If American Jewish popular culture is any indication, Kol Nidre is the one prayer American Jews happen to know well. Over the years, they’ve encountered it on long-playing records, like those produced ...

For cellist Robert Deutsch, the pleading and mournful melody of the Kol Nidre prayer has resonated throughout his life. As part of the High Holy Day services in the synagogue he attended as he ...

There is no more haunting, or moving, hymn sung on any Jewish holiday than Kol Nidre, which was chanted Sunday night to usher in the 24-plus hours of prayer and fasting referred to as the Day of ...

I read with much interest, the recent action of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, and that of my dear friend and teacher, Prof, Mordecal M. Kaplan, in reference to the substitution of the ...

Rabbi Baron's High Holy Day Guests will include: Fr. Eamon Kelly, an Irish Catholic Priest, Vice Chargé of the Pontifical Institute Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center and Vice Director of The Magdala ...

A decision to eliminate the recital of the Kol Nidre formula from the Yom Kippur night service was taken by the trustees of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, 15 West 86 Street, a ...

I’ve been spending the morning pacing around the house singing Kol Nidre while my two-year-old son Jacob toddles about playing with his toys. Just like every year, it seems, the High Holidays arrive ...

Rabbi Carl Choper practices chanting the haunting Nol Kidre prayer. As Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, begins at sundown Wednesday, Jews will gather for a service that opens with this prayer. If you ...

When Rabbi Naomi Levy conducted Kol Nidre services this year, her congregation numbered 200,000, stretching from Canada to Colombia and from Japan to Norway. Watching online on their computers were a ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - As dusk settled over the Shaker Lakes Nature Center on Wednesday evening, the quiet of the surrounding woods framed a gathering inside the center’s main building, where one ...