This is the moment to "move from a covenant of faith, a people bound together by a history of suffering, to a covenant of destiny," said Ditza Or, whose son Avinatan survived 738 days in Hamas ...

We are in the Ten Days of Repentance period, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, of this new Hebrew year of 5876. It’s a period of introspection and the seeking of personal and community forgiveness ...