In Sholem Aleichem’s short story, “The Yom Kippur Cantor – Someone to Envy,” a pauper known as Meylekh the Cantor dies immediately after neilah, the last prayer on Yom Kippur. According to Jewish ...

Maybe “celebrate” isn’t quite the right word. Broad City‘s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer experience the Jewish date of atonement, Yom Kippur, which requires fasting from sundown on September 22 to ...

This week, a video of the late renowned figure, Rabbi Dov Ber Soloveitchik, speaking about the emotional experience of the days leading up to Yom Kippur, was uploaded onto YouTube. The short clip, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, begins at sundown on Wednesday, with the Chabad of Northampton hosting a ...

Heavily armed Israeli forces escorted large groups of Israeli settlers as they stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday, for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Spokesman of the Islamic ...

Yom Kippur is the most important day of the year for the Jewish faith and ends the 10-day period of repentance and reflection known as the "High Holidays," which began with Rosh Hashanah. Yom Kippur, ...