Yom Kippur means Day of Atonement. It is the most sacred and solemn day in the Jewish calendar. Atonement means to put things right. That day is about people putting things right with God through ...

I knew I wanted Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to be meaningful days for every ... our wishes for the new year (to be sweet, healthy, and happy) and what our priorities are. We also look back ...

It is considered holier than Yom Kippur, yet it’s a story of survival where God is ... to the point of not knowing the ...

(JTA) — Multiple dimensions of Israel’s ongoing civil strife came to a head on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, as secular activists shut down a public Orthodox Yom Kippur service in ...

The holy rebbe, Rav Yisroel of Ruzhin, adds that Purim is even more, for while on Yom Kippur Hashem forgives only with teshuva, repentance, on Purim He forgives as soon as we ask Him, as it says, Kol ...

Note the similarity in the names of the two days. On Yom Kippur, in the Yom Kippur Machzor (prayer book), after the prayer recitations of the "I have sinned" Viduyim ("confessions") the following ...

By Bonnie Bartel Latino Columnist Sometime after Tom and I returned to Guam from our trip to Yap, we learned that Tom had been nominated for Junior Officer of the Quarter for the 1958th Comm Squadron.

Yom Kippur begins on Friday and annually takes ... “but to also consider that if we’re blessed with another year on this ...

High Holy Days: A term often used to describe the holidays falling during the Hebrew month of Tishrei (often overlapping with September and October), the High Holy Days/Holidays include Rosh Hashanah, ...

The enduring traditions of the High Holiday season take shape across time and place in the latest crop of children’s books about Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur ... greeting for a happy new year ...