“From this Yom Kippur until the next, may [all vows] be deemed absolved, annulled, and abandoned.” Within Jewish communities, there has always been some reticence towards the Kol Nidrei prayer. The ...

Following Rosh Hashanah, a festive celebration of the Jewish New Year, Yom Kippur strikes a more sober tone. Yom Kippur is the most significant of all the Jewish holidays and marks the end of a 10-day ...

Sunday, Sept. 25, marks the beginning of one of the most important periods of the Jewish calendar. Rosh Hashana, the New Year, begins Sunday night, followed 10 days later by Yom Kippur, the Day of ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, a young Jewish boy in Germany was kidnapped and taken to a monastery. His parents, frantic, ran to the courts. The priests denied any "kidnapping"; they claimed that ...

There are two ways to interpret what happened on Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel. The first leads to condemnation, and perhaps to shock. The second leads to understanding, and ...