WORDS THAT BREATHE

On Yom Kippur morning, Matt, Alli, and Charlie Seigel took the bimah at Congregation Or Ami to tell their family's story — a childhood taunt on a ballfield, a mother's grief that led her home, and a Jewish star a daughter once took off and chose to put back on.

In a fearful world, Judaism still calls us to bring blessing into brokenness. Rabbi Paul Kipnes asks: What does it mean to be a Jew today?

What does it take for a teenager to stand in a senator’s office, look a legislative aide in the eye, and say, “This is personal”?

Kanye West, who prefers to be called Ye, released a series of antisemitic tirades over the past weeks. Styling himself as speaking the...