Purim, the most joyous and raucous holiday on the Jewish calendar, has been linked with Yom Kippur, the most solemn and holiest day. Why?   

The words entreating forgiveness in the Yom Kippur liturgy suggest that the slate cannot be wiped entirely clean. 

Repentance demands not only the recall and the confession of past sins but the willingness to let them go. 

The disgraced Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer want to return to public office. Have they repented? And have they atoned?

The concept of a divine ledger in which God inscribes the fate of each Jew during the High Holy Days stretches back to the shared. . .