Children listening to this story would especially enjoy the part of the story of Jonah living three days inside the big fish’s belly and being “vomited” up onto the shore.

The story of Jonah reminds us that God is the God of second chances. While our world cancels, God restores. While others ...

The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai…but Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.” ...

The fish saves him from drowning. Jonah spends three days and three nights in the belly of the fish. The whole situation gives Jonah time for self-examination.

Our traditions will be broken this year. But this year, as we do every year, we will read the Book of Jonah on Yom Kippur afternoon. It’s the one about the guy who gets swallowed by a big fish.

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As Yom Kippur draws to a close, we read the deceptively simple book of Jonah. Three themes tie this all-too-relevant story together: the emptiness of self-absorption, the possibility that those ...

He sings a hymn of praise for saving him, and the big fish throws him up on shore. Act two: Jonah walks through the city of Nineveh, calling upon the people to repent of violence, injustice and war.