning in our tradition. The shape, the sound, the source, and ...