Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Benjy Brackman had a couple short hours before sundown Wednesday to transform a hotel conference room into a synagogue for the evening ...

Plenty of American Jews are well known for attending synagogue twice a year, on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Two (or three) days too much? You’re in luck: Forgiveness can be found from the comfort of ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — On his way to converting to Christianity, philosopher Franz Rosenzweig attended Yom Kippur services and was so moved that he decided to remain Jewish. One look at the most famous ...

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 ...

Whoever you are, whatever your year has been, the community proclaims: Anu matirin lehitpallel im ha-avaryanim. Tonight, we permit ourselves to pray together. Next Wednesday evening, Jews across the ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features.

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 ...

The prayer of the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, is Kol Nidre. The hauntingly beautiful melody of this prayer for forgiveness inspired Max Bruch to write his version for cello ...

Next Wednesday evening, Jews across the world will file into synagogues. Some come every week; others only once a year. Some arrive with their mahzor (festival prayer book) in hand, others with ...