Yom Kippur primarily centers around atonement and repentance. While the majority of the day involves prayer, a larger portion of the observation includes fasting. Jewish people have to refrain ...

(Mass Appeal) - We're in the throes of the Jewish High Holiday season with Rosh Hashannah happening last week and Yom Kippur beginning this Friday evening. Rabbi Yakov Wolff, Outreach Director at ...

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 prayers and sacrifice. Yom Kippur ...

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 ...

Jewish people all over the world ... Awe'), a 10-day period which ends with the holiday of Yom Kippur, and is usually celebrated with prayers, candle lighting and delicious food.

In brief, Rosh Yehudi (translated “Jewish head”), an organization ... egalitarian service took place at the end of Yom Kippur. The Neilah prayer that closes Yom Kippur started with 20 ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim ... Many consider it holier than the fasting and prayer of Yom Kippur because it elevates the mundane – transforming eating and drinking into spiritual purpose.

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is set to begin this week, and it comes a little later than last year's holiday. The holiday, which also can be spelled Rosh Hashanah, marks the beginning of the ...

A Yom Kippur machzor translated into Portuguese will be distributed to Jews in Brazil’s Amazon. (JTA) — A Yom Kippur machzor translated into Portuguese will be distributed to Jews in Brazil ...