Rena Vegh

The photograph of Rabbi Yoel Kahn captures him as he lived: bent over a text, absorbed in study, indifferent to the camera’s presence. It took photographer Marko Dashev four years to get the shot. Leah Kahn, wife of the ascetic scholar, who had spent his ...

Amid the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the energy of forgiveness, redemption and return are in the air, and with it the questions, calculations and awareness that rises in the Jewish mind. To take a reckoning of oneself is a...

On Sept. 17, Galit Hasidim, a mother of four from the Israeli coastal town of Ashdod, sat near a sofer, a ritual scribe, as he inscribed two letters in a new Torah scroll. Together with her 18-year-old son, Eliya, she dedicated these letters to the memory...