Rosh Hashanah is celebrated now through the evening of Oct. 4, and the next big holiday after that is Yom Kippur, which "closes the book" on the former year, and is considered the holiest of ...

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 ...

When my first High Holiday season as a mother came around, I realised it was time to rethink my approach to the time of year a little. I knew I wanted Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to be meaningful ...

The family of four trickled out of their car onto the Winkel Park gravel lot in Chaska. Picking up stones along the way, they walked through a cluster of trees to the Minnesota River. They go here ...

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 ...