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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is ...more

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Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter b...more

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Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rig...more

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In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in the...more

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When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly taught me that so many things that I ...more