Atonement means to put things right. That day is about people putting things right with God through prayers and sacrifice. Yom Kippur is a day to reflect on the past year and ask God's forgiveness ...

It took a good deal of energy to push through the exhaustion but when Neilah, the concluding prayer of Yom Kippur, came around I had rallied. Neilah means ‘locking” because we envision the ...

Atonement means to put things right. That day is about people putting things right with God through prayers and sacrifice. Yom Kippur is a day to reflect on the past year and ask God's forgiveness ...

(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 ...

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Beginning five days after Yom Kippur, Sukkot is named after the huts the Israelites lived in during their exodus from Egypt, which Jews today build to and dwell in to commemorate this time. Sukkot is ...

For several years now, in the days leading up to Yom Kippur, a subtle debate has been taking place in my religious social ...

Feeling both devastated by the ruining of Yom Kippur prayers and angry at the provocation and manipulation by those who organized the Tel Aviv services, I entered Judaism’s holiest day with a ...