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 ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrated March 13-14, is considered holier than Yom Kippur, yet it’s a story of survival where ...

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 ...

Even Jews who do not go to the synagogue very much will go on Yom Kippur. The day is spent in continuous prayer. Have a look at the thinking points below. You can discuss them with somebody else ...

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news. Parashat Pekudei: Blessing Our Efforts ...

Tamir Amar Pettet recently spent 13 hours riding the Glasgow Subway as it passed under the city streets for a residency he set to help ...

Official history asserts that the Jewish people have existed continuously from the time of Abraham to the present day, thanks ...

Yom Kippur is known as the Day of Atonement and is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. It involves a nearly 26-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, focusing on repentance and seeking ...

We were saved in the Yom Kippur War. For three days the Egyptian ... in decimating and demoralizing Hezbollah. With G-d’s blessing, Israeli ingenuity succeeded. (It was a close call, because ...

His father, Harry, had returned from World War II when Gordon was just a child and opened a cigar and candy store at the ...

That was the day Jews physically fought other Jews in Tel Aviv over how to organize a public prayer service in the large central Israel city. The lesson of both Yom Kippur and Simchat Torah was ...