Reckoning season: What to recall when abuse news breaks in Jewish circles
In the Jewish world, we are in the weeks leading up to our High Holy Days, the season of cheshbon nefesh and teshuvah, of accounting of the soul and repentance.
PERFORMING the ‘Tashlich’ ritual on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah in Tel Aviv last year after Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown.(photo credit: REUTERS/NIR ELIAS)BySHEILA KATZ/JTA, RABBI DANYA RUTTENBERG/ JTA