Rav Soloveitchik on Yonah
Why did our Sages select the Book of Jonah as the Haftorah, the prophetic portion, for the Yom Kippur Minchah service?

Why did our Sages select the Book of Jonah as the Haftorah, the prophetic portion, for the Yom Kippur Minchah service?

On Tishah B’Av, the Rav would spend the most of the day teaching the kinot, transforming an often-inaccessible text into a profound encounter with Jewish suffering and faith.

A timeline tracing Jewish Action through the last four decades
In a Ukrainian ghetto, a Jewish glassmaker completes an impossible task and learns the worth of a Nazi’s word of honor.