Nearly 400 people were praying at Town and Village Synagogue on the first night of Yom Kippur when the threat came in. Shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday, as the members of Town and Village Synagogue ...

Jews around the world will gather after sundown today to hear the haunting melody of the Kol Nidre prayer during a service that marks the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. Kol ...

If American Jewish popular culture is any indication, Kol Nidre is the one prayer American Jews happen to know well. Over the years, they’ve encountered it on long-playing records, like those produced ...

Although you are not sure why, you don’t want to be late for Kol Nidre. As the sun is going down, there you are in the car, even running a yellow light or two, hurrying toward the shul, temple, rented ...

The haunting strains of Kol Nidre, part of the Yom Kippur liturgy, is for many Jews the sound of the High Holy Days. People who rarely set foot inside a synagogue will attend services next week, ...

Every year, during the month of Elul, if not before, cantors return to these ancient Aramaic words in reverential search of meaning and inspiration, for they possess a power beyond any others in our ...

Summer has barely begun and already I am thinking of Kol Nidre. If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail, I guess, and I am a rabbi and a liturgist to boot, so when I see the sedra ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — On Kol Nidre, we sing for our lives. At the minyan where I pray, as a lay “shaliach tzibur,” or service leader, I was asked to lead the singing this year, and I was starting to ...

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CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - As dusk settled over the Shaker Lakes Nature Center on Wednesday evening, the quiet of the surrounding woods framed a gathering inside the center’s main building, where one ...

During the 2022 Major League Baseball season, 16 Jewish players appeared in at least one game, continuing a string of seasons when Jewish players were in the double digits. In 2020, I published an ...