The process of reflection and repentance takes place over a 40-day period that begins about four weeks before Rosh Hashanah, at the start of the month called Elul on the lunar Jewish calendar.
Shuli Har-Melekh was killed nearly 22 years ago, while driving home to Homesh on Rosh Chodesh [the first day of the Hebrew month of] Elul, 5763 [2003]. He set out from his parents home in Kokhav ...
The Rev. Robert L. Trimble of Yakima grew up in the South and was a contemporary of the late Martin Luther King Jr. As the nation honors the birthday of the civil rights leader who was slain in ...