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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Secular protesters last year forcefully prevented traditional Jews from holding an outdoor Yom Kippur service.
Their souls are crying out for attention, but there is an echo of empty existence inside.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The decision came after anarchist protesters forcefully prevented Rosh Yehudi, an outreach group, from holding a public Yom Kippur service.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Brynie Stiefel of Chabad of Voronezh, Russia, talks about the real meaning behind the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the holiday of atonement for our mistakes.
Benjamin Netanyahu didn't feel well towards the end of Yom Kippur.
In the Sephardic tradition, recital of Selichot in preparation for the High Holidays begins on the second day of the Hebrew month of Elul.
“Boris Johnson’s statement must be adopted by political parties and leaders the world over."
Rav Bina's Yom Kippur Message - Thoughts on Ari Fuld
Rabbi Sacks delivered a pre-Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur shiur entitled ‘Confusing Satan’.
By JNi.Media
For people who become mortally hurt when this or that Orthodox politician tells them they're not really Jewish, heaping on their heads advice as to how they should improve – US Jews are surprisingly unrestrained when it comes to meddling in the coalition politics of a foreign country.
Released for Publication: The Efrat counter-terrorist unit was called out before Yom Kippur after security cameras noticed a suspicious man approaching the town from the fields.
By JNi.Media
"She's a brave girl," a relative said. "She's been through many things in life and seen more than she should have seen. It's time for her to have an easy life."
Get ready for a mass gathering and ascension to the Temple Mount this Sukkot with Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel on Israel Inspired.
What is the Kurdish-Israel-Turkey triangle?
By JNi.Media
Monty Hall's wife since 1947, Marilyn Hall, died on June 5, 2017, in their home in Beverly Hills.
Yom Kippur’s focus on forgiveness highlights humility, fallibility, soul-searching faith, compassion, thoughtfulness, being considerate, accepting responsibility and magnanimity.
Pain has a purpose.
Pave a way to experience the days leading up to Yom Kippur in a totally new way based on ancient understandings passed down throughout the ages with Rabbi Shlomo Katz today on The Soul of Israel.
Yom Kippur queries.
By Sharon Katz
Many believe that Kol Nidre was created in response to the conversos’ plight and their need to nullify their conversion vows.
What exactly are we trying to accomplish through our fasting and lengthy prayers on Yom Kippur?
The Hijri, the day Muslims mark the beginning of the Islamic new year and where the only celebration is a day off from school, falls on the same day as Rosh Hashana this year, and this has led to a police decision to close the Temple Mount to Jews for Rosh Hashana, according to the […]
Prayer is to the human spirit what exercise is to the human body.
By JNi.Media
Rabbi Wolpo said in his testimony that according to Jewish law the evacuation of settlements in the Land of Israel is a worse sin than eating pork on Yom Kippur, since it endangers the lives of millions of Jews.
March of the Living implores March for Racial Justice to change the date and so as not to exclude Jews.
By JNi.Media
You could finish Ma'ariv with the minyan, then even do Kiddush Levanah, if the sky isn't overcast, change into your leather shorts and hit the festival.
By JNi.Media
"We must not allow the extremists harm our shared life," Motran, who had seen his store windows be crashed twice in recent weeks, announced. "Jaffa welcomes to all the people of Israel."
By JNi.Media
'the log shows that Chabad of Irvine only used 95 chickens and lost $24 in connection with the Kapparot Ceremony in 2014.'
By Moshe Herman
When the holiest person, the High Priest Aaron, goes into the holiest place, the Holy of Holies, on the holiest day, Yom Kippur! Rabbi Mike Feuer joins Rabbi Yishai on ‘Spiritual Cafe’ to talk about the holy vestments of the Temple!
'The only way to know those facts is real shimush, seeing what is actually happening in the field.'
By JNi.Media
Using the great, eye opening Pew study of 2013, Cohen points out that the signs of Jewish life in intermarried Jewish families are fast diminishing.
The terrorists purchased weapons from a dealer in Samaria before committing the shooting attack.
75 years after the obliteration of Kiev’s 33,771 Jews - in less than 36 hours – Ukrainian and Israeli officials teamed up to host an evening in their memory.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Hundreds of Israelis gathered across the country on Monday to pray for the welfare of their Syrian neighbors the night before the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur.
Rav Bina's Message for Yom Kippur
Do we need to be a superhero in order to do heroic things in life?
Should we embrace Yom Kippur as a day of love and forgiveness, or should we be terrified of judgement?
A better understanding of how to achieve true Teshuva.
Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat saying Selichot.
Stick with your New Year’s resolutions!
By JNi.Media
The guidelines are intended to prevent the spread of disease, as well as minimize animal suffering.
Understanding the 10 days of Repentance.
By JNi.Media
Hundreds of letters are mailed to Israel annually addressed to "God," "Jesus," "Our Dear Father in Heaven" and "the Western Wall."
By Moshe Herman
(((CLICK BELOW TO HEAR AUDIO))) Shema Yisrael! The phrase that one hears when the Torah comes out of the Ark, when a child is named, every day morning and night, and even when, God forbid, the sword is at your throat. Rabbi Mike Feuer joins Rabbi Yishai for Spiritual Cafe to discuss the epic Torah […]
By JNi.Media
Mugaga Treva, 4, is the son of Nantabo Esther, a member of Namanyonyi Synagogue, one of the Abayudaya Synagogues in Uganda.
The Palestinian Authority thinks, or makes believe, that the white "kittel" worn on Yom Kippur is a "priestly garment."
By JNi.Media
Earlier in the month, Rosh Hashana overshadowed New York Fashion Week, with shows by Carolina Herrera and Tommy Hilfiger suffering the consequences.
Jerusalem and Palestinian Authority Arabs attacked Jews and soldiers with rocks and firebombs on Yom Kippur.
Minister Erdan announced Brig-Gen. Hirsch has been removed as a candidate. Netanyahu charges: "Slander and denigration."
This is what the roads in Israel will look like tomorrow, on Yom Kippur.
By Moshe Herman
Get ready for the Day of Atonement with Rabbi Mike Feuer and Yishai. Why does Rosh HaShana precede Yom Kippur? Why is the scapegoat used as a scapegoat? Why do we dunk in the ritual bath before the great day? And is Yom Kippur a joyful or mournful day? Join Yishai and Rav Mike and get your Spiritual Caffein from Jerusalem - and Shana Tova!
The dust is settling, but the mercury is not.
Israel will do its "utmost so that Jews will be able to go everywhere safely, especially to the Tomb of the Patriarchs," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Cabinet Sunday. Tens of thousands of Jews visit the site, known, in Hebrew as Ma'arat HaMachpelah, for Slichot prayers between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. It is […]
Pressure from Gush Etzion leaders has convinced Ya'alon to authorize a site in memory of last year's three kidnap-murder victims.
A "National Jewish Leadership Team" reportedly will meet with Bush two days after Yom Kippur.
Rabbi Nissan of Efrat teaches how to make a shofar and blow it. In the current Hebrew month Elul, the month of Selichot (forgiveness), there is the Jewish custom of blowing the Shofar every morning.
Rabbis will appeal to Congressmen, especially the Jews, immediately before the Rosh HaShanah New Year.
In three weeks, the Fast of the 9th of Av will be on the 10th of Av.
Indyk is the epitome of the US view that Israel should be America’s Jewish image.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“The meaning of Yom Kippur takes on an added significance when we think of all the rockets that were fired and the people who were saved by miracles this summer.
Yom Kippur is observed on the tenth day of Tishrei - an Acadian word for forgiveness and Genesis.
By Joseph Cox
We aim for a virtuous cycle of creation and rest and yet more creation
Israel's President Ruby Rivlin recites Slichot, the prayers for forgiveness that are said leading up to Yom Kippur. This slichot prayer session was held at the President's official residence. Speaking of presidential pardons, it would be good if this were the year that Jonathan Pollard was let free.
A Hareidi man performs the Kaparos ceremony for his son, in Beitar. The ritual, which some consider controversial, is performed before Yom Kippur, as part of the repentance process. A chicken is gently raised and waved over the head of a family member or yourself. The person performing the ritual says the following statement (or […]
By Shalom Bear
For 40 years, the family of Tzion Tayib have been fighting for proof their son's body was found and buried in the Har Herzl military cemetery - it wasn't.
Yom Kippur is called one of the days of awe. What does awe have to do with forgiveness for our sins?
the lots teach us that there are aspects of life that are based purely on mazal.
Mike Huckabee doesn’t understand why Jews support Obama as “pro-Israel” because he doesn’t understand the psyche of a liberal American Jewish Democrat.
By JTA
Yom Kippur prayers may be on the minds of Jews in Australia, ravaged by roaring fires. “Who will perish by water and who by fire,” says the prayer. One Jew lost his home – but saved a mezuzah.
Israel goes back to Standard time, known as “winter” time, at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, leaving only a six-hour and nine-hour difference from the East and West coasts of the United States respectively. The usual seven and 10-hour gap will return the following weekend, when the United States also turns back its clocks. This is […]
Young Jews desperately need to experience both the serious and lighter sides of Judaism.
The Egyptian public hardly realized what had happened.
Spontaneity and quirkiness have their place but a sermon is neither the time nor place for either of those.
By Dov Shurin
Hashem simply goes beyond the letter of the law in His love for us.
A killer flood in Colorado submerged a synagogue and a rabbi’s home in Boulder County, and the Chabad synagogue rabbi is thankful that Torah scrolls were saved with the help of students from the nearby University of Colorado. “Thank G‑d, the students have been immensely helpful moving the Torahs and other sacred items to higher […]
“Auctioning” off the honor of being called to the Torah and for the privilege of reading the “Haftorah,” or “Maftir” section of the Prophets, is common in the Diaspora and also in many urban and more affluent communities in Israel, but it takes a lot to top an unidentified Moscow millionaire, or perhaps billionaire, who […]
The IDF is nothing if not innovative. For soldiers who are on the front lines during the Yom Kippur Fast, the army suggests they suck on popsicles to keep their strength without violating to laws of the fast.
Israel has one life support. It starts with Yom Kippur.
The Yom Kippur video message of Rav Bina, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh at the Kotel,
By JTA
Nearly 700 rabbis and other Jewish communal officials were briefed by a top White House aide on President Obama’s Syria plans. The call Tuesday with Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser, was organized by the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center and the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly and attracted 691 callers from all religious streams, […]
By Moshe Herman
Yishai presents an archive segment from Malkah’s Eishet Chayil Show. This segment is specifically presents interesting insights about Yom Kippur.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah discuss Yom Kippur and September 11 and what it's like to have them both on the same week.
Extremist Haredim were at again in Beit Shemesh, breaking into a construction site that they say contains old Jewish graves. The Haredim found the Arab guards even more violent.
By JTA
‘What’s good for the Jews is good for the Muslims,” says a French Islamic website citing the closure of a city street for Jews through the High Holidays. It demands the same for Muslim street prayers.
By Batya Medad
Tzom Gedalia is one of the "minor" fast days, when we only fast during daylight.
Netanyahu demands that that Mahmoud Abbas recognize Israel as a Jewish state, but if it wants foreign journalists to do so, perhaps it should not call Rosh HaShanah-Yom Kippur-Sukkot “autumn holidays.”
The Manischewitz Company, leader and innovator in Kosher foods, announces the beta version debut of their free Kosher Recipe App now available for download on all Apple and Android devices. The Manischewitz Recipe & Holiday Guide app makes its debut just in time for the fall Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Notable […]
By JTA
The Israel Tennis Association has been fined more than $13,000 for refusing to play a Davis Cup match against Belgium on Yom Kippur this year in the world group playoffs, the highest level of Davis Cup play. The Belgian Tennis Association turned down Israel’s request to postpone the game on Sept. 14. The International Tennis […]
The Knesset has driven the last nail in the once holy coffin of changing the clocks twice a year according to the timing of Passover and Yom Kippur. Daylight Time will remain until the end of October.
The Cabinet on Sunday approved a measure to extend Daylight Savings Time until the end of October. It also approved exporting 40 percent of natural gas, and the two decisions prompted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to remark, “Now we have a land flowing with milk and honey, gas and sunlight.” The latest change concerning when […]
By JTA
A Dutch chief rabbi said his community was “vexed” because a farewell event for the Dutch queen was scheduled on Yom Kippur. “Jews are again faced with a reality in which they don’t belong and that is painful,” Holland’s chief interprovincial rabbi, Binyomin Jacobs, told NRC Handelsblad on April 26. On Yom Kippur, the Day […]
By JTA
Do you remember where you were when Sandy Koufax said he would not play on Yom Kippur. The National Museum of American Jewish History is looking for you.
As the worse in now behind us, and yet with restorations efforts still ahead of us, I believe that the terms utilized so widely this week to describe a terrible predicament should force us to reconsider their use when, thankfully, tragedy doesn’t strike. Though my heart and soul are with those hurt by the storm, I am disturbed that so many of these very adjectives are commonly used to describe common occurrences, a far cry from the critical situation that so many Americans on the East Coast are facing.
Vandals painted graffiti on the grave of Moshe Dayan. The words "Minister of Failure" were painted on the tombstone. Dayan was Minister of Defense during the Yom Kippur war.
By dvora
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur have come and gone. It is time to return my beloved Machzor to the bookshelf. Gifted to me by my beloved parents, of blessed memory, for my bat mitzvah, it is one of my most precious possessions.
June 19, 2026 
