Have you ever entered Yom Kippur with a firm intention to make changes for the upcoming year, but then quickly backslide? You wonder, will I ever change? James Clear, author of bestselling book ...

These questions and doubts are not new. In this week’s Haftarah, Yeshayahu addresses this question as he hears his fellow Jews doubting (see Ibn Ezra’s Isaiah 40:27) that God even notices ...

This week, Rabbi Charlie Schwartz and Russel Neiss — Jewish educators, techies and friends — released PocketTorah, which enables users to read and hear every Torah and Haftarah portion from ...

The Talmud (Megillah 31a) tells us that the Haftarah for the first day of Sukkot is Zechariah Chapter 14. The Rambam (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Prayer 13:12) and the Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim ...

That is to say, sorrow defers to joy. We are reminded of this approach in the tradition that the haftarah reading must always end on an uplifting note. If the reading ends on a somber note ...

could not be easily transliterated into the Roman alphabet. On Buton, most people speak the Wolio dialect, which has been written in the Arabic alphabet since the 1500s. But Arabic turned out to ...