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Two women embrace before a Yom Kippur service held outdoors during the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles. Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Yom Kippur: What does Judaism actually say about forgiveness?

Adam B. Cohen, Arizona State University

Many religions value forgiveness, but the details of their teachings differ. A psychologist of religion explains how Christian and Jewish attitudes compare.
Slavery is not so far removed. Anderson and Minerva Edwards met in the 1860s as enslaved laborers in Texas, had 16 children and lived into their 90s in a cabin a few miles from the plantations they once worked. They are photographed here in 1937. U.S. Library of Congress

If Germany atoned for the Holocaust, the US can pay reparations for slavery

Bernd Reiter, University of South Florida

Old injustices don’t simply disappear with time – they tear a nation apart.

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  1. Apartheid atrocities
  2. Forced labour
  3. History
  4. Holocaust
  5. Nazism
  6. Religion and society
  7. Religious holiday
  8. Remorse
  9. Restorative justice
  10. Yom Kippur

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