Beginning last night, and continuing throughout today we have been saying our Al Het’s, confessing our sins. The prayer is repeated throughout the services on the holiday so that we will focus on our sins and what we need to work on. In the spirit of Yom Kippur, I have a confession to make. And …

Yom Kippur October 4, 2014   You can learn a great deal about a people, culture or nationality from its language. It is not surprising, for example, that the language spoken by Eskimos has 21 words for snow.  From this scientists and linguists have concluded, after many years of extensive studies that it must mean …