Yom Kippur means 'Day of Atonement' and is the most sacred and solemn day in the Jewish calendar. Yom Kippur is a day to reflect on the past year and ask God's forgiveness for any sins.

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

Did you know you can now get streaming services at home online? Thanks to the current technology, many temples and synagogues have free online Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services online. In years ...

When the time comes for the sacred day of atonement that is Yom Kippur, those who observe do so in part by participating in a 25-hour fasting period. The intention is to demonstrate discipline and ...

Gadi Moses tells his kids he will do everything he can to rehabilitate Nir Oz, after reuniting with them after 482 days.

An activist behind one suit irritated kapparot practitioner enough to get a young Hasidic man to “flip her the bird” — though he held firmly onto the chicken. Kapparot, the pre-Yom Kippur ...

Rashi, explaining the view of Rabbi Nehemiah in the Talmud [1] that they spontaneously sang the song together, says that the Holy Spirit rested on them and miraculously the same words came into their ...