“We think of 9/11 every day,” says Rabbi Joseph Potasnik of Congregation Mount Sinai in Brooklyn Heights. “All you do when it comes to the anniversary, you try to look back and say have I made a difference?”

Benyamin Cohen wrote a book about his year-long exploration of Christianity and used what he learned to reflect on the meaning of his own Jewish faith.

Benyamin Cohen wrote a book about his year-long exploration of Christianity, and he used what he learned to reflect on the meaning of his own Jewish faith.

Light, says the reggae-loving rocker, "is really a central theme in my music in general, in the story of Hanukkah, and in the spiritual process in general."

Set in 1967, the storyline of the Coen brothers' new film centers on Larry Gopnick, a Jewish physics professor in the Midwest who looks to his faith to make sense of his personal and professional tribulations.

We remember the Holocaust today with a profile of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, a Jewish troubadour in the 1960s and '70s who preached love and peace and whose music has become a staple of religious observances in Jewish synagogues and homes.

Heschel is widely considered to be one of the greatest American religious figures of the last century - a rabbi, theologian, social activist and mystic admired by Christians as well as Jews. He would have been 101 years old this month.

These rabbis, cantors, and Jewish leaders from the Washington, DC area are learning how to make synagogue worship more spiritually rewarding.