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 ...

Report says freed soldiers worked as servants for captors, and observed Jewish holidays and even Shabbat in captivity; Ofer ...

It marks the beginning of the High Holy Days ('Days of Awe'), a 10-day period which ends with the holiday of Yom Kippur, and ...

At sundown, the start of Yom Kippur, such anointments would no longer be kosher, and he wanted to be ready for the big night. He had just started dating a girl at his high school, and they had ...

The IDF observers from Nahal Oz made a conscious effort to observe Jewish traditions even while being held by Hamas in Gaza.

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 ...

Advocates across the Jewish world are developing alternatives and working to normalize Yom Kippur observances that do not preclude eating. (JTA) — Shonna Levin is an Orthodox Jew, but she won ...

"A further nail-biting episode follows as the Mossad tries to discover the date on which Sadat’s attack is planned to take ...

“As I was saying, shalom professor. You may not know this about me, but I am very Jewish. Extremely, even. And as my bubbe ...