Yom Kippur could also serve as a model for a National Day of Prayer. Not to co-opt it, but as a model. Jews have been observing it for thousands of years — long before Harry Truman designated a ...

It’s a discourse of people who live in parallel universes: those who regard what happened as an enraging sabotage of a Yom Kippur prayer, and those who regard it as a provocation masquerading as ...

Nowhere is this clearer than in Ki Anu Amekha, a short poem recited multiple times on Yom Kippur to introduce the Viddui, the confessional prayer. It reads: For we are your people, and you are our ...

Yom Kippur, also known as the "Day of Atonement," is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. ... Time is spent either in prayer for forgiveness, at services or both.

The observance of Yom Kippur is central to Jewish tradition and is marked by a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer. The day is the culmination of the Ten Days of Repentance, which ...

Jews observe Yom Kippur with prayer, spiritual introspection and a 25-hour fast. The JLE service will begin at 6 p.m. at the Torah Academy of Bergen County on Queen Anne Road.